https://brentcates.substack.com/p/the-putin-history-lesson-during-tuckers
Below, just the end section of this excellent column. I'm not adding the block quote symbol to each line (lazy), but the excerpt is indeed all one quotation. Italics are mine.
Western minds think your passport proclaims who you are.
Where you happen to be living.
Where you were born.
I NEED TO HIT THIS HARD, SO PLEASE FOCUS ON WHAT I AM TRYING TO CONVEY.
Russia is home to as many as 190 different ethnic groups, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world. Around 20% of the population is comprised of ethnic minorities.
There are 26 languages which are considered official languages in various regions of Russia, along with the Russian language.
To Russians, their binding tie is not blood or language.
It is their HISTORY AND CULTURE.
Teaching Russian history and culture is a PRIORITY for young Russians.
They BELONG to it as much as IT belongs to them.
Russia is a STORY. A STORY that is still alive and unfolding.
Vibrant and treasured beyond measure.
Now, contrast this with the soulless bureaucrats and cold industrialists of the European Union and the WEF.
Contrast that with what hideous horseshit US.EDU is currently engaged in doing to American schoolchildren.
What I just described regarding what the Russian People value used to describe what Americans also valued about their wildly diverse ethnic make up & amazing culture.
But it is no longer valued.
Every single thing that made America great and wonderful has been devalued, eroded and worn down. DELIBERATELY.
We have been unmoored from our past, pushed away from our values which leaves us no future but one allowed by vile authorities who hate us.
America’s Founding ideals and values are now cast as a THREAT to those treading the corridors of power in DC.
Those DC Denizens have been working to undermine, devalue and corrupt every single aspect of what makes America uniquely powerful upon a World Stage we dominated for over two centuries.
For those claiming “not me! Not MY kids!” Cast a weather eye to Garland’s DoJ where you are being singled out for “special consideration” as DOMESTIC TERRORISTS for not wanting your kids brainwashed or mutilated.
The difference is Russia DEMANDS every Russian child be taught their culture and history.
They ensure that happens.
We have lost our way, pied pipered out into a dark, hellish wilderness by unscrupulous Liars and Thieves.
You are about to find out that the Russian People, while not sharing all aspects of our American interests or ideals, have the Lion’s share of them and that DC, the Globalist Criminals and the SHITBAG complicit Media have cast them as a Phantom Menace to prevent us from ever realizing just how much we have in common as peoples than whatever might divide us.
I expect the developments from this incredible interview to happen fast and thick now millions worldwide has watched it and been exposed to the thoughts and perspective of a Russian Champion fighting the same Globalist Ghouls we are.
I prefer the one sentence takeaway: Putin has the mental capacity to provide this history lesson without referring to notes or becoming incoherent or lose his place....unlike Biden.
That's certainly true, and no question the difference shows how low America has fallen with Corrupt and Incoherent Biden in the White House, but it's old news by now.
Shattering the Cabal's malicious fairy tale that pits Russia against the West (in service of the never-ending War, cold and otherwise) is the Big Reveal to the normies that could dramatically accelerate the Great Awakening.
Biden can’t even talk fluently for 60 seconds, let alone without notes. Putin is just another example of age not mattering.
I enjoyed it. A history lesson from the Russian perspective. British and French colonialism created many artificial borders, natives were never consulted. Many of these have changed during my lifetime, both in name and area. It’s not surprising that Russia and surrounding countries went through similar changes. Also very interesting to learn their perspective on the Germans and Hitler in regards to Ukraine. Best comment? “Why are you in Ukraine when you have plenty of problems in your own country?” Like the border, illegals, inflation, debt, etc.
It's funny how we never get any perspectives from "the enemy" anymore.
Giving them "a platform" to give their opinions and takes on anything is considered "bad, evil, being exactly what they accuse them of being!"
It's really annoying that they can read and try to force Marx's fantasies, but I can't read historical accounts from current and former opposing leaders because I want a greater understanding of what drove or drives them.
Reading Mein Kampf makes you a Nazi, even if you have zero in common with Hitler and don't hold any of the same ideals, you just want answers and you want to see what went through their heads.
As an avid reader, I personally find these historical things very fascinating and if you aren't willing to hear the words of those you hate, you can never be prepared to argue against them.
Which is also probably why the left always devolves to violence, name calling or verbal abuse when challenged.
Excellent point.
And the people forcing the censorship are NEVER the good guys.
Not only understanding those that hold opposing view points, but also being able to defend the opposite view points.
Example. Holding a debate between those that believe in a God-created universe vs those that believe in an evolution created universe, but each must take on the other's position in the debate.
It is a VERY instructive exercise. It forces one to really understand the opposition at a deep level.
This cannot be accomplished if one only can express surface level hostilities such as, "orange man bad".
They are dumbing us down. We are being made ineffective.
Yes, the entire concept of "put yourself in their shoes" seems to have been removed from society.
When I was a kid, a lot of mediation happened by being told to put myself in the shoes of the people who didn't like me and who I didn't like in return.
Being unable to see someone's point of view -- even if you don't agree with it -- makes you weaker, absolutely.
