Posted on 03/07/2022 2:17:39 PM PST by delta7
Nothing is lost with peace. All can be lost with war. Let men return to understanding. Let them resume negotiating. Negotiating with good will and with respect for each other’s rights, let them realize that an honorable success is never precluded when there are sincere and active negotiations. And they will feel great – with true greatness – if imposing silence on the voices of passion, whether collective or private, and leaving reason to its proper domain, they will spare their brothers bloodshed and their homeland ruin……….
Thus it was that on August 24, 1939, Pius XII addressed both rulers and peoples as war was imminent. These were not words of empty pacifism, nor of complicit silence about the multiple violations of justice that were being carried out in many quarters. In that radio message, which some people still remember hearing, the appeal of the Roman Pontiff invoked “respect for each other’s rights” as a prerequisite for fruitful peace negotiations.
The Media Narrative
If we look at what is happening in Ukraine, without being misled by the gross falsifications of the mainstream media, we realize that respect for each other’s rights has been completely ignored; indeed, we have the impression that the Biden Administration, NATO and the European Union deliberately want to maintain a situation of obvious imbalance, precisely to make impossible any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, provoking the Russian Federation to trigger a conflict. Herein lies the seriousness of the problem. This is the trap set for both Russia and Ukraine, using both of them to enable the globalist elite to carry out its criminal plan.
It should not surprise us that pluralism and freedom of speech, so praised in countries that claim to be democratic, are daily disavowed by censorship and intolerance towards opinions not aligned with the official narrative. Manipulations of this kind have become the norm during the so-called pandemic, to the detriment of doctors, scientists and dissenting journalists, who have been discredited and ostracized for the mere fact of daring to question the effectiveness of experimental serums. Two years later, the truth about the adverse effects and the unfortunate management of the health emergency has proven them right, but the truth is stubbornly ignored because it does not correspond to what the system wanted and still wants today.
If the world media have so far been able to lie shamelessly on a matter of strict scientific relevance, spreading lies and hiding reality, we should ask ourselves why, in the present situation, they should suddenly rediscover that intellectual honesty and respect for the code of ethics widely denied with COVID.
But if this colossal fraud has been supported and disseminated by the media, it must be recognized that national and international health institutions, governments, magistrates, law enforcement agencies and the Catholic hierarchy itself all share responsibility for the disaster – each in its own sphere by actively supporting or failing to oppose the narrative – a disaster that has affected billions of people in their health, their property, the exercise of their individual rights and even their very lives. Even in this case, it is difficult to imagine that those who have been guilty of such crimes in support of a pandemic that was intended and maliciously amplified could suddenly have a jolt of dignity and show solicitude for their citizens and their homeland when a war threatens their security and their economy.
These, of course, can be the prudent reflections of those who want to remain neutral and look with detachment and almost disinterest at what is happening around them. But if we deepen our knowledge of the facts and document them, relying on authoritative and objective sources, we discover that doubts and perplexities soon become disturbing certainties.
Even if we only want to limit our investigation to the economic aspect, we understand that news agencies, politics and public institutions themselves depend on a small number of financial groups belonging to an oligarchy that, significantly, is united not only by money and power, but by the ideological affiliation that guides its action and interference in the politics of nations and the whole world. This oligarchy shows its tentacles in the UN, NATO, the World Economic Forum, the European Union, and in “philanthropic” institutions such as George Soros’ Open Society and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
A man of God would rebuke Russia for it immoral, illegal act of reckless aggression and murder. This man puts his poltical opnions above his duty as a Christian. That is not the act of a "man of God".
That you disagree with your neighbors politics does not allow you to start murdering his family and violently taking over his land.
No matter what desperate rationalizations people try make about this, Russia's actions are illegal and immoral with no legitimacy of any sort.
The Democrats or GOPe is paying people to come on here and paint any contrarian opinion as promoting Putin. I am convinced FR is heavily infiltrated with such posters.
