Some time ago I read on an old number of Limes the two fundamental premises of geopolitics, traced by the futurologist George Friedman: 1) A community is defined by the place where it is located. 2) The political system is a prisoner of this geographical reality.

In different circumstances, a Kazakh official had expressed the same concept with other words: «It would be harmful to force Kazakhstan to choose between Russia and West. We are not the Baron Munchusen: we cannot get out of this region by pulling on the hair ».

On the basis of these premises, did the West do well to treat Ukraine like any Portugal, which can afford to ignore the influence of the Russian bear?

Federico Rampini supports in an article that Russia has implemented violent revisionism in the last quarter of a century to change the international order, and that Donald Trump is bringing the United States to that road. If the story were consoling fairy tale, it would also be true. The fact is that that revisionism has been imposed in the last thirty years by Egemone, which has unleashed wars and imposed the uncontrolled expansion of the Atlantic alliance in the name of illusory nominal values, not real.

In economics, the nominal value of an object is its price in money; Its real value is the barter price with other objects or services. Everyone senses the difference between real and nominal when involving the wallet: if we could learn in advance that in 2064 a liter of water will cost 26 euros, we will not know anything about its real value, until we also knew the price of bread, fruit , proteins in dust dust, teleportation Milan Rome, Luna Luna shuttle, and the average salary.

That same comparative mechanism is not automatic when referring to more indefinite values. What is the real value of freedom and individual rights, if millions of deaths cost in the last quarter of a century, in the bankruptcy attempt to export them by force?

In the face of this former Soviet civil war, the supranational associations that govern us put Kiev and Lisbon on the same level, claiming that if we had not passed out in defense of the first, Russia would have invaded and imposed the Cyrillic also to the second.

The day on which Donald Trump should impose to Portugal to pay 5% of GDP to defend themselves from a non -existent enemy, the individual countries of the European Union will finally be obliged to ask themselves about the life reasons of this allegorical wagon Pseudo Atlantico enlarged, called NATO .