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L’idea trumpiana di “acquistare” la Groenlandia può sembrare bizzarra, ma in realtà si ricollega a uno dei principi fondanti della geopolitica degli Stati Uniti. Durante il XIX secolo, e anche all'inizio del successivo, gli USA assunsero…

The Dannebrog is one of the oldest national flags in the world. According to legend, Denmark's national flag was given by God and descended from heaven. It was on the 31st of  March 1917 that the flag came down again. This time it happened…

Maduro was a brutal dictator, and most Venezuelans are happy he is gone. Veni, Vidi, Vici, President Trump could boast (is my high-school Latin getting rusty?). The US might have acted for the wrong reasons, and there is no guarantee of…

Il nome Groenlandia non nasce come una descrizione geografica, ma come una scelta che oggi definiremmo «strategica». A coniarlo fu Erik il Rosso, leggendario esploratore vichingo del X Secolo, che chiamò «Grœnland», ovvero terra verde,…

Venezuela is not simply an oil economy, an export enclave of oil disconnected from the rest of the country (a country of almost 30 million people, with approximately the territorial size of France and Germany combined). Since 1943, when…