That, or they are stuck in the past and WW II. Hitler is reincarnated through Saddam Hussein, now Putin.
And when you bring up hypocrisy and lies of the wars in the past 20 years, it’s the old, Hillary Clinton shrieking statement, “What difference does it make?”
Didn’t Stalin kill over 20 millions Russians after WW II, and expand territories? Where was the concern then?
I really enjoy his writing!
Here we go another jerk who thinks you have to be “paid” to stand up to V Putin.
The other idiot said Soros was paying me. Brilliant arguments.
Am I WEF, Alf, or UFO? Only my alien paymasters know for sure.
Yeah you don’t want to learn any lessons from WW2. /s
Like recognizing propaganda from our enemies.
This is hilarious now! You’re actuallly saying the US and NATO didn’t oppose Soviet expansion? And kept it up until Eastern Europe was freed? You’re kidding right?
No matter what desperate rationalizations people try make about this, Russia's actions are illegal and immoral with no legitimacy of any sort.
Let's be thankful he isn't this judgmental.
(Otherwise, we could only shudder to think what he would say about a country that assaulted nations across the Middle East on the flimsiest of pretexts and left a pile of rubble, dead, and disabled in its wake. A country that now has the gall to point the finger at Vladimir Putin for launching a military campaign in his very front yard, after that Middle East Wrecking Ball stuck its nose in that country's business, supporting the coup of a democratically-elected president.)
Fortunately for the US, Archbishop Vigano isn't this harsh.
Whatever it is, you don’t really care about America, if you are letting the left get you all worked up about two corrupt kleptocracies that both try to undermine our politics here at home.
Read the old testament sometime eh.
Very similar to the $hot $hills.
Interesting, isn’t it?
It's either that, or we simply can't raise any discussion about anything higher than the second grade level.
This is shaping up to be no different than the discussion on the jabs. ("You have questions about the efficacy or the safety of these shots? Clearly, you're nothing more than an 'anti-vaxxer'.")
There are pro-Putin and pro-Zelensky people. They can knock themselves out.
The Main Stream Media should not be rooting for either but presenting facts not propaganda, and opinion is the job of the editoral board of newspapers.
Secondly, there are people who don’t like Putin and yet who see Slo Joe’s, Hunter’s, Soros, the WEF, and other cretin involvement in this and in Ukraine, wondering to what extent Zelensky is corrupt, and are looking outside the narrow box some try to construct for others as the main stream media has done.
“Pro-Putin” is along Rachel Maddow lines, when in reality many say Putin is horrible and also say the U.S. can play a role with sanctions, looking to restart Keystone XL, and letting Europe grow up and deal with their own back yard as the U.S. is $30 trillion on debt, going broke, and we dont even take care of our own borders.
I cant understand why so many here are now believing the MSM. I would suspect controlled opposition plants but many of the most gullible have been on FR for 20 or so years.
He’s a very well-connected and wise man.
“He covers all, comprehensive, well researched, full of facts.
Biden’s conflict of interest in Ukraine
The Ukrainian nuclear question
The color revolution in Ukraine and the independence of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk
President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy’s relations with the IMF and the WEF
Neo-nazi and extremist movements in Ukraine
The Ukrainian war in the plans of the NWO”
But CNN is telling me to root for Ukraine!!!
I’m Protestant....but I have deep respect for this man for speaking out about the Globalists.
This is a tactic of their hero, Alinsky, I believe. Like the “Russian collusion” crap with Trump.
“The Democrats or GOPe is paying people to come on here and paint any contrarian opinion as promoting Putin.”
Relax, they’re just Bidenistas, doing what Biden tells them, maybe even on his payroll.
“I cant understand why so many here are now believing the MSM. I would suspect controlled opposition plants but many of the most gullible have been on FR for 20 or so years.”
I think it just shows the power of the media when a subject comes up that they’re not familiar with.
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