India, March 17 -- Sreeram Chaulia

Italian Prime Minister (PM) Giorgia Meloni has set the cat among the pigeons by floating a global Right-wing alliance which is coalescing to counter Leftist political ideas and movements worldwide. Her criticism of left-liberals for hypocrisy, double standards and frustration "because conservatives are winning" and "conservatives are now collaborating globally", and her clubbing of American President Donald Trump, Argentinian President Javier Milei, Indian PM Narendra Modi and herself as part of a coalition that is turning the tables on the "global Leftist liberal network", have brought questions of ideological contestation in international affairs to the forefront.

After the ideological tussle of the ...