Pope Says NATO May Have Caused Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

This is news only for the sake of pointing out that the Pope has a heavenly sense of the obvious.

If there is a lighter side to the mess of destruction The Regime has foisted upon America, perhaps this is it.

Pope Francis has declared that the transatlantic military alliance was ‘barking’ at Russia’s door. And may very well have caused President Putin to take retaliatory action.

This from politico.eu.

Pope Francis also said that he has offered to meet the Russian president in Moscow.

In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis reflected on Russia’s lethal aggression toward its neighbor and said while he might not go as far as saying NATO’s presence in nearby countries “provoked” Moscow, it “perhaps facilitated” the invasion.

Francis also condemned the “brutality” of the war and compared it to Rwanda’s civil war in the 1990s, which resulted in a genocide of the Tutsi minority.

The Holy See has been asking since mid-March for a meeting between Francis and Putin in Moscow, the pope said.

Of course, we needed the leader of the Kremlin to allocate a window of time. We haven’t yet had any response, and we are still trying, even if I fear that Putin can’t and doesn’t want to have this meeting at this time.

In the interview, Francis ruled out going to Kyiv for now:

First I have to go to Moscow, first I have to meet Putin.

Francis said he had canceled a meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and a key backer of Putin who has justified the war, as they both thought it would look “ambiguous” — but in a phone call said he warned Kirill not to “turn himself into Putin’s altar boy.”

Well, no doubt these kind words were well received (sarc).

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Francis has repeatedly criticized the invasion while avoiding naming Putin explicitly, in line with the Vatican’s foreign policy of keeping the door open for possible dialogue.

The Russian embassy to the Holy See did not immediately respond to phone calls or an emailed request for comment. A spokesman for the Vatican did not respond to a request for comment.

Perhaps one communist to another, Pope Francis can encourage Vladimir Putin to hasten his locating of the biolabs of mass destruction in Ukraine along with the proof of the Biden Crime Family complicity and bring these hostilities to a heavenly end.