In an interview given to European Jesuit magazines last month and published Tuesday by the Italian magazine The Catholic Civilthe pontiff refused to “reduce” the current conflict to “a distinction between good guys and bad guys.”
“What we see is the brutality and ferocity with which this war is being waged by the troops, generally mercenaries, used by the Russians. The Russians prefer to send Chechens, Syrians, mercenaries,” lamented Francis, who has repeatedly calls for peace since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
“But the danger is that we only see that, which is monstrous, without seeing all the drama that is played out behind this war, which may have been, in some way, provoked or not prevented.“, he clarified before condemning the arms industry. “Note the interest in testing and selling weapons. It’s very sad, but in the end it’s what’s at stake,” he stressed.
“Someone could tell me at this point: but you are in favor of Putin! No, I am not. It would be simplistic and wrong to say such a thing,” said Francisco, who was opposed to “reducing complexity to the distinction between good and bad”.
“It’s also true that the Russians thought it would all be over in a week. But they made a miscalculation. They found a brave people, a people that struggles to survive and that has a history of struggle,” the 85-year-old Argentine pope said.
Already on May 3, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis spoke that Russia’s “anger” could have been caused by “the barking of the NATO at the door of Russia”.
Known for his interest in building bridges with the most forgotten regions of the planet, Pope Francis could not ignore that the global interest and impact of the war in Ukraine was such because it happened in Europe.
“We see it this way because it is closer to us and touches our sensibilities more. But there are other countries far away, think of some parts of Africa, the north of Nigeriathe north of congowhere the war continues and nobody cares,” he said.
Precisely, the Pope had scheduled a pastoral trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for mid-July that he had to cancel last week as a result of his health problems.
Francisco, in his extensive dialogue with the Jesuit magazines, also recalled that years ago he warned that the world was experiencing “World War III in pieces.” “For me today the third world war has been declared. This is something that should make us reflect. What happens to humanity that has had three world wars in a century?“, he claimed.
Source: Ambito
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