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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

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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To: moovova
The KGB had enormous operations in South America injecting communism and anti-westernism into Christianity.

Former Soviet spy: We created Liberation Theology

41 posted on 05/07/2022 9:04:23 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: DoodleBob; SoCal Pubbie; DIRTYSECRET; moovova

The Pope’s reasoning is similar to Putin’s and his supporter’s reasoning and it goes like this — Russia is provoked by the continued expansion of NATO and feels threatened by more European countries joining the Alliance. Ukraine was the last straw, so Putin had no choice but to invade. We have to articulate the reasoning before we can actually analyze the reason.


42 posted on 05/07/2022 9:04:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: tlozo

“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.”

Bay of pigs, blockade, Grenada

I don’t agree with the methods. Putin is a thug. But, there was provocation.


43 posted on 05/07/2022 9:06:36 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

No head of state dresses like he does! He looks ridiculous! Act the damn part *bruh*


44 posted on 05/07/2022 9:06:47 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: brownsfan
Grenada

Visited Grenada, beautiful but poor island, who like Americans. Russians have never invaded a place and made it better.

45 posted on 05/07/2022 9:09:42 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: SeekAndFind

Francis forgot to mention the secret US bolabs in Ukraine, human trafficking ‘s epicenter being in Ukraine, and Ukraine being the center of world-wide money laundering racket.


46 posted on 05/07/2022 9:11:13 AM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: DoodleBob; SoCal Pubbie; DIRTYSECRET; moovova

Furthermore, Pope Francis extended his reasoning by saying that the west ( including the USA) ACTUALLY WANTED this war to :

a) Test their newly developed weapons in a real battle scenario using the Ukrainians as proxy.

b) Use the successful use of these weapons to SELL THEM around the world and thus, profit from war.


47 posted on 05/07/2022 9:12:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Whatever gets him to stop talking about global warming and the evils of national sovereignty.


48 posted on 05/07/2022 9:17:10 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: brownsfan

We’ll I agree, too. What is desperately
Needed here is some strong international figure to try to broker an end to this. The office of the papacy naturally suggests itself, but there heretic Francis is absent without leave. Don’t get me wrong: I’m a Catholic and no Francis fan, but if he has a job to do in this it’s to try to end it, not sit in the sidelines and take political potshots


49 posted on 05/07/2022 9:17:36 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SeekAndFind; SoCal Pubbie; DIRTYSECRET; moovova
That's a fair articulation of the reasoning. Let me analyze the reasoning, horizontally...

Supporters of CRT are provoked by the continued expansion Western Culture and the attendant racist constructs and feel threatened by more people supporting Western Culture. George Floyd was the last straw, so CRT supporters had no choice but to riot and loot.

If people support Russia's invasion of Ukraine using that raining, by extension they must support the 2020 riots and vandalism.

50 posted on 05/07/2022 9:20:50 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: JJBookman

Broken (analog) Clock dynamic in full effect!


51 posted on 05/07/2022 9:21:00 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: rrrod

Thanks for bringing this website into the gutter.


52 posted on 05/07/2022 9:25:49 AM PDT by McGruff (We are stuck in the demolition phase of Build Back Better)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

They’ll do anything to attach themselves to any chance to be associated with glory they’d never achieve on their own


53 posted on 05/07/2022 9:26:53 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: SeekAndFind; SoCal Pubbie; DIRTYSECRET; moovova
Going further...

Western Culture ACTUALLY WANTED the riots to happen to :

a) Test their newly agitated Deplorables in a real battle scenario using the CRT supporters as proxy.

b) Use the successful use of agitated Deplorables to SELL EXTREMISM around the world and thus, profit from riots.

54 posted on 05/07/2022 9:27:07 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: SeekAndFind

This Pope is a watch dog at the Devil’s mansion, barking when any try to escape.


55 posted on 05/07/2022 9:29:46 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Bikkuri

We were using Ukraine to poke the bear under the Bush and Obama administrations too. I think the inauguration of a weak administration that pushed the same anti-Russian politics in Ukraine was just the last straw for them.


56 posted on 05/07/2022 9:30:19 AM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us )
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To: TennTuxedo

And the Lizard People, too, gotta get in your full dose of douchbag fascist nuttery there.


57 posted on 05/07/2022 9:31:28 AM PDT by Aeneas2112
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To: SeekAndFind
Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ‘Barking at Putin’s Door’

Pope Francie knows a great deal about barking at back doors.

58 posted on 05/07/2022 9:39:00 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He went all out when he met Pelosi and wore a newish sweatshirt.


59 posted on 05/07/2022 9:55:17 AM PDT by Beagle8U ("Per DNC instructions...Joy Reid is busy packing marbles up her @$$.")
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To: rrrod

Better then being a Biden Butt Boy


60 posted on 05/07/2022 9:59:44 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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