Joe Biden and Giorgia Meloni will meet in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon . The White House has viewed the prime minister as a strong partner in the effort to aid Ukraine . US officials have been somewhat surprised by the turnabout and suggest privately the changes amount to the moderating force of being in power where responsibilities of governing supplant the invective of campaigning . Meloni had been a lodestar for rightwing nationalism and worked to align herself with thenPresident Donald Trump . She inveighed against migration into Italy and was deeply skeptical of the European Union . Now however she has emerged as a leader on trying to develop solutions to the migration issue . And she has spoken about the need to strengthen NATO amid Russias invasion of Ukraine . Biden and Meloni have met on several occasions at international summits in the last year . But the two leaders do find themselves at odds on some domestic issues including LGBTQ rights . They get along quite well particularly on issues of foreign policy . They will discuss shared challenges and the Italian people get along well on some of their own issues including the LGBTQ rights issue . The president is focused on asserting human rights around the world but the Italian People get to decide who their government is. Its a democracy and the American people get to say its a democracy. The president respects that. The two leaders get along very well. The Italian people decide to decide to choose to decide. The American people decide not to choose. The President is focused. But the American People get into trouble. They get to agree to disagree. They are not to agree. They don’t agree to compromise. They have to agree that they don‘t necessarily agree to agree on their differences. They’re
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