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Sure needed those laughs at the end, thank you very much.
"Weaponizing the dollar will ultimately cost them world reserve currency status. That will be financially catastrophic, but it will also bring down the empire, once and for all. That alone likely has Western elites seething with rage, but the fools brought it on themselves, so screw them."
It is always the innocent and helpless who absorb the brunt of financial catastrophe, my friend, and loss of reserve currency status will mean immediate descent into the kind of hell Americans like you and I are not equipped to understand or to cope with. The lights would most likely flicker and die, given the lack of focus on essentials these past four decades. "Pray that it be not winter," the bible says somewhere, and if it is, the cities will burn and the neighbors will shortly be hunting each other's kids through the char. Ask Chris Hedges what social breakdown looks like.
I think it is unlikely that the tiny people who are steering the nation onto the rocks will accept the dissolution of their make-believe worldview without pushing the button down, and I will not discuss how that plays out.
I am an older person, on the cusp of being elderly, and it is not my intention to survive such a scenario. I have had a good life of decent length, and I will not add to the burden of the future if there is a real collapse.
Besides waiting for the fools to destroy us all, we have one weapon against empire: noncooperation.
Boycott, Divest, Strike.
In every little way we can, at every opportunity, we must dissent from our assigned places in the death machine. Stand up, be ready to take the bullet; millions of us will, one way or another. Better to die standing, refusing, and looking them in the eye. Momentum and determination will gather as we fall. As you say, the empire has already doomed itself, as evil always must.
We are the country. They are the traitors. This is our fight to lose. Stand up.
masterful take on this interview, You look at this interview vs Bidens train wreck presser. Putin holds a two hour interview not missing a beat, Biden holds a presser and can barely string two words together. The USA is at best a faded paper tiger. The last competent leader we had that was capable of being a world leader was JFK, since then not a one - not even Trump. They all pale compared to Putin.
Thanks so much for the kind words, Martin, I appreciate them. It is hard to argue with your assessment. I still recommend people vote for Trump in November, but I don't like him or trust him after the bullshit he pulled on J6 (leaving his people to rot in jail, etc) and turning his back on white working class people who put him in office.
Yet, what other choice is there? So I say vote for him anyway, just hold your nose and do it. He won't be as bad as biden, that's for sure.
It is one of the most disappointing facts that Japan & France have so many people literate in their own histories, but that they are forbidden from having folks like Zemmour & Villiers for ex at the head of France, but instead have a coked out addict like Macron, or that buffoon Le Pen.
What Putin represents with this interview, what I've seen many French and Japanese long for with their own leaders.
Though, at least Japan's deep state is still capable of intelligent decisions and are making them, with regards to food and energy security. It's why they've cut deals with Vietnam, Uruguay and other places. One can only hope it'll be enough for them, as to France she's going to need some bloodshed I imagine to get back on track.
Good analysis, I tried to share your comment as a note, but it redirects to my article instead. I'll give it a restack in a minute though, thanks for sharing.
Great take, Mr. M. As usual. Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, I started following Scott Ritter (thanks to the YouTube algorithm), and his insight into Putin’s persona and Russian culture in general was fascinating. I caught a few of Putin’s speeches and interviews back when RT was still allowed on YouTube and then on Rumble. Needless to say, if Tucker had had my same experience he would have been better prepared. I think he maybe was caught off guard by Putin’s penetrating and long-winded answers. He could have asked much tougher questions - I feel like he barely scratched the surface. To his credit, there were a couple of instances where I started tensing up due to the impression he was stepping into “foreign affairs” territory, but that’s why we love Tucker. After all, it’s not like our limp-wristed secretary of state has been busy doing his job in Moscow. I hope there’s a follow up interview.
Yes, I agree. It seemed that perhaps Tucker did not have the background on Putin that you did. Odd, isn't it? He went all the way there to do the interview so you'd think he would have done more to understand Putin. But the interview was still great, and it's a very good thing that he did it. Kudos to him for daring to do it.
