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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Tucker On Twitter => Topic started by: Timber Rattler on February 04, 2024, 12:20:02 am
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https://thepostmillennial.com/tucker-carlson-spotted-in-at-russia-spurs-rumors-of-interview-with-putin?utm_campaign=64483#google_vignette
So apparently Carlson is in Moscow this weekend, rumored to be interviewing Putin. He was photographed at the Bolshoi theater watching a performance of "Spartacus."
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Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1754939251257475555
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The hysteria on the left is beyond belief. Some are calling Carlson a traitor for daring to speak to Putin. Apparently, it was okay when Barbara Walters interviewed him, though. She also interviewed Barbara Walters Fidel Castro and Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin, for that matter (speaking of dictators). Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein. Traitors, I tell you!
Tony Mollica
@PghmannTony
I think Tucker should interview French president Mitterrand.
10:01 AM · Feb 6, 2024
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The hysteria on the left is beyond belief. Some are calling Carlson a traitor for daring to speak to Putin. Apparently, it was okay when Barbara Walters interviewed him, though. She also interviewed Barbara Walters Fidel Castro and Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin, for that matter (speaking of dictators). Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein. Traitors, I tell you!
Lots of traitors, I guess!😢
2013– John Daniszewski interviewed Putin for AP
2016– John Mickelthwait interviewed Putin for Bloomberg
2017– Oliver Stone interviewed Putin for Showtime
2017– Megyn Kelly interviewed Putin for NBC
2021- Keir Simmons interviewed Putin for NBC
2021– Hadley Gamble interview Putin for CNBC Are they traitors too?
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All those interviews took place BEFORE Putin (re)invaded Ukraine in 2022.
And Carlson's interview won't be in good faith either.
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@amuse
@amuse
Tonight @TuckerCarlson breaks the internet and the mainstream media when he interviews the Russian president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. This is a huge victory for independent journalism and free speech platforms like @elonmusk’s X. Tune in at 5PM CST!
8:19 AM · Feb 8, 2024
Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
I am 100% for @TuckerCarlson interviewing Vladimir Putin and allowing Vladimir Putin to fully explain what he thinks to the American people in whatever way he sees fit. I think the American people are going to reject his commie bullshit. He’s a scumbag. But the idea that we Americans should be prevented from hearing whatever we want from whoever we want however we want whenever we want is a million times worse than anything this KGB apparatchik piece of shit might say.
11:38 PM · Feb 7, 2024
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There are other significant reasons was this interview is literally the “Interview of the Century”. And why Putin’s numerous powerful enemies hate him so much. For it is the rabid Russophobia that has pushed the CIA’s Mockingbird Media into creating an unparalleled media firestorm in a futile attempt to prevent this interview from even taking place.
I for one hate Biden even more after this interview!
https://redstatenation.com/read-it-here-the-transcripts-from-tucker-carlsons-exclusive-interview-with-president-vladimir-putin-in-moscow-are-released/
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As far as I'm concerned, Tucker can stay in Russia. He's a traitor.
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More than 90 percent pf the answers could have been given by Trump, with the exception of the Palestinian question.
I worry about Russia, but I worry more about the incompetence of our leadership in the USA.
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https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/
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https://twitter.com/Ro_Kolar/status/1755883540573479184?t=4W36wtfblGMzXfCkpQ4JPg&s=19
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I thought it was an interesting interview.
A couple comments by Putin that were eye opening if true, that the BRICS nations have passed the G7 in global trade. I think this has huge consequences for our economy in the very near future, coupled with the intentional destruction of the US dollar by our leaders, which they appear hellbent to do. I did not need to hear it from Putin, I have been well aware for years.
I have long held that we have allowed the CIA to get out of control. Putin made several comments that implied that the CIA is running amuck, and our civilian leadership holds little to no sway over what they are doing. It is obviously in the best interests of the CIA to continue to perpetuate the long held conflict with Russia so that they can continue to maintain their healthy budgets.
Lacking astute leadership in the USA, i.e. the Biden Idiocracy, how do we ever regain a leadership role ever again? Putin was absolutely right about one thing, we are destroying ourselves from within. And he sat their laughing and shaking his heads at the foolishness of it all.
