US-Europe, tariffs awaken our natural impulses: it's time to escape cultural approval and the search for consensus

There was a time when the poet made Prometheus say: “The story of my brother Atlas is already wearing me out, who down there in the West is forced to stand still, holding the column of heaven and earth on his shoulders.” That extreme West, today, wants to shake off an unbearable burden and it seems that it wants to do it while also collecting interest for having carried out a task as desired as it is undesirable. Has it ever occurred to anyone t…