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Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ‘Barking at Putin’s Door’
Daily Beast via Yahoo News ^ | 05/03/2022 | Barbie Latza Nadeau

Posted on 05/07/2022 8:27:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: rrrod

You’ve proven that you’re pretty stupid but I’m gonna give this one more try..

Being against Involving the United States into a war does not mean you love Putin.

You have contributed no conherent thought, or intelligent rebuttal explaining your position. All you’ve done is name called people “Putin puffer”. Which is very immature behavior.

And if you believe Biden, Soros, and all the media have suddenly stopped lying, then you’re even stupider than I thought.

Biden-puffer.


141 posted on 05/07/2022 12:16:12 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: troll

Look how quickly you graduated to simple troll.


142 posted on 05/07/2022 12:17:03 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Mr. K

Following script? lol


143 posted on 05/07/2022 12:17:39 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: j.havenfarm

Really? Always?
***No. I did not say ‘Always’. Yet you feel the need to argue against it. Commonly known as straw argumentation.

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.
***You obviously are not taking the warning seriously. That’s between you and God. God wants us to take him seriously and when you don’t, that’s on you. Eventually it just plain suqs to be you when you don’t take God seriously, because God calls everyone home at some point. So how about in the meantime you stop using the foolish straw argumenting classic fallacy?


144 posted on 05/07/2022 12:20:40 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
Well, that's a historical fact. Japan had no plans to attack or invade the United States before then.

Subsquent events and actions can be debated, but the intent to cripple the US navy's ability to enforce that embargo was the stated purpose of the Pearl Harbor raid.

145 posted on 05/07/2022 12:27:13 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: Mr. K

Uhh... Pot, meet Kettle. Your own actions on this thread single you out as someone who goes straight for the insults first, never so far yet to post any factuality.

For example your first post on this thread:

To: rrrod
You Biden lovers certainly are here first

39 posted on 5/7/2022, 9:03:36 AM by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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146 posted on 05/07/2022 12:29:51 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Kevmo

Wasn’t that a response to YOUR first post, name-calling people “PUtin puffers”

You’re too stupid to remember, probably.

Biden-lover.


147 posted on 05/07/2022 1:01:21 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: brownsfan
It sounds to me like the elderly Argentinian Leftist who runs the Vatican is just taking a shot at the US. More than that, the substantive point is plain wrong.

In the 1990s, at the start of Putin's political career in St. Petersburg, he made clear to Andrew Goodman, an American diplomat he dealt with regularly, that he believed Russia had to recover her superpower status and pursue it own interests and purposes. And in Putin's assessment, which he repeatedly discussed in public, for Russia to recover its superpower status required dominating the "near abroad" of the former Soviet Republics -- including Ukraine. In essence, Ukraine, a major economic and geographic prize, was always on Putin's target list.

Why did Putin attack Ukraine this year? The time seemed ripe. After spending many billions of dollars upgrading Russia's weaponry, his military seemed up to the task, intel reports corroborated Putin's view that Ukraine would not put up much of a fight, and the West had made clear that Ukraine was not going to be admitted to NATO anytime soon or get the benefit of NATO troops or a security guarantee. After all, Putin now controlled a major share of Europe's energy supply, which seemed to provide a Russian veto over NATO actions.

There is also a growing belief among experts that an aging and ailing Putin also calculated that time is running out for him. In sum, the US and NATO did not provoke or prompt Putin's attack on Ukraine. It was instead a result of Putin's long held plans, beliefs, and delusions, spurred along by Putin's growing sense of his mortality. In that frame of mind, Putin, by nature a careful planner and not at all reckless, took a self-destructive gamble that has gone wrong.

148 posted on 05/07/2022 1:20:33 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: stupid

NO, dumbfrack. It clearly shows you’re responding to rrrod

To: rrrod
You Biden lovers certainly are here first

***What a nasty combination you exhibit: Dumb and mean-spirited. That makes you only a second class @$$#0/e.


149 posted on 05/07/2022 1:53:41 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: BobL

Yeah, we forced them to invade China before that, right? You might wanna read up on that.


150 posted on 05/07/2022 2:03:30 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

For a guy idolizing a homoerotic dancer, I
***Yeah, we know


151 posted on 05/07/2022 2:38:50 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

“Yeah, we forced them to invade China before that, right?”

Not sure that I said that...


152 posted on 05/07/2022 3:48:05 PM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: Houserino

“Better do what those that might attack us everything they want just in case, right?”

Read up on the history of NATO expansion, if you want to sound intelligent here.


153 posted on 05/07/2022 3:54:37 PM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: BobL

You didn’t. But you gotta take the whole sequence of events into account.


154 posted on 05/07/2022 7:58:22 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: BobL

Like Russia in recent years, long before Pearl Harbor Japan had a long history of aggressive action to seize territory from other sovereign nations. As far back as 1894 Japan began attacking the Chinese. They took Formosa and other islands and annexed Korea in 1910. They invaded Manchuria in 1931.

So all this talk about US embargoes is horseshit. Just like the excuses you make for your boy Putin.


155 posted on 05/07/2022 8:08:03 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Kevmo
The Pope is a dope.

So what can be done about that?

LEAVE.

(Solved it.)

156 posted on 05/08/2022 4:59:45 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: kinsman redeemer

I never joined.


157 posted on 05/08/2022 8:52:10 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Kevmo
The Pope is a dope.

So what can be done about that?

LEAVE.

I never joined.

DON'T.

(Solved it.)

158 posted on 05/08/2022 3:30:04 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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