Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free
John 8:32
There are numerous truths regarding the Ukrainian war. Russia has very unwisely invaded Ukraine and caused suffering and death. President Vladimir Putin has disregarded appeals from many Orthodox Churches asking for an end to the invasion. Most significantly he has ignored the appeal of his beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry who is the spiritual leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
One can concede the wrongness of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, one must also concede the aggressive actions of America and the NATO alliance over the past three decades. In 1999, NATO bombed Orthodox Serbia for seventy eight days. Let’s not kid ourselves about the benevolent behavior the western alliance. General Wesley Clark advocated the firebombing of Serbian cities which led the the deaths of countless Serbian civilians.
Americans and Europeans who feign shock over Ukraine have bloody hands from the bombing of Serbia. The invasion of Iraq was a horror show that brought about a civil war between Sunnis and Shiites and the rise of Abu Al Zarqawi’s group which became ISIS. Zarqawi introduced the practice of decapitating people and burning them alive.
His successors introduced the slave trade which marketed Yazidi women. ISIS engaged in genocide. America and Europe saw Russia as the bigger threat. General Millie, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in 2015 Russia was a bigger threat than ISIS. Russia saved the Christians, Muslims and others from the genocide of ISIS and other jihadist groups.
Russia stopped Syria from becoming a failed state and a breeding ground for terrorism. But the lunatics in Washington and Brussels saw Russia as a threat. The American and NATO wars of Serbia, Iraq, and Syria produced countless horrors. This includes the sexual torture of Muslim men at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Yes, the Russians are in the wrong for invading Ukraine. This is a moral truth. It is also true that Washington was wrong to seek to expand NATO to the Russian border.
Did Washington think that Russia was Serbia or Iraq? If they did, they now should know better. On the other hand, as an Orthodox Christian Vladimir Putin should have empathy for the ordinary Ukrainian who bears no responsibility for the actions of his or her government or for the actions of NATO.
Vladimir Putin is a member of the Orthodox Church. He should respect the primates of the Orthodox Churches worldwide who have written to him asking him to stop the war. This did not have to happen.
Another truth. Hillary Clinton being the unscrupulous whore that she is, is attempting to demonize anyone who might be pro Russian. I am proudly pro Russian even though I am opposed to the invasion of Ukraine. The enemies of Russia in the west like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and others are a vile and odious group.
Hillary, Orthodox Christians do not forget the destruction of Orthodox Serbia by your husband. We do not forget the seizure of the Serbian Orthodox holy places of Kosovo and the ethnic cleansing of the Serbian Christians. This destruction of an Orthodox country by your sexual predator husband.
One last truth. I am an Orthodox Greek who believes that despite my anti war views that the slap that Putin has given the Democratic Party is well deserved. Now, all sides to the negotiating table to put a permanent end to all wars.