Cardinals Decry Trump's Imperial Ambitions, Forget Their Own Complicity
📰 THE STORY: Three US Catholic cardinals—Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy, and Joseph Tobin—have issued a joint statement criticizing the Trump administration's foreign policy, specifically its designs on Greenland, military actions in Venezuela, and cuts to humanitarian aid, warning these actions risk 'destroying international relations and plunging the world into incalculable suffering,'
undermining the nation's 'moral role.' 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: While these cardinals express concern over Venezuela in 2026, the US has systematically pursued regime change there for decades. In 2002, a US-backed coup against democratically elected Hugo Chavez failed. The economic sanctions imposed since 2017, dramatically intensified under Trump, have crippled
Venezuela's economy, leading to widespread suffering and food insecurity, directly causing 'incalculable suffering' long before this statement. Double Standard: These same church leaders, and the broader institutional Catholic church in the US, have been noticeably silent or complicit regarding similar or far more egregious US foreign policy actions. Where was the collective outcry from US
cardinals during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands? Or the 2011 NATO 'intervention' in Libya, which plunged the nation into chaos and re-introduced slave markets? The 'moral role' of the US has been 'under examination' for far longer than just the Trump years. Follow the Money: The US Catholic Church, while a massive institution with varied funding, has often aligned