The Russian Paradox

Cause Before Symptom - With Your Host James Carner

How the West Uses Russia as the Monster and How God Uses Russia as the Restraint

For more than three centuries, the West has portrayed Russia as the world’s great menace—first as a barbarian empire, then as a communist juggernaut, and now as the authoritarian threat to global peace. But the public narrative hides a deeper truth. Russia is not the monster the media needs it to be. It is the obstacle global elites cannot move. This show uncovers how Russia became the eternal boogeyman of Western politics, how its people survived invasions and revolutions that should have erased them, and why powerful empires repeatedly tried—and failed—to absorb or destroy it.

From the engineered collapse of 1917 to the economic betrayal of the 1990s, from the psychological theater of the Cold War to the moral collapse of the modern West, Russia has emerged not as a villain but as a sovereign civilization refusing to bow to the global financial priesthood. And in that refusal lies a prophetic mystery. Scripture warns that a unified world order will only arise at the end of the age, after God removes the restraint that holds back lawlessness. Until that moment, the world must remain divided. The Beast system cannot appear early.

This show argues that Russia, with all its flaws, is one of those restraints. Not a redeemer of nations, but a roadblock to premature global control. Not a moral exemplar, but an immovable civilization that frustrates the timeline of technocrats seeking a single currency, a single moral code, and a single global authority. The West needs Russia to be a monster. But God uses Russia as a boundary. And as long as that boundary stands, the world order will remain unfinished, fractured, and unable to unify under one throne. Russia is not the hero of prophecy—but it is the restraint holding back the Beast until the appointed hour.