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It's been over a month since Russia invaded Ukraine and even longer since we evaluated that prospect here on Full House.
And frankly, it's dragging on and has become a total drag.
The Ukrainians did not just roll over and die, nor shower flowers on their new arrivals, but there's been plenty of developments since then to clarify the motivations of both sides, the stakes involved, and what it means for all of us in the West.
With us again after our bold shot calling show on January 26th is the notorious Russian apologist and longtime American expat in Russia, Charles Bausman, to at bare minimum, get an alternative perspective out to you, dear listener, amidst an utter overflowing sewer of Western media garbage.
And ideally, we're going to seek the truth about what is actually happening over there.
So, M.P. Posh Lee.
Welcome, everyone, to another Full House special on this day and year of our Lord and this new war, April 11th, 2022, coming to you in good faith in the service of whites and with a distinct skepticism toward a certain tribe.
I am, of course, your humble host, Coach Finstock, who did study in Moscow over two decades ago.
And never once was I approached by the FSB.
Kind of a surprise at the time.
And we're honored and grateful for the time of our now.
We're declaring you our official Russia correspondent, Charles.
Back with us again.
How are you, my friend?
I'm doing great, Coach.
Great to be here.
Thanks for having me on.
Amen.
This is really just a wonderful time to have you on.
It is springtime in Appalachia.
Just as I was going down, I'm back in the gazebo.
I haven't done a show in the gazebo since the winter.
And I got the first potato sprout in the garden.
Just as I came down, I was checking on them.
So is it springtime in Russia yet?
Or you still got the dreary sludge in the streets?
Yeah, not yet.
In fact, there was such a huge amount of snow this year that there is still snow on the ground.
And it actually snowed.
We got like six inches like three days ago.
So sorry about that.
No, I like it.
I think it's great.
After a Russian winter, if you're not ready to go, I know the Russians go crazy.
They go crazy for springtime.
It's like life begins anew.
But it also sounds like you're not starving and there's not sirens in the streets or utter societal chaos over there.
Surprising.
The British media would have had me believe that it's total anarchy and chaos over there.
So give us a little man on the street color, just top lines, if you will.
Yeah, no, you know, it's strange because you read the news and the headlines and, you know, you realize like the battle of the ages is shaping up and it's the, you know, good versus evil and, you know, history is being made on a daily basis and life just seems so normal.
Everything just, you know, the buses are running and the kids are going to school and everything just seems weird.
And it seems there's this great sort of cognitive dissonance.
You see everything sort of calm and normal and then all this stuff is going on.
It's the only thing that you do notice is that when you walk into the malls, maybe, you know, 10% of the stores are shuttered of the big Western brands like Starbucks.
I don't even shop these places, but H ⁇ M, Uniqlo, McDonald's.
And that's not because of shortages.
That's because they were shut down by their Western overlords or ordered to close them.
Yeah, well, no, it was a PR move, but because they were basically, you know, they would lose customer support in the West if they could be accused of supporting Russia somehow.
So they all shut down, which is great for Russia.
I mean, it's a super big advantage, actually.
And it's energizing the Russian economy and giving more business to Russian businesses.
So it's a good thing.
Amen.
Yeah, I know.
No porn, no Western porn, fast food, and garbage clothes made in third world countries anyway.
How will Russia survive?
But there are, we'll talk maybe later about, you know, dig in a little bit on the serious economic impacts that Russia is going to face from this, either, you know, near term or long term.
Charles, I wanted to ask at the top, because we got a lot of sincere compliments for our Wardrums special edition back in January.
We will not gloat, but we both said, you know, if forced to guess that invasion was coming.
And I think that episode holds up well.
But a skeptical or cynical listener would say, come on, coach, this guy, Charles, you know, he's got Stockholm syndrome.
He's been over there for 30 years.
Maybe the Kremlin is paying him.
So in good faith, Charles, you know, are you paid to be a Putin shill?
And, you know, convince the audience that you are dealing the straight dope here and not propaganda, please.
Man, I would love it if the Kremlin would give me a call and say, hey, Charles, here, have a big fat, you know, budget and talk us up.
No, absolutely not.
You know, I try and tell the truth just the way I see it.
And that's what I've done for the last, since 2014, since the last Ukraine crisis.
I wish, I wish, man, life would be sweet if I was on the Kremlin dole.
Amen.
Are you putting out content?
I know you're sort of semi-retired from Russia Insider, but are you doing any media work or analysis or commentary elsewhere?
Or are you our exclusive access, Alta?
Yeah, no, you're getting this is based.
This is exclusive.
This is priceless wisdom.
The voice of Moscow proclaiming the truth to the enslaved West from the land of the free, which is really where I see it.
I mean, I really do see this is like there's this ultimate battle between good and evil shaping up.
And hey, I still consider myself a resident of America.
I'm a political refugee here.
But honestly, we live in an enslaved country and that goes for all of Western Europe.
And there's a new world order being formed right now.
That's a crappy term, but it's actually true.
And the evil pedophile globalists have finally pushed it too far and they've put into motion a chain of events that is going to determine the future of humanity.
It's an incredibly crucial time to be alive.
It's so exciting.
It's amazing.
And it's great to be temporarily in a country that's on the right side of this battle.
There you go.
Yeah.
I'm going to be skeptical deliberately here.
I want to believe.
And in my heart, if you force me to guess, I suspect that Putin and Russia writ large are the quote unquote good guys or to go even further, sort of defenders of a more virtuous model of civilization.
But we'll dig into that.
And it's wonderful.
It's like we're the Samis dot now, right?
That was the illicit literature of the Soviet days.
And now to be in the land of the free and home of the brave, you have to get the good stuff from rogue professors and naughty podcasts.
So, hey, so be it.
We'll make it work.
Let's see.
Let's go to the war itself because that is ostensibly the reason for the show.
And one thing I totally got wrong was that I thought it was going to be more of a cakewalk.
Just the number of Russian troops, Ukrainian disunity, the quality of their irregular troops.
But this certainly seems to be a much harder and longer slug than I think the most optimistic people suspected.
So I know you're not a military analyst, but if you could a little bit talk about the pace of the war or how it's gone so far and how, I guess, how that's reported over there.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm not a military expert, but I've kind of become one because I've been reading all these headlines for the last six weeks.
Yeah.
So, you know, I got it wrong too.
In fact, everybody got it wrong.
Everybody was saying, including the U.S. military, they were saying, you know, Ukraine at most has a month and it's going to be over.
And it turned out to be much slower.
But, you know, there are very good reasons for this.
And I don't buy at all this idea that Russia has run into trouble, that their plan is in danger, that somehow they're getting foiled by this powerful resistance coming from the Ukrainians.
I mean, there's just so much to say on the other side of that.
Let me explain what they're saying here in Russia.
Okay.
So they're saying, look, first of all, we blitzed everything we could in like a surprise assault in the hopes that this would seriously demoralize the Ukrainian military and they would realize it was hopeless and that they would start to basically give up, that there would be dissension inside the military and give up.
But we knew that that was not definitely going to happen.
And so we're prepared for a longer battle, but we had to do that.
That was the smart thing to do going in because why fight a bigger, bloody war when you could knock them out in a week or two?
Because they would become demoralized.
So they're saying that was a smart thing to do, not a stupid thing.
Secondly, what happened when the war got started, the Ukrainians started playing really, really dirty.
And this is something I'm going to, I'm going to have to talk about this whole like battle of good and evil between these two sides because by their fruits, you will know them.
And this whole war, which is now a war, it's not a special operation.
I use that word deliberately.
Has really shown the players for what they are.
I mean, their true colors have come out.
And the Ukrainians have been using just absolutely reprehensible and disgusting and immoral tactics.
