Trump administration has riled head of Catholic church over use of theology to justify conflict in Iran
The contrast in experience between the two men disagreeing over war and theology was striking.
On the one side was Pope Leo XIV, the first North American to head the Catholic church and the first cleric from the Augustinian order, who this week visited the modern Algerian city where Saint Augustine once lived. For Leo, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine’s ideas, it was the culmination of a lifelong intellectual interest.
On the other, the US vice-president, JD Vance, a very recent adult convert to Catholicism with no academic background in the history of the church’s thinking.
I still don’t get why Pakistan/China/russia/India nearby are so chill with Iran having nukes if they really were going towards that…
they have them as well, so MAD, which is why Iran understandably wants them because Israel does. To me that’s not unreasonable. The solution there is for Israel to give them up.
Israel has said that Iran is ‘weeks’ away from nukes for like 40 years dude.
If they wanted bombs, they’d get them.
Sure, that is the easy answer and why nuclear powers in the region are fine with it. I was talking about how I don’t understand why murica+israel is dooming while those countries are so relaxed. I wasn’t dooming.
Because Israel hates Iran, because they finance people standing up to Israels genocide against it’s multiple neighbors.
That’s the only reason.
yep, it basically always circles back to land theft and zionist racism.
And the US likes boogieman racism, religion and money, so we ally with Israel.
Ironically the US government has always stated that Iran is a natural culturally similar partner to the US, if we could ever get over our existing bad relationship and the reach of religious extremists in Iran. If Iranian and American commoners all sat down together at a bbq, highly likely we see a lot of similarities and like each other. Pretty sad state of affairs.
Honest to god, I think that Israel has blackmail on a ton of fucking people in the US, and they are pushing their puppets and blackmailing other people.
Post 9-11 one of the first countries to help the US in searching for UBL was Iran. Then, months later Bush comes out with his axis of evil bullshit and put Iran on the list. Of course they promptly stopped helping the US after that
Yeah. Seems to me that the Epstein ring was a world changing operation for Israel. I’m sure they started a new one and didnt just give up the whole method. Theres almost certainly a new Israeli pedo extortion ring running somewhere right now.
I’m sure there are multiple organizations like this running around the world, serving various interests.
There are a lot of bored decadently wealthy people who are the targets for such things, and their influences can sway populations and governments.
Frankly, this is a major national security risk.
Everybody’s got nukes these days, that isn’t really even the issue. The issue is the Conservative Propaganda Machine has convinced everybody that the very second that Iran has an operational nuclear weapon, they are going to launch a hundred of them and instantly destroy the entire world, and since they get high on their own supply, they’ve convinced themselves most of all.
In reality, Iran would do what everyone has done once they’ve gotten their hands on a Nuke - they use it to demonstrate that they deserve a seat at the big table, where they can influence international geopolitics.
For one, all these countries have their own nukes which cancels out their nukes. Ever heard of MAD?? Also, Russia is a close ally with Iran and that alone makes them very chill with each other.
I don’t see anyone in the EU cheering for polish/ukrainian nukes or the same for Japan/SKorea, etc. MAD is not obvious in a multipolar world and alliances can shift quickly. E.g. China does not trust theocrats.
If Ukraine had kept their nukes, the war would have never happened to begin with… When countries give up nukes or nuke programs, they get invaded. Simple as that.
It’s not that simple, but generally I agree that Ukraine needs nukes. But you can’t have every country and their grandma rushing to nukes simply to ensure their sovereignty. You need blocks and sharing umbrellas at best, otherwise there are too many points of failure in a network of deterrence that it is inevitable that one careless or mistaken shot triggers full armageddon in 30 minutes.
PS: I’d suggest one nuke permit per civ/continent/trade block eg USA+partners, EU++, russia+whatever, China+partners, India, Pakistan++, African Union, Latin America, Indonesia?, Iran++?, Arab Countries?, Australia…starting to get messy now… The only problem left to solve here is the borders of the blocks and how countries decide to move from one block to the other eg Ukraine, Brexit, Mexico, Egypt, Turkey, etc.
People nowadays really don’t read enough to understand the world
Just nowadays?
Tell us you don’t understand modern geopolitics without telling us you don’t understand modern geopolitics
Well, they did say they don’t get it.