A homeless man named Europe

We can't stop talking about Trump. Because he's the president of the United States, because he's in 24/7 communication mode, and because his presidency is shaking the world, and not for the better. In fact, with the threat to Greenland, Europe has finally felt definitively abandoned and homeless. Trump is dismantling what, since 1945, had been the roof of European security. According to the new and dark national security doctrine, Washington considers us merely a civilization on the verge of extinction and believes we will only be saved if we surrender to the far right.

Trump occupies all the space. He decides what is talked about and what isn't. He moves spectacularly through expectation, fear, and chaos. Whenever he speaks, the world has no choice but to listen. The state he represents and the businesses he promotes are one and the same. His negotiating mindset, in which only he wins (because your benefit is simply not angering him), is complemented by his real estate developer mentality. It has a sufficiently powerful army to propose a swap to Russia: Cuba for me (controlling Venezuela's oil is to strangle the Havana regime) and whatever piece of Ukraine you need for you.

Trump's discourse is full of traps and lies. His presidential approval ratings are negative. And if there is any society threatened with disintegration, a victim of inequality, social exclusion, and racism, it is the American one. Europe must build itself another roof, a firm one, based on its founding convictions and making the fewest possible concessions. The policy of appeasement will not work. We must begin to learn to live with America exposed.