And so one of the first things they started to do was rush into civilian centers and embed themselves in there and make themselves untouchable to the Russians who were trying to avoid these civilian deaths.
And that's a very valid thing.
And the Russians anticipated that too.
I remember reading stuff about this before it happened.
Like if the Ukrainians go into the cities and start fighting from there, it's going to be a very difficult and delicate operation to get them out without killing a lot of innocent people.
And the Russians have every reason not to want to kill innocent people.
They've got to live with them going forward.
Those are their own people, they're their own flesh and blood, their own ethnic group.
There is no such thing as an Ukrainian ethnicity.
That's a total crock of bull ticky and i'll go into that later.
I think I went into that on the last show, but it's repeating because people just do not get this all right.
But we'll get back to that in a bit.
Um and and then the Russian, the Russian guys are also saying, look, one thing that we did that was one another reason why we went in all at once, all over the place was to draw the main Ukrainian forces away from Donbas.
Um, and they're still pinning down a big contingent in Kiev and right, and they said that this was a key thing to do because the if they had just launched a full frontal attack on those entrenched positions in the Donbass, the rest of Ukraine would have been like a funnel of, you know, drawing in all this military uh uh, uh uh, material and manpower and and and weapons from the West.
I mean, they have functioning, you know, railways.
They would have just totally like, you know you uh, NATO would have just like flooded the zone with tons of of of equipment and they would have been up against a much stiffer resistance.
So they said that was a necessary feint um, since the Ukrainians didn't give up which they should honestly, if they're not stupid, but apparently they're not very bright um, and I can explain a little bit what they're, why that's happening.
Um, sure they uh uh, they're gonna have to now fight.
There's gonna be a huge battle, and it's coming up in Donbass.
And this is super interesting and super exciting for word war nerds because um, the Russian uh, the Russian military military are saying and, and the Russian military journalists, they're saying that a battle is, is is shaping up in Donbaz, which could start in the next days or the next week or two.
That is going to rival some of the more decisive battles of World War Ii, that's in terms of equipment, uh in play and number of soldiers involved.
Um, and what's really, i'm guessing i'm sorry to interrupt, i'm guessing is this the the, the infamous eastern cauldron that we've been hearing about for so long.
You know, they came from the north into the outskirts of Kharkiv and then they've been pushing west from Donbass and from Donetsk and Luhansk Mariupol, that city there, but that, that eastern region of the of the country.
Yeah, it sounds like finally they're getting to it.
There's been lots of talk about it for a while.
Well, that that's where the the main bulk of the Ukrainian military is, and they've been tracked in there, um and uh.
So anyway um because uh, what?
What people are saying is this could be the first face, you know, face-to-face tank battle since World War Ii, because Ukrainians have a lot of old Soviet tanks and the Russians obviously have tons of tanks and the Russians can't use their control completely, control the air, but they can't use that air superiority Because the Ukrainians have these stingers and man pads and things,
which are effective against low-flying aircraft that would be used in the battle.
So they're literally going to have to have a line of tanks go at it with each other.
And there's going to be drone footage.
So this is going to be amazing thing.
This is like your dream video war game, but it's live.
So all you war gamers out there.
You're in for a treat.
This is going to be something for the ages.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's going to, in all seriousness, like it is very exciting.
And, you know, you're in the comfort of Russia and I'm in the comfort of Appalachia.
But I mean, a lot of people are going to die and a lot of people have died already.
I had to remind myself not to get too excited about all this.
But yeah, I mean, just watching, I'll post it in the show notes.
Mir Sheimer did a very lengthy presentation.
He's, of course, famous again.
I guess he was first famous for the Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy, sort of taking the Jewish lobby to the woodshed.
And he's been, of course, again, a voice of reason saying, look, the Ukrainians had this coming as a result of becoming a cat's paw of the West.
I think everybody sort of gets that idea.
And in terms of the ferocity or the sustained ability of the defense, I mean, I'm thinking, okay, well, actually, yeah, they've been delivered a ton of Western weapons to sustain them.
Lord knows who else has been pouring in to fight for the Ukrainians.
They have been subjected.
The Ukrainians themselves have been subjected to a sustained anti-Russian propaganda blitz for the past eight years and probably longer since my dawn.
And like you mentioned, they have been willing to fight dirty from maternity hospitals and schools and kindergartens, et cetera, against the menacing bear.
So it's tragic.
Let me push back on some of those things you're saying, because I was sure that's not entirely what I see it.
So first of all, in terms of a lot of people have died, I wouldn't say that.
Okay.
I mean, considering like how long this has been going on and the territory of conflict, losses are still really low.
And we're in the age of modern warfare when troops are super careful about not losing guys and everything.
The Russians have been very tight-lipped about how many people they've lost.
But if you figure the Western propaganda is saying it's in excess of 10,000 people, it's probably more in the area of two, right?
And that's not a huge amount considering how many people are in there and the amount of fighting that's been going on.
The Ukrainians have probably taken a lot more hits just because they don't have air power and the Russians have all these standoff artillery that they can just blow everything up at a distance.
But not that many people have died, I would say.
And the Russians have been super, super careful.
That's one of the reasons why this is taking so long, because they've been tiptoeing around and trying to avoid stuff.
And you don't see tons of casualties.
There is no evidence that this is that, I mean, compare this to Syria or Iraq or any of these Middle Eastern, you know, Raqqa or any of these Middle Eastern conflicts and cities that just got leveled by American bombs and the casualties were in the hundreds of thousands.
It's nothing like that.
It's nothing like that.
And this battle looks pretty gnarly.
I've seen some drone footage from Riya Novosti itself where it looks like Mariupol has just been leveled as a result, of course.
No, but that's not true.
It hasn't been really.
No, but it hasn't.
No, that's not true.
Listen, this is more.
Even propaganda is getting the foach.
That just shows you how deep America is like waiting in this like, you know, turret.
All right.
This turds that come out.
But anyway, listen, Mariupol, life goes on in Mariupol.
The Russians have basically liberated the whole city and things are pretty much back to normal there.
They've chased these remaining 1,500 Azov guys into this enormous giant metal factory that's on the edge of town.
Right.
Yeah, I can't remember the name of it anyway, but I know you're a story.
It's a stall.
It's a steel plant.
It's a steel plant.
It's one of the most valuable steel plants in Europe.
Anyway, but, you know, yeah, they keep showing the same pictures of that group of apartment buildings that have been scorched from the outside, but they're not leveled.
They're not rubble.
I mean, remember those pictures from Raqqa?
Where it was just, it literally looked like it looked like, you know, Nagasaki or something.
I mean, it was just completely wasted, block after block of just rubble.
That hasn't happened in the Ukraine.
And so I wouldn't say that this is such a horrible thing.
I mean, in terms in the sense of like this horrible human disaster at this point, obviously it's terrible that people are dying and being killed and so on.
But it's still pretty small in terms of like, you know, major military conflicts.
Fair point.
Now, this looming potential big battle in the east to finish off, I presume, the regulars and the main section of the Ukrainian army.
So, you know, initially I thought, oh, for sure, you don't go to war and then leave the capital city in enemy control.
And why not go all the way across the Black Sea, Littoral, and take Odessa too so that you basically control all that southern flank of Ukraine.
Have you seen any talk about a change in Russian objectives?
What does the end state look like?
Are they still going to try to take Kiev?
Do you think Odessa seems like it's going to be another hotbed?
I think Jews have been setting up an Odessa.
That's been a headquarters for a long time and maybe a redoubt for some of the guys fleeing from the east.
But what does an end game look like so far as you can tell in Russia?
First of all, the Kremlin is incredibly tight-lipped about this.
They don't make any predictions.
They don't tell anybody what they're thinking or what they're planning, which is very smart.
And I think the truth is probably that they also don't know.
