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Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, and we have another serious development, the deepening crisis in Ukraine.

The Zelensky government is actually expelling Orthodox Christians from an ancient monastery, and while Western leaders are turning a blind eye to this obvious religious persecution, someone else of note is promising to defend them to the very end.

So what's really going on in all this? That's what we're going to find out.

One of the most concerning developments to come out of the Russian Ukrainian conflict is President Zelensky's blatant persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

It's a bizarre persecution from a number of angles. I mean, shortly after the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was historically linked to the Moscow Patriarch, broke ties with Moscow, and announced their full support for Ukraine.

For months, Zelensky seemed to be happy with that, but then something happened. Over the last few months, in a number of sweeping moves, Zelensky has ordered the arrest of dozens Ukrainian Orthodox priests, as well as the rating of Orthodox churches and monasteries, even a convent of nuns.

And then in December, in a stunningly brazen move, the Zelensky government announced that there would be a major crackdown on the operation of what they called Moscow-affiliated Orthodox churches throughout the fledgling nation.

It is without question a de facto banning of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the state's dwindling boundaries.

And as part of that crackdown, Reuters is reporting that the Ukrainian Orthodox monks, who have inhabited for nearly a thousand years, the key of Pacheus Lavrov, what's known as the monastery of the caves, have been ordered by the Zelensky government to vacate the premises by the end of the month.

The eviction order represents nothing less than perhaps the single most stunning and blatant act of religious persecution seen in the West in decades, and here's how the monks are responding.

Today we are in front of the whole world. We show ourselves to communicate to everyone in the whole world that we are Christians, we are Orthodox, and we aren't afraid of anybody and anything.

We already be here to the end. If someone wants to come here and beat us and draw us through our legs and our hands, we are already.

We aren't afraid. Everything that people condemned us, we did nothing against our church, we didn't, nothing against our country, our Ukraine, we pray to God about our country, about our nation.

But everyone in our country condemned us as straighters. We are in traitors, we are Christians, and we confess in front of the whole world that we are Christians, we are going to follow church rules.

We want to be God's slaves, we are slaves of our God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

So there you have it. I mean, they have no intention of leaving. They will leave only through arrest or death. I mean, there's no other option as far as their concern.

Now, this ominous development should later rest this entire preposterous, propagandistic notion that defending Ukraine is all about defending democracy and freedom and liberty. I get it. I mean, I get conservatives falling for that nonsense over the first few months of the launch of Russia's special military operation.

I took at the time a very unpopular opinion. I got a lot of pushback from conservatives, from conservative talk radio that I was on who were all into this notion that defending Ukraine was all about defending democracy and freedom and liberty.

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