Earlier this year, folks on the Right pleaded with US House Speaker Mike Johnson not to pass a $95 billion aid package to support the war in the Ukraine.  He ultimately sided with the Swamp’s war faction, breaking his pledge not to support such funding measures until the Mexican border had been secured.  He and others sang to us the now-familiar refrain:  The States must support the ‘good’ democracy in the Ukraine in its battle with the ‘evil’ Russians, who will go on to invade other European countries if they aren’t stopped in the Ukraine.

Things haven’t quite worked out like they were presented back in March and April.

The Ukraine continues its transformation into a completely totalitarian country.  On 20 August 2024, Ukraine’s parliament overwhelmingly passed a hideous bill, No. 8371, to ban outright the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), by far the largest body of Christians in the country, because of made-up connections to Russia, part of the Zelensky regime’s efforts to impose a demonic, idolatrous nationalism on the Ukrainian people (this project is a carry-over of Zelensky’s predecessor, President Petro Poroshenko).  The fact that this vote took place when many people in the US were distracted by the clownish spectacle of the Democrats’ Chicago convention is probably not a coincidence.

Up to this point the UOC had already been facing terrible persecution from the ultranationalist regime (a recounting of many of these horrors may be read here).  The following is just a small sampling of it that happened in a town called Zadubrivka:

Local authorities initiated the expropriation process in January 2019, I was told, claiming that a parish meeting held on January 24 had decided to switch the parish to the OCU. Around that time, groups of people periodically came to the church premises and threatened the parishioners gathered inside. Parishioners stayed overnight in the church to protect it. The threats escalated.

On May 30, 2019, as a dozen parishioners were praying outside the church, individuals wearing masks invaded the church premises and began beating people for about 20 minutes and breaking items inside the church. “The police were not as strong in 2019 and because of this we could stand and defend our church,” a parishioner told me, pointing to the lack of trust in law enforcement. A few parishioners were injured and went to the hospital.

In April 2023, parishioners were violently expelled from their church. It happened during the funeral of a soldier from the parish. Attackers in military uniforms and balaclavas broke into the church, broke doors, and beat parishioners, sending many to the hospital. Parishioners identified some attackers as being from the village. Others were not. Police and military people cordoned off the church to prevent parishioners from returning.

We repeat:  This is far from an isolated incident.  And now that Bill 8371 has been passed, things will very likely get much worse for the Orthodox in the Ukraine.

While this was going on in the ‘good’ Ukraine, ‘evil’ Russia was opening her doors to the people of the West who are being harassed by their Leftist, anti-Christian governments:

Russian President Vladimir Putin just authorized something shocking for all Westerners sick of wokeness. This is a HUGE development in the changing of the world order as we have known it.

– Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree offering sanctuary to Westerners seeking to escape woke neo-liberal order.

– The decree allows Westerners to apply for temporary residence in Russia without needing to meet typical requirements like language proficiency.

– Russia’s national security now includes protecting cultural, spiritual, and moral values, influenced by the Russian Orthodox Church.

We’re not saying anyone has to love Pres. Putin, but we do join Jeff LeJeune in warning about the uncritical acceptance of false good-bad binaries that the CIA Mockingbird media has concocted and feeds to us on a regular basis.

Things did not have to be this way.  All through the Cold War, US presidents were able to avoid a hot war with the Soviet Union by holding meaningful talks with the communist leaders of Russia that culminated in various treaties and other agreements.  Now that Russia is returning to the Christian faith of her past, agreements between her and the US should be even easier to make.  The fact that this has not happened, as Tucker Carlson has pointed out, is good evidence that most of the US political elite have rejected Christianity.

In regards to the Ukraine, Robert Amsterdam, the lawyer defending the UOC in various venues, has been shouting from the rooftops for months that the Zelensky regime was preparing to ban the UOC.  If he knew, and if a political magazine journalist can gather such a multitude of testimonies about the persecution against the UOC (referring to The American Conservative article linked above), surely Speaker Johnson, with all the intelligence assets available to him, would have known about all of this as well when the $95 billion war funding bill was being considered.

He could have helped stop the persecution by killing the funding measure, a move that would have forced Zelensky to the negotiating table with Russia to end the war and likely would have led to a change of government in the Ukraine as well (Zelensky has suspended elections while the war is ongoing).  Regrettably, the Speaker helped it to pass, and billions of dollars went to prop up a monstrous government in the Ukraine.  Now he and all the others who voted for that bill are culpable for the persecution of Christians in the Ukraine.

And not just them.  The federal government has made the peoples of all 50 States culpable as well, for they have used the collective wealth, weaponry, prestige, influence, and military and intelligence manpower of the States to support the Zelensky government.  Dante’s Inferno is a work of fiction, but it nevertheless gives us some idea of the terrible torment awaiting us – in this world and in the next – if we do not repent of the violence and schism we have wrought in the Ukraine:

No cask, of middle stave or end bereft,

E’er gaped like one I saw the rest among,

Slit from the chin all downward to the cleft.

Between his legs his entrails drooping hung;

The pluck and that foul bag were evident

Which changes what is swallowed into dung.

And while I gazed upon him all intent,

Opening his breast his eyes on me he set,

Saying: ‘Behold, how by myself I’m rent!

See how dismembered now is Mahomet!

Ali in front of me goes weeping too;

With visage from the chin to forelock split.

By all the others whom thou seest there grew

Scandal and schism while yet they breathed the day;

Because of which they now are cloven through.

There stands behind a devil on the way,

Us with his sword thus cruelly to trim:

He cleaves again each of our company

As soon as we complete the circuit grim;

Because the wounds of each are healed outright

Or e’er anew he goes in front of him (Inferno, Canto XXVIII).