#BasedTucker’s interview with The Putin was, perhaps, the most highly anticipated video release of recent years. It dropped yesterday night, my time, and I finally managed to finish watching it this morning. The full interview is, as of this writing, still available on TEH YOOTOOBZ, for now – we’ll see how long the Big Tech overlords at the Goolag permit this particular bit of truth-telling to stay online.

First things first: yes, it is two hours long. And yes, you should still watch it.

I don’t care if you think you do not have two hours to spare. Listen to it in the background. Watch it while you are going about your morning ablutions. Devote a couple of hours of quiet time late at night to watch it and process it carefully. Play it again when you have the time.

This is THAT important an interview. It is THAT vital a piece of history.

Here is the full interview. People NEED to listen to it, watch it, and understand it in full:

Listening to the Neo-Tsar – even through a translator’s voice-over, which I generally find quite irritating – is revelatory. The man clearly has a brain the size of a planet. Keep in mind, he is SEVENTY ONE YEARS OLD – yet he is sharp as a tack. Not ONCE does he ever refer to notes, or ask for anyone’s input. He knows the facts and figures right off the top of his head.

The Putin put in a MAGISTERIAL performance. It is just that simple.

The first thirty minutes of the interview are the toughest, because they essentially consist of an extended history lesson. And this takes quite a bit of effort to process, for those who are not as fascinated by Russian history as I am (or are not history buffs in general). #BasedTucker thought at first that The Putin was dodging the blunt question about why Russia invaded Ukraine.

Indeed, here are #BasedTucker’s full thoughts about the interview, after the fact.

It is a very interesting video. Tucker is very clearly struggling hard to process everything that Putin told him – and, in fairness, I think his criticism of Putin’s failure to put together a coherent case is generally valid, if not sound.

See, here’s the thing about Putin. He is RUSSIAN – which means he appreciates and understands the history of his people and his country. More than that, he is an EXTRAORDINARILY intelligent and wise Russian. Which means he thinks in terms of decades and centuries, both forwards and backwards.

Americans, who cannot generally see beyond their noses or butts, find this a very difficult attitude to understand. This is not surprising. Their country is barely 250 years old. The Russians were already an ancient civilisation by the time the Americans celebrated their first centenary.

When dealing with the peoples of nations whose histories date back 1,000 years, as Russia’s does – or 5,000 years, as China’s, or India’s, or Iran’s – the Americans simply have no useful reference point. Tucker is a product of that – but, to his credit, he does his best to look at things from the Russian point of view.

Putin’s case is actually pretty straightforward. He was just rather longwinded in putting it together. All he really said was:

• Ukraine is an historical part of Russia;
• In fact, based on the joint history of the Kievan Rus’ (Киевская Русь), Ukraine IS Russia;
• The plain meaning of the term, “Ukraine”, simply refers to the border peoples of the old Polish empire;
• The treaties and conventions establishing the national borders of Europe, for over 500 years, NEVER included an independent nation called Ukraine;
• The actual modern nation of Ukraine is a modern invention of the USSR, and specifically of Lenin, and is barely 100 years old;
• The lands “Ukraine” claims to be its own today, were never part of any historical nation called Ukraine, and were, are, and always have been RUSSIAN;
• The West has tried for 30 years to take those lands away;
• Russia has tried to work with the West to find an accommodation;
• The West has refused to negotiate, and certainly has never done so in good faith;
• So now, Russia has no alternative but to resist with force;

In closing, the West’s attempts to use Ukraine, the country, and the Ukrainians, who are largely Russian, as battering rams against Russia, were the causes of the war

That is all.

Did The Putin need to take 30 minutes to explain all of that? Probably not. But then, remember, he is not actually speaking to the Americans – not really. He is speaking to the entire world. And that world understands damned well just who is the aggressor, and who is the victim.

The history lesson is necessary for the case The Putin was trying to make – that this is a war not only between two brother peoples, but between THE SAME PEOPLE. He literally says as much, right at the very end.

On top of that, the context of NATO expansion into Russian lands, as a foreign invading force, served as a proper casus belli, particularly when you realise the Neo-Tsar actually asked, very politely and respectfully, to join the various Western clubs early on in his reign.

The West spat on and rejected his hand of friendship. And now they act all surprised and angry, because the Russians – who are an unusually patient and calm people, despite what you might think from meeting them at first – are reacting to that.

There is much, MUCH more to the interview than this. You will get an insight into how the senior Russian leadership – and by this I mean more than just the Neo-Tsar, but rather the entire elite of the country – thinks about the world. And you will quickly come to understand that the modern Russian elite look at the world in terms of opportunities, friendships, and mutual interests – NOT ideologies, alliances, enemies, and colonies.

