Im Brennpunkt von Theologie und Ethik – Wladimir Putin
In the Spotlight of Theology and Ethics – Vladimir Putin

Summary/Abstract: The presented article concerns the war in Ukraine and the right of this country to self-defense. There is no talk about legitimate necessary defense, but about social self-defense. From this, under certain conditions derived the right to military intervention, so called humanitarian inter- vention. This concept was formulated in the document of the Central Committee of German Catholics in 2000 and later extended by principle of responsibility in the defense – Respon- sibility To Protect, which during the summit of United Nations in New York in 2004/2005 were acknowledged and proclaimed as a moral obligation. The criteria formulated in them demonstrate in their content an explicit convergence with the Catholic teaching on “just war”. In the past it was better to treat the seriously hegemonial intentions of Putin, as com- municated for a lot of years, and developed preventative strategies, because modern warfare only brings beatings and not any winner. This approach is presented in the encyclical letter of Pope Francis Fratelli tutti, which can be read as a document about peace, and the war in Ukraine confirms it.

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