Dear friends,
On the heels of our successful first interview, Bonnie and I decided to repeat the exercise.
Here is the result. Enjoy!
The Saker
Saker Message:
Dear friends,
On the heels of our successful first interview, Bonnie and I decided to repeat the exercise.
Here is the result. Enjoy!
The Saker
An audio journey through the knowledge of Saker. Amazing display of facts, history, interpretation and delivery. A feast, a buffet, a cyclopedic trip, scholarly but in conversational style.
I have encouraged Saker to do audio more frequently and these two hour-long shows with Bonnie are outstanding representations.
A joy and an education.
… and so much needed. A sensible, relaxed and relaxing, common sense point of view that friends and foes alike can listen too and learn from. Excellent!
Love Bonnie… and with The Saker, we have a winning team.
Slow, deliberate explanation of interesting situations and powers-that-be…
Thanks Saker and Bonnie for your great work…
And MORE!!! I will donate again just because of this interview..
We should have script too of this interview.
“We should have script too of this interview.”
I second that.
The problem seems to be the language barrier again, when the medium does not give us an alternate mode of access to the content other than the sound.
Sure at least in my case the ageing does not facilitates the understanding of the pronounciation in english (or any other language for that matter).
But don’t worry Saker – must make good of such opportunities. Keep the good work.
Sorry my written english from Brazil.
Cheers
Outstanding. That you for this briefing on the historical context. In the US, history is something that has been successfully excised from any political analyses. Hence the “twitter’ level of what passes as political analysis. I am recommending this audio to anyone who is willing to think beyond the Kool Aid mentality.
I live in Thailand where a lot of people come to stay for pretty long periods of time. I speak only a few words of Russian but because of my interest and respect and love for Russia, I am always interested to speak with Russians. So yesterday, at a coffee shop, I heard some young people who looked like in their 20-30’s speaking I stopped to talk, fortunately, they spoke pretty good English. Two clarified that they are NOT Russian but from Belarus. They were against Putin, and besides severely criticizing the Soviet period, are apparent supporters of Khodorkovsky and said that Putin has lots of money overseas and is enriching himself at Russia’s expense, pointing to the investigations of Navalny as proof.
So the guy was extremely surprised when I said that Navalny is CIA. He simply couldn’t believe it. This is the second or third time I have talked with Russians who speak English, who seem to be ‘anti Russia’, almost parroting the Western line. My guess is that they learn English, and get their news from the BBC and CNN, since they inherently don’t trust their own media. When I was in Moscow in 2015 for Victory Day, I went on a walking tour, and the guide, who had spent time in the US, also took an anti Putin line, seeing Russia as the aggressor.
So if I as a non Russian speaker keep meeting Russians who actually believe the Western narrative, I really wonder about the country’s future. It is as if a 5th column is constantly being groomed to undermine the country. It also makes me think that the reason for Soviet repression was because of inherently anti Russian sentiments, which undermined Russia’s integrity, not just during the 30’s but even with Khrushchev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and the Western financed oligarchs nowadays.
Maybe Russia’s saving grace is that a larger percentage of the country has a more Russocentric understanding of Russia, not through the judgmental eyes of the West, whereas the vast majority of Americans think in terms of Manifest Destiny, White Man’s Burden and Chosen People.
Reading the article about French double standards regarding reporting, it reminded me of the ideals of the French Revolution, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity—Algerians, Libyans, Syrians need not apply. Exceptionalism is both an American, European, and Israeli trait.
So there are splits in the consciousness of all cultures, which result in the massive disharmony both within countries and between countries. Only Mother Nature or the Tao, or God, seems to have a sense of wholeness.
I live in rural Japan, but speak Russian and always welcome the chance to use it, so I greet the Russians I meet when I am visiting Thailand and Indonesia. My impression is they are mostly the well-to-do, especially since the ruble fell after the sanctions over Crimea. They would be more likely to align with Khodorkovsky or at least perceive something in it for themselves than the average citizen. Roughly 50% that I talk to there strike me as decent folks who have saved up for a vacation and care about their country enough to present a friendly face abroad.
The host was very gratified and amazed at the sweep of your discussion—you could hear it in her voice as she thanked you.
I would love to hear you on Infowars
People do not have a clue, seriously, nary an inkling about Russia except that they do know that they are being lied to about it.
To set the record straight: The Western Elites were absolutely horrified by the Oct Revolution with No faking and with fear to the core. The Mexican Revolution of 1917 which no one discusses or talks about was inspired by the social change in Russia. In fact the Constitution of 1917 in Mexico was in many ways more radical than the documents coming out of Russia. And, yes, it was very anti-clerical.
There were minuscule amount of Jews in the Mexican leadership but, no doubt, many key, hidden Masons. That is probably the key right there in the linkage between the two social movements ( anti ruling elite struggle for worker and peasant rights ) on very different continents at the same historical time.
Revolution was in the air and the elites were scared.
Mexican Revolution directed by a cabal of radical freemasons/American exploiters
https://tinyurl.com/n6ooott
I would not love to hear anything on Infowars, least of all Saker. Perhaps it is listening to Infowars that has so warped your understanding of — in this instance the Mexican Revolution.
Please avoid further attempts to set the record straight.
Thanks everyone for the great comments and we are thrilled you enjoyed the show. We plan to do more interviews with The Saker as there is so much more to cover. Stay tuned for new shows and be sure to check out the rest of Guns and Butter archives at: http://gunsandbutter.org/archived-show-list
Tony R., Guns and Butte co-producer
Excellent.
You mentioned Peter “changing the face of Russia.”
A nice dramatization of the event on a 1930’s radio program:
https://archive.org/download/StrangeAsItSeems/StrangeAsItSeems_e034_PeterTheGreatBansBeards.mp3
Loved both of the interviews! (More, please) Saker, I could listen to you talk for hours.
And I’d forgotten what it was like to hear a professional interviewer, who doesn’t interrupt
or talk over their guest. Bonnie is excellent.
What a treat!
Great interview. It took me a while to figure out who the Saker sounds a little bit like. Then it came to me: Bibi Netanyahu. Bibi is The Saker!! Kidding
Good interview Saker. Very well done.
And this is why I still come to your blog, nothwithstanding the impedimenta..
I love how the Saker is able to condense complexities into a few simple sentences that make total sense. And Bonnie is a smart woman who knows how to formulate relevant questions. The result is pure joy.
Great interviewee, great interviewer. More, please!
As usual I’m fashionably late to the posting party, despite having listened to the 2nd interview yesterday.
I’ve learned more about Russia and her remarkable span of history from those two interviews, on Bonnie Faulkner’s Guns and Butter podcasts, than I have encountered in my (obviously) sheltered life.
The context provided by The Saker is an absolute tour de force. And kudos to Bonnie for having done the research to provide meaningful questions – she is a top rank interviewer.
I loved hearing both voices, The Saker’s and Bonnie’s, and really look forward to more of the same. I sincerely hope that Tony’s right when he said there’s a lot more to cover.
In the meantime I’ll probably listen to the combined 2 hours of splendour a few more times :)