Bob Amsterdam: How USAID Is Helping Zelensky Destroy Christianity With Fake Churches and Violence
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What is the current situation in Ukraine?
So thank you for doing this. You're one of the few people who, at the end of our last conversation, I thought, I want to talk to that man again, because you're one of the few people I know who has a real sense of what it's like in Ukraine and has been for the last three years since the war began. How would you summarize the situation in Ukraine right now?
Dire. Situation is dire. Zelensky is wildly unpopular. There are press gangs to take people to the front. People are without hope. And the casualties are enormous. And the corruption is enormous. And imagine sending your child to the front knowing all of this.
How is Bob Amsterdam defending the Ukrainian Orthodox Church?
As you know, I represent the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, so our parishioners go to the front while their churches are being stolen back home, while parishioners, elderly parishioners and priests are being beaten. And, you know, what I've always said to people who defend Zelensky is, You know, all his numbers are complete fabrications. If he was popular, if he was trusted, he wouldn't have destroyed the press. He wouldn't be jailing and labeling with treason charges political opponents. There would have been some control on the corruption. I mean, the courts are impossible. It's a police state. The SBU, the secret police, run and intimidate everyone and everything. And yet the Western press has blockaded this story.
The dishonesty of some of the people that are reporting from Ukraine is... is astounding. I've never seen anything like it. I've been involved with cases involving wars and disputes, but the absolute lying and the games that our papers are playing. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, barely has an op-ed that doesn't laud Zelensky. You never get reality about what's actually going on in the presidential administration. You get no coverage. You know, there's a law, 3894, to destroy the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. No law has been passed like this in Europe since World War II against the Jews. There's no coverage. The argument when I say to the press, how can you do this? How can you not cover people talking about religious cleansing who are members of the Ukrainian parliament? How can you not cover it? They say, well, this church is somehow a Russian thing. We, you know, as I've told you, we have reached a point where this narrative, the Zelensky narrative has been accepted and our people simply don't challenge it. They fall to it.
And it's really been down to the new administration to put a pin in that balloon. Yeah.
It's kind of hard to skip over you and your role in all this. You're the only American attorney who's worked in Ukraine who I have seen who's telling the truth about what's actually happening there. And for doing that, you've been called a Russian stooge, a Putin worshiper. Your character has been impugned. can you just take a couple minutes tell us who you are why are you representing the orthodox church in ukraine um are you a putin puppet look um for 45 years
I've done political cases all over the world. We've taken on some big enemies. We took on the United Nations pro bono on behalf of an individual worker for the UN that they had destroyed. We got two assistant secretaries general disciplined in that case that made history inside the U.N. And we were awarded the Global Pro Bono Award from American Lawyer for doing that case. I represented political opponents of Putin in Moscow. I was arrested in Moscow at 2 a.m., and they tried to load me into a vehicle, get me out of there. I wouldn't go.
What role does USAID play in the church conflict in Ukraine?
I just want to be clear on this. You were arrested by the Putin government at 2 a.m. in Moscow?
That's right, in 2005, defending a political opponent to Vladimir Putin. and, in fact, have been banned from Russia ever since. I hold no water for Putin. I represent opponents of the Russian government in various countries, continue to represent political opponents of Putin. It hasn't stopped the Ukrainians from launching a massive disinformation campaign against me because of my defense of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. which is the majority church of Ukraine, which Zelensky and his gang have been trying to destroy. I am on the legal team of some of the priests that they have illegally jailed. We have an individual in Ukraine
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the current situation in Ukraine?
0:00–1:06
2
How is Bob Amsterdam defending the Ukrainian Orthodox Church?
1:06–4:48
3
What role does USAID play in the church conflict in Ukraine?
4:48–13:44
4
How is Mike Pompeo involved in Ukraine's church issues?
13:44–18:21
5
Why is the US showing support for Ukraine?
18:21–26:05
6
What are the implications of sanctions on Russia?
26:05–36:42
7
How does China fit into the US-Ukraine-Russia dynamics?
36:42–1:20:47
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