Some of Putin's history was bullshit like when he glossed over the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Then I realized how little it mattered because those who know about such things know about our own complex history with the region, those who fell for it didn't know much anyway, and the ones who hate him would not even be watching in the first place and instead waiting for the MSNBC take. The thing about Putin is he really is a ruthless cold blooded dictator. Unfortunately, we have to live in the real world. The man is the head of a geopolitical power with a real military, natural resources, functioning industrial base, and a large population. He is also an intelligent man who has actual geopolitical reasons for doing the things he does and most of the stuff the West has done lately has been nothing but short sighted and counterproductive to their own interests Ukraine included.
I did appreciate Tucker asking about the journalist. It must have been a bit of a relief for the parents to see that someone was asking about their child (I know he’s an adult but he’s still their child) and it was directly to Putin.
I thought it was a rather ballsy move asking to take him home, especially after Putin connected Tucker in at least some way to the CIA. That said I was irritated Tucker kept referring to him as “a kid”. He’s thirty two, was thirty or thirty one when he was arrested, we have to stop behaving as though adolescence extends into one’s late twenties and thirties.
I get it, but it’s one thing to do that in causal conversation and something else to do it in a hostage negotiation with one of the most powerful people on earth. Someone who was probably doing unspeakably dangerous and morally questionable things when he was 32. I imagine the idea that at 30 someone is a kid is foreign to Putin and further proof that America has lost the plot.
Scott Adams argues that Putin did not “read the room”: his history lesson demonstrating an impressive command of history will only cause Americans to snooze.
Sure needed those laughs at the end, thank you very much.
"Weaponizing the dollar will ultimately cost them world reserve currency status. That will be financially catastrophic, but it will also bring down the empire, once and for all. That alone likely has Western elites seething with rage, but the fools brought it on themselves, so screw them."
It is always the innocent and helpless who absorb the brunt of financial catastrophe, my friend, and loss of reserve currency status will mean immediate descent into the kind of hell Americans like you and I are not equipped to understand or to cope with. The lights would most likely flicker and die, given the lack of focus on essentials these past four decades. "Pray that it be not winter," the bible says somewhere, and if it is, the cities will burn and the neighbors will shortly be hunting each other's kids through the char. Ask Chris Hedges what social breakdown looks like.
I think it is unlikely that the tiny people who are steering the nation onto the rocks will accept the dissolution of their make-believe worldview without pushing the button down, and I will not discuss how that plays out.
I am an older person, on the cusp of being elderly, and it is not my intention to survive such a scenario. I have had a good life of decent length, and I will not add to the burden of the future if there is a real collapse.
Besides waiting for the fools to destroy us all, we have one weapon against empire: noncooperation.
Boycott, Divest, Strike.
In every little way we can, at every opportunity, we must dissent from our assigned places in the death machine. Stand up, be ready to take the bullet; millions of us will, one way or another. Better to die standing, refusing, and looking them in the eye. Momentum and determination will gather as we fall. As you say, the empire has already doomed itself, as evil always must.
We are the country. They are the traitors. This is our fight to lose. Stand up.
Glad you liked the memes at the end, Alan. i try to find funny stuff each week to lighten things up at the end of the goody bag.
masterful take on this interview, You look at this interview vs Bidens train wreck presser. Putin holds a two hour interview not missing a beat, Biden holds a presser and can barely string two words together. The USA is at best a faded paper tiger. The last competent leader we had that was capable of being a world leader was JFK, since then not a one - not even Trump. They all pale compared to Putin.
Thanks so much for the kind words, Martin, I appreciate them. It is hard to argue with your assessment. I still recommend people vote for Trump in November, but I don't like him or trust him after the bullshit he pulled on J6 (leaving his people to rot in jail, etc) and turning his back on white working class people who put him in office.
Yet, what other choice is there? So I say vote for him anyway, just hold your nose and do it. He won't be as bad as biden, that's for sure.
Putin ate GAE for lunch in that interview. Loved your take on it.
And those giants…. Makes one go hmmm
It is one of the most disappointing facts that Japan & France have so many people literate in their own histories, but that they are forbidden from having folks like Zemmour & Villiers for ex at the head of France, but instead have a coked out addict like Macron, or that buffoon Le Pen.
What Putin represents with this interview, what I've seen many French and Japanese long for with their own leaders.
Though, at least Japan's deep state is still capable of intelligent decisions and are making them, with regards to food and energy security. It's why they've cut deals with Vietnam, Uruguay and other places. One can only hope it'll be enough for them, as to France she's going to need some bloodshed I imagine to get back on track.