And they're just doing this week to week and trying to make the best decisions based on the developing situation.
What's really interesting is there's this, and I'll talk about this later, there's this rise of this patriotic national movement here.
And these guys are demanding, they're like, take the whole country.
Don't, you know, just run these people out of there.
Don't even leave them to Western Ukraine.
And they're very vocal and they're very, and some of them are very prominent and senior people in the government.
So there's this of a segment of the population, which is like, you know, you're hardcore Russian patriots, nationalists.
They're saying, you know, wipe this scum off the face of the earth and finish the job and don't under any circumstances stop.
Just, you know, route this stuff out.
So what the Kremlin is thinking in the military, you know, they're probably saying we'll see how it goes.
Fair enough.
Can I just please another thing that's important in this military thing to understand?
There's this whole business of this idea that, oh, the West is supplying all this equipment to the Ukraine so the Union can more effectively resist the Russians.
But that is another crock of nonsense.
All right.
So here's the thing.
Russia has complete air superiority.
The Ukrainians cannot lift a helicopter or a plane anywhere on the territory of Ukraine.
All right.
They cannot get any shipments into the country of anything substantial because the Russians can see it right away from satellites and from air and just take it out as soon as it comes over.
Some of it gets smuggled in small quantities, but it's all sort of small arms stuff and man pads and stingers and things like that and equipment.
It's nothing heavy.
It's nothing substantial.
And there's a lot of reasons for that because in order to receive that stuff, you've got to have sort of substantial operational capability.
And the Ukrainians don't have that.
They're like hiding, you know, in these urban centers because if they come out in any kind of open space, they get liquefied by these Russian standoff weapons.
And they're in such a state of disarray, actually, in terms of their operational ability that they're in no position to accept any of these weapons.
And the thing about the weapon thing is that you've got to realize the profit margin on military equipment is astronomical.
It's something like 90%.
I'm sorry.
That's Putin calling.
Good job, Charles.
So listen, so it's astronomical, right?
So any opportunity a government or defense contractors have to sell equipment is they love it.
And so this massive sort of, you know, interest kicks in where everybody's making bank, right?
The defense country is making bank.
The lobbyists are making bank.
The politicians are getting paid off by the lobbyists are making bank.
And so it doesn't take much for a Western politician to say, oh, yeah, let's send another $100 million.
Oh, let's send another billion dollars.
Let's make it 10.
Let's make it 15.
But the thing is, what they're doing is they're writing off a bunch of crap, right?
They're sending in the old weapons that are in the warehouses that already are reaching their shelf life and have to be disposed of somehow.
And if they can send them in and say, well, we just, you know, now we have to buy like billions and billions more of this stuff.
That's what's really going on.
Those weapons are not going to help the Ukrainian army.
It's not a substantial thing.
It's not going to help them.
It's all just being basically sent to a giant scrap heap.
And the Russians are like, you know, anytime a substantial amount comes in that's like identifiable in a warehouse or convoy or anything like that, it just gets blown to Kingdom Come.
And what's so cynical about it is the Western politicians know this is going to happen.
And the Western military knows this is happening.
And then they go on TV and they beat their chest and they say, oh, you know, we're subordinate.
We're sending billions of dollars.
We're sending all this stuff.
You see, Ukraine is going to fight back.
While they know that it's just a complete charade and all they're doing is making money for themselves and their corrupt systems.
So it's very, very cynical and very, very dirty.
And it's not making all the ways.
It's not making any difference.
It's not making any difference in the military conflict.
Yeah, Slovakia supplied Slovakia supplied the S-300 and I think Russia blew it up like the next day.
Yeah.
You can't get anything big in the country because the Russians have complete control of the air.
I mean, and that just shows you how hopeless the military situation is for the Ukraine.
They're not going to be able to do anything unless NATO enters the war.
And there's always that possibility.
And there's some rumbling and some troop buildup in the Eastern NATO countries.
But that's still not at all a clear thing.
And so, yeah, sorry for just rambling on here.
You cut me off and tell me to stop.
Here's the other important thing is that the question of why the Ukrainians continue to fight when their situation is basically hopeless, all right?
They're basically facing a meat grinder.
And what's become clear is what I think people did underestimate and understand was just how insane these Ukrainian military leaders are.
And it's a combination of two things.
One thing is that they really are infected with psychos, right?
And these guys are at the very top.
And I'm sure most of the troops are absolutely freaked out, right?
But they know that if they speak up or they indicate any kind of like hesitation to do something or they try to desert, they will be summarily executed, you know?
And it's a very brutal, like evil system there that's really got its clutches on this and this.
What they really are are Russian people.
I will refuse actually to call them Ukrainians.
There is no such thing as a Ukrainian ethnicity, but I'll get into that later.
But anyway, and so the commissars and Soviet commissars and world wars.
Exactly.
And guess what?
They're the same ethnicity.
The same evil people there.
Anyway, so that's why they're and the guys at the top in the commanding positions of the Ukrainian military know that if they were to surrender, they were going to be answerable for war crimes because war crimes have been committed.
And it's, this is also like, we got to talk about this, like the just incredibly cynical, evil, you know, amoral, degenerate, you know, behavior of this, of this Ukrainian military.
I mean, it's just, it's such a stark contrast to the way the Russians have been behaving.
And it just says everything about the two systems and what's really behind them and what these social forces.
And, you know, it's the bad guys are behind the Ukrainians.
And those Ukrainian nationalists are not nationalists at all.
They are, they are sellout, you know, pump monkeys for globalists, basically.
And they're pushing Zog and they're, you know, they're supporting homosexuality, gay parades, transgenderism, the whole thing.
And that's what they're fighting for.
And that's what the Russians are fighting against.
And it's super important to understand this.
Like this whole idea, like that there's some sympathy among like Western nationalists and especially in the U.S. for the Ukrainian nationalists is just embarrassing.
It is embarrassing, man.
I don't know what these people are smoking.
They're obviously getting totally sighed by these chat groups, which are probably 50% full of CIAs, people like talking.
And some people are buying into it.
Fair enough.
Yeah, I mean, and it's interesting now, too.
Of course, everybody was up in arms on our side about Putin and his denazification strategy.
And now even the Nazis in Ukraine are calling the Russians the Nazis.
And we are not actually Nazis.
Whatever, well, I'll be charitable here and say, you know, the Ukrainian nationalists are not stupid.
You could take one thing, but regardless, yeah, whatever they think they're fighting for, the course of the past month and a half has certainly showed what they are ultimately fighting for, which is Western dominion over their nationalistic fever dreams.
And that comes with a lot of evil baggage.
Two quick questions here.
I definitely want to get more into.
There's so much we could talk about, so I'll just shut up.
Do you think Zelensky is still in Kiev or is he filming from a Polish studio somewhere?
I think he's definitely in Kiev because all these EU leaders came to Kiev today.
Boris Johnson walking around downtown.
So, you know, Kiev is quiet now.
The Russians have pulled back.
Yeah.
So he's safe.
Interesting.
All right.
And this Bucha or Buka, I didn't see the Cyrillic spelling of it to know how to pronounce it.
This is the new Srebonica, right?
They've got their supposed atrocities there to whip people up into an even greater moral frenzy in the West over, you know, the Russians were tying civilians' hands behind their backs and summarily executing them when it appears, oh, that may have actually been the Ukrainians doing that.
But any insight into what actually happened there, please.
Oh, yeah, listen.
Insight, it's a transparent hoax.
And it's as plain as day that this is another false flag, like engineer cooked up in, you know, in Langley and London.
And with all the attendant media hype that like, you know, clicks into full gear and like, you know, floods the zone for a few days and whips up public outrage.
I mean, it's pathetic and it's been going on for ages.
I mean, this is what they do.
This is what this evil globalist empire does.
They do one fake hoax, bloody hoax after another.
