(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 23 FEB - "In some respects it was expected that shocking events would happen after the U.S. elections, but perhaps not so much shocking was expected. Trump in the Balkans can change everything. In the Ukrainian issue, for example, we in the European Union have been taken out, kicked around, it all depends on the relationship between the U.S. and Russia, three years ago when the war in Ukraine started"... things were very different. In contrast, today "the unpredictable reigns supreme," historian Raoul Pupo concluded. A new essay by Pupo is forthcoming, also from Laterza, and will be in bookstores in a few days. "Italianità adriatica," this is the title, reconstructs the history of Italians who, after the end of World War II, "lost their homeland" and thus the postwar disaster "suffered it in a different way." (ANSA).