This is diametrically opposed to modern Western thought. It is also directly in line with the way most sane and functional people normally think.

Furthermore, if you listen carefully to what The Putin is saying, you will quickly understand one very critical fact:

Russia CANNOT be defeated by the West.

This is not an hyperbolic statement. It is a factual one.

To defeat a nation, you must first break its will to fight and force it to lose on the moral level of war. There is NO such possibility with Russia. The Russian people are weary of war, certainly – but they also understand, almost to a man and woman, that they are fighting for the very future of their civilisation. They know and believe in their bones that this is an existential war for the future of their Fatherland.

Moreover, Russia’s entire military-industrial complex has fully spun up to meet the needs of the war – and of the broader industry. The Russian economy is perhaps the third largest manufacturing power in the world – it is VASTLY more powerful than all of Europe put together, and in terms of manufacturing, at least, is quite possibly larger than the FUSA.

The Russians are able to do today what the FUSA could during WWII – produce both guns AND butter, and in vast quantities of both. As #BasedTucker saw when he was in Moscow, the store shelves are groaning with produce, the stores themselves are orderly and calm, and the people are well-fed, well-clothed, and increasingly prosperous.

The movement and dynamism of the Russian economy is staggering. I have been visiting Russia since October 2017, and I was stunned to see how busy the city of Moscow had become when I went there in August last year. It is building out on a scale that I have not seen outside of New York.

You see all of this reflected in the mannerisms of Russia’s leader in the interview.

The Neo-Tsar’s demeanour is calm, collected, precise, urbane, polite, and profoundly intelligent. His body language is open, relaxed, alert, and shows competent strength. At no point does he ever insult Ukrainian people or culture. Nor, in fact, does he ever really insult the Western leaders, who have to a man or woman called him a madman, a dictator, a tyrant, and a thousand other far less tolerable names.

This is a man who is large and in charge. He is truly the MFIC. He radiates calmness and stoic confidence.

Yet you can also tell he is DEEPLY angry, underneath the urbane and gentlemanly surface, about what the West has done. If you parse his words carefully, you will notice he is full of recriminations against the West. He offers a long litany of abuses and offences committed by Western leaders against his country – not really against himself, but his people.

The Putin then goes on to explain how that list of abuses resulted in the creation of a strong, self-sufficient, proud, free, Christian Russia. He even explains, rather patiently I thought, to #BasedTucker the true Christian position on the subject of violence.

His explanation may or may not be Scripturally sound – but personally, I see nothing in Scripture that says you should allow your neighbours to raid your property, steal your lands, rape your wife, and rob your children, and NOT face lethal retribution. Defensive violence is part and parcel of being a Christian.

Now, put yourself in Russian shoes. Your so-called partners in the West have spent thirty years abusing and antagonising you, threatening you, and encroaching upon your borders. Their intellectual elites have openly called for the dismembering and dismantling of the thousand-year-old Russian state and civilisation. The worst among them, the Jewish neoclowns who disgrace themselves in public almost on the hour, state that Russians are practically subhuman.

And then, you see them trying to use your blood relatives to kill and burn your villages and towns, slaughter your peoples in broad daylight, and take away your own historical lands.

Are you going to stand by and let that happen?

To ask that question is to answer it. Which The Putin did, in summary fashion.

In closing, #BasedTucker has performed a magnificent service for the entire world. He did what a good interviewer SHOULD do. He let his subject speak at length, without hostility, contempt, or antagonism, and treated his audience as intelligent human beings who can make up our own minds as to what we saw.

You may come to diametrically opposite conclusions to my own. But you will be hard-pressed to find a good comparison between the 71-year-old President of the world’s strongest military power, and one of the most powerful manufacturing nations – and the eighty-year-old dementia patient supposedly in charge of the world’s most rapidly declining superpower.

To compare Brandon, the Fake President, and The Putin, is to make the most offensive of jokes. The comparison is not even close. This is what Brandon did today:

And this is what he did just a few days ago:

How can any American watch the two interviews and conclude the FUSA is in any position to lecture ANYONE about freedom and democracy, when their supposedly democratic system produced THAT?!?!

The future belongs to Russia, and the Eurasian powers. The FUSA had better figure out a way to get used to that, for if it does not, the collapse of the dollar-based system of hegemonic power is going to happen much more suddenly and violently than anyone expects or is prepared for, and the new order that will take over, will be far less palatable for Americans and the West.