March 19, 2022 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Well, welcome back, everybody.
Was just talking with Charles Balzman during the break from Russia, and I believe, Mr. Producer, we have lost him from the queue there.
I'm looking at my monitor, and it looks as though he may have fallen off.
So why don't we, as we wait to see, as we wait for him to reappear, why don't we also try to get him on the phone?
Can you go ahead and just dial him up?
See what's going on there.
But yes, Charles Balzman was just talking with him during the commercial break from Russia, where he will be making this appearance to talk about the situation on the ground there.
Charles is, of course, the editor-in-chief of Russia Insider.
That is Russia-insider.com.
And he made his debut appearance on the show last year, his first and only appearance to date.
This will be his second one.
And we had a really important interview.
I think certainly more important now under the circumstances and the situation being what it is.
But we talked with Charles about what it was like to spend extended time in Russia and why he has spent extended time in Russia, why he is there.
We asked him what an accurate assessment of the people and their culture is, what the current political climate is.
This was, again, he was on with us, I believe it was last summer, so nearly a year ago.
Why is Putin so despised by the American regime?
And a very important question.
Then, but certainly more so now.
Why is an honest inquiry into the state of this foreign power considered to be taboo, or in fact, even tantamount to treason, as they have been calling people who aren't necessarily in the tank for Russia, but want to have an understanding of what's going on in this foreign power,
certainly as it relates to the situation involving Ukraine.
And as much as the media has lied to us really about everything of importance for all of our lives and certainly beyond that, the fact that according to polls, now that brings up another question, do you believe the polls?
Do you believe polls or do you not?
Apparently, though, if you do, 35% of Americans are in favor of engaging in World War III with Russia over a regional dispute that they have no understanding of whatsoever.
They have no understanding about what's going on there geopolitically and the history.
I mean, we've tried to cover it the best we can going back a few weeks, our last week before the launch of this year's installment of March Around the World with Mark Weber and Kevin McDonald.
And I think that was a very good interview.
I mean, Mark Weber and Kevin McDonald were fantastic in their assessment.
But I don't know if there has been another American media entity that has sought to engage in such a conversation.
So it's just fascinating.
And so we will hope to have Charles rejoin us here in just a few minutes.
We have a lot of questions for him that you'll want to hear.
And we do have him back now, I believe.
Charles, are you there?
I do see him in the chat, so we're going to pull him in.
When you do these international connections, sometimes the connection can be lost.
Well, Charles, we gave you a good introduction, and so let's just dive right into it, shall we?
How are you doing today?
Okay.
Doing great.
Thanks.
Great to have you, Charles.
It's a pleasure and an honor to be with you guys.
Well, it's an honor to be with you, and especially to have you in light of the current, as I said a moment ago, the current situation and circumstances.
We've got so much to cover, and we just lost a couple of minutes, so we're going to speed things up.
But I think I want to begin with the basics, and that is your work certainly at Russia Insider.
We talked about this last time, and we just spoke for a couple of minutes about that conversation that we had last year together.
Tell us a little bit more about Russia Insider and why you feel as though the politics of Russia and the situation in Russia was so important to our people that you would build a website that predominantly seeks to have a better understanding there, Russia Insider.
Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting because I started it in 2014 exactly because of the Ukraine crisis that was occurring then.
And as a fluent Russian speaker living in Russia, I was working in finance at the time.
I was able to understand what the Russian news was saying.
And I was also reading, you know, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and the Financial Times.
And it became clear to me that these media outlets were just lying.
They were just not telling the truth about what was happening back then in 2014.
So we started this site with some friends, some American friends here, and we just thought it would be this small thing where we'd kind of like try to correct the record and try and tell folks in the West what we thought was going on.
And it got super, super popular.
It was almost like it was just what people in the West needed to hear that they weren't hearing from RT.
Because we came at things from a conservative, Christian, you know, American conservative point of view.
And RT does a lot of good reporting, but they present themselves as a typical mainstream liberal kind of, you know, Russian CNN sort of thing.
And it was just super popular and it got huge.
