Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan and Archbishop Borys Gudziak

"Just War" and U.S. Support for Ukraine

483. When is it morally permitted to use military force?

The use of military force is morally justified when the following conditions are simultaneously present:

• the suffering inflicted by the aggressor must be lasting, grave and certain;

• all other peaceful means must have been shown to be ineffective;

• there are well founded prospects of success;

• the use of arms, especially given the power of modern weapons of mass destruction, must not produce evils graver than the evil to be eliminated.

(Compendium of the Catechism

Who Makes the Call?  And with Regard to the Ukraine, is Archbishop Gudziak Blinded by Conflicting Interests?

As to who decides upon the use of military force in the U.S., the Constitution says it is Congress (cf, Catholic365, 1/27/24).  Yet since World War II, our military has repeatedly been used without any congressional declarations of war.

As per D. Padgett Blakley,

In today's world, one of the most terrifying sentences American moms can hear is: "The United States Congress declares war on Russia: World War III has begun"....

Trump promised an end to the futile Ukraine war in "24 hours". Vladimir Putin praised Trump, stating that Russia was ready for dialogue....  President Zelensky says he wants to work with Trump to end the Ukraine war.....

Meanwhile, since Joe has pardoned Hunter, Jill's stepson, and saved him from an ugly fate, maybe she will help the rest of the American moms by getting Joe out of the White House, away from being able to cause more trouble, and take him to the beach, or somewhere else.