This is how we “defend democracy and freedom” now - by funding the side persecuting the Orthodox Christian Church.
So many folk ignorant of American history. Any of you ever heard of the Anglican Church. A faith controlled by the King and the British state?
What do you think happened to it during our Revolution?
Churches were closed by the government. Their buildings were burned by mobs. Priests arrested or forced out of the country and their property seized. Finally the church was forced to break all ties to Britain and became the independent Episcopal Church.
If you have a sect that has sworn loyalty to your oppressors it cannot continue to function.