It's insane how much worse it got during COVID, when it was also worse than ever before in 2016 as well.
This is a comment particularly relevant to The Great Awakening itself.
Q talks about Unity a LOT, and for good reason.
And THAT is a particularly relevant example, here.
As big of an impact as it had on history, “Mein Kampf” might should be among typical reading. At least footnotes.
We should probably even look at those turds of books Obama leveraged. Almost no Republican has read them I’d wager, and that might be a mistake.
At a minimum with both of these, we need to see what they used to get people so agitated. The big question is how to teach these. Definitely need to have critical thinking caps already taught beforehand.
There should also be a book that chronicles major cabal players and operations, with a goal of exposing how these people operate, what they’ve done, what they want to do, and how to spot them. Eventually, we may even be able to accurately teach how to out them. Dedicate whole chapters to Dulles, the Bush mafia, Rhodes, major traffickers/narcoticists and their purposes in doing so, documentation of the specific people who ran the slave operations that get demonized all the time instead of speaking in broad strokes - including the banks, who’s organized all these massive migration waves for the last 150 years, globally, etc.
The cabal problem is built into the human condition. Let’s shine light in the darkness.
Indeed, at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, the world was emerging from tiny fiefdoms spinkled around lord or graf somesuch, who ruled with iron fists, or of course, small kingdoms. Germany being an example of a chaotic nineteenth century of trying to centralize all the tribes into one. With hindsight, we can see the endpoint of that idealistic policy.
The result of WW1 was a re-drawing of maps (not a new phenomenon: it has been happening, after war, for millenia). Russia had a double whammy of having just endured a revolution and a civil war at home, while a world war was raging.
This chaotic time was preceded by the previous administration (Tsars) who had to stop the Austro-Hungarians. who were busy wreaking havoc in Western Ukraine, by sowing discontent in the form of an insidious lie, that those people were not really Russians, because they used a dialect. The idea of that psyop was that the people on the border were not real Russians. this meant they started questioning authority - and that worked in the favor of Austrian-Hungarians, because it made that region a buffer-zone against the Tsar.
Anyhow, the novel idea was to gather up the variety of small communities in those lands and by geographically designating them a Soviet, as was the policy for all the multicultural communities in the Motherland. But, I argue that was an idea of the age, not of communists, in that they had that mutant Soviet made out of at least six nationalities. There were whole Greek towns near the Black Sea, as a spurious example. Mind you there were several similar issues in the Caucasus as well, as we all know.
So the crude idea was to pursue peace, by forcing a few nationalities to share the land and work out their differences at a local level. But this effectively meant building nations out of bits of other nations (Ukraine and Switzerland to think of ready examples) , or carving tribes into bits, to share them amongst several nations (e.g. Kurds, several African tribes). And the grief that has caused is engendering new calls for retribution.
Mind you, what Putin was suggesting was that one has to think about it differently. Being Russian does not signify one tribe, but a deep cultural affinity to the land, no matter how many languages were spoken. Problem is: that anti-authoritarianism in the Western reaches has metasticized into Neo-NAzi-ism, and all that SS JAzz. So the Kremlin is correctly still facing the remnant of (Western) psyops, that were conducted in several previous ages.
My mom watch the entire interview. She’s 83, and she has an account here. She kept going on about how important it was, and how when she was younger, she read all the history of Russia and some other countries. She’s a huge, avid reader. My mom is super smart. 👏👏👏
Our older people are our greatest national treasure at this time. They remember events and can fill in the context of the time in question. They remember the TRUTH. As I’ve often said here, my father was the smartest man I’ve ever known and that still holds, especially today. He had a 9th grade education but had a PhD in experience and hard knocks. He grew up in Chicago in the gangster era. On the south side. He told me all the truths we are confirming today, i.e. the Fed not being a government institution, JFK was a CIA hit job, etc., etc. Cherish your mom and hang on to everything she tells you. You are blessed to still have her with you.
Yes, I am so grateful to have her in my life still. I will be taking care of her until the day she dies. I took care of my dad when he was dying, and my mom did as well. My mother will get the same treatment. She will die at home peacefully - the Lord willing. I will never put her in an old folks home. She stood by me through all the difficulties in my life, but now we are on the right track and we’re living our best life.
That’s exactly how my family passed. I/we took care of them all. My mom died in a skilled nursing facility but we were all there with her. My dad passed in my living room holding my hand. I thank God that He gave me this solace. My paternal grandmother, Baba, died in the hospital. She was the only one that passed alone. My dad and uncle were there every day. By then they were in their late seventies. My maternal grandmother died at home with my mom and my husband there. I had to stay here while they went to Vegas to be with her. But, she wasn’t alone. Good on you. Our parents are what made us us. I miss them. I’m crying just talking about it.
We will have fond memories that others won’t. Even in the passing of a loved one, it could be a joyful occasion or a miserable one. I’m choosing joy over misery.
What he said! (I'm 72! Kek)
You are the link to truth!
I know I follow the Truth and the Way. I just hope my "link" is as solid as a steel link chain!
We who have been taught that Russians are evil are now realizing that just maybe the western world has been the evil ones. No doubt, Lenin and Stalin were mass murderers. Right?
