[Sundaycommunity] To stop Russian manipulation, Francis must make Vatican's stand on Ukraine clear | National Catholic Reporter

[Arthur Blomme]

Hi Catherine

Ukraine did start the war in 2014 following a US backed coup in the 
Ukraine.  Canada and the US have been supplying arms to this war that 
has killed 14,000 Ukrainians before the Russian invasion, mostly ethnic 
Russians. The west has refused to negotiate with Russia with regard to 
the continued expansion of NATO and has refused to accept Russia as a 
member.  Previously I sent out an article by a highly respected 
investigative journalist, Jonathon Cook, who resides in Palestine and 
whom many of us have met in our travels to Palestine with Father 
Holmes.  He is a better source for information on the Ukraine than the 
corporatist controlled Canadian media. The West’s Hands in Ukraine Are 
as Bloody as Putin’s 
<https://www.mintpressnews.com/wests-hands-ukraine-bloody-putins/279897/>

I was just reading about how false narratives are created by building 
large falsehoods out of fragments of truths. Your narrative here is 
based on fragments  of truth that are woven into a story that supports 
your preordained conclusions.  Most Canadians have no idea of the 
complexity of this conflict.

The Truth will set us free.

Art


On 5/13/22 10:22 a.m., Catherine Walther wrote:
> The UN forded are not used for aggression. Just defence. That’s the 
> difference between Russia and the UN or neutral countries. Russia 
> thinks he needs to take over the country next to him. The UN is not 
> trying to take over any countries. The countries in the UN want peace 
> but will come to the aid of a country that’s being attacked. The 
> countries in the UN respect the separateness of each country. Russia 
> doesn’t and will continue to eat up the smaller countries on its 
> borders to make Russia greater.  Ukraine did not start the war, it is 
> fighting back against Russia’s aggression. There’s a huge difference.
> I believe Pope Francis used that one sentence so that he could be 
> listened to by Russia. Other than that one sentence everything else he 
> has said is asking for the war to stop and condemning aggression from 
> any country. He is trying his best to enhance peace and gets jumped on 
> by people who are for Russia. Catherine
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:35 AM Art Blomme <art at integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
>     Hi John
>     I Hope you are well.
>
>     This NCR article appears to be the RC version of the Daily Beast
>     article I sent out last week.
>
>     Maybe Francis realizes as do I that Ukraine's war is a product of
>     US and Canada aggression.  Canada has been providing military aid
>     and selling armaments to the Ukraine ever since the US and
>     Canadian backed coup in 2014.
>
>     My guess is that NCR is just another Imperial controled media
>     outlet that is pushing the dominant narative manufacturing consent
>     for regime change in Russia.
>
>     It gives me hope that the Pope can see through the fog of war
>     propaganda.
>
>     The truth will set us free.
>
>     Art
>
>
>     On May 11, 2022 2:30 p.m., John Huot <jdhuot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         To stop Russian manipulation, Francis must make Vatican's
>         stand on Ukraine clear | National Catholic Reporter
>
>         Hi everyone,
>         This strikes me as an important, but sympathetic, , critique
>         of Pope Francis’ public statements & symbolic gestures about
>         the war in Ukraine. The main point of the article  is that
>         Francis’ statements have been open to manipulation by Russia &
>         the Russian Orthodox church, thereby creating confusion in
>         Ukraine & elsewhere about Francis’ intent to condemn the
>         Russian war of aggression, while advocating for an end to the
>         war through negotiation & humanitarian actions by Russia to
>         end civilian deaths, allow civilians to safely exit, cease
>         fires etc.
>         John
>
>         https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/stop-russian-manipulation-francis-must-make-vaticans-stand-ukraine-clear?utm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_term=PANTHEON_STRIPPED
>         <https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/stop-russian-manipulation-francis-must-make-vaticans-stand-ukraine-clear?utm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_term=PANTHEON_STRIPPED>
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