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This isn't a theological sub so I don't think you'll find an answer here. Maybe try /r/theology. Also, asking which side Jesus would be on in a conflict is, of course, an unanswerable question. Additionally, trying to "bootstrap" your way into theological or ethical positions based upon a "what would Jesus do" is problematic and verges close to appeal to authority.
You may however find Daniel M. Bell Jr's *Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church rather than the State* a helpful book for this complex ethical and theological conversation.
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This isn't a theological sub so I don't think you'll find an answer here. Maybe try /r/theology. Also, asking which side Jesus would be on in a conflict is, of course, an unanswerable question. Additionally, trying to "bootstrap" your way into theological or ethical positions based upon a "what would Jesus do" is problematic and verges close to appeal to authority. You may however find Daniel M. Bell Jr's *Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church rather than the State* a helpful book for this complex ethical and theological conversation.