Papal envoy on Ukraine: ‘dialogue is not betrayal’
August 23, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the papal delegate seeking a peace agreement in Ukraine, insisted that “dialogue is not betrayal,” as he pushed for talks between the warring parties.
Speaking in Rimini, Italy, at the annual meeting sponsored by Communion and Liberation, said: “A just and secure peace must be sought, not with weapons but with dialogue.”
The cardinal insisted that a peace agreement must produce a “just and secure peace,” because otherwise the result would be continued conflict.
Although he avoided assessing blame for the conflict, Cardinal Zuppi did say that “there is an aggressor and there is an aggrieved,” confirming that the Russian offensive had begun the war.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Aug. 23, 2023 10:59 PM ET USA
The Russian offensive had begun the war? Huh? In a twisted sense, this might be true if the Russian special military operation had been purely offensive, rather than defensive. A brief review of recent history would reveal that the 2014 Obama-backed coup in Ukraine and 3 decades of reneging on promises not to expand NATO beyond the German border combined to produce an existential threat to Russian security. Imagine if a similar military and ideological threat to U.S. security existed in Mexico.