The whole mindset of spending hundreds of billions to destroy Russia, is that in our best interest? I say NO!!!!!!!!!!
And the failure of the USA and NATO to halt expansion to the borders of Russia by expanding NATO when we agreed we would not do so has a huge part in why this conflict is taking place in Ukraine. It is sad to say this, but the USA cannot be trusted any more than Russia. We have stirred the pot by meddling and bullying the world one too many times.
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topics merged
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And the failure of the USA and NATO to halt expansion to the borders of Russia by expanding NATO when we agreed we would not do so has a huge part in why this conflict is taking place in Ukraine.
We made no such agreement to Russia. And NATO is a DEFENSIVE alliance and membership is VOLUNTARY. Member Nations are required to seek membership and go through an extensive process to get in. And there's a very good reason that so many European countries want in...Russia is an aggressive, expansionist bully that invades its neighbors and can NOT be trusted.
NATO doesn't expand...it provides shelter to weaker countries. Don't buy in to Putin's BS.
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More than 90 percent pf the answers could have been given by Trump, with the exception of the Palestinian question.
I worry about Russia, but I worry more about the incompetence of our leadership in the USA.
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Why are people in a freak out over Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin? Others have done it before.
I will judge either way, until I actually see the interview myself. But I don’t think it’s necessarily sympathy towards Putin just because you interview him.
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Follow-up by Carlson, which is rather entertaining:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1755826023793320282 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1755826023793320282)
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Putin tells Tucker Carlson Russia has no interest in attacking Poland or Latvia
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that aired on Thursday that Russia will fight for its interests "to the end" but has no interest in expanding its war in Ukraine to other countries such as Poland and Latvia.
In his first interview with an American journalist since before Russia's invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago, Putin said Western leaders had come to realize it was impossible to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and were wondering what to do next.
"We are ready for this dialogue," he said.
Putin also said he believed it was possible to reach an agreement to free U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal, who has been detained in Russia for nearly a year and is awaiting trial on spying charges.
Putin made the comments in a more than two-hour interview with conservative talk-show host Tucker Carlson that was conducted in Moscow on Tuesday and aired on tuckercarlson.com.
Asked if he could imagine a scenario in which he would send Russian troops to Poland, a NATO member, Putin replied:
"Only in one case, if Poland attacks Russia. Why? Because we have no interest in Poland, Latvia or anywhere else. Why would we do that? We simply don't have any interest."
Putin spoke in Russian and his remarks were dubbed into English. He began with lengthy remarks about Russia's relations with Ukraine, Poland and other countries.
Putin devoted a substantial part of the interview to complaining that Ukraine had been on the verge of agreeing a deal to end hostilities at talks in Istanbul in April 2022, but backed away, he said, once Russian troops withdrew from near Kyiv.
"Well now let them think how to reverse the situation," he said. "We're not against it. It would be funny if it were not so sad that. This endless mobilization in Ukraine, the hysteria, the domestic problems, sooner or later it will result in an agreement."
The Russian leader said the U.S. had pressing domestic issues to worry about. "Wouldn't it be better to negotiate with Russia? Make an agreement. Already understanding the situation that is developing today, realizing that Russia will fight for its interests to the end," Putin said....................
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-rare-us-interview-says-russia-has-no-interest-attacking-poland-or-latvia-2024-02-09/
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Didn't he say the same thing about Ukraine?
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Russia has not aggressive plans against anyone, Kremlin says
Kremlin: Russia is not going to attack anyone
23 NOV 2021 15:28
Russia is not going to attack anyone, Putin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. . .
https://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/149701-russia_kremlin/
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Yeah, Putin was claiming that the idea of Russia invading Ukraine was absurd up until the day before the invasion, when he suddenly about-faced and said, "just kidding!"
And the funny thing is that very early in Carlson's interview, Putin admitted that he made up his mind to take back Ukraine way back in 2014 after Yanukovich's ouster.
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Lots of traitors, I guess!😢
2013– John Daniszewski interviewed Putin for AP
2016– John Mickelthwait interviewed Putin for Bloomberg
2017– Oliver Stone interviewed Putin for Showtime
2017– Megyn Kelly interviewed Putin for NBC
2021- Keir Simmons interviewed Putin for NBC
2021– Hadley Gamble interview Putin for CNBC Are they traitors too?
