"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 booing of JD Vance at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan has become the audible representation of a growing sentiment within the European Union. The arrogance of Trumpism has awakened a imperceptible, wounded European pride that is beginning to surface. The "rupture" that the Canadian Prime Minister Mark CarneyThe debate that began in Davos has also started on this side of the Atlantic. It is still embryonic, more declarative than real. But the EU has already defined the playing field for the confrontation with the United States that it is prepared to fight: the digital space.

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.