😳 Wild story. Reads like a plot from the Middle Ages. Have to read up on 14th C weapons:

"Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy"
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo

Original story v the Free Press (paywalled):
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-the-vatican-and-the-white-house

Response (of sorts — also something of a confirmation) from JD Vance, as well as more background, v Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-reacts-report-us-official-issued-threat-vatican-ambassador-11802350
h/t @timmy @jqheywood
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