Red Scare - Russian Americans With Attitude w/ Russians With Attitude *TEASER*

Episode Date: February 24, 2024

Kirill and Nikolay of RWA join the ladies to discuss Navalny, Putin on Tucker, Dugin, and Russia and America as star-crossed foils. Subscribe to their podcast here!

It's so hardcore, guys. And the worst thing about it all, that it's fake. It's imagine... I think it's completely imagined by Americans who really never dealt with any Russian person. Oh, I have a Russian accent, and I can probably sound like a choir boy. So what do you think?

Well, we are... It's hard to say. It probably sounds like a choir boy. So what do you think? Well, we are, it's hard to say. I mean, I think that similarly there is Americans or else there's like a stereotypical American archetype that people in other countries, but people associating. I mean, I do think there is a lot of Russophobia. I think they're the only group of people in America that you can like legitimately be racist against. Well, in a socially acceptable way. Yeah, but the Italians is less hateful.

Yeah, it's like a punchline. Americans really, and maybe it's like a vestige of the Cold War or something, but this, yeah, this idea of Russians as being like, amoral, cold, brutal, when there's so much evidence to the cause. Well, Putin really is not helping with this stereotype. Well, he is the stereotype, actually. He matches it. I mean, stereotypes are all true up to point. They get blurry on the margins.

Well, it's also kind of imagined about him. But yeah, he's not transparent and he's very secretive. And it makes, I think there are legitimate grievances of Americans with Russia. I think it's not only imagined, but it also about, it comes from the 90s basically. Because in the 90s, when Russia was open to US, a lot of businessmen went to Russia because it's a land of opportunities, right? They can just build stuff and get rich quick because there's nothing in 90s Russia. And they were faced with a lot of weird mafia guys and weird criminals. And because there was no law in Russia, in Yeltsin's Russia at all.

And because, well, some guys like Paul Klebnikov were killed, journalists, and some businessmen were also killed, American businessmen. And I think that that's the legitimate grievance that is outdated because nothing of the sort is really happening anymore. But I think they were spooked by their initial impression of 90s Russia with the glue sniffing children in the subway. And weird Caucasian mafia guys threatening you for setting up a business. And it's a great injustice because well, it's nothing like that anymore. And that's actually they have put into thank you because now American is safe from mostly safe from the mafia thugs. Marauding cops that you have to bribe all this. But you know, yeah, that's also the case. I mean, but that's a big American.

That's that's the Indian evergreen. But I mean, all all such impressions operate at a lag. They're laggy. It takes a longer time to dislodge them than like, exactly. I think it was kind of true. I think in the 90s, well, a lot of Russian and Ukrainian, Moldavian or whatever, women were bear horse. And a lot of Russian men were thugs. And it was true. And the luck is enormous. It's like 40 years old. And that's the part of why Tucker is so amazed by the food in the