Like a Bad Opera, Berlusconi and Zelensky Spar Over War Scars

The Ukrainian president ‘cannot be the only custodian of peace,’ another former Italian leader says.

Johanna Geron, pool via AP, file
President Zelenskyy speaks with Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, during an EU summit at Brussels on February 9, 2023. Johanna Geron, pool via AP, file

There are stranger paradoxes, but it took an 86-year-old Italian billionaire politician to make Italy the poster child of Europe’s weariness with the year-old war in Ukraine. The visit of the energetic Italian premier, Giorgia Meloni, to Kyiv this week was largely symbolic and devoid of drama, but the elephant in the room was a former four-time Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.

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