They've been doing in Syria.
They did it in 2014, Ukraine.
They shot down that airliner, blamed it on the Russians.
They poisoned that guy in London, Mr. Scripple, and said, oh, you know, Putin sent some guy with polonium to London to like poison, like, because he's an evil guy and he assassinates his, you know, even Russian journalists and politicians who get assassinated in Russia.
The main culprit or the main suspect is in fact the CIA because every time it happens, then they whip up this big thing that, oh, Putin's like this evil guy.
I mean, it's this ongoing scam.
And when you watch it carefully, you see all the earmarks right away.
It's like totally obvious.
And like, why is everybody like believing this?
This is like pathetic.
Sure.
Shame on me, Charles.
I mean, I still go to the Drudge Report.
It's terrible of me.
If it was once good, it's not even worse.
No, I know, right?
Shame on me.
But hey, like, it's still like one of the top five news sites in the West.
And every time, I mean, it's just been like tabloid style with these sensationalist headlines, you know, Putin's hiding in a bunker, 500th Russian general is killed.
And every single time I click on one of those links, again, further shame upon my head, they are British tabloid style, literally just fabricated stuff, the mirror, the star.
So the British are really dusting off their lie machine as well.
They're the world champs at this kind of dishonesty.
It's absolutely extraordinary.
Oh, man.
Let me put on my skeptical hat again about the spirit in Russia support for Putin, the war effort, et cetera, because I would say, one, there's, of course, wartime solidarity that's natural that people rally around the flag and the leader at war.
Understandable, wouldn't dispute that.
But two, I doubt that there are very many, if any, skeptics or, you know, worrying Wandas over there, you know, questioning how the war is going.
I mean, Russia has tighter information control than we have in the West.
I think that's fair to say.
But what's allowed on media over there?
And speak a little bit more about this sort of national revival and solidarity that you clearly believe is genuine.
Yeah, well, I would disagree about this, that there's more control in Russia than there is in the West because there is a dissident media here and they're very active and they're speaking out and they just represent a very small percentage of the population, maybe 10, 15%.
Whereas I think in the West, the dissident alternative media probably represents at this point like 40%, not 50%.
I mean, basically, the whole Trump, like MAGA media is now alternative media.
So, yeah.
So, no.
So, on TV, on TV news, do you have any dissenters?
I mean, maybe that's unfair.
I just thought, you know, like Tucker Carlson.
Right, yeah.
Okay.
So Tucker Carlson is like the lone example, right?
But, you know, when you look at that, that lineup there on Fox News and the other main things, it's all like, you know, pro-zogs, zog, zog, zog, zog.
So sure.
It's similar.
It's, you know, it's actually kind of similar.
And anyway, there is a dissident media here.
And of course, they're whining and crying about how this is a terrible disaster for you for Russia and we should stop it in some sort of a lot of people.
That does exist and people can get access to it if they if they want to look for it.
That's good to know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, you know, YouTube is still here.
They're claiming they're threatening to block it.
And I wish they would, but it's just this massive funnel of Western propaganda into the Russian psyche.
And they did block Instagram, thank God, and Twitter.
So, but yeah, let me talk about this Russian nationalism.
This is super interesting and really completely misunderstood.
You got to realize there's like almost no Western journalists here.
And the ones that are tend to be extremely liberal.
They're like New York Times type toadies, right?
And so they don't get this stuff and they don't cover it.
And well, anyway, what happened here was that this already started back in the middle of 2021.
And the thing is, the Russian government went full Australia or full Canada on COVID.
And they were pushing these really, really, you know, terrible like Schwabian, like QRAC.
Yeah, we're going to digitize everything, every animal, every pet, every human.
You're going to be walking around with digital IDs.
You won't be able to go in here and do this and do that and the other thing.
And anything, there's always, and so there's this, there's always been this kind of Russian nationalist, Christian, conservative, traditionalist, sort of, you know, strong presence in Russia, but it never really came into its own.
And it was sort of like, you know, the few, the people who are doing like alternative media in that space were really very small.
But this massive anti-COVID movement appeared in Russia and it was conservative and traditionalist and very heavily like conservative Christian.
And it's like almost before that, they didn't really have that issue that could launch them into the big time.
But it really exploded onto the scene and totally dwarfed and could have sort of crushed like the liberal dissident or opposition media and political presence.
And now with the war starting, now they're really on a roll.
And there's all these interesting things happening.
So, you know, it's natural in a war situation for the more militant, the more masculine, the more patriotic, you know, how do you describe them?
That type of singeristic.
Yeah, to come into the fore and start making their presence felt.
And so this has happened since the war started.
And you have this real change in Russian society.
It's so interesting.
And what's really fascinating is that a bunch of like left-leaning globalist sympathizing Russian elites have fled the country.
Right.
And the place they're so weird.
Many of the Jews.
And the destination of choice is Israel.
What do you say?
I spoiled.
You had it all set up.
So anyway, wonderful.
Yeah, and it's very interesting.
You know, the Russian cultural scene, TV, movies, music industry and something. has always been heavily Jewish.
And it's been that way since the Soviet Union.
Even during the Soviet Union, it was heavily Jewish.
I guess this is just a truth of the world, right?
That these industries tend to be dominated by Jesus.
I can't damn this thing.
And I guess they just sort of like hung in there because there was nothing, you know, making an effort to dislodge them or something.
But it's just extraordinary how many of them jumped on flights and freaked out and got the hell out of Dodge.
And that has been so clarifying.
I don't want to cut you short, but maybe we can segue into our guys, Western American dissident white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.
When the war broke out, there were all those guys saying it's Zog West versus Zog East, just a different bunch of Jews pulling the strings over there.
We should be neutral at best or support those noble Nazis in Ukraine.
And what do you know?
The rats have started to flee the ship.
The garbage has stopped flowing into Russia through our Globo Homo corporations and the Russians are sticking to their guns and also, by all accounts, acting largely admirably in their war effort.
And, you know, it's a purifying moment for the nation.
It's really interesting.
Like the church has come out like really strong.
People are going to church, you know, and in Russia, Christianity is like intertwined with patriotism and nationalism.
It's like it's very different from the West in that respect.
And yeah, so all these elites have been leaving and to the cheers and enthusiastic applause of this patriotic, nationalistic, anti-immigrant segment here in Russia.
So this is the important thing to understand.
Western nationalists, you got to understand, okay, that Russia is the nationalist power now in the world.
China is a nationalist power and Iran is a nationalist power and they are coming together to push back against the internationalists, against the globalists.
And that's the true breakdown.
And any smart, sensible Western nationalist, and nationalism is a good thing.
Donald Trump said, I'm a nationalist now.
It's not some sort of like bad word and shouldn't be.
Anti-globalists.
You should be pro-Russia in this thing.
It's Russia taking on the evil globalists.
Amen.
Let's talk about the Joyce article then, too, because I've been an Andrew Joyce fan for many years.
He has sort of a singular mission statement, which is to assess and break down Jewish power and all of its influences.
I also have to say it's so ironic too.
You know, Nazi this, Nazi that.
You've been called a Nazi for publishing material critical of Jewish power on Russia Insider.
And yet here you are broadcasting live, essentially, dear listener, from Russia, and they're not coming to put you in the gulag and silence you, which I think says a lot.
But our guys seem utterly either incapable or refuse to countenance the idea that Russia is acting nobly here and represents not a resumption of a Soviet tyranny to dominate Eastern Europe.
Mearsheimer was just saying this the other day.
Russia couldn't take over Poland or Romania or Bulgaria if they wanted to right now.
And they know what a pain in the ass a lot of those countries were to manage.
I mean, Yugoslavia alone was able.
That always surprised me from the Cold War that, you know, quote unquote little Yugoslavia was able to resist even Stalin, right?
