Vatican peace mission on Ukraine flawed by presumption of moral equivalence: Weigel
July 14, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, George Weigel argues that a papal peace mission has taken a misguided approach to the war in Ukraine by treating the warring parties as morally equivalent.
While the Vatican seeks “a dialogue between politically and morally symmetrical parties,” the peace mission has been flawed, Weigel writes, because “there was neither moral condemnation of Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine nor of its brutal war-making in the ensuing 16 months.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jul. 15, 2023 12:01 AM ET USA
This poor guy appears to be a victim of Ukrainian military intelligence, which supplies nearly all of the propaganda printed in popular media outlets in the United States. Where is the condemnation by the West of the thousands of Ukrainians killed by military strikes from Kiev since 2014? Unprovoked assault? NATO violates its word in 1991 to not move an inch eastward of Germany, but Russia is supposed to trust them? NATO prohibits peace talks between Ukraine & Russia, but Putin is the aggressor?
