Europe had its Christmas miracle this year, but our Ursula/Alice does not know this. In the Strait of Sicily, an 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued, who ended up in the sea on Our Lady’s Day, 8 December, together with 44 other people, human beings of various nationalities. They had set off from Sfax in Tunisia, in a light metal boat that did not withstand the impact of the 4-5 metre high waves. Only Yasmine survived, her brother did not, she lost him. She clung to life for three days, to hope in the form of two inflated inner tubes.

She screamed out of fear and despair, but also out of the strength of a young Africa, until the miracle happened. The crew of a German NGO sailing ship heard the little girl’s cries, and in the darkness of the night they rescued her.

One in 45, but she Yasmine, the Miracle, is safe. But Europe looks to the Fair of the East, where for a lot of money, and a lot of deaths, a Mickey Mouse of peace Trump will buy. It doesn’t look to the South, it doesn’t see the future, its gaze is still on worlds that no longer exist, on cars that don’t sell, on the damage of Covid when there are already new viruses in Congo.

What is surprising, however, is the analysis made by the new army chief, Carmine Masiello, a paratrooper different in outlook and culture from Vannacci. He is concerned not with Russia or the Middle East, but with Africa. Europe must look south, because, he says in an interesting interview, if Europe does not take care of Africa, Africa will take care of Europe. The general with the red beret has served in Somalia, he knows what he is talking about if we look at his CV, other than Salvini’s generation, and since he has been there, the travet uniforms have disappeared, and camouflage is back for everyone from soldiers to generals, like in the American army, like Petraus or Powell.

The real miracle for us would be for Yasmine to finally be talked about in Brussels, before her African brothers decide our fates. They have demography, which is stronger than technology, let alone bureaucracy. The only thing that made bureaucracy efficient was the Final Solution to the Jewish problem, millions of Jews exterminated, even if today’s mounting populism tends to remove it if not deny it. It was not a great proof of humanity.

We would give her if they took the cries in the night of Yasmine to Strasbourg and Brussels. Those cries saved us, not her.