Meloni warns the allies: Trump must be accompanied. Duel with Macron on the soldiers: “Russia has 1.3 million, how many should we send them?”

First she flew to Rome, to connect to the Videocall of the willing and developed a common line to be presented today to the White House when the major European leaders, EU President von der Leyen, NATO Rutte head they will meet Trump e Zelensky. Then in the evening Giorgia Meloni – always hanging on the phone – went to Washington.
Nobody knows how to do if it will be done A real step forward. Certainly the intention is not to repeat the scene of six months ago, when Trump metaphorically slapped Zelensky in favor of cameras, in an epic clash. So much so that, they tell, the real knot of yesterday evening in the talks among the leaders was that of format of the declarations to the press. At the White House they had thought of Lumps and Zelensky’s flash communications in the oval studio immediately after the face to face. But the risk that fears – how Meloni explained to the allies – is that everything turns into a socket from Trump’s scene that ends up silently and all leaders, or in a dangerous overlapping of voices and positions. So, the pressure on Trump is strong because instead you adopt A more institutional model, like in Alaska: declarations of one and the other president without the possibility of questions, at the end of the day.
It will see if Trump will convince himself. Certainly, as he says to his melons, at the moment it can only be accompanied by his efforts with patience and tenacity, without attacking him, even when the desire would be less for certain too friendly tones he used with Putin. But, even yesterday to the other leaders the premier said it: the risk is that Trump, if attacked, jumped everything and in fact say that Ukraine does not want peaceEurope does not collaborate, and then do as it seems to him Because the Americans will agree directly with the Russians. A disaster, which would leave Europe to the pole. So, we tested with the thread you have.
And therefore, With what position does Italy go to Washington? Having said that the premier does not give a great weight to the calls where too many countries participate without coming to a conclusion if not that, they comment on his, of satisfying Macron who wants to demonstrate “to be the true leader of Europe”, in a note Meloni writes that in the discussion “the importance of continuing to work with the United States has been reiterated to end the conflict and reach a peace that ensures Ukraine sovereignty and safetywhich must be involved in every decision ». In addition, “the discussion has confirmed the need to maintain collective pressure on Russia and of solid and credible guarantees of safety”.
Words of course more generic of those leaders exchanged in the most restricted conversations. The key point, for the premier who also talked about it with Zelensky, is to ensure that Ukraine that It will not be left alone in the future. And that, this is the plan “invented by us”, as the premier repeats, the application of article 5 of NATO can be extended so that if Ukraine was attacked it would be defended by the alliance, although not structurally part of it.
L’idea non convince Macronwhich pushes for direct intervention by European countries to defend Ukraine, with military contingents. But Meloni replied: “Russia has one million and three hundred thousand soldiers: how many should we send them to be up to the task?». And again: «If one of our soldiers were to die, would we pretend nothing or should we react? Because if we react, it is obvious that NATO will have to do it. And then it is enough to immediately activate the clause ».
The idea seems to be interested in both Zelensky and Trump, less Macron who does not like the Italian position, in a clash of positions that has been going on for some time. It will be a crucial passage, The first of other “extremely complex” nodes, as the premier says: the adoption of the Russian as an official language, the territories that Putin claims, the ceasefire. But preventive is the question of security: what can Zelensky be able to give home to give in to some conditions of the Russians, and to explain to its compatriots that “dying has served something?”. An automatic defense is convinced the premier, it would be “a concrete, solid result” for him. It will already be seen tonight if there are steps forward. And if perhaps it can be followed by the Italian proposal of Rome as the seat of a possible trilateral Putin, Zelensky, Trump. To the last two would not mind, but here too The arm wrestling is underway: It seems that yesterday Macron raised herself in front of the hypothesis, offering if anything Geneva. Meloni with a joke would calm him down. This is not the time to divide.