Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Showing She Is Sticking With Trump, U.S. Despite EU Tensions Over Greenland – RedState
President Trump, as we have reported, has his eyes on Greenland. He’s not one to change his mind once he’s made up his mind, and that seems to be the case here, even though most of Europe is staunchly opposed to the Stars and Stripes flying over Greenland.
However, a European leader, who already has a good relationship with the US president, is not letting anything like Greenland get in the way of his friendship with the US, even if it incurs the wrath of his own political opposition. I am of course talking about the Italian Giorgia Meloni.
Within the European Union, Giorgia Meloni has always adopted a pro-Atlantic position, accentuated by the Italian Prime Minister’s close relations with Donald Trump. Since the start of the crisis in Greenland, Meloni has insisted on the need not to break ties with the American president, which has angered the Italian opposition, who accuse him of betraying Italy and Europe.
On Thursday January 22, the European Council must examine the activation of the anti-coercion instrument requested by French President Emmanuel Macron.
In this very tense context, Meloni strives at all costs to maintain balance.
Very tense, perhaps that’s an understatement, but Meloni manages to walk a pretty decent tightrope through it all.
In a private exchange with the US president, Meloni called the current US strategy of punishing European countries with tariffs a “mistake”.
The Italian Prime Minister, however, has no intention of severing ties with the United States. This is a very realistic position: the balance of power is currently very unfavorable to Europe, which will always lose in a trade war or military engagement with the United States. Meloni believes that Trump will not go so far as to take Greenland by force – something the American president verified on Wednesday in his Davos speech – and that an armed confrontation must be avoided at all costs: this is why she did not want Italian soldiers to participate in the reconnaissance mission in Greenland. His Minister of Defense was also very skeptical about this maneuver: “Imagine fifteen Italians, fifteen French and fifteen Germans in Greenland. It looks like the beginning of a joke,” he declared at the time.
I’m pretty sure I heard that joke. There were also three mimes, a bowl of soup and an accordion somewhere.
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Seriously, it’s good that someone in Europe wants to be the voice of reason. President Trump wants Greenland and Denmark, as well as most of the other countries that make up this geriatric, wheezing continent, to not want him to have it. This is all starting to sound like a bunch of monkeys fighting over a peanut, and this is the perfect time for the Italian leader to step in and ask: “All of you, instead of pulling everyone on board, why don’t you all sit down like adults and make a deal?” »
Since all this broke, I have been writing that President Trump, despite his other foreign policy successes, will not get Greenland. Not the property, anyway. But if we can get an increase in logging and mining rights, that will be almost as good.
Perhaps Giorgia Meloni would be ready to play the role of mediator. She seems like the perfect person for the job.
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