So they're trying to clean up and save their racial and ethnic brethren in Ukraine from what we all know is an evil system designed to enslave them under homosexuality and drugs and consumerist, empty, vapid degeneracy and evil.
It really is astounding that this is a thing.
But, you know, the Joyce article was about Putin and his Holocaust obsession, which I think is a fair thing to assess.
You know, he kind of hemmed and hawed on it, but this idea that Putin has been very obsequious in the past and maybe even into the present about the quote-unquote Holocaust and Israel and all the rest of it, despite his moves.
I'll shut up there, his moves in Syria, which belie the fact that he's just some servant of Israel.
Yeah.
First of all, I don't think this is terribly important.
And I found it absolutely stunning that a man of Joyce's caliber, and I have to say I have a huge amount of respect for that guy.
And he's like written amazing stuff in the past.
But honestly, I was like, I thought that article was extremely weak because here he is, like, here's like one of this incredible historic event happening with like, you know, the forces of evil and the forces of good.
And he's sitting there talking about the Holocaust.
I mean, you know, and Putin's like affection for this is like, you're kind of missing the point here.
But anyway, my take, who knows?
I can't get inside Putin's head.
I don't know if Putin is a queer Jewish, as people say.
But my sense of it is what I think he, what he thinks is he thinks that Jewish power is a world power.
Like he deals with Jewish power the way he deals with Chinese power or Indian power or any sort of substantial whatever, even like the West and so on.
And so he knows that they're players in this game and he's got to sort of use them to his advantage as possible.
And so he strikes alliances with them to try and throw the West off because the main threat is from for him is coming from Europe and America.
And if he can align himself with some powerful Jewish guys on the, you know, the Shabbad side of Jewish life, then he says that's the thing to do instead of what am I supposed to do?
Sit here and like, you know, be hostile to Jews or something.
So who knows?
But who really knows what's going on in his head?
And this whole like, you know, I think it's in a way, it's like super important.
It's going to be relevant.
Yeah.
It's 5D chess, right?
I mean, in a way, because he's like, okay, if we position ourselves as like these great fighters against anti-Semitism and, you know, cheering on like, you know, the Holocaust memory and everything like that, that makes us sort of a little bit untouchable from the Western point of view.
I mean, it's going to be hard for them to paint us as the bad guys, especially if we're going up against guys with like Nazi runes on their uniforms and so on.
So I don't know.
It's all a sort of a mush of stuff together.
And it's one of those situations where if you think you know what's really going on and what they're thinking, you're just kidding yourself and not being honest.
There are lots of things we just can't figure out.
So but again, I don't think it's important.
It's like not, it's not indicative of anything substantial, I would say.
Yeah, judge a man by what he's done and what he's doing, not what he's said and who he's thrown a bone to.
There's so many other things that Putin has done.
It's just been like putting his putting his like his finger in the eye of Jewish global power.
I mean, especially in the Middle East.
I mean, you know, and the Jewish establishment, like media and everything in America hates this guy with a passion.
And there's a reason for that.
Yeah, I think, you know, to be fair, a lot of us have Trump scar tissue, as I've mentioned on at least one other show, where because Trump disappointed us, I know I don't know if you still have hopes for Trump, but we went all in on Trump as the savior of Western civilization.
And in the year, we were like, oh, man, Jared's got way too much power here.
And we're reluctant.
But we have 20 years plus of Vladimir Putin to gauge rather than like a year or two of the bumbling buffoon in the White House.
Apologies.
You might still be a fan, but it's also.
All right.
Finally, you're off the Trump catalog.
When he pardons me, okay, for January 6th, that's when I'll talk.
Fair enough.
This is such a clarifying moment, too, for a lot of guys on our side.
I mean, you know, E. Michael Jones is obviously very smart.
He's great on the JQ.
He's weak on race.
He took Greg Johnson out to the woodshed.
I guess this could be a little bit of like the tabloid section of the show, but I'm so sick, frankly, of being like mild-mannered diplomatic coach to everything in this thing because the lessons of the past four or five years have taught me that there are a lot of dishonest, petty charlatans in this cause, like there are in every aspect of life, right?
Like that's that's human nature.
But I guess E. Michael Jones debated Greg Johnson on the validity of this war and the causes.
And of course, Greg is all in on Ukraine probably because he still has, you know, plans for booty calls in the Baltics with his buddies there or whatnot.
So yeah, we'll post some of these links in the show notes and you, dear listener, can make your own evaluation.
And, you know, on the, just to go back to the Joyce article too, you could, you could read that and Putin's past statements as cockboomer Putin, but you can also very validly read that as a sort of Machiavellian long game.
And we, again, we don't want to like get fooled.
You know, sometimes they say these things and they mean it, but it could very well have been a long game to not antagonize needlessly powerful, wealthy people.
But he certainly did plenty of that too.
The oligarchs are either crying, uncle, or fleeing to Israel.
And here's another thing, Charles.
I mean, Russia can't back down.
Putin cannot back down.
They have to finish this job or else, you know, if you think Ukraine losing some section of its territory is some great disaster for nationalism.
I got news for you, pal.
Russia losing here and Putin getting deposed or assassinated or whatnot would be the crowning achievement, the utter color revolution to end all color revolutions that would have fireworks in Tel Aviv.
No, no, humanity would basically be over.
I mean, we'd be listening to that, you know, that Jewish guy who's watching him, this Klaus Schwab's main advisor, who's like, you know, salivating over the possibility of like, you know, biohacking all humans and turning us into Borgs or something to work for, you know, the global new world order.
I mean, it's a complete disaster.
Yeah, people have to wake up and realize like Russia honestly is the last hope of humanity at this point.
And the war has started and it might get a lot bigger.
And, you know, NATO might get involved and it might turn into a world war.
And it's if that happens, then so be it.
You know, let the battle begin for heaven's sakes.
I mean, how long have we been putting up with this nonsense since the end of World War II?
Like the West has basically been in this slavery, in this slavery, and a mountain of lies about everything.
And Putin pushing back.
The fire of lies.
Yep.
The man.
And I thought that was an excellent term, actually.
Yeah, that was a great term.
He really nailed it with that.
But, you know, just to get back to also to this Joyce article.
Uh, so what I found so disappointing in Joyce, which I just didn't understand.
I said, like how could somebody this smart like say something so so off?
He's like, you know, I just don't.
Really I can't figure out uh, which side is right.
You know it's all subtled and uh, everything in Ukraine and everything in Russia is so hopelessly convoluted and with this complicated history and and there's no way to see who's right and wrong here um really, you don't get it, mr Joyce.
You know you're you're a smart guy.
I know you're a smart guy.
I've like listened to you and read your stuff a lot.
You don't get it.
I like I almost think easy posturing for an audience.
Uh, is you know some editor telling me he has to say that?
Because I, I just can't believe he actually believes that?
You know it's because in fact it's so obvious.
It's like that the choice is just like as plain as can be and just, you don't have to dig in deep, you don't have to be an expert on Ukraine and like all that ethnic stuff.
Just scratch the surface a little bit.
Um, I mean, if Tucker Tucker Carlson gets it, you can get it Andrew.
So Amen yep, you know, but that was kind of lame.
That article was kind of a sad face, a sad face over Joyce's.
All right, we still got hopes for you, Andrew.
If you listen to this, somebody will probably forward him the clip.
And I wanted to give props to Eric Stryker too.
He has been a lion of uh, I don't know Moscow, but seriously, it takes courage.
It takes courage and it takes some serious chops to look at this and be public and call it as you see it and not hem and haw and oh, you know, maybe both sides are bad, or maybe you know this is just one big tragedy and wring your hands, but no, to call this as you see it and have the courage to do so.