And then once it got that big, I was like, this is way more fun than banking.
I'm going to keep doing this.
Well, it is a fantastic website, folks, that you've got to check out.
Again, that URL is Russia-insider.com.
I am there right now, even as we work through this interview, Russia-insider.com.
And Charles, you don't have to go into much detail on this, but you did just mention the fact that you are a Russian speaker living in Russia.
You're an American, but you speak Russian.
You're living in Russia.
Can you tell us how and why you came to be in Russia tonight and for the last quite a while?
Sure.
You know, I studied Russian college, and I very much wanted to be a journalist when I graduated, and it was 1987, and it was Perestroika and Gorgachev and the end of the Soviet Union, which was basically the biggest story since the resurrection.
And so I managed to get myself into Moscow and was working there in journalism, and it was an amazing time.
And then I ended up staying and working in business.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to have, and this is the purpose of this conversation and why, especially right now with what's going on between Russia and Ukraine, to have a man like Charles Balzman on this show tonight is just very much an honor and a privilege and a treat for our audience.
If you want to have a better understanding and a proper understanding of what's going on there that is fact-based.
Fact-based and thoughtful.
I said I don't know what the word is, Charles, if the global media, the system media, is unwilling or unable to have an objective report on Russia.
I don't know, but the fact of the matter is they're not.
You are at Russia National.
Yeah, let me tell you about what's going on with the media in terms of the story today.
You know, it almost gets ridiculous to say that the media are lying because everybody knows that, right?
I tell you what, my friend, let's take a quick break.
Our first of the hour.
We're going to come back with that now that we've got a good connection and we're really going to dig into this.
We have got some very, very important questions to present to Charles, who can give us an answer as a man living in Russia right now.
What is it like over there?
What's the scene?
What are the Russian people saying about the big news?
We'll find out.
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Anyone ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
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Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt, and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
Joined again now live from Russia, Charles Bousman of RussiaDashInsider.com.
So Charles, let's get back to it and do this as expeditiously as we can.
There's a lot of guests I can talk to about what's going on over there whose opinions matter, but to have a guy like you who is physically there, I think makes for a very, very unique opportunity.
And I want to work through as many questions as possible.
But first, you were talking about the media's coverage of this at large.
Yeah, so listen, the guys who are saying that Russia is the bad person, I mean, the mainstream media, I mean, your audience knows this, right?
I mean, to say that they're lying through their teeth is just like everybody knows that.
So it's almost stupid to say.
So I think one thing you can take away from what they are saying is that whatever they're saying, well, at least we know that's not the case, okay?
So the question is, then what is the truth?
And I see a lot of folks in like MAGA media, a lot of folks on the conservative side saying, well, yeah, we're not right, but Putin's a thug, and he's a nasty fella, and he's a KGB agent, and so he's a bad guy, too.
So there must be something like really bad happening.
And I just have to say that I'm happy to explain here to you, to your audience, that I really disagree with that.
I mean, if I'm looking at what's happening, I have to say, I think this guy is right on the money pretty much, and he's being pretty straight.
He's telling it straight and doing the right thing in a difficult situation, which was pushed on him by the neocon whack job people who run foreign policy in America in both parties, unfortunately.
We have certainly, perhaps not to the extent that you could give us an assessment, but I think we've done a pretty good job of attempting to understand the situation involving NATO, the history of Ukraine, and now as a part of Russia for so many generations in advance of just the last couple of decades, three decades, and all of that.
We've been covering it extensively for the past few weeks, but these are the questions I want to give to you that I think, again, your position as someone there.
Sure, yeah, well.
You can answer these in a way that nobody else can.
The United States mainstream media gives the impression, of course, you were just talking about this, about Putin, but also that many Russians oppose Putin's special military operation in Ukraine.
Based, Charles, upon what you see in here, what do Russians think about this conflict and more generally about Ukraine and the United States?
Yeah, I'll tell you why that perception exists among Westerners or why Western propaganda can play it up into something much more substantial than it really is.
By and large, the Russian people across the width and breadth of the country are super patriotic and super supportive of their government and of Putin personally.
