Comments by Pope Francis about launching peace talks to end the Ukraine conflict are out of line and untimely, the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said.
Borrell's remark comes after the head of the Catholic Church stated in an interview with Swiss broadcaster RSI last weekend that it would be a display of courage from Kiev if it raised a "white flag" and entered into peace negotiations with Russia.
"The Holy Pope entered a garden where no one invited him... But calling on Ukraine to surrender is more than a wish for peace," the diplomat said during an interview on Thursday with Spanish public radio RNE.
Borrell went on to state that he believes "that now is not the moment when it is necessary to offer Ukraine to surrender. On the contrary, this is the moment when we need to continue to help."
Comment: It is indeed a strange world, when a religious leader is chastised for calling for peace. Double strange when it is done by a person who holds the position as the top European diplomat.
Borrell is known for his comparison of the EU/West as being a garden and the outside world a jungle.
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Comment: It looks seriously as if quite a number of Western leaders are collectively suffering from Dunning-Kruger syndrome. It is also likely that those behind the scenes, who are pulling the strings of the Western leaders, are getting desperate as things are not going according to their plans.
For those in the West who calls for Ukraine to win and for Russia to be defeated, they would do well to remember the universal law of Hubris and Nemesis. This idea of Hubris and Nemesis is also reflected in the Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven, with the idea that if rulers failed to look after their people, then Heaven would withdraw the divine mandate to rule. Pierre Lescaudron wrote about this in his book: Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection
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