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 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.
“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.
No head of state dresses like he does! He looks ridiculous! Act the damn part *bruh*
Visited Grenada, beautiful but poor island, who like Americans. Russians have never invaded a place and made it better.
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.
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.
Whatever gets him to stop talking about global warming and the evils of national sovereignty.
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
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.
Broken (analog) Clock dynamic in full effect!
Thanks for bringing this website into the gutter.
They’ll do anything to attach themselves to any chance to be associated with glory they’d never achieve on their own
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.
This Pope is a watch dog at the Devil’s mansion, barking when any try to escape.
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.
And the Lizard People, too, gotta get in your full dose of douchbag fascist nuttery there.
Pope Francie knows a great deal about barking at back doors.
He went all out when he met Pelosi and wore a newish sweatshirt.
Better then being a Biden Butt Boy
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