And his popularity has gone up as usually happens when a country goes to war.
People rally around the leader.
So I would say 70, 80% of the population is very strongly with Putin.
But in these big cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the two biggest cities, they're much more liberal, just the way New York and LA are much more liberal than most of America.
And so you've got maybe, you know, I don't know, maybe 30% of the population in Moscow who's against it.
And, you know, and so, and a very small percentage of those people are willing to go out on the street and protest.
So Moscow is a massive metropolis.
It's 12 million people within the city limits and another, you know, 5 million in the suburbs.
And, you know, so they have a demonstration downtown where like, you know, 2,000 to 3,000 people show up.
And not even that much.
It was actually more in St. Petersburg.
It was like something like 2,000.
But here in Moscow, it was like 600 people or something, or 1,000 people.
So that kind of gives you an idea of how much opposition there is.
There isn't really that much.
That is fascinating.
Most people are.
Let me just say one more thing.
So Putin gave a speech today in the big stadium in town, and it was packed full of 200,000 cheering, flag-waving, yelling Russians who were showing their support for him.
I laugh, Charles, because again, the perception and what we're seeing through edited clips and photographs is the exact opposite.
And you would never hear that.
That would never make it through the filter of regime media.
It's your propaganda.
Yeah.
Wow.
So 200,000 people versus 600 to 1,000 protesters in one of the world's largest cities.
Okay, well, yeah.
And that doesn't surprise me at all, but it is still, as long as we've been in this, still shocking to see the treachery of the press.
And this is a follow-up question to that, if you don't mind.
Quite a few commentators here in the U.S. and throughout the West have certainly been claiming that Vladimir Putin badly miscalculated in launching this operation in Ukraine and that this action has already proven to be a fiasco for him and for Russia.
Do you think, living there, do you think that Putin misjudged the situation or do you think that this operation should be regarded as a success?
No, that's again, that's again spin trying to build up support for getting involved from the West.
What's happened was, and nobody anticipated this, so when it started to happen, people were kind of surprised, but then they're like, oh, that's really smart.
So what they're super concerned about is to try and limit the civilian casualties to the absolute minimum.
And so they're taking this super slow approach, very, very careful, not targeting, just making it almost impossible to hit any civilian areas.
And what the amazing thing is, they're taking casualties because of this.
And Putin addressed this in this speech today in the stadium, and he quoted scripture.
And he said, I forget how you'd say it in English in the scripture, but he says, there's no greater love than when a man is willing to lay down his life for a friend.
And he said, this is what the Russian soldiers are doing now.
They're actually taking casualties to save Ukrainian lives.
And it's a really practical move, too, because they're then going to have to govern Ukraine and win the support of the people there.
So they obviously don't want to go in and kill a bunch of civilians.
And they also think of them as their own people.
They also don't just want to be shooting and killing their own people.
And that's why it's taking much longer because it's interesting.
When the whole thing started, the military people were saying, well, this is like four or five days.
I mean, they're just going to like totally knock out the Ukrainian military.
And then when it went really slowly, they were like, Putin kept coming on TV and explaining.
He's like, look, I know it's going really slowly.
We anticipated this.
This is what we plan to do.
We're doing this because we don't want to kill Ukrainian civilians.
We don't even want to kill Ukrainian soldiers.
They're our brothers too, right?
This is all this horrible thing that's been forced on us by the West, and we're going to try and do this with minimal casualties.
So that's the explanation of why it's taking a while.
And of course, here in America, as you know, Charles, it seems as though story after story would lead you to believe that Putin is specifically and almost exclusively targeting civilians.
So, and I'm sure that's the problem.
It's just the opposite.
Yeah, it's just the opposite.
They're taking great, great pains not to do that.
And it's interesting that the Ukrainians are not doing that.
So they're firing rockets into civilian towns.
There was this horrible thing.
I don't know if this made it through the propaganda wall in America, but the Ukrainians fired a rocket with a cluster bomb into downtown Donetsk, which is the biggest city in that part of Ukraine, and it killed 23 civilians in a public square.
