Jim Fetzer - Zelenskyy's Cabinet is Devising Ways to Punish Christians of Ukraine!
Aired: 2022-12-10
Duration: 09:18


=== Zelensky's Stand Against Religious Persecution (08:32) ===

[00:00:01]  Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight.
[00:00:03]  So, you remember when Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
[00:00:06]  And at that time, our leaders told us this wasn't some faraway conflict in Eastern Europe.
[00:00:11]  This was our war.
[00:00:14]  No military should ever be allowed to invade a sovereign nation, they told us.
[00:00:17]  Iraq and Afghanistan obviously not included in that rule.
[00:00:20]  The invasion of Ukraine could not stand because it was a matter of first principles.
[00:00:24]  But more than that, it was a world historic moral battle that we were obligated to join.
[00:00:30]  It was very clear Vladimir Putin was pure evil.
[00:00:32]  He was Hitler reborn.
[00:00:33]  The Ukrainian President Zelensky was his mirror image.
[00:00:37]  He was saint-like, self-denying, brave, honest, very handsome.
[00:00:43]  And Zelensky was fighting for the very same ideals that our country was founded on.
[00:00:48]  A number of news outlets, including CNN and the LA Times, compared him to George Washington.
[00:00:54]  So they told us that, with one voice, month after month.
[00:00:58]  No disagreement allowed.
[00:00:59]  Not surprisingly, it worked.
[00:01:01]  Americans fell hard for President Zelensky.
[00:01:04]  They all did.
[00:01:05]  Even in rural areas that voted against Joe Biden, you saw Ukrainian flags hanging from mailboxes.
[00:01:11]  To many people, it felt like World War II again.
[00:01:12]  The Good War.
[00:01:14]  A battle against tyranny abroad for the sake of freedom and democracy at home.
[00:01:19]  Well, the better part of a year later, it's getting harder and harder to believe any of this.
[00:01:23]  Whatever you think of the war in Ukraine, it is pretty clear that Zelensky has no interest in freedom and democracy.
[00:01:30]  In fact, Zelensky is far closer to Lenin than to George Washington.
[00:01:35]  He is a dictator.
[00:01:36]  He is a dangerous authoritarian who has used $100 billion in U.S.
[00:01:40]  tax dollars to erect a one-party police state in Ukraine.
[00:01:43]  And that's not an overstatement.
[00:01:45]  Over the past year, Zelensky has banned opposition parties.
[00:01:48]  He shut down critical media by force.
[00:01:51]  He's arrested his political opponents.
[00:01:53]  He has sent soldiers into churches.
[00:01:56]  Zelensky's secret police have raided monasteries across Ukraine, even a convent full of nuns, and arrested dozens of priests for no justifiable reason whatsoever and in clear violation of the Ukrainian constitution, which no longer matters.
[00:02:11]  And in the face of this, the Biden administration has said nothing, not one word.
[00:02:16]  Instead, they've just continued to push to send Zelensky more tax dollars.
[00:02:19]  So naturally, Zelensky has become much bolder.
[00:02:22]  Why wouldn't he?
[00:02:24]  Last week he announced his plan to ban an entire religion, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and to seize its property, all for being insufficiently loyal to his regime.
[00:02:33]  And he said it out loud.
[00:02:34]  Watch this.
[00:02:38]  We have to create such conditions when any people dependent on the country aggressor won't be able to manipulate Ukrainians and weaken Ukraine from within.
[00:02:47]  First, the National Security and Defense Council instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada, a draft law on making it impossible for religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation to operate in Ukraine.
[00:03:04]  A free country does not ban a major religion, just because it's not fully on board with the political program of the people running the country.
[00:03:12]  But Zelensky's doing that, and his cabinet is now devising ways to punish Christians for practicing their banned ancient religion in Ukraine.
[00:03:19]  Quote, personal economic and restrictive sanctions will be applied to any Christian caught worshipping in unapproved ways.
[00:03:27]  Now, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is more than a thousand years old.
[00:03:31]  With the full backing of the Joe Biden administration and the U.S.
[00:03:34]  Congress, Zelensky has decided to ban it.
[00:03:37]  So here's the response of one bishop to the news.
[00:03:39]  "Their of the Church is the Holy Spirit of the Church.
[00:04:09]  You're not allowed to send soldiers into churches.
[00:04:14]  You're not allowed to arrest dozens of priests because they refuse to bow before you.
[00:04:18]  You're not allowed to ban whole religions.
[00:04:21]  So most of the U.S.
[00:04:22]  media, most, have just ignored this.
[00:04:24]  Some have made excuses for it.
[00:04:26]  Oh, he has to do this because there's a war.
[00:04:29]  But there's no justification for this whatsoever.
[00:04:32]  The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is not Russian, it's Ukrainian.
[00:04:34]  It has no connection to the Putin government.
