TRUMPUTIN

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There's method in this madness, Hamlet, Shakespeare.



 

A long trajectory of history: from Munich 1938 to Yalta and Alaska. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin embody two variants of the same ancient logic: that of naked power, stripped of ideological trappings. Two powers—one hyper-capitalist and transactional, the other revanchist and imperial—are developing the logic of Machiavelli's Prince, updated to the 21st century: those who can, take; those who can't, negotiate or yield.

 

The prince must know how to imitate the fox (cunning) and the lion (strength) to defend himself from deception and wolves, Prince Machiavelli.

 

On the poker table, the cards are now territories, energy resources, trade routes, and military capabilities. Latin America is no longer an arena open to Russian or Chinese penetration: it is "our home." The operation against Maduro in Venezuela, the blockade of Cuba, the pressure on the Panama Canal, and even the provocations in Greenland are all elements of a political vision based on force.

 

And he stood with his chest and forehead as if he were scorning Hell. Inferno, Canto X, lines 32 and 36.

 

Against the European Union, however, Trump applies a burden-shifting logic. "Pay more for NATO or you can manage on your own." The message is clear: money or I'll leave you in the hands of Putin's imperial Russia. For Putin, the world is still that of Peter the Great and Stalin: an empire to be rebuilt where Ukraine, in particular, represents the Russian Piave line: surrendering it would mean the end of the imperial project.

 

What is emerging is not a new Metternich-style concert of powers, but a three-way world (USA, Russia, China) with overlapping concentric spheres and contested gray areas. It's a logic as old as the hills: power fills the voids left by weakness. Trump does it with tweets and tariffs; Putin with missiles and hybrid warfare. Both despise the "rules-based international order" when the rules don't suit them.

 

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