As I pointed out shortly after it dropped, #BasedTucker‘s interview with The Putin was a tremendous public service, which has now reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. Tucker Carlson has done what almost no one else could, or has ever even thought of trying to do: he smashed down the gates of the whore-media establishment, and spoke directly to an audience hungry for a different point of view.
You do not have to agree with that point of view (though I, of course, do). You simply have to accept that another, very different, viewpoint exists in the world, from the one the whore-media wants you to believe. And, unlike the presstitute narrative, it has real power, substance, and facts behind it.
When I realised Mr. Carlson was going to Russia – for, as far as I know, the very first time – I knew immediately he would find it a shocking and revolutionary experience. I know this, because I was in his shoes, back in October 2017 – going from America, with a fiercely pro-American point of view, to a country about which I had heard much but knew little.
That one trip fundamentally reshaped my entire life, worldview, and thought process. It set me on an ongoing journey to understand a very different world from the one in which I had grown up and spent my entire professional life up to that point.
Nearly 7 years later, having experienced significant personal and professional hardship, plus the highly debilitating and ultimately extraordinarily pernicious impact of the Scamdemic, I can say that one trip to Russia set in motion events that made me, overall, a much better and wiser man.
The same thing appears to be happening to #BasedTucker, judging by his follow-up remarks about Moscow at the World Government Summit in Abu Dhabi just a few days later:
(I must apologise for inflicting Sky News on you, but I didn’t want to make you wade through the full 30min discussion to get to that specific point. Despite that, I highly recommend you watch the full thing on his YouTube channel, or Twitter feed, or whatever. It is WELL worth the time.)
Going to Moscow is, indeed, an extremely shocking experience, especially if you come from an American city, like New York (as I did, at the time). The city of Moscow is clean, efficient, smoothly run, beautifully laid out, organised, and unusually family-friendly. The metro system is an architectural and engineering marvel, and many of its stations are genuine works of art.
The picture you see up top, for instance, is of Belorusskaya station, near the city centre and not far away from the business district – I’ve been there several times, personally, during my many visits to Moscow.
Look at that picture, and compare it to the New York or Washington subway systems. The comparison is absurd.
I also have considerable experience using London’s Underground system. Only the newer Elizabeth Line stations can compare in beauty and architectural quality to what Moscow has always enjoyed, even during Soviet times.
Watch #BasedTucker experience this for himself, at a metro station and area that I actually know personally, and have visited many times in the last 7 years:
I know this exact station quite well. There is a very big, quite nice shopping mall – Europe Mall, Европейский Молл – sitting basically on top of it. The Kievskiy Vokzal (train terminus) is right next to that. Not far away from this station, you can take the Moscow Riverboat tour, which I have done at least twice.
(I particularly recommend it on an autumn night, preferably with pleasant female company. Yep, did that too. Good memories.)
This is the heart of Moscow – not far away from Red Square and the Kremlin, and within walking distance of several key central areas. From there, you can take the central ring line to Gorkiy Park in the southwest corner of the central district. And that whole area is just… REALLY NICE.
And, unlike the London system, the Moscow metro actually, y’know, WORKS, and is not constantly affected by strikes, power outages, light sprinklings of snow, people jumping on railroad tracks, train conductors sneezing at inappropriate times, cats falling on power lines, etc. etc. ad nauseam et infinitum.
This is but one aspect of a very, VERY different world.
This is not all. Look what happens when #BasedTucker walks into an Ашан – basically, the Russian equivalent of the French megastore chain, Auchan, owned by the same people – and goes shopping:
Listen to what he says at the end. He is angry at the fact that American leaders and elites have destroyed the ability of a normal family to have a decent standard of living in the FUSA today.
Muscovite residents generate, on average, about US$41K in GDP per capita on PPP terms. The US equivalent is US$55K, spread out across the entire country – though there are serious extremes involved. To do a like-for-like comparison, you would have to look at a place like Port St. Lucie, FL.
Can anyone in Port St. Lucie claim the weekly grocery shop for a family of four would cost only US$100?
Exactly.
The FUSA is, or was, a phenomenally rich country – yet the living standards of its people are collapsing. The living standards of Muscovites, and Russians in general, are rising.