We certainly did not hear that.
We did not hear that.
And this is not propaganda.
Like, this is not, you know, you can't, because there's live video of like all these people lying around with like limbs blowing off and blood all over the place.
I mean, this is happening.
And the other thing the Ukrainians are doing is that they're using civilians as human shields.
They're not letting civilians exit the cities and so on.
Yeah.
I have heard that not through the American media organ, but through some other sources.
We're going to take a break.
Hey, if this interview ended right now, it would have already exceeded expectations.
But thankfully, we've got Charles for two more segments live from Russia.
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Back to Russia we go with Charles Balzman of Russia-Insider.com.
Folks, you got to make that one of your daily reads if you are interested in this.
Obviously, it's in some ways the biggest story of my lifetime, I think.
I think you could argue that.
Certainly very beyond interesting what's going on in Russia and how it can play out.
Russia-Insider.com is the place you've got to be to continue to follow the news, and we've got its editor-in-chief on with us from Russia live right now.
So one more question, if I could, Charles, about the media's coverage of this, and then I'm going to pivot and ask some other questions related to this conflict.
But without exception, Putin is most oftentimes portrayed in the Western media, certainly the U.S. mainstream media, as crazy and unhinged and out of control.
But I watched his announcement when he was laying out the facts for engaging in this operation, some other videos of his speeches and interviews, and he seems to be, to say the least, coherent, lucid, and intelligent.
In your view, you touched on some of the things he said at this recent rally, I guess you could call it.
Your opinion, though, Charles, what kind of man and leader is he, and what can you say about his character and temperament?
Okay, so to me, and this is a very personal impression, but he comes across as a profoundly decent and good man who's straightforward and honest.
And, you know, he's relentlessly demonized in the Western media.
And again, I was saying earlier, so many conservative commentators, like, you know, people like on Tucker Carlson's show, for example, will even look argue in favor of sort of Russia in a way.
They still say, well, you know, he's a thug and he's a cool, cold, calculating, KGB-trained, you know, what do they call him? strong man.
Right.
You know, and that's not at all how he comes across.
He seems very honest.
He seems very reasonable.
He's incredibly in control of his emotions.
He's ceaselessly polite.
When Western people keep insulting him, he just smiles and says, our Western partners just don't understand.
I'm trying to explain to them.
I mean, he keeps giving them the benefit of the doubt when a lot of people are saying, you know, you should be tougher on them.
So he comes across as very ethical, really admirable.
Like any country in the world would be lucky to have a leader like this.
And this is part of the reason why Russians love him so much.
He is genuinely, genuinely popular.
And because they like his personality in part.
Well, what you said certainly seems to be my opinion, although you living over there certainly have a much more informed opinion than I ever could.
But just in seeing what I've seen, and that speech he gave, and we talked about this a few weeks ago when he announced again the reasons for the engagement, it was a very serious speech, the likes of which you would not get over here.
He talked about history and he talked about things in a serious manner that he expected the Russian people to understand.
And over here, you know, wasn't that interesting about how deep and sort of like academic his address was?
It went on for like over an hour.
Exactly.
And I don't mean to interrupt you at all, but I just want to finish the point and to further illustrate the contrast.
What you're talking about, yes, so deep, so serious, so rooted in fact, in historical fact.
And compare that, of course, to Kamala Harris, who was giving an interview the other day.
And she said, well, the reason Russia is going to war in Ukraine is because they're a bigger nation and Ukraine's a smaller nation.
And that's just wrong.
This is the vice president of the United States.
You may have seen that.
It was just that simple.
Yeah, it's embarrassing.
It's embarrassing.
No, his command of history, his command of philosophy, his command of just, it's amazing.
And that's just about the Ukraine.
I mean, he regularly addresses the nation on all kinds of things, like the economy and social welfare programs and, you know, every, and he has this incredible command of detail that's really actually mind-boggling.
And you just wonder, how does this guy do this?
All right.
This is almost superhuman.
But no, he's incredibly dedicated.
Apparently, he just works like, you know, does nothing else except think about Russia's issues and surrounds himself with smart people and has been incredibly successful.
