Parliament in London

Of Claudio Risé

Source: Claudio Risé
Breathe fresh air. The words prove it: those repeated to the point of exhaustion decay and to the general amazement old ones return. Drier, irritating, but perhaps even truer. For example, the word enemy is back in vogue, said so, without much fuss. As Donald Trump did from Helsinki, before the meeting with Vladimir Putin, when in an interview with American television CBS he said: “I think the European Union is an enemy. You wouldn't believe it, but Europeans are enemies”. The statement is not presented as a personal matter, even if the large inflated puppet with a Trump-infant with diaper and cell phone in hand, hoisted into the sky for 16 thousand pounds in front of the Parliament in London with the blessing of the mayor Sadiq Khan will certainly have had his part in the matter, as well as the anti-Donald marches in the streets of Helsinki from where the President gave the interview. But Trump reassures: enemies exist, it's not a scandal, nor anything new. On the contrary: “It doesn't mean they're bad.", continued the US president. “It means they are competing with us”. Here again is the child with his scandalous cry that is changing the world: the King is naked.
We are not all friends. But let's not make it a tragedy. It was the story they told us before that was a farce. The displeased European establishment then immediately intervenes with heartfelt denials and firm condemnations, as per the script: the President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk assures us that no! “The US and the EU are excellent friends! Anyone who says they are enemies spreads fake news”, brandishing the most used and worn cliché of the moment to try to fix everything. In reality the fake news, lasted far too long, it's the one that: “we are all friends”. The absolute novelty is the great return of the linguistic category, affective and cognitive of the friend-enemy, which has always presided over human life, to relationships between people, and of course also between states. Well yes: It's true that we don't always love each other; but there's nothing wrong with that and there's no need to make a big deal out of it. Generally, as Puer Robustus says Donald Trump is simply because “we are competing”: better to admit it, rather than cheating the cards. Read More