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Remember when Mike Wallace interviewed the Ayatollah back in '79, while the hostages were being paraded on the nightly news?
Don't seem to remember many from the left calling Wallace a traitor.
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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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo)
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The interview
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1755734526678925682
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Follow-up by Carlson, which is rather entertaining:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1755826023793320282 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1755826023793320282)
I thought it was informative and I tend to agree with most of his assessment.
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The interview
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1755734526678925682
Very interesting interview and I think it is important to understand the history of Russia and Ukraine. Putin turned over documents to Carlson and to him that is his validation as to what is currently going on.
My other thought, in the back of my mind I kept remembering that Biden gave Zelenskyy/Ukraine $$ before Putin's escalation on Ukraine and Biden also mentioned that he felt that Russia was gong to escalate the war before he did so. With what Putin says it shines further light on the involvement of the U.S. and the West.
His take on the US/China relations and monetary situation was I believe fairly accurate.
I want to watch the interview again and pay more attention to the history that Putin has laid out.
All in all, a very interesting interview.
The fact that people are accusing Carlson of being a traitor speaks volumes -- it has allowed perhaps some truth from Putin v. what our leaders want us to believe to be told.
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Newsflash: Putin has no truth. He's a murderous KGB thug and a sociopathic serial liar.
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Trump just told a crowd he would encourage Putin to attack any NATO members who are behind on their dues.
He’s all yours, folks.
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Tucker is no traitor, he's a real journalist. He went in the bear's den, talked with the man and let him explain himself, at least at the point I am at in listening to all this (not done yet).
A thought: We figured out a tremendous lot about COVID long before those musings were eventually confirmed, long after being derided as "Conspiracy theorists" and worse, and those were just some of the lies we have been told lately around here. We're a suspicious lot, we don't just accept much on face value. We rarely make excuses for or contorted explanations justifying that which is either out of line or just not credible. There are an exception or two to that, but on those our ranks remain divided, with someone always willing to pipe up and say " But what about...?
Hearing someone else be interviewed that we may find less than wholly credible does not make the interviewer a liar, nor a traitor, instead, it exposes the intent and statements of the person being interviewed, in their own words, to be judged by the listener, in light of the past veracity and future exposure of either verifying or refuting information.
Putin has been given a chance to say what he will.
It's on record, thanks to Tucker.
Those who whine about that, well, I guess either they don't think Americans can sort the truth from the dungheap that is modern journalism, or they don't want us to be able to listen to and make up out own minds about the relatively unfiltered statements of people to whom we are supposed to have a knee jerk reaction.
Judge Putin as you will, and for that matter, anyone else Tucker interviews, but it is stupid to attack the messenger because you don't like the message or its source.
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Tucker is no traitor, he's a real journalist. He went in the bear's den, talked with the man and let him explain himself, at least at the point I am at in listening to all this (not done yet).
A thought: We figured out a tremendous lot about COVID long before those musings were eventually confirmed, long after being derided as "Conspiracy theorists" and worse, and those were just some of the lies we have been told lately around here. We're a suspicious lot, we don't just accept much on face value. We rarely make excuses for or contorted explanations justifying that which is either out of line or just not credible. There are an exception or two to that, but on those our ranks remain divided, with someone always willing to pipe up and say " But what about...?
Hearing someone else be interviewed that we may find less than wholly credible does not make the interviewer a liar, nor a traitor, instead, it exposes the intent and statements of the person being interviewed, in their own words, to be judged by the listener, in light of the past veracity and future exposure of either verifying or refuting information.
Putin has been given a chance to say what he will.
It's on record, thanks to Tucker.
Those who whine about that, well, I guess either they don't think Americans can sort the truth from the dungheap that is modern journalism, or they don't want us to be able to listen to and make up out own minds about the relatively unfiltered statements of people to whom we are supposed to have a knee jerk reaction.
Judge Putin as you will, and for that matter, anyone else Tucker interviews, but it is stupid to attack the messenger because you don't like the message or its source.
