Zuckerberg reportedly asked Trump to block Eu fines on American tech companies. Here’s the reason of the last days’ repositioning on fact checking and diversity and inclusion policies: ingratiating Trump so to put pressure, not only in the Us , but abroad. These new – so to speak – tech oligarchs are getting closer and closer to power, just like their Russian colleagues. In doing so, they could obviously get burned by the flame – and, even in this respect , Russia has something to teach: the same man who can create your lucks can suddenly destroy you. And in the long run, that’s the most probable thing. But companies divide the reality in quarters.

There’s a third similarity to Russia. Or, to better say, with the old Soviet union. Trump is trying to extend America’s area of influence like the Ussr did in the 20th century with Eastern Europe and the Warsaw pact. Canada, Greenland, Panama. “It’s our national interest”, he says. Someone, a hundred years ago, coined an expression for this: “vital space “.

Europe is not a giant in strictly military terms (at all). But it is, actually , in an economic perspective, in regulations (think about the Ai act, the best legislation in the world on Ai), in culture. And it represents an alternative to the American way of living and doing business, not to mention to its perspective on the world. We have fundamentally experienced colonialism and had enough of it, at least in its “open” version, with tanks and soldiers.

Europe’s only strength to resist to these attacks is to deepen the ties between member countries: more integration between us, more autonomy from America in key strategic sectors. More cultural self consciousness. We represent an alternative to the US, a pacific one. No need to get engaged in Trump’s wars. But, nevertheless, we do have to need to stand firmly in front of these menaces.