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.



“I don’t know how to answer - I’m too far a way - the question of whether it is right to supply the Ukrainians,” he told the paper. “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. Few people are fighting this trade, but more should be done.”

Whether the Italian journalists didn’t ask or whether he didn’t answer there was no mention about what would happen if Ukrainians were not fiercely fighting back, whether it would mean a full annexation of the entire country, millions of deaths, or empowering an already insatiably power-hungry Putin.

Francis veered toward conspiracy theory as he blamed the international community for instigating the war.

“You cannot think that a free state can make war on another free state,” he said. “In Ukraine, it seems that it was others who created the conflict. I am pessimistic but we must do everything possible to stop the war.”

The pope then said that in a state visit to Rome by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, he was told “the Russians have a plan, that everything will end on May 9” without giving any further explanation. May 9 is the day Russia celebrates its liberation and the end of World War II.

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Why is pope desperate to trend?

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The matter no concern the vatican.......dem wan loot from the dead bodies again?

I talk am. This war is for testing newly invented weapons from all the corners of the globe.

I love war like mad

Say NO to war. This Russia - Ukraine war is so unnecessary.

I'm happy that The Pope understands the unending wickedness and pugnacious nature of NATO.
NATO is useless to modern world other than to provoke conflicts to loot other nations resources and to funnel funds into the "military industrial complex"

Putin was right to respond as he rightly did, but now that lives are being lost and Ukraine being totally ruined, anything that can be done to save lives is welcomed. Part of that should entail the global criminalization of NATO and the designation of the association as that of vandals and bloodsuckers..

The Pope has spoken

Have you Noticed that almost all the weapons, been used now, to fight are mostly outdated??

Not like our Nigerian outdated ohh..
Cus our weapons are mostly from 1980...

HOLY FATHER
THE VICAR OF CHRIST
THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH

The US "Javelin" had made nonsense of armoured tanks. The tanks are easily blown into pieces like balloons. The Javelin comes with 2 war heads and gives you the opportunity to fire and change position and this makes it so difficult for enemies to track where the attack comes from. Whenever Javelin is involved, the tanks that position in one place are sure for destructions and trying to tactically maneuver, still no escape because whichever way, Javelin the king of destruction will track you. Anytime Javelin is in action, it can't return without delivering its message successfully. What made Russian Commander exclaimed, "tanks are now useless and appears like toys.".

Javelin, a symbol of Ukraine"s resistance.

Don't joke with Javelin.

Who else noticed that the only time the pope was alleged to be a conspiracy theorist was when he alluded to what every informed person knows about the deliberate poking of Russia by NATO, which led to this crisis? This is because there is a script, and anything outside of that script is regarded as conspiracy theories and censored from the news.

This is how people are brainwashed and programmed to think and react in a particular way using the media who work in sync with specially scripted narratives for people to soak up without an opportunity for an opinion of their own. Watch all the mainstream media and you would see the pattern for what it is.

Francis veered toward conspiracy theory as he blamed the international community for instigating the war.

Believe twisted news to your own peril. why wasn't the video of the said interview attached.

This senile old fool is back into reality.

Only those that were to die in the war will die.

NATO instigated this war I concur with Pope.

"When they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction shall fall on them". The "Health and 'Safety'" slogan has passed. Now we are on "Peace" slogan. Soon after this, sudden destruction of the earth, for the end of time is upon us.

perez100:
The US "Javelin" had made nonsense of armoured tanks. The tanks are easily blown into pieces like balloons. The Javelin comes with 2 war heads and gives you the opportunity to fire and change position and this makes it so difficult for enemies to track where the attack comes from. Whenever Javelin is involved, the tanks that position in one place are sure for destructions and trying to tactically maneuver, still no escape because whichever way, Javelin the king of destruction will track you. Anytime Javelin is in action, it can't return without delivering its message successfully. What made Russian Commander exclaimed, "tanks are now useless and appears like toys.".

Javelin, a symbol of Ukraine"s resistance.

Don't joke with Javelin.

don't joke with Putin strikes can bomb a javelin to pieces

9gerian:
Who else noticed that the only time the pope was alleged to be a conspiracy theorist was when he alluded to what every informed person knows about the deliberate poking of Russia by NATO, which led to this crisis? This is because there is a script, and anything outside of that script is regarded as conspiracy theories and censored from the news.

This is how people are brainwashed and programmed to think and react in a particular way using the media who work in sync with specially scripted narratives for people to soak up without an opportunity for an opinion of their own. Watch all the mainstream media and you would see the pattern for what it is.

No be today. Cnn go don cry over this matter.

We all knew this to be true. But the crop of deluded MSM fed folks out there who can't reason for themselves without quoting media narratives will not read and believe this.

Everyone knows how their media machine portrays America as the saint . America can't do any evil according to their media and that's what the whole world believes.

NwaNimo1:
Why is pope desperate to trend?

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The matter no concern the vatican.......dem wan loot from the dead bodies again?

How old are you ?

NwaNimo1:
Why is pope desperate to trend?

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The matter no concern the vatican.......dem wan loot from the dead bodies again?

Pope desperate to trend?
While people are using their anús to shit, you're using yours to think.

Whazar:
I love war like mad

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

RT?

Hmmmmm

I no get wetin to comment again on NATO & Rusian vs Ukrain

the mod that move this to F.P at 5:42am is serving punishment from Seun

or it's case of there shall joy in the morning for the o.p cus o.p posted this at 10pm yesterday

Maybe.

But it does not make it right

Taking the comment to the extreme, we can safely say it was iraq and Afghanistan's fault that Bush and the US bombed them.

Yes, Russia has a right to safe borders. Not at the expense of Ukrainian lives and property

his holiness is right
NATO gingered Ukraine to this fight.

Vladimir Putin we know, Vladimir Putin we support!!!

Bitter truth