Milan, 15 April. (LaPresse) – "How can you say that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword? Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis? Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated the Holocaust camps and saved those innocent people from those who had perpetrated the Holocaust? I definitely think so." The US vice president, JD Vance, said this, citing the Second World War to defend the US bombing of Iran from the criticism of Pope Leo XIV. Speaking at the University of Georgia, Vance said the Pope was wrong to say that Christ's disciples "are never on the side of those who once wielded swords and today drop bombs." "Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?" Vance added, "I certainly believe the answer is yes."