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Pope Francis' March 2024 appeal to Ukraine to have the courage of the White Flag!
Long before President Trump came to the realisation Zelensky had no cards, His Holiness had arrived at that same conclusion. His Holiness , without intending any offense, called on Ukraine to have the courage of the White Flag:
"The strongest one is the one who looks at the situation, thinks about the people and has the courage of the white flag, and negotiates. When you see that you are defeated, that things are not going well, you have to have the courage to negotiate," ; Pope Francis.
Ukraine went ballistic!
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Furious critics compare Pope’s call for Ukraine to wave ‘white flag’ to Nazi appeasement
Pope Francis’ statement that Ukraine should have the “courage of the white flag” in order to negotiate an end to the war with Russia has ignited a storm of criticism by Ukrainian and allied officials — some of whom invoked the specter of World War II appeasement of Nazi Germany.
“The strongest is the one who, in the battle between good and evil, stands on the side of good rather than attempting to put them on the same footing and call it ‘negotiations,’” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba
said in a Sunday post on X.
“At the same time, when it comes to the white flag, we know this Vatican’s strategy from the first half of the 20th century,” Kuleba said, in an apparent reference to the church’s failure to take action against Hitler’s Germany in the runup to World War II.
“I urge [the Church] to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and to support Ukraine and its people in their just struggle for their lives,” he continued.
“Our flag is blue and yellow. We live, die and win under it. We will not raise other flags.”
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski joined in,
saying in a post on X that, “for balance,” the pope should encourage Putin “to have the courage to withdraw his army from Ukraine.”
“Peace would immediately ensue without the need for negotiations,” Sikorski said.
“Let’s be clear on this: when a commentator or a politician calls for ‘peace’ and simultaneously advocates denying the victim of aggression the means to defend herself, they actually mean that the victim should capitulate,” Sikorski said in another post. “Such Chamberlainism usually covers baser motives.”
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“I urge [the Church] to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and to support Ukraine and its people,” Ukraine’s foreign minister fumed.
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