Call my wife. Calling UK Wildlife. Voice assistance not working for you. BlackRock Investment Trust has a lot working for you. Get to know them at blackrock.com. Capital at risk marketing material. BlackRock Investment Management UK Limited, authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. I don't know if you saw that Trump is invading the Vatican. This is according to Christopher Hale. I'm paraphrasing a little bit here, but that is essentially what a lot of people on Twitter are under the impression of.

I went through the story.

I went through some of the reaction from the based Tradcath contingent of our MAGA coalition.

I wanted to get into the story first because a lot of people are immediately saying, should we take

this guy at face value? I mean, this is obviously like an Obama-Biden apparatchik and he's reporting

that, you know, a Trump or a Pentagon official spurred out and like, you know, crashed out on

this Vatican official. What's your analysis on this story? I mean,

I'm obviously a bit skeptical here, but what was your initial reaction to the story? Was it, you know, is this base, is this justified, or was this crash out a little too beyond the pale? I'm curious what you have to say. It's a very bizarre story. I don't know whether to believe it or not. It's also very odd for any administration to do this.

Because what the official that is named in the story, Elbridge Colby, did, know whether to believe it or not. It's also very odd for any administration to do this.

Because what the official that is named in the story, Elbridge Colby, did is he brought in a Vatican official and a cardinal to castigate him for the Vatican criticizing American foreign policy.

But the Vatican has been doing that for many, many years.

You know, they oppose the Iraq War. They have opposed some of the actions we did in Afghanistan.

This is not something totally new or out of the blue. This is just something they do.

And according to the story, it's being treated as an unprecedented event, that the Vatican has to be

on our side, which has not always

been the case in American foreign policy. So I found it odd. I don't know whether to believe it or not

because it just sounds, you know, pointless for defense officials to try to tell the Vatican

to get on the side of America and be like, we need you to be supporting us, which, you know,

they haven't really done that in the past.

I mean, they did show, I mean, the Vatican and the Catholic Church did show support for America

during the Cold War against the communist threat, but, you know, it's been very different

over the last 35 years with the Cold War over.

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