Thank you, and well put. Some deflect, and rather be ostriches with their heads in the sand. Englightened folks want to know and hear what our enemies say and think, so they can make their own conclusions or adjust strategies to addrss. I saw a few comments as outright trolling. Calling Tucker Carlson a traitor? They are no better than our liberal democratic enemies.
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Newsflash: Putin has no truth. He's a murderous KGB thug and a sociopathic serial liar.
You realize that if you replace "murderous KGB Thug" with "Internatianal Poltical Corruption Crime Boss Head", you'd perfectly be describing Biden.
I agree that Putin is a despicable POS, but from the perspective of a daily imminent threat, Biden poses more danger to us and our way of life by far. Putin is a advesary 5000+ miles away, while Biden is systematically destroying the U.S. on an ongoing basis.
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You realize that if you replace "murderous KGB Thug" with "Internatianal Poltical Corruption Crime Boss Head", you'd perfectly be describing Biden.
No, that's not true. To my knowledge, Biden has never served in the KGB as a high-ranking officer, personally killed anyone, liaised with the Red Army Faction terrorist group in East Germany, ordered numerous political assassinations, and invaded three countries, destroying cities and killing hundreds of thousands of people. Biden is just a slimy, corrupt political hack who never had a real job except getting elected and re-elected to office over the decades.
That false comparison grows old.
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Tucker is no traitor, he's a real journalist. He went in the bear's den, talked with the man and let him explain himself, at least at the point I am at in listening to all this (not done yet).
A thought: We figured out a tremendous lot about COVID long before those musings were eventually confirmed, long after being derided as "Conspiracy theorists" and worse, and those were just some of the lies we have been told lately around here. We're a suspicious lot, we don't just accept much on face value. We rarely make excuses for or contorted explanations justifying that which is either out of line or just not credible. There are an exception or two to that, but on those our ranks remain divided, with someone always willing to pipe up and say " But what about...?
Hearing someone else be interviewed that we may find less than wholly credible does not make the interviewer a liar, nor a traitor, instead, it exposes the intent and statements of the person being interviewed, in their own words, to be judged by the listener, in light of the past veracity and future exposure of either verifying or refuting information.
Putin has been given a chance to say what he will.
It's on record, thanks to Tucker.
Those who whine about that, well, I guess either they don't think Americans can sort the truth from the dungheap that is modern journalism, or they don't want us to be able to listen to and make up out own minds about the relatively unfiltered statements of people to whom we are supposed to have a knee jerk reaction.
Judge Putin as you will, and for that matter, anyone else Tucker interviews, but it is stupid to attack the messenger because you don't like the message or its source.
:hands: :hands: :hands: :hands: :hands: :hands:
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No, that's not true. To my knowledge, Biden has never served in the KGB as a high-ranking officer, personally killed anyone, liaised with the Red Army Faction terrorist group in East Germany, ordered numerous political assassinations, and invaded three countries, destroying cities and killing hundreds of thousands of people. Biden is just a slimy, corrupt political hack who never had a real job except getting elected and re-elected to office over the decades.
That false comparison
grows old.
You really ought to read the posts more carefully before commenting and ranting I very meticulously said.....
'You realize that if you replace "murderous KGB Thug" with "Internatianal Poltical Corruption Crime Boss Head", you'd perfectly be describing Biden."
The premises are seperate and independent of each other. But similar that both are wastes of oxygen on earth..
OTOH, I do stand by the point that Biden is an bigger imminent danger to us and our lives,
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You really ought to read the posts more carefully before commenting and ranting I very meticulously said.....
'You realize that if you replace "murderous KGB Thug" with "Internatianal Poltical Corruption Crime Boss Head", you'd perfectly be describing Biden."
The premises are seperate and independent of each other. But similar that both are wastes of oxygen on earth..
OTOH, I do stand by the point that Biden is an bigger imminent danger to us and our lives,
:yowsa: No question about it if you ask me!
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The White House really didn't want anyone to watch the Putin interview.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1756634187258298396
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Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
REPORT: ⚠️ Tucker Carlson Met with Edward Snowden and Joe Biden’s Rape Accuser Tara Reade While in Moscow..
DEVELOPING... The former Fox News anchor spent several hours on Thursday in a meeting with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Although Snowden was frequently featured in the media after escaping to Russia, he has significantly reduced his public appearances lately, stating a wish for more privacy for his family.
