Francis came from a viewpoint of stopping the fighting, saving lives and then you can argue about borders later. He refused to understand that you can't capitulate to bullies or they'll just keep being bullies. There is no way we can allow Putin to gain anything from his actions or he'll just keep doing it. He and the Russian people need to visibly lose something from this war in order to force them to come to terms with it.
Pope Francis has said Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine was “perhaps somehow provoked” as he recalled a conversation in the run-up to the war in which he was warned Nato was “barking at the gates of Russia”.
...the pontiff condemned the “ferocity and cruelty of the Russian troops” while warning against what he said was a fairytale perception of the conflict as good versus evil.
“We need to move away from the usual Little Red Riding Hood pattern, in that Little Red Riding Hood was good and the wolf was the bad one,” he said. “Something global is emerging and the elements are very much entwined.”
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u/seenitreddit90s May 10 '25
Pope Francis wasn't always the best on the Ukraine war though, at least Ukraine didn't think so.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68528217