"Freedom is incompatible with democracy." This memorable phrase by Peter Thiel perfectly explains what is happening in the United States, with Trumpism as its political expression. For those who believe, like the owner of PayPal, that freedom is exercised without awareness of limits, with everyone doing whatever they please (a principle directly proportional to the power of those who choose to indulge it), it is clear that democracy is an obstacle, because it is founded on the recognition of a series of rights and duties that shape cultures, on a legal framework that should obviously not permit the nihilistic behavior of those who believe that everything is permissible for them. Trump's display and exaltation of this behavior has turned it into a state doctrine, and the president has systematically dedicated himself to violating the law and the consensuses acquired in liberal democracies. From violating international borders and systematically abusing power by disregarding or eliminating any legal principle that inconveniences him, to the attempt to extend his arbitrary worldview to the entire planet, Trump's despotism is a blatant application of the Thiel principle.

The Munich Security Conference has confirmed the West's rupture. The United States, which is willing to negotiate with Vladimir Putin but is instead declaring ideological war on the European Union, has deployed its full arguments in the Bavarian capital.new sheriff Washington, which has given itself the role of savior of its country while pretending to decide the fate of the Old Continent without taking into account the will of those who govern it.

US Vice President JD Vance boos European allies in a monumental way The Munich Security Conference. Without mentioning Ukraine once, in a speech lasting just over twenty minutes, Vance insisted on Friday that the continent cannot abuse its trust in NATO, cannot talk about democracy "without living according to its basic principles" or moving away from its fundamental values, and cannot "trample" on freedom of expression. Vance, in fact, assured that Europe is more in danger from "internal threats", but that it is only concerned about external ones.