Russell Moore’s Moral Crusade in Ukraine Endangers the World
Russell Moore, ever the dependable mouthpiece for progressive evangelicalism, has penned yet another dangerously naive screed in Christianity Today, this time insisting on the supposed moral imperative of endlessly backing Ukraine. With “righteous indignation,” of course, he casts those opposed to his war-hawkish posture as moral monsters—modern-day Ahabs and Cains complicit in murder.
Yet beneath his sanctimonious veneer lurks a dangerous, even sinister, disregard for both life and reality. His calls for continued escalation don’t just invite global catastrophe—they virtually guarantee it.
Moore’s selective outrage reveals a telling hypocrisy. While he accuses those opposing his endless war ideology of complicity in murder, his anger exposes his hypocrisy when it comes to the murder of the unborn. Moore is adamant that mothers who abort their children should face neither prosecution nor consequences.
Why does his fierce “anti-murder” stance suddenly disappear when the victims are unborn children? Perhaps the uncomfortable truth is that Moore answers first and foremost to the state, rather than to God, worshiping at the altar of governmental power over divine command. But I digress.
Here’s the harsh truth Moore conveniently ignores in all of this. Ukraine cannot win this war without the direct intervention of American forces and only the insanely ignorant would actually believe otherwise. Any continued escalation inevitably drags the United States into direct military confrontation with Russia, an outcome that leads inexorably, undeniably, to World War III.
Moore and his type insist we must choose moral sides, framing opposition to his ideology as “murder.” Yet they fail to recognize the far grimmer morality of plunging the globe into nuclear conflict. What greater immorality exists than dragging billions into annihilation for the sake of ideological posturing?
Moore cloaks himself in historical analogies—invoking Orwell, invoking Soviet atrocities, and recalling leftist apologists for Stalinism. But let’s back up for a moment and consider reality. Ukraine cannot defeat Russia alone.
No amount of American aid will secure Ukraine's victory unless the U.S. itself directly intervenes. And direct intervention is precisely the trap Moore would lead us into. His blind insistence that Ukraine must prevail morally ignores the cold, unforgiving reality that this war will not end in Ukrainian triumph, only in deeper bloodshed and devastation.
Moore speaks of Ukrainian suffering and moral clarity, yet his solution only prolongs that very suffering. Each day this conflict continues without peace negotiations, more Ukrainian lives—men, women, children—are senselessly sacrificed.
Does Moore honestly believe prolonging a doomed conflict is somehow merciful?
He claims the moral high ground while urging policies that promise only more bloodshed, more mass graves, and more devastated cities. How moral is it to cheer from the safety of your office while another nation’s sons and daughters are marched into certain defeat?
What Moore conveniently overlooks is America’s true moral responsibility—respecting sovereignty. It is neither our duty nor our right to meddle in the internal struggles of other sovereign nations.
America is not—and must never become—the global nanny state, responsible for micromanaging the political and military affairs of every conflict-torn region on earth. Moore’s position, wrapped in self-righteous outrage, amounts to an imperialistic arrogance he pretends to abhor.
Russell Moore frames his entire argument around morality, invoking Orwellian imagery of appeasement and complicity. Ironically, it's Moore himself who embodies the Orwellian villain, the zealot blind to the catastrophic consequences of his own utopian moral crusade.