Gavin Mortimer Gavin Mortimer

Meloni’s mission to ‘make the West great again’ will infuriate Macron

Donald Trump meets with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office (Getty images)

Giorgia Meloni met Donald Trump in the White House on Thursday and stated her ambition to ‘make the West great again’. The Italian prime minister is closer to the Trump administration than any other Western European leader, and later today in Rome she will host J.D. Vance.

The American vice-president could be described as Meloni’s ideological soulmate, and it was noteworthy that when Meloni spoke of her ambition to reinvigorate the West she added: “When I speak about (the) West mainly, I don’t speak about geographical space. I speak about the civilisation, and I want to make that civilisation stronger.”

This will be music to the ears of Vance

This will be music to the ears of Vance. He also in engaged in a battle to save western civilisation, as he explained in a speech earlier this month. “We are not going to reclaim our civilisation,” he said, “…unless we have the courage to speak the truth, unless we have the courage to live the truth.

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