I think of him as almost like you would like, imagine like a super competent CEO of a giant corporation, like some legend like Jack Welch, a GE, you know, who had this reputation of being this amazingly competent and smart leader.
That's how he comes across.
He has a presence.
He has a presence, and you can certainly believe that he is making his own decisions as a leader rather than being a puppet like so many Western figureheads are.
But let me ask you about this.
So here we are, Charles.
Last I saw, the United States of America is not at war with Russia.
The United States is not at war with Russia.
NATO itself, which is basically like a client of the United States, I guess, in some ways, is not at war with Russia.
And so here we are, you and I, for the benefit of this audience, are having a thoughtful, fact-based conversation during which we are legitimately seeking a better understanding of what's happening in that part of the world.
I have seen countless politicians here in the United States, members of Congress and the Senate, liken that to being treasonous behavior.
Yes.
Yeah.
I've seen that too.
Yeah.
I mean, the hysteria is off the charts.
And it's, you know, I don't know.
I'm here in Russia, so I'm having trouble gauging, you know, how much that reflects what the people really think.
But the American politicians seem to be outdoing each other in terms of who can whoop the loudest, you know, beat the war drum the hardest.
It's shameful.
It's embarrassing.
And I wish there were more American public figures who would speak up and say this is outrageous and wrong, and it has to stop.
See, and that's the thing.
And this was something we have about two minutes remaining in this segment.
Then we got one more segment with you.
It's just gone by.
We could have gone a full three hours tonight and only still not gotten to nearly all of it.
But this was a question that I believe that I asked you during your first appearance, which was last year, before all of this obviously got underway in the Ukraine.
But the way you're describing Putin, what I've noticed, it would seem as though America would want to have a mutually beneficial and peaceful and productive relationship with a member of the big three, the United States, Russia, and China, that they would want to have a prosperous relationship with Russia.
And so again, I ask you, why is Putin so despised by the American regime?
It's because there is this messianic element in the elite, in the deep state, in Washington, in our intelligence agencies, in both parties, and completely they dominate the media.
And they have this idea that they want to control the whole world.
And Putin, Russia is standing in their way, and so is China.
And so it's almost like they're not rational actors almost.
I think they're just driven by this deep psychological need to go up against these guys and try and destroy them.
And the problem is that they've kind of met their match.
There's a lot of talk now that, oh, the deep state's going to escalate this thing and get NATO involved, and it could turn into World War III.
And I guess that's possible because these people, as I say, sometimes you wonder if they're behaving rationally.
But they also are up against a country that could really, really destroy them in a conventional war, not even having to go to resort to nukes.
And I think they know that.
I think they know that they might end up losing that war.
And so I don't think they're going to escalate because Russia has these incredibly powerful weapons.
The amount of power they're using in Ukraine to do what they're doing is maybe like it's less than 5% of their military resources.
They've only used, I think, something like 30,000 or 40,000 of the 120-odd thousand troops that they massed at the border.
And the reason they're holding the reserve back is if NATO gets involved, right?
And they haven't used their heavy weapons yet because they're trying to protect these civilian casualties, limit civilian casualties.
So, yeah, I don't, they kind of have met like just in Russia alone, they've met a very formidable opponent.
And if you add China into that, then I don't see how the West would be able to win a war against these people.
I think they'd lose and lose very quickly.
I think if there is critical thinking going on, you would think that they would pull back.
My co-host, who is not with us tonight, he's out tonight.
My co-host has said some of these people have the thought process of Captain Us and everyone else as well.
So we're coming up on a break, and we will be right back.
One more segment, live from Russia with Charles Balzman, Russia-Insider.com.
What an incredible conversation we're having right now.
Stay tuned, everybody.
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Doesn't sound very safe and effective.
Maybe it's time to call a spade a spade.
At no time in history have the people forcing others into compliance been the good guys.
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Very proud to be able to host a program that can bring you guests like this.
This is why we do what we do here with this platform and to have Charles Balzman on tonight from Russia.
Just a tremendous thing for the program, Charles.