So there have been a good, a good number of brave men Mark Collett comes to mind too who are just saying uh yeah no, the sometimes things are just as they seem and what you feel in your gut is probably right, as opposed to overanalyzing or seeing these picayune negative aspects of Russia.
Right where we project, we Russia has to be perfect or else it's the enemy.
And uh Neo-bolshevism, Soviet Union yeah and, and this is the time to take the heat and the time to take the fire and the time to walk, you know, just walk into a blizzard of of info bullets, you know, going the other way, because it really is the last battle.
All right, perhaps the last, it'll be the last battle if Russia loses this.
Like you said, Russia has to win and and so you know, even if everybody disagrees with you, stand up and say it say look, this is a bunch of i'm.
I'm a Christian, i'm trying not to use these words, but anyway um, just good versus evil.
Yeah, just just get out there, don't be embarrassed, don't be afraid.
Let the chips fall where they may and speak the truth.
Speak the truth.
Always tell the truth.
You know, the way you say.
Sava boga.
Yeah.
I was going to say something else.
I can't remember.
Anyway, go ahead.
Yeah.
Can I do my little thing now about like the non-existence of Ukrainian ethnicity?
Sure.
Have at it, Charles.
Yeah, I did this on the last one.
Did I?
I can't remember.
Well, yeah, you mention it and I push back a little bit.
I mean, because there's obviously a difference between the concept of nationality and ethnicity, the actual blood composition of your people and their tribalism.
But go ahead, have at it.
Yeah, okay.
There is no such thing as a Ukrainian nation.
Get it?
I don't know how many times I've got to say this.
Just let it sink into all your heads out there.
There is no Ukrainian ethnicity.
There never was.
It began to be invented as a foreign policy tool in the mid-19th century by Austria, Hungary, and Germany, who bordered on that part of the Russian Empire and saw this as an opportunity to cause trouble for Russia, which they were absolutely correct to do.
And so they invented that language.
That language was never spoken by any natural people.
Everybody there spoke either Russian or Polish or Hungarian or some like real language, right?
But there is no such thing as a, that was literally, it was invented by linguists working for the special services, like the nascent special services, when just at the time when, again, you know, the merchant class, Jewish elite started to have like outsized power in the capitals of Western Europe, along comes all this like dirty trick stuff, right?
And so this was done always to destabilize the Russian Empire.
And for 800 years before that, the people who lived there thought of themselves as Russians and they called themselves Russians.
And there was no term called the Ukraine as an idea of a territorial area or a part of Russia or anything else.
And then when the revolution happened, along came one of the most evil men in history and one of the biggest butchers to ever exist and a total Satanist, Vladimir Lenin.
And he came and he came up with the idea of Ukraine.
He was like, okay, let's call this part of the Russian Empire the Ukraine.
And there was this term, the Ukraine, that sometimes people use to refer to this part of Russia, but it wasn't the main term.
The main term was little Russia.
And the reason it was called Little Russia was because it was simply where Russia started.
And then the Russian power migrated to Moscow and became larger.
So that was the Great Russia.
And then there was Little Russia, which was sort of the area of what we now call the fake country of Ukraine.
And then there was Russia.
And honestly, I don't know what the reason for why it's called White Russia up there.
It certainly applies now.
Belarus is the whitest country in Europe.
So there you go.
That's one thing.
And that's another great point.
I'll flag just real quick, Charles.
A listener wrote a really lengthy piece called Fog of Deceit on our site, trying to get to the truth of all this for people who maybe prefer the written word over podcasts.
And he was like, if Putin was this Eurasian duginist beast trying to destroy people through funneling Central Asians, why is Belarus still so ethnically solid?
If he was out to do that, he would have started in the near abroad already.
But I digress.
Yeah.
Well, he doesn't control Belarus.
Thank God Lukashenko does, who's like, you know, more based than Putin by far, which is reflected in a lot of things that he's done, including the way he handled the COVID thing.
Well, anyway, so back to this Ukraine thing.
So, okay.
The things that build nationhood, right?
Same race, same language, same literature, same composers, same religion.
And this is huge.
I mean, that's the most important thing.
And it has an outsized role in Russia because of this sort of the way that the state and the church are unified into one.
This whole idea of the separation of church and state is a very Protestant thing, which the Jews applauded, right?
And thought, oh, great, finally we can get rid of Christianity from government.
One more of the people, yep, from their moral grounding.
Yeah, yeah.
But anyway, so you have all these things that define a nation.
And that's really what the Ukraine was.
And even during the Soviet period, even though Lenin, you know, it was just a, they called that place the Ukraine and everything, but then Russia sort of, you know, Stalin sort of cracked down on these sort of these messianic, Zionist Bolshevik types and had a more sort of nationalistic, pro-Russian sort of system that then pretty much stayed that way up through Brezhnev.
And in that post-war period of sort of great Russian nationalism in the Soviet Union, there was no feeling that this was like some kind of a foreign country or a foreign ethnicity and everybody was kind of the same and the Ukrainians were like in top positions in Moscow and Russians would go to the Ukraine and hang out and move there and live there and everything.
It was considered basically Russia.
It was like that was the exception to the whole.
Stalin's successor, Khrushchev, was Ukrainian, quote-unquote Ukraine.
Yeah, so there was no sense that this is like some kind of a separate country.
And the whole idea of it being a separate country was literally forced on the defeated USSR by globalists from Washington who showed up and said, okay, now we're the IMF and we're going to run your country and you guys are going to be Ukrainian.
They were licking their chops at just going in there.
And from that point onward, there was this very, very active effort from Western intelligence agencies, from George Soros, Freaks, and all these people who came in and really tried to create this idea that there's this Ukrainian people and this Ukrainian history and Ukrainian nationalism and Ukrainian pride.
And it was all sort of fake, like built around hatred of Russians.
And it's really evil stuff.
I mean, it is just, it's finally all coming out when the Russians are like talking about this war and going into it and making a big deal about it.
But it is terrifying what these people have done.
And here's something else.
It's super interesting.
So when the in World War II, when the Russians, when the Germans rolled into Ukraine, they were met by these Western Ukrainians who had been cultivated since the middle of the 19th century by Germany and Austria-Hungary to be like, you know, have this anti-Russian idea of nationalism, their own country and everything like that.
So they were met and these Ukrainians were like, great, you've liberated us from these evil Bolsheviks.
And they did have a legitimate grudge against the Bolsheviks because the Bolsheviks had absolutely brutalized them.
But again, keep in mind that those early Bolsheviks, those 20s and 30s Bolsheviks, were basically Jewish commissars.
This is like a Jewish ethnic war against ethnic Russians.
Well, anyway, so, and the Germans were like, oh, great.
Okay.
Yeah.
Form your, whatever your, your, the military units.
And since you're locals here, we're going to push on and take Moscow and Kiev.
And you, you know, help us with the, with the military administration here.
And so they thought, well, great.
They're nationalists.
They're national socialists.
They're going to be on board with us.
Anyway, so what did those Ukrainians, those crazy Western Ukrainians do?
They then started this massive pogrom because they had huge grudges going back for centuries because they'd been dominated and abused by Polish Jewish elites, basically.
And they committed atrocities that absolutely shocked the Germans.
When the Germans realized what was going on and what they had done, they were like, this is in, it's inconceivable that people behave this way.
They're like some sort of mad dogs, right?
And it was totally against, and they badly discriminated, they discredited the Germans because now the Soviet propaganda was pointing to the atrocities that those crazy Western Ukrainians did and saying, see, this is how Germans roll, right?
So then the Germans had like this PR disaster on their hand.
But, you know, they did stuff like they went into villages and they cut up children and they cut off women's breasts and they stabbed out their eyes and they did all this.
Like it was like insane.
It was insane.
And there's something very wrong with the people from this part of the country.