Yes, Lenin and Stalin WERE mass murderers, and there is an epic amount of evidence for that.
For obsessively researched and massively documented data, see:
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, terror, repression (by a group of European Marxists) and
The late R.J. Rummel's Death by Government and his website, https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
Mass murder by government is FAR more common than you think.
Yes, so was Obama and Bush. How many were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan? Mao is estimated to have killed 50 million---many tortured while he was watching. Sadaam was another one. Mass murderers have always been in power all over the world. Their father was a liar and a murderer from the beginning so I read.
The history was my favorite part of the interview. It set the stage.
My take is this. Yes, I was starting to get bored, but then caught myself. Putin took off his watch for a reason (symbolism). "We have all the time in the world here". Also, they are a different culture than us. Long form discussion is probably more valued than swiping right, changing the channel, get to the fucking point, ADD USA. So i then respected the situation and listened. so should you.
Really a great point! Kids today know shit about America’s history. So sad.
By design. Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it. I’ve learned more on this forum than I was ever taught in school. I’m 54. What does that tell you?
I agree 100%. I wish I could go outside of my high school and set up a table like the Stephen Crowder meme, And offer students 15 minutes to learn more than they’d ever learn in four years.
This is a great idea!
Here in America the D’s have been rewriting history as well as purposely hiding so much of it
One of the major things that happens when Communist take over a country is they destroy the past via removing statues, street names, renaming towns and cities and rewriting history as well as killing and removing opposition to the new government. I’m wondering if the dedication to remembering the Russian history was to restore their culture and therefore have them see themselves as united! We need to do this too! Those sobs slowly and deliberately removed our history- not completely but that is what they want. No history = No unity! 5:30 am and I’m already pissed 😡!
EXCELLENT point, and it needs more exposure.
10000% agree.
Do we even know our TRUE history anymore, or is everything we have been taught a lie?
Yes!
I simply took it that putin wanted friendship over an adversarial relationship. He wanted to join NATO. Agree it was a very important lesson nd I think the sentiment remains.
Question it's supposed to provoke is WHT didn't the west embrace a former enemy. Wtf is the UN supposed to be about?
Some people on here have a rather odd view of Russian history
Russia wants an Empire. It has wanted one for centuries. It regards countries like Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic States as being essential parts of it’s Empire
The people in those countries don’t want to live in a Russian Empire, which means that Russia has to rule them by force
It has had several attempts at creating such an Empire, under the Tsars and under Communism. Each of those collapsed because Russia was never strong enough economically, politically or militarily to govern those countries against their will.
Each collapse leaves Russia humiliated, each humiliation fuels the desire for a new Empire
The Russia economy is weaker now than it was under Stalin, it's military vastly weaker. A tiny elite are incredibly rich, the average Russian lives in poverty and dies young. It has a life expectancy for men as bad as sub saharan Africa.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was designed to strengthen his own position at home - he is old, and there are lots of rich and powerful people who would be his successor. His attempt at Empire has failed - Russia faces another Imperial humiliation
There is nothing MAGA about cheering on Putin, or sharing in his humiliation.
I think you are right, certainly about a tiny elite having most of the wealth, and Putin is known to have incredible personal wealth, which he didn't earn by honest business practices. Also, Putin's political opponents keep dying or getting arrested.
On the other hand, I believe Putin is sincere on A) supporting traditional values in Russia, including Christianity, and B) wanting to End the Cabal as much as Trump does. No, I don't think he's as benign as Trump, but he is a strong ally in those two areas.
I see Putin as similar to Muammar Gaddafi -- a brutal dictator who actually loves his country, wants it to prosper, but definitely sees himself personally as the ruler of the land and will not tolerate opposition to his policies.
Putin was a hardline communist, then an anti-communist, when he thought it was in his interests. He is opposed to globalist elites, but is part of the globalist elite, and so are his cronies. He was pro-NATO when it suited him, then NATO's biggest opponent. He was hostile to the Orthodox Church, now he claims to be it's biggest defender. He is opposed to imperialism and fascism but he wants an Empire of his own, and isn't shy of using fascism to get his own way. He was a liberal reformer, and then a social conservative.
The most shocking thing about visiting Moscow isn't the poverty (it is a lot scruffier and poorer than Mexico City, or even Delhi) it is how communist it still is. The old statues, and symbols are still there. It is still the old communist regime, but with a rich globalist elite, still fresh flowers on Stalin's grave.
He will say or do anything to stay in power and make himself and his mates richer.
He doesn't want to end the cabal. He wants to own it, and use it to make himself richer and more powerful.
People are bigging up Russia without knowing much about it.
It is a total shit hole. Outside the big cities it is dirt poor and has a worse life expectancy than anywhere outside of sub saharan africa.
Alcoholism and despair is widespread. Moscow is scruffy and run-down, and still run exactly as it was under communism. The only place kept clean and tidy is Stalin's grave.
It is fast becoming a puppet state of China, who it depends on economically and militarily.
Indeed.
The question becomes: what is your story? What is our story?
This goes beyond mere commerce.