Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has attracted international attention for her generally conservative ideology and frequent defense of President Donald Trump.
This week, she released a statement addressing Trump’s recent remarks about the U.S. possibly obtaining control of Greenland.
Instead of seeing it as a direct threat to Greenland, as well as the Danish government that currently controls it, Meloni thinks the rhetoric is part of a larger warning to other nations.
“I think we can exclude that the United States in the coming years will try to use force to annex territory that interests it,” Meloni said during an annual press conference, according to The Associated Press.
Instead, she concluded that his statements were “a message to some other big global players more than any hostile claim over these countries.” Meloni visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last week.
On Thursday, she affirmed that Trump’s remarks about Greenland were warnings against “Chinese pragmatism” in a “long-distance debate between great powers.”
Yet, the former president didn’t completely rule out the use of military force on foreign territories.
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“I am not going to commit to that. It might be that you have to do something,” Trump said during a Tuesday press conference when asked about the use of force.
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