> Today the Vatican is still a state. The Catholic church remains influential. The USSR has fallen and the Soviet system has been discredited. The Russian fede

> Today the Vatican is still a state. The Catholic church remains influential. The USSR has fallen and the Soviet system has been discredited. The Russian federation still exists, is controlled by a former KGB operative from the Soviet Union, and is actively waging war in Europe while annexing parts of neighboring countries. And the pope still has zero divisions to oppose that.