I encourage people to watch the whole interview, but if looking for a review & brief analysis I wrote one here: https://www.eomar.news/p/tucker-carlson-and-vladimir-putin?r=b9f3l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Good analysis, I tried to share your comment as a note, but it redirects to my article instead. I'll give it a restack in a minute though, thanks for sharing.
Great take, Mr. M. As usual. Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, I started following Scott Ritter (thanks to the YouTube algorithm), and his insight into Putin’s persona and Russian culture in general was fascinating. I caught a few of Putin’s speeches and interviews back when RT was still allowed on YouTube and then on Rumble. Needless to say, if Tucker had had my same experience he would have been better prepared. I think he maybe was caught off guard by Putin’s penetrating and long-winded answers. He could have asked much tougher questions - I feel like he barely scratched the surface. To his credit, there were a couple of instances where I started tensing up due to the impression he was stepping into “foreign affairs” territory, but that’s why we love Tucker. After all, it’s not like our limp-wristed secretary of state has been busy doing his job in Moscow. I hope there’s a follow up interview.
Yes, I agree. It seemed that perhaps Tucker did not have the background on Putin that you did. Odd, isn't it? He went all the way there to do the interview so you'd think he would have done more to understand Putin. But the interview was still great, and it's a very good thing that he did it. Kudos to him for daring to do it.
Brilliant! Especially the TuckPut section and the naughty meme.
Thanks, Cygnus, very glad you enjoyed it! 👍🏻
Spicy one today. I liked it. 👍
Thank you, I appreciate that. There was much to work with in that interview, one of the more fascinating things that has come up recently.
Awesome work!!!! Putin, Led Zeppelin, that hilarious Christian Bale meme—you got it all! You might like my own article about Putin here: https://open.substack.com/pub/hothistory/p/putin-the-russian-president?r=2o7hq7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Some of Putin's history was bullshit like when he glossed over the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Then I realized how little it mattered because those who know about such things know about our own complex history with the region, those who fell for it didn't know much anyway, and the ones who hate him would not even be watching in the first place and instead waiting for the MSNBC take. The thing about Putin is he really is a ruthless cold blooded dictator. Unfortunately, we have to live in the real world. The man is the head of a geopolitical power with a real military, natural resources, functioning industrial base, and a large population. He is also an intelligent man who has actual geopolitical reasons for doing the things he does and most of the stuff the West has done lately has been nothing but short sighted and counterproductive to their own interests Ukraine included.
I did appreciate Tucker asking about the journalist. It must have been a bit of a relief for the parents to see that someone was asking about their child (I know he’s an adult but he’s still their child) and it was directly to Putin.
I thought it was a rather ballsy move asking to take him home, especially after Putin connected Tucker in at least some way to the CIA. That said I was irritated Tucker kept referring to him as “a kid”. He’s thirty two, was thirty or thirty one when he was arrested, we have to stop behaving as though adolescence extends into one’s late twenties and thirties.
Yeah agreed. I’m a little guilty of it though. I’ll be teaching 20 odd year olds and I call them kids.
I get it, but it’s one thing to do that in causal conversation and something else to do it in a hostage negotiation with one of the most powerful people on earth. Someone who was probably doing unspeakably dangerous and morally questionable things when he was 32. I imagine the idea that at 30 someone is a kid is foreign to Putin and further proof that America has lost the plot.
Putin is an evil, murderous man, but the interview was brilliant. What a contrast between Putin and Biden. We are in REAL trouble.
I do not have the figured at hand, but I'd be interested in know the answer to this question:
Who has killed more people over the last 40 years, Russia or the GAE?
You are so right Mr. Raven.
I guess they found that red hot poker Putin shoved up their butts, a little uncomfortable to say the least.
Scott Adams argues that Putin did not “read the room”: his history lesson demonstrating an impressive command of history will only cause Americans to snooze.
But was Putin aiming it at Americans? See this post by Simplicius:
https://twitter.com/simpatico771/status/1755820551946264700
Adams is likely stuck on the "west first" mentality, but that might not have been Putin's intended audience.
Thanks so much, I appreciate that, Raven. I'll bear it in mind for future goody bags.
You are most welcome, Mark, I hope it send some subscribers your way.