So far, so close. War comes into the house, that of borders, of the primacy of history, of mutual threats, of the atavistic and tribal challenge between West and East. It is the war of weapons, the traditional and deadly ones, those capable of canceling civilizations and peoples in an instant, of bringing the calendar of man back centuries. It is the war of energy, gas, oil. It is the challenge of the powerful, who with words, those said and unspoken, have brought the heart of Europe back to the abyss of the most nefarious conflict in history. Two thousand seven hundred kilometers of sea and roads to connect Cagliari with Kiev, as far away as they are close by. A switch is enough, a bill is enough to understand how much Ukraine and Russia are inside our home. We fight in the East, in the East of the West, according to those who see the borders.
The Sardinians pay
Yet those tanks, those Alligator helicopters that fly in like a partridge, grazing as never before, on the lands of Ukraine throw Sardinia, more than others, into the collapse of leading sectors of the economy, from the domestic to the agro-pastoral one. For months the markets, those of supply and demand, had understood this. On the grip that was tightening to the east there were the margins not only for the most impressive energy speculation of the century, but even for overturning the balance of power on the world chessboard. In all of this, Sardinia will be the land of Europe that will pay the most, in economic terms, for the great gas crisis, the war on methane and its supply. In fact, one of the biggest jokes in the energy history of Europe is taking place on the Nuraghi Island.
Taps closed
The half-closed taps, the pipelines to the minimum terms, the war exploded with the impetus and voracity of an empire that seeks to regain space and power, have put the West back to the wall. When the most advanced economies do not have energy, when they do not have gas and oil to light a stove or start a factory, they end up blowing up, under the check of those who have methane pipelines and hydrocarbons. Go and explain to the Nuoro shopping center that that skyrocketing bill, which has just been delivered to him, is the daughter of this war a thousand miles from the land praised by Grazia Deledda. Last year, the same two months of 2022, in the commercial heart of the Nuorese capital, they had paid out 27,795 euros for electricity, this year, on the eve of the new war, the pre-Ukraine bloodletting was 66,951 euros. And what about the away student in a closet in the historic center of Cagliari who has seen his bill in the last two months quintupled, from 56 euros to 254. One wonders: what does Sardinia have to do with Russia and the Russian gas?
