Pope says Ukraine should have 'courage of the white flag' of negotiations (www.reuters.com)

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 43 points 8 months ago

I love how mad this is making people.

He's the Pope. Obviously he's going to want peace. What the hell do people expect? He doesn't care if land is Russian or Ukrainian as long as people stop dying. The geopolitics of the situation are simply not part of his ideology.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago

Interesting that he chooses to say the people having a genocide done on them need to surrender (which they've literally done and been shot anyway btw) and not the perpetrators of said genocide needing to stop.

Probably because the Pope is and always has been a piece of shit

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago

War crimes like the forcible transfer of children (i.e. genocide) are for the ICJ to deal with. As a religious leader his prerogative is to reduce suffering and death, by whatever means necessary.

More importantly, Russia can keep this up far longer than Ukraine and he doesn't want us to fight to the last Ukrainian.

[-] Aidinthel@reddthat.com -1 points 8 months ago

Right, a smaller country can never successfully resist a larger one. That's why Vietnam has been under US occupation (or was it French? I can never remember for some reason) all these years since Ho Cho Minh wisely surrendered to spare his people's lives.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago

A smaller neighbor is vastly different. Vietnam was on the other side of the planet for America and halfway for France. You can't ignore that.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The Viet Minh had the support of the people. The Kyiv regime needs to send out kidnapping squads to fill gaps in their lines. They do not have the support of the people, so their prospects for a successful insurgency are nil.