As a Catholic myself, we are shockingly very progressive. Personally I think it’s because the church also heavily teaches social justice. Dorothy Day has left a profound impact on American Catholics to this day.
This was not a war crime, there were no civilians retreating. Kuwaitis wanted the Americans to push back the Iraqi forces, Iraq invaded Kuwait solely for their oil. These were only soldiers and military assets, striking those aren’t a war crime.
Who cares? If it means we can get the government funded then I’m all for it. We have a Republican House, this is just one of many compromises we have to make. I’d rather them take down pride flags at embassies than raise the retirement age.
This is in America though, you can’t “replace” people that planted themselves there in the first place. White people actually “replaced” people of color here in America. Maybe you didn’t take history in school?
All that I remember was when the USSR fell, Ukraine agreed to give the nukes remaining on their territory back to Russia, in agreement that Russia would never invade Ukraine. The United States, Russia, and Ukraine signed a treaty saying so. Russia broke the treaty when they