Posted on 05/07/2022 8:27:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ROME—Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis has floated the idea that he wants to take a trip to Kyiv to try to broker a ceasefire. But now he says he would prefer to go to Moscow to try to talk some sense into Vladimir Putin, who he has not outwardly condemned in the now nearly three-month-old war and only did so lightly in a lengthy interview with an Italian newspaper.
“I feel that before going to Kyiv, I must go to Moscow,” he told Corriere Della Sera in an interview that ran Tuesday. But the meeting would not exactly be to condemn Putin, based on what he told the paper. He said that the real “scandal” of Putin’s war is “NATO barking at Russia’s door,” which he said caused the Kremlin to “react badly and unleash the conflict.”
Never mind that the 85-year-old pontiff is unable to walk after tearing a ligament in his knee (for which he says he will soon have surgery), or that Putin won’t even answer his calls.
Francis repeated comments he has made in general audiences and in other interviews that the war is nothing more than a giant opportunity for a “trade in arms” and that it is still ongoing because of the constant shuttling of weapons to Ukraine. He has spoken twice by phone to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but mostly to urge him not to fight back. He also went to the Russian embassy to the Holy See days after the invasion began to “register his concerns” about what was happening.
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Some Freepers have been saying for years that many of the staples of modern warfare are becoming obsolete: tanks, aircraft carriers, manned fighter aircraft, etc.
The ongoing weapons test in Ukraine seems to add credence to that theory.
Interesting. Even Jesus said to the CyroPhoenician woman, basically calling her a dog like Jews called every other gentile: “Let the children eat first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
Let all those illegal colonizers answer as well as that woman did. Because so far, they aint — not even close.
Yeah huh, and you’ve already dropped your pretense. Didn’t take you very long.
For a guy idolizing a homoerotic dancer, I have to assume you know a lot about “puffing” - whatever that is.
I dislike both corrupt dictators.
He really needs to step down.
But liberals never do that, do they?
For a guy idolizing a homoerotic dancer,
***Well, I know that aint me, so it must be...
I have to
***Oh, so it was YOU all along. It figures.
assume you know a lot about “puffing” - whatever that is.
***You should take a writing class if only to be more precise in your insults.
I dislike both corrupt dictators.
***So do I. But one of them invaded the country of the other. Kind of a gigantic DUHH factor to the whole thing.
Laughable from a one of Biden Butt Buddy.
Whole countries go in the toilet so they invent a war for you
All so easily manipulated
Sure you’ve got all your covid boosters
that you think the economy’s just wonderful
that Biden clearly won the election
That Biden exit from Afghanistan was brilliant
Thar men can have babies
And that the state should be teaching your 5 year olds that they’re all transgender fluid whatever the hell they want to be
Basically any kind of propaganda that they wanna tell you “Oh I believe it ! ooh hoo hoo hoo!
All in on A-war that never needed to happen to distract you from all the other shit that going on... what an idiot
You a Hillary voter in 2016?
Or one the GOPE Putting the Con in neocon
They sure knew what buttons to push with you... programmed pavlovian response...
And 1 Peter 2:13 tells us to obey the law. I don’t think the Pope should be encouraging people to break the law by trespassing onto someone else’s property. Every house has walls, every country has borders. No difference.
Sort of like battleships. Expensive targets
You are exposed Putinista.
There’s too many war cheerleaders on FR.
Paraphrasing John Lennon, “All we are saaaying...is give war a chance.”
You know, I think you are quite right about that! 🤔.
Do you have your “I love Biden” sticker, Biden fluffer?
Obambam was the one who started the going backwards thing. They completely fracked up the projection of strength, and upheld betrayal of Ukraine as if it were a virtue. Nuclear NonProliferation was an afterthought for him once the Ukes were already denuked. And we see the same thinking on today’s isolationist-first front which deals with everything on an a priori basis: Don’t get involved because we shouldn’t get involved. Wrong, more often even than the leftists got it wrong. If we can’t get Nuke Nonproliferation correct, the world is screwed.
There’s too many obambam weakness-projectors on FR.
You are exposed. Truth always gets the cultists. Always.
Really? Always? I knew there was something nefarious about Teddy Roosevelt getting the Nobel prize for brokering the settlement of theRusso- Japanese war, Carter brokering the Sinai Accord, Clinton brokering the Belfast Agreement, and Trump, through Kishner, brokering the Abraham Accords.
No, you did.
See, I'm getting the hang of it.
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