Tucker Carlson has drawn attention to a statement by Democratic congressman Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) in which Raskin declares a primary motivation for waging war against Russia is to forcefully oppose fundamental aspects of the nation’s Orthodox Christian faith and traditional values.
After documenting a devastating list of catastrophic outcomes to Europe and the U.S., due to war sanctions against Russia — including economic collapse and dangerous shortages in heating fuel — the Fox News host asked, “what could possibly be the justification” for continuing such policies, particularly when there is no evidence they have “hurt Putin in any way”?
Carlson continued:
Well, this week, Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, of Bethesda, answered that question. Russia is an Orthodox Christian country with traditional social values and for that reason, it must be destroyed, no matter what the cost to us.
So, this is not a conventional war. This is a jihad. Jamie Raskin said that out loud, but many in Washington agree with him, in both parties. They would like to see World War Trans immediately.
Raskin, wrote in an October 25 statement that Russia “is a world center of antifeminist, antigay, anti-trans hatred, as well as the homeland of replacement theory for export. In supporting Ukraine, we are opposing these fascist views.”
Numerous fact-checkers protested Carlson’s summation of Raskin’s words calling them “false.” Newsweek stated, “Jamie Raskin did not say that the U.S. should try to destroy Russia nor that America should engage in jihad against the country’s ‘Christian…traditional values.’”
However, on March 6 of this year, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia precisely identified the pro-homosexual and pro-trans agenda of the West, and its war against Russia, with a direct attack upon their nation’s Christian and traditional values.
In a sermon following a celebration of the Divine Liturgy, Patriarch Kirill claimed that part of the coup government of Ukraine’s eight years of war on ethnic Russians in the eastern Donbass region of their country was motivated by the latter’s “fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power.”