If the United States moves away from Italy (and from Europe)

According to sources from the Democratic Party and some American press organs, there would be a real danger that Italy could move away from the US sphere of influence to approach considerably Moscow. This fear would be justified by President Trump's attitude, which seems to keep some distance to Europe and the Italian country, in particular, where the ambassador's office in Rome is still vacant. This fact is a worrying sign for the apparently diminished consideration, of which Italy seems to be subject to the Trump administration. It should be remembered that, historically, the Italian peninsula has always been at the center of Washington's attention, both because of its geographic position, also in the tactical context of the Atlantic Alliance, and for the political ties bound by international scenarios. Trump's shift in American foreign policy, albeit attenuated by the counterweights envisaged by the US political system, has loosened relations with Europe and therefore with Italy as well. The White House seems to pursue a plan to divide the countries of the Union in order to achieve a result that is particularly economic in Brussels: to do this, Trump does not hesitate to maintain poorly collaborative and highly critical attitudes towards European countries; It is no coincidence that he has been delighted with the outgrowth of Britain, capturing in this fact only the angle of his own interest, inherent in the intrinsic weakness of the European Union. What the US president does not evaluate, or does not consider to be harmful to American geopolitics, is to cause a progressive departure of Europe from the United States, which could generate a new feeling in the old continent, capable of finally bringing about union as Important international political subject, or create new structures capable of altering the present balance. The European problem is that Brussels has not yet come up with a unified foreign policy, as there is no common military force in a general framework where individual state policies are still prevalent in the center. In France, the right-wing defeat has removed the danger of an anti-European derailment, in Germany Merkel appears firmly in command of the country, and this allows him, among other things, to be an authoritative voice against the American president, Great Britain , Even in the disaster of leaving Europe, remains a staple in American politics, but Italy appears to be the country most likely to suffer from Trump's attitude. In a particularly difficult internal political phase, marked by unreasonable political irresponsibility, which are transversal to all the parties present on the scene, the danger of approaching Russia is more and more concrete, especially if the likely upcoming elections will be the anti party parties system. In these political formations, Russia appears to be a potential better ally than the USA, because Putin's power of administration is perceived as an internal order and the protagonist of the international order, interpreted according to values ​​deemed more closely related to the more common common sense of European values. If the contradiction of admiring Moscow appears to be an unfinished democracy with all that it does, it is also true that the vacuum that the US is leaving can only be filled with a new subject if the European Union is unable To dominate their destiny. It goes without saying that all the defects that Brussels's political infrastructure has inside and that have not been properly corrected may help to shift the balance that is likely to damage Europe from the inside. If the American Democrats' concern were to come to light, however, they would like to say that Italy would be forced to face a change of epochal direction, which would alter the country's status quo, with the risk of repercussions within the Union: a situation Certainly to be avoided, reinforcing the European centralization, as an antidote to dangerous alterations to international scenarios. If proximity to the US is destined to become a distance, it should not be replaced by support from another subject, but only with greater awareness of European potential, which will have to be stimulated with a new attitude by strong Union members; On the contrary, the European decline will open to world-wide scenes of rights issues.