(January 23, 2015 at 11:57 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Vatican City is a sovereign nation, and as Davka points out they have no useful military forces of their own. Their formal neutrality means that they have no security treaty with any other nation, either. They'd have to ask another country to undertake the war on the Vatican's behalf. Italy could perhaps be pushed into that position, because by treaty Italy is supposed to treat an attack on the Pope as an attack on the Italian king, but that's a little bit of a stretch.
I imagine us Americans would be easy to sway into another foreign adventure, unfortunately.
Right, that's about my take on it. The Vatican shitty-state could only hope to lobby real powers to avenge the loss of the Dear Leader, but that would be a tough sell and wouldn't happen unless an attack was in those real powers' interests.
As several have pointed out, the Catholic Church has its share of detractors who wouldn't mind seeing the vile old criminal enterprise's nose bloodied.