Great work he's doing at Russia-Insider.com.
He should be making the tours of CNN and MSNBC as one of these ubiquitous talking heads.
I mean, certainly he's much more than that.
But this sort of perspective from an American living in Russia is something that you should see.
And I know Tucker's doing a pretty good job, but Charles Baltzman should be on Tucker.
I mean, I'm glad we have the opportunity to get him out to an audience, but he needs to be reaching the biggest platforms.
But of course, those have always been closed off to people who tell the truth, and that's why you have RussiaInsider.com, why you have this radio program.
Charles, two questions, and then we'll start to bring this to summation.
This would be, I guess.
Yeah, go ahead.
By all means, yes.
Sorry, because you mentioned this was the last segment, right?
And I just wanted to explain to your audience something that you're not going to hear anywhere else, which is super interesting.
I think they would care a lot about.
So, you know, Russia is also changing internally in reaction to this war.
Because in Russia, there was always like this kind of pro-Western globalist crowd that was kind of playing ball with the whole globalist baloney, you know, that's getting pushed everywhere.
And then there's like this patriotic nationalist, anti-globalist crowd, and they're always in some tension, right?
Well, since this conflict has broken out, the pro-Western, that's sort of a globo-homo crowd, are really getting squeezed out of everything.
They're getting squeezed out of government, education, culture.
And there's this rising, you know, anti-globalist, patriotic, Christian.
Really, the best human qualities are coming to the fore because of this conflict.
And even Putin himself is changing.
He's even also now saying, listen, we don't want these traitors to Russia in our institutions and affecting our society.
And, you know, the banning of Facebook, the banning of Instagram, all these things are so good for Russia.
You know, McDonald's is gone.
You know, all this junk food, all this trash Western culture.
It's having this incredibly healthful effect on Russian society and making it into the kind of place that I think a lot of people in America wish America would become.
Absolutely.
We touched on that last time.
Shake off these globalist morons, you know?
And so it's incredibly gratifying to see what's happening here.
There's this real eruption of the right instincts and the right attitudes.
And the people who are pushing the bad globalist stuff are really on the back foot and kind of like looking for a place to hide right now.
So actually so it's good for Russia what's happening.
Yeah.
Pardon me.
I'm so glad you brought that up though, Charles, because we touched on that last week.
All of these degenerate multinational corporations based in America like McDonald's and Starbucks.
I mean they're all pulling up stakes and leaving Russia as if that's a great punishment to the Russian people.
Now, we were talking about this last week, saying, hey, this is another huge win for Russia.
But because you have this digital iron curtain that has descended, we don't really know how the people of Russia themselves are reacting to this.
But you can tell us, because you're there, what has been the reaction of this?
A lot of people are cheering this.
A lot of people are cheering this.
Politicians, priests, just regular folks speaking on the street.
They're like, you know.
They're like, God, we've been praying for this for years.
God has finally heard our prayers.
These evil globalists are leaving us alone finally and getting the heck out of our country.
So there's very much that sentiment here among us.
That is the best people in society, I would say.
That is very good to hear, because again, we saw it and we knew how we would react.
But again, to have somebody there to tell us how it is really truly being received is, again, just something else you're going to hear in this interview that you're not going to hear anywhere else here in America.
I guess, Charles, anybody could make a prediction.
Nobody knows what's going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month.
But how do you think?
What do you think the likely outcome of the Ukraine war will be?
And how can and should the conflict be brought to an end?
Yeah, so I think that Russia will be able to wrap up this military situation in the next two to three weeks.
I would say two.
And, you know, the Ukrainian military is really on its last legs.
Like, all this talk about sending them billions and billions of dollars of weapons, well, that only works if you've got somebody to send the weapons to, right?
And if the Russians control the highways and the air and everything, any attempt to bring anything in there is just going to get blown up just as soon as it crosses the border.
So there's no effective fighting force left that hasn't been encircled and is unable to receive supplies.
It's going to be over pretty soon.
And then the Russians are going to establish a pro-Russian governments in the Ukraine.