And now look what happens when #BasedTucker visits the Russian analogue of McDonald’s – Вкусно и Точка, or “Just Tasty” (or “Tasty and That’s It”, or “Tasty and Full Stop”, depending on how literal you want to be about the translation). He orders himself a RIDICULOUSLY calorific set of things, and tries them out:
Once again, the quality and taste is shocking to him.
This is par for the course for many Westerners who visit Russia for the first time.
When you arrive in Moscow, the first thing that slaps you in the face like a wet mackerel, is how profoundly NORMAL everything is. You DO NOT see constant LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT propaganda screaming at you from every billboard and signpost. You do not see lots of interracial couples in advertisements, which bear no reality whatsoever to the actual people around you.
Instead, you see clean, orderly, well-maintained streets, which are CONSTANTLY busy even at 3am, with lots of green spaces and public parks, and very little by way of homelessness or vagrancy.
Most of all… you see heterosexual families, out with their children and their dogs, taking strolls out in Moscow’s MANY parks, enjoying the summer sun or winter snow (or autumn and spring slush, as the case may be).
To be sure, Moscow has its problems. While I have never had any issues with safety there, I know there are parts of the city that are… not unsafe, exactly, but simply not quite as salubrious as others. Mostly they are in the southeast part, but the rest of the city is quite pleasant.
Moscow DOES have an immigrant problem – though the Russians, being a tough-minded and practical sort, tolerate far less nonsense from their Central Asian migrants than Americans do with their Central American and African ones. A migrant who acts in an unruly or uncivilised fashion, will rapidly find himself facing a prison sentence, followed by deportation. It keeps the uppity ones, particularly the Tajiks, in line – as they need to be, else they can end up doing some amazingly stupid things. (Like putting out the Eternal Flame in Saint Petersburg, in an act of disrespect so blatant and profound, I am surprised the police didn’t simply beat the stupid out of them on the spot.)
And, of course, Moscow’s size and scale are overwhelming. It takes a full HOUR to get anywhere useful from outside the centre – and navigating the city is confusing on a whole different level, especially for Americans who are used to cities with the streets laid out in a simple grid pattern. A city of 13 million within the city limits, and 18 million in the metro area, is NOT easy to wrap your head around, even if you have lived – as I have – in cities with populations of 8-10 million, like New York and London.
Yet, for all that, the feeling you get from being in Moscow, is of how life COULD HAVE BEEN in the West, had the peoples of the West not abandoned God, and therefore all that is Good, Beautiful, and True, and had not whored themselves out for base desires and shiny trinkets.
This is, indeed, highly radicalising. As it should be.
It is a reminder of what the West has LOST – what it has permitted itself to lose – and what must be recovered. No wonder, then that people like #BasedTucker go there and come back profoundly shaken, and deeply changed, by the experience.
I know, because that is precisely what happened to me. When I landed back in JFK after that first visit, the first thing I felt – other than the indescribable weariness of jet-lag – was a profound sense of depression.
I had come from a city with beautiful, elegantly dressed women, and magnificent, spectacularly curated and designed buildings, and clean streets with wide sidewalks and almost no vagrancy or litter, to an ugly, dirty, dingy airport with fat, slovenly, ugly women making a colossal racket in front of me on the bus back to the terminal.
It was like taking an ice-bath – in frozen sewage.
The shock of seeing Russia for the first time can be profound. It can also be highly educational, which is why I recommend taking a trip there to anyone who wants to get a different point of view. It WILL alter your point of view, in a very, very big hurry. And it might just result in a more balanced and even-handed view of the world – which is of vital importance in the current day and age, when every mainstream outlet in the West tries to lie to you and force you to repeat their lies.
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the estimable John C. Wright is still boomering about Putin wanting to expand Russia and being a tyrant and whatnot. on the other hand John is getting dangerously close to naming the Jew. only by ignoring the luminaries in charge of many of these companies and leading these movements is he able to continue ignoring what they are doing:
“What the West leadership is doing, at this point, castrating children, is satanic. It is too destructive and self-destructive, too consummately and ironically hideous to be attributed to merely human greed, lust, ambition, pride.”
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this is not to say that John is incorrect about Putin being subtle in how he couches his points and facts. but, as a lawyer, how can this really be a problem? Putin has goals which we should presume are not fully aligned with our own, we are different nations.
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but Putin’s Russia is far less overtly Satanic than a nation which would run the “He gets us” Jesus campaign for a Super Bowl ad.