Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Archbishop of the Archdiocese for Military Services, says that it would be morally acceptable for American troops to disobey an order to invade Greenland.
He said that he cannot see any circumstances in which an American military operation to take control of Greenland or another ally’s territory would fulfill the criteria for a just war. His comment was:
“I am obviously worried, because they could be put in a situation where they’re being ordered to do something which is morally questionable.
“It would be very difficult for a soldier or a Marine or a sailor by himself to disobey an order such as that. But strictly speaking, he or she, within the realm of their own conscience, it would be morally acceptable to disobey that order. But that’s perhaps putting that individual in an untenable situation, and that’s my concern.”
He added that the Trump regime’s “rhetoric on Greenland “tarnishes the image of the United States.”
Archbishop Broglio is the immediate past president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He served in the Holy See’s Secretariat of State as a Vatican diplomat, including as Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic and Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico.
I would add that everything the Archbishop said about the Trump regime’s threats of war with Greenland and America’s European allies such as Great Britain, Norway, France and Germany, apples even more strongly to Trump’s repeated threats to use troops against American civilians.
I’ve said before, and I am repeating it here: Armed troops firing on unarmed civilians is not combat. It is murder.
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