The United States and NATO constantly cast the War in Ukraine as a battle for Ukrainian Democracy and freedom versus Russian authoritarianism. However, Ukrainian Christian bishops are arrested on flimsy charges, and at least one is warning that all protesting voices could soon be silenced. How can anyone reconcile such flagrant violations of human rights with “freedom” and “Democracy” as understood by the average citizen of a NATO country? An average citizen who is forced, at gunpoint, to cough up the taxes necessary to pay for these injustices? https://orthodoxreflections.com/8-reasons-why-global-orthodox-hierarchs-back-the-uoc-without-condemning-russia/