War Party Groupthink Over Ukraine Is Crumbling. Could Peace Break Out Soon? by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, February 21, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

I was at a summit of conservative Christian leaders a few years ago. I won’t name any names, or hold any of those very good people up to scorn. But I can’t help remembering one issue that seemed to unite them: the need to stand up to Russia and fund the war in Ukraine, and maybe (if need be) send our own troops over there. They spoke up for this so powerfully, you’d have thought it was specifically demanded in Christ’s own words: “Verily, I say unto you: Ukraine must be defended in her territorial integrity, yea unto the very last oblast of her 1960 borders.”

When I disagreed, and suggested that this was a foreign conflict in which the U.S. had no vital interest and which risked a world war with Russia, one pastor accused me of appeasement, citing the carve-up of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Another called me a “pacifist,” which to me is a fighting word. I was a little shocked to see these men, who mostly believed that Joe Biden had in fact stolen the White House, marching in lockstep behind his fumbling, provocative foreign policy. …

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