And they're not just going to turn around and leave and let it go back to the way it was.
They're going to make sure that this time it isn't an anti-Russian government.
So you think that the country will not be bisected and that Russia will take the whole thing?
Yeah, well, no, they might leave a Western 25% of the country to have this little buffer state in there because the people in the Western 25% of the country, the ethnicities there, are not Russian.
And those lands are not historically Russian or historically Ukrainian.
There is no historic Ukraine.
Ukraine is this totally artificial country like Yugoslavia or something, right?
It never really existed in history.
But those western parts of what is currently Ukraine are formerly parts of Poland, Hungary, and Romania.
And so the Russians aren't interested in that.
And they're like, you know, they'll leave that to whoever wants it.
And there's talk now of those people wanting to join those three countries.
Like the local residents there who are ethnic Hungarians, ethnic Romanians, ethnic Poles, want to go back and be with their own people.
So it's very much a national thing there happening.
And the thing is, there is no nationality called Ukrainian.
That's like the big thing.
I keep hearing this in the Western media.
The people of Ukraine, the Ukrainian nation, there is no such thing.
They're all Russians, except for those guys on that Western country.
That's exactly right.
And we've touched on that from the onset of this coverage back about a month ago.
But there is one question I have to ask you, and that is Zelensky.
So we've seen Zelensky be he's on tour right now trying to get people to sign on in fomenting World War III.
He's given a speech to the American Congress, to the German Parliament, to the EU, to European Parliament, rather, and Canadian and elsewhere.
What happens to him at the end of this?
Does he get his golden parachute and go back to acting?
And how would you size him up when compared to Putin?
Hello?
Okay, did you get the question, Charles?
Yeah, I'm here.
I had an incoming call.
Okay, I'm here.
Anyway, so no, he's going to leave the country.
If he stays in the country, Russia will try him for war crimes because they've massacred a lot of civilians, and not just since the start of this thing, they were shooting, you know, firing rockets into civilian areas for the eight years preceding that.
My bet is that he moves to Tel Aviv and spends the rest of his life sitting around a swimming pool.
You know, it's funny, maybe even a little cynical, but yes, I mean, this is it because this is what he was before.
An entertainer.
And I see him in his fatigues as if he's down in the bunker or whatever.
And I'm sure perhaps.
He's so out of place.
He's the least compelling military leader I've ever encountered.
It's almost like, you know, people just, how do they take this guy seriously?
Yeah, but he's being presented, of course, as Audi Murphy or Napoleon or you pick your emperor or, you know, fighter.
But yes, so that's what you think that he's going to eventually flee and he'll be set for the rest of his life at wherever he chooses to land.
But he won't be the president of Ukraine in the coming weeks.
He was never, no, he won't be and he'll flee.
And, you know, he was never popular because basically what he was, he's this creation of this very wealthy, Jewish, very corrupt, very crude oligarch who's like this, who basically, that was his man, and he stuck him in there and totally created him.
And this is really a war against these super corrupt oligarchs who are getting cleaned out of Ukraine the way they were cleaned out of Russia in the 90s.
So, you know, what's happening in Ukraine is sort of a repeat of what happened in Russia 20 years ago.
Well, you know, do we need more of it?
That's a question that we'll just leave open-ended.
But this is nothing if not interesting and engrossing and compelling.
I mean, this is, as I've said before, I think you can certainly argue I'm 41 years old, the most important political and geopolitical event of my lifetime.
Charles, with a minute remaining, Russia-insider.com, final word to you.
Yeah.
Listen, American people, tune in to the alternative media.
Listen to what Putin is saying.
There's some fantastic sites out there that are telling the truth about this.
It's such an interesting story, and it's a very Christian story.
And it's the story of a Christian nation fighting back against people who hate God, basically.
If I had to sum it up in two words.
So, you know, they're on our side.
Ladies and gentlemen, Charles Balsman giving you a perspective, the likes of which I don't know if I've seen even amongst our peers, regulars who appear on this program talking with Charles, getting the inside scoop from a man on the ground.
Charles, thank you for making yourself available tonight.