[00:04:37]  It has in fact officially denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[00:04:40]  So once again, there is no justification for destroying and banning this church.
[00:04:46]  And yet, Zelensky's many celebrity backers in the West have said nothing about it.
[00:04:51]  And they should know better.
[00:04:53]  In May, George W. Bush, the great defender of Christendom, met with Zelensky on a Zoom call and afterward described him as the Winston Churchill of our time, a man who should be praised for his, quote, commitment to liberty.
[00:05:04]  So where's George W. Bush on this question, now that his friend, the George Washington of Ukraine, has banned a form of Christianity in that country?
[00:05:12]  Well, George W. Bush has been silent as well.
[00:05:14]  So have many purportedly Christian members of Congress.
[00:05:16]  They're backing Zelensky no matter how many Christians he arrests, no matter how many churches he seizes.
[00:05:22]  To the Ukrainian people, you can expect the Congress to To be there with you in terms of supporting your efforts to maintain your freedom.
[00:05:33]  Everything that we can do to be helpful to them as they fight for their freedom.
[00:05:39]  I think the history of the 21st century turns on how fiercely we defend freedom in Ukraine.
[00:05:44]  We will continue to provide military equipment so that Ukraine can defend its territory and its freedom.
[00:05:49]  The United States will continue our unwavering support for Ukraine as it defends its freedom.
[00:05:54]  And let's get the job done so that we can save lives in Ukraine and defend the cause of freedom.
[00:05:59]  The free world had no choice.
[00:06:02]  America could not stand by.
[00:06:03]  The American people did what they always have done.
[00:06:05]  Defend freedom around the world.
[00:06:09]  Every single person you just watched has campaigned, many make a habit of campaigning, Lindsey Graham, ladies and gentlemen, in Christian churches in the United States.
[00:06:18]  Will a single Christian leader say anything to them about this?
[00:06:21]  You are funding the destruction of Christianity in Ukraine?
[00:06:25]  Oh, but it's the cause of freedom.
[00:06:26]  Really?
[00:06:27]  The reality is that Ukrainians cannot listen to media outlets that criticize the Zelensky government because they've been banned.
[00:06:34]  They cannot play music from Russian singers.
[00:06:37]  No, this is not in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
[00:06:39]  This is in the democracy of Ukraine that we support.
[00:06:42]  They can't play music from Russian singers.
[00:06:44]  They can't vote for an opposition party because they've all been shut down.
[00:06:47]  And now their churches are being raided and their priests arrested.
[00:06:50]  So the fact that our leaders are calling this freedom tells you a lot about what they're planning here.
[00:06:54]  Of course.
[00:06:55]  Why would you defend this?
[00:06:56]  Because you approve of it.
[00:06:58]  For its part, Ukraine's defense ministry has stopped pretending this is about freedom.
[00:07:01]  They're just happy they're getting paid and they're finally crushing any opposition in their own country.
[00:07:07]  And that's why Ukraine's military is now using your tax dollars to produce choreographed dance videos for social media consumption.
[00:07:14]  Sort of like the COVID nurses.
[00:07:15]  Here's one of them.
[00:07:17]  It's just a grotesque postmodern psyop, and anyone who's fallen for this is brain damaged.
[00:07:46]  This is the same Ukrainian defense ministry that lied about the ghost of Kiev and the sailors who cursed out the Russian ship.
[00:07:51]  Now they're just having fun.
[00:07:53]  Because they're beating their real enemies, which of course, as always, are domestic.
[00:07:57]  And Time Magazine is fully on board with this.
[00:07:58]  They just informed their four remaining readers that Zelensky's president is the person of the year.
[00:08:04]  And the media chorus is in full scream!
[00:08:06]  John Meacham!
[00:08:08]  The purported historian at MSNBC believes that Zelensky is really a lot like the Pope.
[00:08:13]  Zelensky is being fired by the best fundamental impulses in human nature, which is to stand, to defend, to articulate, to fight back.

=== Great Leaders Understand Media (00:59) ===

[00:08:24]  And I think it's also important to remember that he is a performer.
[00:08:30]  That's where he started.
[00:08:31]  John Paul II was a performer.
[00:08:34]  Ronald Reagan was a performer.
[00:08:37]  Winston Churchill understood the means of the media of his time.
[00:08:42]  He understood the power of radio.
[00:08:44]  Franklin Roosevelt understood radio.
[00:08:48]  It's not coincidental that great leaders understand.
[00:08:53]  Great leaders.
[00:08:55]  So if they'll defend a man who shut down opposition media, arrested his political opponents, arrested priests, sent the army into monasteries, and then banned a religion.
[00:09:05]  If they'll defend all of that and call it liberty, they'll defend anything.
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