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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“The clear thing is that weapons are being tested there. The Russians now know that tanks are of little use and are thinking of other things. This is why wars are waged: to test the weapons we have produced. “
Yup! Defense Contractors are counting the money—cha-ching!!! Rubbing their hands with glee. “Here, use this! Launch them all—we’ll make more! Hey Congress — you want those campaign contributions? Vote more money for the WAR!”
And board seats when they leave...or even before. And their families.
What a racket! Guess it’s their turn, after Big Pharma milked the fed cow half to death.
“Free money!! Wooo hooo!!!! So your great-grandkids won’t have food. Who care?!? We’re gonna be rich! Rich, I tell ya! RICH!!!”
Once’n a while he says something I agree with.
Blind squirrel,nut.
“NATO barking at Russia’s door”
Sounds like it’s time to replace the Pope...for being truthful.
So do I. NATO and Ukraine kept poking the bear, now they are indignant that the bear swiped back. Don’t get me wrong, I think Russia is wrong to start the war and Ukraine has every right to fight back, just that neither side is innocent of the blood spilled.
I fear this will become pretext to a wider conflict. Too many seem to want war, both in our government and in China.
You gotta get new material, bruh
“Yeah, and the US forced Japan to attack with its nasty embargoes before 1941.”
You don’t think they were a major factor in Pearl Harbor? Might want to read up on that.
The Pope is a dope.
That is true too. Russia’s military and weapon systems are being embarrassed in Ukraine, but that doesn’t mean they won’t learn and get better.
“So do I. NATO and Ukraine kept poking the bear, now they are indignant that the bear swiped back. Don’t get me wrong, I think Russia is wrong to start the war and Ukraine has every right to fight back, just that neither side is innocent of the blood spilled.”
Well said, I agree.
We seem to feel we have the right to dictate what happens in the hemisphere, but are outraged when Russia protects it’s border.
Soros stooge.
And the pretty, provocatively-dressed girl had that rape coming to her.
And that rich, well-dressed family caused their robbing.
And those shop owners were just asking to be looted.
WTF
Better do what those that might attack us everything they want just in case, right?
Sorry, when the Russians sent an army to Ukraine's capitol Kyiv, they were not protecting their border, they were trying to take over a neighboring country.
"NATO andUkraineBIDEN kept poking the bear"
The same POPE that criticized every country for NOT taking in enough “MUSLIM refugees” ??????
Never saw ANY ‘refugees’; inside the Vatican being fed & housed by this POPE.
He has already done severe damage to the Catholic church, IMO.
Though I don’t disagree with him that some in the West wanted this war and tried to push Putin to do it, this Pope may very well be an atheist communist secularist.
You Biden lovers certainly are here first
One of the few times I agree with Frankie. TPTB started this war. Putin sprang the trap and Biden is doing his part to get us involved in a nuclear war.
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