Here is the interview, and I did spend the entire 2 hours watching it.
My observations and takeaways:
* I had and still consider Putin a despicable despot dictator, but am ignoring the left's insistance to have this censored, and castigate their position of having Tucker Carlson jailed. I consider myself a big boy, and can come up with my own conclusions.
* All watching this should know and understand that Putin's time at the KGB makes him a master of communication. Wharever he says does need to have a level of propaganda filtering before taking it as the truth.
* Most striking observation is that all the talk about Putin looking bad, sick, or dying obviously is fake news. He looked extremely sharp, confident, and in command.
* Putin went into painstaking detail of 1200 years of Russian - Ukranian history. I mean extreme detail. I was kind of puzzled why, but could see his intent was providing the entire backstory of all the events leading up to the invasion.
* Hate him all you want, but he made what I felt was some pretty compelling accurate pbservations of reasoning of the decline of the U.S. Economically and a World Power.
* He pretty much categorically accused the CIA of destroying Nordstrom pipeline. I know this was hotly debated at TBR, but this was my contention too, since Day 1.
* Since I don't speak or understand Russian, I am not sure how much changed in translation. But the tone inidicated a careful, calm, measured response throughout the interview. For those of us who remember the likes of Kruschev, what a change. He at least sounded more like a leader than most oof the idiotic dim leaders we have.
* Finally, I think that Putin came across real well, and scored some PR points outside of Russia. That still doesn't underlie the fact that he is our enemy. but honestly, in this day, age, and actions, I consider Biden and his ankle biters an even worse enemy. And an imminent danger too us and our way of life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo
