The disconcerting, for some, or opportune, for others, utterances expressed by Donald Trump before and after reinstated in the White House have not left indifferent even The President of the Federation of Italian Shipping Agents. Referring to those relating to the "Panama Canal, Greenland, Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America', according to the president of Federagenti, "the first utterances must be all in one direction: if America aims to become great again - is the conclusion of Paolo Pessina - only the sea is The key to unhinge old balances and a geopolitical order more the result of sedimentation and chronic inattention, than of real choices".

"For years and still today," Pessina's analysis continues, the West has pursued a myriad of false targets, losing sight of given its primary resource, which is also history; that it was true for the United States which closed itself like a hedgehog on themselves, but especially for Europe, which also boasts the most largest shipowning groups in the world, a tradition rooted in the Companies of the Indies and the Maritime Republics, but it is has been unable to understand that its development, its success, its prosperity and by induction also that of others continents, transited through a massive and constant effort on the sea and maritime traffic".

"Trump's utterances, easily dismissed as excesses of fanaticism - observes Pessina - have deep roots of truth: they have made the world rediscover what risks means handing over the waterways, in the case of Panama, to individual powers, able to know and control everything. He made it clear even to the gullible, or deliberately so, of old Europe who Greenland is a militarily strategic island, commercially as a function of the Arctic route, and geopolitically. All with a common denominator."

Perhaps also Vladimir Putin's intention, in invading Ukraine, was, and perhaps still is, simply to make understand to the gullible, or deliberately so, what is the strategic nature of the granary of Europe. If there is indeed success, that Trump will not succeed with Panama and Greenland and maybe China with Taiwan?

B.B.