In many ways, Ukraine and the US are melding into one country

Ukraine’s hot war requires that it get $100 billion in American aid, which includes an extraordinary amount of American weaponry to which Biden has now added the Patriot missile system, a weapon that is a red line for Putin. Despite this, Ukraine’s government has had the time to focus on what’s really important: LGBTQ+ rights. That’s just part of a symbiotic relationship that sees the U.S. and Ukraine looking more alike every day.

The online publication, LGBTQ Nation, was incredibly pleased with the news out of Ukraine—not news about successfully repelling Russia, of course, but news about LGBTQ+ rights:

Ukrainian lawmakers recently passed a bill that would ban hate speech and incitement based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The media regulation bill was unanimously approved on December 15.

“It’s a big step for Ukraine, to start adoption of our legislation to European values,” Olena Shevchenko, chair of Ukrainian LGBTQ and intersex rights group Insight, told The Washington Blade. “We hope our government will recognize LGBTQI people as equal as soon as possible.”

In August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky indicated his support for same-sex civil partnerships and potentially same-sex marriage.

The U.S., of course, has a First Amendment that, technically speaking, allows people to say mean things about the LGBTQ+ cadre if those words don’t explicitly violate the law. However, thanks to an academia-incubated idea called “stochastic terrorism,” if leftists can claim that speech creates an intellectual environment that will encourage wackos to commit violence, they can then argue that the speech runs afoul of the First Amendment and can be banned. The left regularly claims that critics of the LGBTQ+ cohort’s laser-like focus on schools are stochastic terrorists. The clear intent is to silence them…