Carlson also met with a former Senate aide who later accused President Joe Biden of sexual assault, which he has denied.
10:52 AM · Feb 11, 2024
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In the very beginning of this interview Tucker reveals how the government monitored his private texts and emails.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1757117841151557943
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In the very beginning of this interview Tucker reveals how the government monitored his private texts and emails.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1757117841151557943
Interesting interview.
Some things we all know:
The world is a far more complicated place than the Media can generally comprehend, and thus, they cannot present an accurate image of it to us in their few moments of summary.
Such summary, however, is often filtered through individual or institutional bias, and that limited view distorted by the funhouse mirrors of editors, Boards of Directors, advertisers, and even the bias of the target audience, which must hear confirming viewpoints for its biases or it will be selecting another source for its information.
Audience dogma and demagoguery count, and there is a feedback loop in subscriptions and ratings which encourages the reinforcement of that bias by the media, which sets its filters to deliver what wants to be heard by the target audience, until the filters at the top of this top-down distribution will actively censor or just omit anything which conflicts with the accepted orthodoxy of the Narrative. That bias may even reach the point that demagoguery substitutes for reporting or editorial opinion, and the output reverts to unabashed propaganda.
We have seen this develop on both ends of the political spectrum, and not so much in the middle, because few are as dogmatically neutral as Switzerland or Sweden, at least one of which appears to be suffering the consequences of their social choices of late.
The other has money. Everyone's money.
In this day and age that forms a fortress far stronger than moral neutrality.
Now, some have had some sort of harsh anaphylactic reaction to Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin. I take issue because Tucker is doing his job as he sees it, that of providing information to those who will tune in and watch. Sure, any interview is colored by the questions answered, and some interviews and interviewers take on the ambiance of late night 'infomercials', selling a product more than informing the viewer. Such has been numerous interviews of political figures here at home, and when the answers provided did not fill the bill for the interviewer and their patronage, careful editing could produce results that would vary widely from what went on tape. After all, that editing can make someone look like a genius or a slackjawed twit, and both have been done in the last two decades.
But how else, and what better way to understand at least some of where Putin (or anyone else) is coming from, than to ask him?
Don't put any more spin or filter on it than the interviewee demands, or places, himself. That alone speaks volumes.
Let him/her/(it?) talk.
Give that person the floor, and permit them to expound on the state of the world and their own nation, presuming at least they are expert on their view of the latter, and how they perceive their country's interaction with others.
How else to understand, even if through the initial filters and bias of the person themself, what, why, how, they see the world and their part of/in it?
I have always been a fan of primary sources.
Unlike Biden, Putin seems articulate and perfectly capable of telling us what he thinks, without the filters, the fun house mirrors of strings of commentators, each expounding on second and third derivatives of translations of the original source.
Good on Tucker!
I look forward to more interviews of people not often interviewed by folks from the West, and the look at the unvarnished grain of the opinions and beliefs of leaders and influential people in the world today. This is what journalism should be. Provide the facts, at least as the primary sources see them, and let us make up our own minds.
It is pretty obvious to the student of the last couple of decades, that Russian acquisitions of territory in Georgia, Crimea, and this latest attempt to take the Ukraine, and the Black Sea Coast as far as Odessa (at least) that the eventual end game is control of access to ports on the Black Sea: all of them, and not just the farms, mines, mills, and oilfields of Ukraine. Control the water, control the land, as anything traded from the interior will at some point be moved by ship. Once seafaring countries become landlocked, their economies can be controlled, and ultimately, their politics and populations as well.
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Tucker on NSA surveillance: "I got a call from a NYT reporter asking when I was interviewing Putin. And there's no way they could have known that. I didn't tell anybody. They clearly did it again. They leaked it to the NYT in an effort to scuttle the interview."
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1760031416681640028
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Tucker on NSA surveillance: "I got a call from a NYT reporter asking when I was interviewing Putin. And there's no way they could have known that. I didn't tell anybody. They clearly did it again. They leaked it to the NYT in an effort to scuttle the interview."
Or maybe the Russians themselves tipped off the NYTs?
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Or maybe the Russians themselves tipped off the NYTs?
Could be. :pondering: