Ukraine and its allies criticized Pope Francis for saying that Kyiv should have the “courage” to negotiate the end of the war with Russia. AP has more, including what the pope said and why many interpreted his comments as a call for Ukraine to surrender. https://flip.it/Nbtxpo #News#WorldNews#Ukraine#Russia#UkraineRussiaWar#PopeFrancis
If Ukraine puts down arms, Putin will kill every last one of them.
If I know that, Pope Francis must know that. The entire concept behind the statement is a non-starter.
And the world has demonstrated we do nothing to stop genocide.
It is, apparently, the human way, to stand back and flutter our hands in dismay, because it is not us who are dying, so we can still flutter our hands.
Vatican spokesman: #PopeFrancis did not mean that #Ukraine should surrender to #Russia, in February interview posted on Sat.
Pope: "The stronger one is the one who sees the situation, the one who thinks about people, the one who has courage to raise the white flag and negotiate"
Foreign Minister Kuleba replies to #PopeFrancis call on #Ukraine to have "courage to raise white flag" & negotiate #Russia invasion, occupation, & mass killings
"Our flag is yellow & blue one. This is flag by which we live, die, & prevail. We shall never raise any other flags"
I deleted my earlier rant about the Pope suggesting that Ukraine should have the courage to surrender to Russia because upon re-reading, it wasn't quite what he meant. His comments were poorly worded. He went on to clarify that negotiating isn't the same as surrendering.
What he said was only guilty of being tone deaf... very tone deaf and ill-advised.