Berlin, after World War II. Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Three of America’s Catholic Cardinals have finally spoken out against Trump’s repeated threats of global war directed against — of all people — our stalwart allies Norway, England, France and the other NATO nations.

Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington DC, and Joseph Tobin of New Jersey issued a joint statement based on Pope Leo’s recent address in which the Holy Father said that “war is back on vogue” and condemned “diplomacy based on force.”

“We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy.

“We seek a foreign policy that respects and advances the right to human life, religious liberty, and the enhancement of human dignity throughout the world, especially through economic assistance.”

The impetus for this statement appears to be the latest of Trump’s insane threats against Norway. The Mad King sent a letter to our peaceable and inoffensive ally, telling them that since he had not received the Nobel Prize, peace was not something he had to consider.

Trump has made a fool of himself — something he does on a regular basis — by demanding that the Nobel Committee, which is situated in Oslo, Norway, present him with a Nobel Prize. He’s gotten foreign heads of state who are buttering him up so he will use the power of this country on their behalf to nominate him. Last week, the pathetic old fool even managed to get a woman who had legitimately won the Nobel Prize to “give” him her medal.

The Nobel Committee followed that bit of insanity by publicly stating that the honor of winning the Nobel Prize is not transferable. I wonder if that’s what set off the Mad King’s latest threat.

All I know is what he wrote, which was that he “no longer feels obliged to think only of peace” because he was “not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”

That reads like the school bully threatening to beat you up if you didn’t do his homework for him. Or, maybe, the local Mafia, threatening to kill your family because you didn’t pay them for “protection.”