And to hold them up as some sort of noble, like, you know, like patriotic, wonderful, peaceful people have been forced to fight for their country is so cynical.
It is the height of cynical lying.
And that is what the evil globalists do best.
And any American patriot should understand that just based on what's happening in their own country over the last three years.
It's BLM, Eastern European style.
Yes.
Yeah.
When was the last time you saw all these soulless corporations put little banners at the top?
Oh, click here to support Ukraine.
It was blacks rioting in America under the guise of angelic freedom fighters.
It's the exact same thing, just shifted to the East with the same purpose to mind, poison us and act against our own interests and believe evil lies.
It's the exact same thing.
And this sick, like evil behavior, right?
This like non-human, unhuman, like disgusting thing has now happened again.
So what are they doing?
They're like, did you see the videos?
They've tortured prisoners.
They shoot them on camera.
They post these things on social media and colloqui about it.
Girlfriends to say, hey, your boyfriend or your husband's dead now.
Yeah.
They post photos.
They log cluster bombs into crowds.
And you know what?
And they cut throats of people on camera and then show that.
And what's so interesting about is this the parallel to ISIS.
All right.
This is the same behavior you saw ISIS doing on the innocent people of the Middle East.
And guess what?
Both ISIS and those Ukrainian nationalists have the same paymaster and the same advisors and the same NATO curators and the same deep state CIA intel agency UK curators.
So and you see the same strategies and the same behaviors.
This whole business of you using human shields and as civilians as human shields.
That was like a standard thing that ISIS would do in the Middle East.
And it, you know, it's just so obvious what's going on.
There's like people not get this.
I mean, I get it, the mainstream media is lying, but there's like this giant alternative media.
And there's tons of, there's tons of outlets that are talking about this, you know?
It's not totally blocked.
You go on, go on these sites that people are explaining this in black and white.
And so it's all out there.
Yeah.
Bless you for saying that.
And that's what, like, nobody wants to be wrong.
At least good, good men.
We want to speak the truth and we want to be on the right side of virtue and justice and all of the things that make us human, including a little bit of racial kinship.
So to be confused on this is either, yeah, stupid or you are victimized by the same system that you claim to hate and oppose.
And you're just getting fooled.
You're getting tricked again.
I'm sad to say it.
I think the biggest reason for all this is it's got to be guys lurking in chats, like spreading this stuff, like psyop stuff.
Because it's not the Greg Johnson's the world.
I mean, he's just a dumb faggot, right?
And not that many people listen to him and not many people read his site, right?
But I think there's a massive psyop going on with Western nationalists where people are going into chats and talking this stuff up.
And then that creates an impression that a lot of people believe it.
And then some people get sucked into it.
But it's absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah, I mean, I do know plenty of good guys who I don't think are bad actors who literally are just like, and I've seen this frankly from a lot of guys with Eastern European ethnicity who are incapable or unwilling to consider the fact that this, no, this is not Soviet revanchism to enslave your people and, you know, have them under a Jewish boot heel, but something more localized and a completely different country and leader to, you know, it's, it's frankly ludicrous.
I've grown tired of saying like, what is so hard to believe?
You know, if you thought that the Russian Empire was great pre-Soviet Union, you know, the memes of Nicholas II and the base czar and all the rest of it, why is it so difficult to believe that Russia could change again for the better after coming out of Jewish tyranny, at least in the early days of the Soviet Union?
It's not that hard, guys.
Come on, have just a little bit of faith and a little bit of critical thinking.
Charles, the natives are getting restless here.
The dog is poking around.
Our wonderful toddler is asking for ice pops, but he's safe.
I'm looking at him.
He's smiling.
I'm just telling him to be quiet.
And it's a gorgeous day here.
But we got maybe just a couple more things to cover if you're okay with just powering through.
All right, wonderful.
Yep.
You have been a finance guy in the past.
And one of the amazing stories of all this has been the ruble recovery and Russia's planning for this in advance so that no, their economy does not crash under the weight of sanctions.
It's amazing that Russian stocks in the West are essentially untradeable.
If you owned RSX or ERUS, two sort of popular ETFs, those are now showing $0 or whatever the rate was back in February or March when they cut it off.
Talk a little bit, if you could, sir.
Whatever you think is the most interesting or relevant, the ruble recovery, ruble being a future or current oil slash gold backed currency.
What's the most important thing for our listeners to know or understand?
Okay.
Well, if you've got a basically a non-financial audience, I would say largely the important thing to understand about all this is that Russia is in no danger of any kind of economic pressure.
And the reason for this is because of their alliance with China, which is the, you know, the factory of the world.
And anything they need to get, they can get from China.
And they have a ton of stuff on their own that's really crucial right now in this developing world crisis.
Like you look at something that's actually a real threat now in the West are rising food and energy costs.
And the food costs are rising because of, partly because of rising cost of fertilizer.
Well, in that whole thing, Russia is self-sufficient.
You know, and they've got ridiculously cheap energy and most of produce, most of the world's fertilizer, um and uh, so they're in a really good good position in terms of that.
Plus, they can get every kind of consumer good you ever wanted in uh from uh, China and its uh trade trade partners um, so there's no, they're completely protected on that, on that front, and the tiny are making giving every indication that they're totally on Russia's side and they're not going to budge because they also get it.
They get it that this is it.
If Russia goes down, it's over next.
Yeah um um so, uh.
So that's the basic, very simple thing that even a non-economics guy, non-finance guy, can understand.
Um now, as to like the, the movement of the ruble um, what's happened is is that Russia has instituted currency controls um, and they've created demand for for rubles where it didn't exist before.
So uh, that has massively brought the, brought the ruble exchange rate back down to earth.
Um, and it's a really simple way to understand this is, um uh, what used to happen is everything that got sold in Russia would get sold for dollars um uh, the Russian exporters would take those dollars and sit on them and uh, it was world reserve currency, and so that's what people prefer to do.
Just from an economic point of view um, so there was no real demand for rubles, so it was a currency that's incredibly uh vulnerable to currency speculators.
You know they can just drive it through the roof, um uh now by by selling what few rubles they have.
But you have to understand that this whole business of a reserve currency is also artificial.
Right, it's artificial for a Russian exporter to say oh, I just sold all this stuff.
It's denominated in dollars, i'm going to sit and leave it sitting in my bank account in dollars, and that gives an unjustified uh strength or power and world power to the holder of the reserve currency.
And this has always been true for the whole history of humanity.
Every time, like uh, whatever the Dutch or the English or the Us or the Chinese, whoever it was who had the reserve currency at the time, they had uh undue financial power that they managed to influence other countries with um, and so what basically, uh Russia did is they?
They chopped that up as far as Russia is concerned.
So now every, everybody who exports their stuff.
If they get paid in dollars, they've got to convert it into rubles by law.
Really ballsy, bold move.
And it looks like people are going and countries are going along with it because they need to.
Yeah.
They still need to.
Well, you know, that's the whole artificial thing about this whole, like, like, you know, we're going to force the Europeans to do this.
It doesn't matter who converts it.
The Europeans can pay the Russians in euros or dollars or anything, whatever.
But as long as the ultimate receiver of it, you know, converts it into rubles, that creates a demand for rubles, which then brings the raises the value of the rubles.
So it's all artificial at this point, but the whole system is artificial.
Like the whole idea of a reserve currency that you can sort of kick around other currencies with is artificial.
And they're doing like their, yeah, they are striking a blow against the central underpinning of Western imperialism, the dollar's reserve status.
They're presenting an alternative model and a challenger in tandem with China.
Another thing for people to be grateful for.
People are talking about this.
This could be the undoing of the dollar.
And it's got a long way to go.
And this gets into like, you know, complicated financial theory that I'm even not comfortable in having a strong opinion on.
