In recent days, Finland and Sweden , that is countries marked by a long and convinced tradition of neutrality, have proceeded to formalize their request for membership of NATO, receiving the generalized, or almost universal, applause of the European Union. Whether it is a coincidence, whether it is a direct reductive consequence, and in some way banal, of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, or the pure and simple translation in fact of a decision that has basically been meditated over time but has never been revealed so far, it will be history to tell it.
Certainly, such requests for membership are the testimony, more or less disruptive, and probably very inconvenient on a strategic level, of a radical change in the geopolitical vision of the power relations between the two maxi blocs of concentration of power. But, in reality, in the current war context "Who wants What?"
Are we all unaware victims of a large-scale revisionist project finalistically aimed at delegitimizing the defensive system that has arisen, albeit in an uncertain and obsolete way, with the passing of the years and starting from the early nineties? Or, are we all victims of an attempt to affirm a uni-polaristic and uni-lateralistic geopolitical system disputed between Washington and Moscow ? Why does the dynamic of "force" seem to have become the instrument of accommodation and resolution of international relations and disputes? The questions would still be many, and probably, any potential attempt at reasoning on the individual points highlighted would result in a fruitless stylistic exercise considering that, day after day, the war context would seem to undergo not only territorial changes, but also, and above all, to transformations of a political nature. A fact, in my opinion, seems to be incontrovertible: the further process of enlargement towards the east of NATO would have the sole effect of contributing to weakening the idea and the objective of the realization of a common European defense , thereby favoring, for that very reason, the pursuit of the process of marginalization of the Union aimed at relegating it, slavishly, to a position of dependent decision-making "reserve".
