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    <p>Hi Catherine <br>
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        width="629" height="409" align="right">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. T<a
href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wests-hands-ukraine-bloody-putins/279897/">he
        West’s Hands in Ukraine Are as Bloody as Putin’s </a></p>
    <p> 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.  <br>
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    <p>The Truth will set us free. <br>
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    <p>Art<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/13/22 10:22 a.m., Catherine
      Walther wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">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
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      <div dir="auto">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 </div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 13, 2022 at
            11:35 AM Art Blomme <<a
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              <div>Hi John
                <div dir="auto">I Hope you are well.  </div>
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                <div dir="auto">This NCR article appears to be the RC
                  version of the Daily Beast article I sent out last
                  week.</div>
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                <div dir="auto">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.  </div>
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                <div dir="auto">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.</div>
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                <div dir="auto">It gives me hope that the Pope can see
                  through the fog of war propaganda.</div>
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                <div dir="auto">The truth will set us free.</div>
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                <div dir="auto">Art</div>
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                  <div>On May 11, 2022 2:30 p.m., John Huot <<a
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                      <div dir="auto">To stop Russian manipulation,
                        Francis must make Vatican's stand on Ukraine
                        clear | National Catholic Reporter<br>
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                        Hi everyone,</div>
                      <div dir="auto">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. </div>
                      <div dir="auto">John<br>
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