russian → English transcript

If there are any agreements, it's very possible that in some way there will be

the cessation of persecutions would be guaranteed.

But we know perfectly well that there are no guarantees, apart from the nuclear bomb,

in this world.

We have witnessed that many times.

So no. Only Russia can be the guarantor.

But that's another matter: whether Russia can fortify itself to such a degree,

so that, as has happened several times in our history,

under some of our rulers, our tsars, it would truly be an unassailable guarantor,

so that no one would even dare to utter a peep?

Or will it be, as also happened under some of our tsars,

when our sphere of influence would still be limited?

I don't know.

To me, like to any normal person who cherishes his Motherland and Russia,

I would like us, in that sense, to be unquestionably strong and powerful.

We are on this path. As for what comes next, it will be as the Lord wills.

You say that we can tell them.

Not only in words — you can say it with words, but with deeds.

Every day, every minute we do something toward that.

Right? Our people are shedding blood so that it won't be that way.

And at the same time it seems to me that those people who, in such difficult circumstances

continue to believe are people who believe not because

someone will or won't make a deal with Trump,

but that if he doesn't make a deal, they will stop believing.

They are, after all, people who live, it seems to me, on a higher spiritual plane.

And they don't need any of our encouragement or approval,

because everything has been said for them, for example, in Psalm 90.

Those who dwell under the shelter of the Most High rest in the shadow of the Almighty.