Italian prime minister Mario Draghi’s visit last week to Washington, DC, the first of a Western leader since the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine on February 24, reaffirmed the absolute convergence of views existing between Italy and the United States.

Draghi and the American president, Joseph Biden, speak the same diplomatic language: the centrality of multilateralism; a deep awareness that the rise of China, despite the focus of these weeks, still represents the actual systemic challenge for liberal democracies; and a strong emphasis on the mutual desire for a stable and robust transatlantic partnership. Indeed, the momentum for the transatlantic relationship is exceptionally favorable these days.