Because how a currency gets to be a reserve currency is very, very complicated.
But, you know, yeah, possibly the US dollar could go down because of all this, which would be the ultimate self-goal of the U.S. because then all hell would break loose.
I tell you, just be over.
All bets are off.
Yep, absolutely.
I mean, yeah, the inflation.
It's so 70s here with the inflation, with the gerontocracy, with the leftist violence in the streets.
It's a return back to the future, back to the past.
You know, there is substantial inflation here.
And I just noticed it going to store.
Like, I was buying oats the other day, and I noticed that they basically they were about 50% more expensive than they were a month ago.
And so, yeah, this is definitely happening.
And the thing is that the Russians are like, we don't care.
You know, we'll eat sawdust if we have to.
We're going to fight this thing right to the end.
Which people are more accustomed and willing and strong enough to undergo privation, the Russians or the West?
I would put some big money on that one.
You know which way it would go.
All right, Charles, I got to ask about the Chechen question real quick here, and we'll bring this puppy home.
Huge hangup for guys to see bearded Muslims shouting Allahu Akbar with their finger in the air as they're waging war in Ukraine.
I think I get it, but educate the audience on the use of Chechens, whether they are raping marauding gangs of Islamists or the alternative that they are.
It's kind of a fascinating story.
I'll stop characterizing it and let you do it.
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
These Islamic minorities in the Soviet Union are just very, you know, they're in very in lots of ways, they're super admirable, right?
They're God-fearing.
They don't tolerate sexual deviancy.
They protect their women.
They have lots of kids.
And it's been pointed out many times that the Russians actually use them as an example.
Like if Russians behave more like Chechens, Russia would be a stronger, better country.
And what you see, actually, it's interesting.
Watching a guy say this on a political show here.
He was like, you know, the whole Islamic world is on the side of Russia and China.
And the reason that happened was when in 2016, that bearded lady won the Eurovision contest, right?
And the West tried to make like a celebrity of this guy.
What is it?
That's wrong for him.
And every God fearing, you know, Muslim like across the Middle East was like.
ah yeah, you will pay, allah get you.
You know there's gonna be a price to pay for this in the next one anyway.
So um, so you know yeah, they're very, they're very.
You know, they have a lot of admirable instincts about this.
They're very traditionalist and they're not buying this whole global Omo thing.
So um uh, in in Russia, those Chechen troops are heroes.
People love Ramzan, as they call him, Kadira, because he's more of a Russian patriot than a lot of the top Russians.
And he says things that a lot of the Russian nationalists and patriots wish that their own leaders would say more clearly and more loudly.
So, you know, if you want to understand this, they're not in their – it's not Islamic conquest.
They're not going to stay there and set up their – Islamic Sharia sort of society over uh, western Europeans.
They're more like loyal Islamic uh allies of big Russia.
Um and uh, they believe in supporting Russia and they believe in being part of that Russian, that greater Russian world uh, with their own uh ethnic identity and religion.
Yeah, it's.
It's very telling when one of our guys was doing the oh the, the Chechen rape gangs are going to be unleashed on the, the wheat field uh, Ukrainian women uh, I said to.
I said to a semi-prominent guy I won't say his name okay, it was Martinez.
I said, okay Martinez, i'll bet you a hundred bucks of monero that there will be no Chechen rape gangs.
And what do you know?
He wouldn't take the bets.
So they like to talk a big game and when it comes to just a little gentleman's bet about what, what's really going to happen here, everybody starts getting a little squeamish or not so confident.
Has been wrong about everything uh, since he first appeared on the scene.
I don't know why anybody ever listens to that.
Guy is completely out to lunch, right?
So like, don't taken in by that.
Versus um yeah so uh, Chechens are super popular in Russia and people love them.
And what an amazing redemption story too, to go from uh, revolt and Grozny but getting leveled to, all of a sudden, these men being willing to fight for you know, what we presumed in the west then were their slavers, you know, the evil Russians going in to suppress the noble Chechen independence movement, and now they are willing fighters for Russia and for Putin.
It's it's, an incredible story that confuses people yeah, but it's.
It's super important to understand that.
That Chechen independence movement movement was, of course uh, to some degree, organic and and people really wanted it, but there was also a massive involvement of uh, the same bastards who created ISIS and are now funding these Ukrainian nationalists.
And it was really, you know, it was another deep state, globalist scam, like trying to get at Russia.
So those poor Chechens were manipulated by those people and pushed to attack Russia and break away from Russia.
And then, when Russia pushed back, the poor, poor Chechen people suffered greatly, but now they're happy, you know, now they've settled into their role and they, they think they're in the right place and uh, it's too good to be true.
I can't possibly believe everything that you've said on the show.
It's too good to be true.
You have no idea how good it's going to get.
This is just the beginning.
All right.
Well, I got to take one more thing.
I just remember it.
You said it at the beginning.
You said, oh, that, you know, if NATO gets involved, then Russia will probably lose and they couldn't take over Poland or the Russians don't think that way.
They're like, just give us a chance.
We'll take the Baltics in a couple of days.
We'll knock those Poles senseless.
We'll go back into Czechoslovakia and people will remember what.
And they say, we'll march into Berlin.
I mean, we're not kidding here.
And there are plenty of military analysts in the West who say they can do this because NATO talks a big game, but they're not ready to fight and they don't know how to fight.
And if there was a serious, I mean, right now, Russia is using literally like 3% of their military power.
All right.
And they're achieving what they want to achieve with that much and they're holding back.
But if this is what people have to get, if NATO is stupid enough to try and expand this war, Russia is going to go just ape on that.
And it's going to be, and they could knock out so much so quickly using all their Wunderwaffen and their standoff.
It's just, it would be ugly.
It would be ugly.
NATO is not ready for this.
NATO is not ready for this.
And that is why people say it's probably not going to happen because they kind of know it.
They talk about it, but in fact, they're like, no, we don't want to get into this fight.
To be fair, that was Mir Scheiner who said they couldn't do it, not me.
I would never make such a foolish statement.
Anyway, Charles, it's so beautiful here.
I got trees to plant.
I would love to keep talking, but we'll save some stuff for next time.
Orban got re-elected.
Marie and Le Pen's into the second round consensus seems to be that even if she were the second coming of her father, that she'd still lose to Macron.
So the whole question of wither Europe and is it actually possible for Russia to sort of start to crack at the foundations of the Western stranglehold all over the good people of Europe is another one.
Vladimir Zhironovsky died, but let's put a bookmark in it, as one guy used to say all the time, and maybe save it for a future show, if that works for you, my friend.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
This has been a great talk.
Happy to come back and enlighten the masses from the free east to the enslaved West.
Yeah, Charles Bausman, longtime editor of Russia Insider, longtime editor.
Yes, he's under house arrest there for daring to ever criticize the Jews in his life.
Total, total, total Jewish tyranny there in Russia.
No, we're so grateful.
This is going to be great for the audience to hear the straight scoop.
And hey, if you don't agree or believe everything that Charles is saying, at least you got exposed to another side of the story in contrast to the absolute information embargo that we live under and toil to struggle against daily here in the land of the free and home of the brave.
So this full house special edition, we'll call it Russia Revisited or Bausman Unleashed, perhaps, was recorded on a gorgeous April 11th, 2022 here in Appalachia, still wintry slush over there in Russia, wherever Charles is.
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All right, my friend, you earned it.
Uh, please choose whatever closing music from Russia, of course, you would like to take us out to this one.
Okay, I'll see you later.
All right.
Well, what is it?
Let the audience know.
What are we listening to?
Oh, this is oh God, what's it called?
It's like uh OT Dasha.
Anyway, it's a love song to Dasha, and it's a good party, like upbeat, positive thing of like Russian spirit just overflowing in ecstatic happiness.