Courtesy of CNN:
Pope Francis said Saturday he worries that rising tensions between the United States and North Korea could lead to a wide military conflict that would wipe out a “large part of humanity.”
He called for renewed diplomacy using third-party intermediaries and for the United Nations to take a lead role in de-escalating tensions.
The Pope, while returning to Italy from Egypt, took several questions from reporters and one asked him what he would say to world leaders at this critical moment.
Francis said in Italian that the situation “has heated up too much. I always appeal for a solution through diplomatic means.”
The pontiff, who has spoken of a “piecemeal third world war” for several years, said increased conflict would be devastating.
“It’s piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot,” Pope Francis said. “Today a wider war would destroy, I won’t say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don’t think humanity today could bear it.”
You know when a guy who firmly believes in an afterlife, and that he absolutely has a reserved parking place in that afterlife, expresses great concern about the possibility of a war, I think he deserves our attention.
And the Pontiff is right, Trump’s ignorance and lack of preparedness for the job of president puts the entire world at risk.
If I were working for the FBI, I would be working around the clock to prove Trump’s ties to Russia and get him removed from office before it is simply too late.
