Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), dignity is a precious asset closely linked to the individual . Or, at most, to groups. Thus, the appeal to the dignity of nations is increasingly obsolete, except by nationalists and populists, who have the dignity of the homeland always wounded. The radical left, on the other hand, only worries about the dignity of the oppressed peoples. Those who once were oppressors, to get annoyed.

National dignity is a diffuse concept that puts at stake the reputation on the outside stage, which today, at least in this corner of the West, only seems to be ruined when a team makes a fool of itself in a football championship or when it stays at the end of the table in Eurovision .

These days we have witnessed the greatest trampling of the dignity of a country that is remembered by the paran who runs the world. I have never believed that diplomatic conflicts are resolved with weapons, God set me free. But what Donald Trump has done to the Danes is as inflammatory as when Helena crashed into the dignity of all the Greeks and they had no choice but to go with their horse to Troy.

But, the American's performance being rude to cancel his trip to Copenhagen enraged as a small child because of the prime minister's refusal to sell him Greenland - isn't it really a campaign of The World Today ? -, with the digestion already more resting one ends up thinking that the Danes are well deserved for showing so little national dignity. What is left of the Viking blood?

And, how is it possible that the Government and the Queen of Denmark, belonging to the oldest reigning dynasty in all of Europe, did not anticipate the very palmer tenant of the White House and it was they who canceled the state visit, after he insulted how he insulted his national dignity by pretending to buy a territory under his sovereignty? If Trump doesn't send the trip to hell, what would the Danish authorities have done when he met him at the airport, laughed at him ?

Would our heroes have maintained as if nothing were a state visit to Spain if days before the president of the United States had expressed his commitment to acquire Ibiza or Formentera ? Well, worse yes. Because the fate of Trump is that he has had the presidency at a time when at least Europeans have little left over dignity.

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