Summary

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called for an “immediate” summit between the US, EU, and Western allies to discuss Ukraine following a heated White House meeting between Trump and President Zelenskyy.

The February 28 meeting ended without agreement on a minerals deal after escalating into a confrontation over US aid and peace deal conditions.

Meloni warned that Western division “makes us all weaker” as European leaders reaffirmed support for Ukraine.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas commented that “the free world needs a new leader,” while European allies worry about being excluded from US-Russia negotiations to end the war.

  • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    7 hours ago

    Do you have any concrete example perhaps of areas in which fascist parties in Italy changed positions substantially over the years?

    They always do like they are doing it right now

      • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni

        “Prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she was in favour of better relations with Russia and supported lifting sanctions on the Russian Federation in 2014. In 2018, she congratulated Vladimir Putin for his re-election as president. In 2021, she wrote that Russia under Putin defends European values and Christian identity.”

        Do your own research

        • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          7 minutes ago

          A specific alliance is not an ideological change. She was allied of Russia until that was functional to pushing her own values (racism, anti-lgbtq, anti-muslim, christianity etc.), and didn’t conflict with atlantism. Now that it does, things changed. If anything this is an argument in favour of my thesis.

          You are talking about research as if this was not known to anybody. You need to explain how this change in relationship with Russia is an ideological change. She also changed coalitions and historically she changed relationship with Lega and before that with Forza Italia. That doesn’t prove that her ideology changed.

          Again, give a concrete example.

          Edit: some examples in case you think I am asking an impossible task:

          • D’alema. Or in general PCI to Ulivo to PD. Completely different politics.
          • Legs. Consistent until Bossi lead it. Salvini (who started as a communist lol) exploited the opportunity and completely transformed the core politics (no more Padania, nationalism instead).
          • M5S, hopefully no need to even say it.

          FDI instead is exactly the inheritance of MSI, following the same politics. Meloni herself considered Almirante the father of the right wing. That’s the core. And presenting it as opportunistic is underestimating it. Salvini is opportunistic. He is a fascist when is useful, he is a politics whore, will change in a blink of an eye. Meloni is not. She has her shitty ideas since she was a teenager militant, and those will stay the same.

          Sure, depending on what is happening she might be anti-EU or more filo-EU, but that’s because those positions (like in the case of Russia) are subordinated to the core values of her (party).