If you haven’t watched it, you should. All of it. (I did and it was fascinating to listen to the other side.)
Tucker did a great job,
Putin seem authentic, thoughtful and somewhat of a history buff.
What are YOUR thoughts after watching it? I won’t poison the well much more at this point.
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Confirms what Jeffery Sachs has been saying for decades especially concerning the US promise not to expand NATO.
History is much more significant in Russia and Europe considering how far back border wars go in the region. Compared to America’s short 248 years and given our geography.
American government is suffering from institutional inbreeding…they are so indoctrinated and entirely bought into their own propaganda. American gov is stuck in its full spectrum domination, expansion, control, and is everything it accuses Russia of being.
While US politicians are holding onto their cold war mentality, Russia (and many other countries ) have moved on and adapted/adapting to the changing geopolitical environment.
The government mainstream media continually pushes the Russian invasion narrative while totally ignoring the US lead expansion/overthrow of the Ukrainian president in 2014. They continue to push the invasion of Ukraine narrative as a Russian conquest when in fact it’s a liberation.
Given our current state of affairs Tucker Carlson is probably in grave danger for doing the interview.
Kind of hard to fathom only one response to what is probably the scoop of the year.
Putin’s best quote:
“For some reason, everyone had the illusion that Russia could be defeated on the battlefield. Because of arrogance, because of a pure heart, but not because of a great mind.”
Can’t say I was surprised. “We” seem to have always sold Putin short and just regurgitated our own propaganda.
Hell, when Barry was in office, orchestrating the initial phases of ruining our Nation I’d remark to buds that I’d prefer to see Putin running our Nation.
Some thoughts from TC post interview.
https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1755955864999956730
The clips I’ve seen aren’t exactly looking good for Putin. Blaming Poland for Hitler invading in '39, and implying that any country can invade to claim territory that was once theirs.
I’m not sure why after the fall of Communisim in Russia, we didn’t try and help them a little more.
Instead it’s as if we needed to punish them for the whole Cold War thing.
I just think allowing full on investment and Capitalism inside Russia by American Companies might have been a good thing (with limits).
I also remember our people going in to their Nuclear weapons stations and dismateling a lot of jacked nukes that would never have launched anyway.
It’s just weird to me that we can’t get along.
You really need to watch the entire interview so all of that is in context.
Putin comes right out and admits he wants peace and had a deal in progress until UK Boris stepped in and told Ukraine not to sign. Then today OUR Senate passes more funding for the unwinnable war in Ukraine when “our” opponent wants a peaceful solution.
Someone please tell me how this is smart or even a good use of our money?
There are really only a couple of rational explanations for our constant rebuking of their advances to strengthen the relationship. He spent a lot of time discussing the various instances where they wanted to work together with us and we shut them down.
Five Key Moments.
An old Cold War, veteran chiming in here. I went into the army under Ronald Reagan to fight the red threat. When the Soviet union fell, that went away and I ended up getting out. That said, I’ll highlight what I bolded in your post. Here’s my take having a front row seat at what happened.
The USSR disbanded. We all thought that we were going to have good relations with Russia. There was no reason for us not to. Boris Yeltsin wanted normal relations and offered a full olive branch. He was snubbed by the “deep state”. I’ve been saying my entire adult life that Russia wasn’t the big threat China was. But we’ve never done anything. When the Cold War ended, we could’ve shaken hands with Russia and started trade. Maybe keep them at arms length, but tensions should’ve mostly gone away. IMHO, NATO should have been DISBANDED in 1992, but it expanded and keep expanding. WHY?
Eisenhower was right. The military industrial complex has turned into a cabal and basically taken over our country with thousands of un-elected government employees that work for multiple alphabet agencies. It’s a multi billion dollar business and there are tens of thousands of jobs at stake. We need a bad guy. Not a small one, but a big one. The USSR always filled that niche. This became doubly, so once we whord ourselves out to China, and basically became their btch.
Follow the money. Peace is not profitable. One of the reasons Trump was forced out is because the cabal was going to lose billions of dollars. Like the man or not, if he was still in the border would mostly be closed and we wouldn’t be wasting all of this money in Ukraine. It’s all about the money and power.
Do I trust Putin, and believe everything he says? No, absolutely not. There was however, a lot of truth in what he said, and you’ve just got to read between the lines.
Just look at what this system has given us. For God sakes, we’ve got a president that can hide his own Easter eggs. Who’s calling the shots up at the White House? I don’t think anyone really knows.
It’s guaranteed the FBI has an open, active file on him.
I’ve also maintained Putin is better for his country than Zero or FJB is for theirs.
I’m about half way through the interview and much as expected NATO moving eastward was the tipping point on Ukraine.
I watched it. As expected, didn’t hear anything I didn’t expect to hear. The legacy media is losing their mind over Tucker doing it, so there’s that.
The legacy media is perpetually incensed that at 71, Putin is more intelligent and shrewd than Biden was on the best day of his entire life.
Those two double-talking scumbags deserve each other. My favorite part was when Putin mocked Tucker’s failed attempt to get a job at the CIA. So much for sucking up Tucker.
I will say, it was nice of Tucker to at least mention the WSJ reporter Putin is holding hostage.
He uses that talking point because it seems to be landing more than many others.
But the idea that Russia is actually threatened by Latvia because they are a NATO member is and has always been absurd.
The Baltic states and Poland joining NATO is like a battered woman having her brother stay with her because a guy who raped her is promising to do it again…. It must just be a strange geopolitical oddity that for Russia to feel safe, it needs to dominate and subjugate so many people.
Breaking up two Human trafficking rings and the ring leaders were Ukrainian military made me rethink a lot about Ukraine. Of course, people do not want to hear how high up these people were in the Ukrainian government before the invasion.
It’s not JUST Latvia. That’s the point. NATO has kept expanding since the Cold War ended. It just keeps growing. Just like our national debt. Funny, they’re tied together. Look how much money we’ve been giving. They keep expanding, up to the point that recently we’ve even been talking about adding Ukraine to NATO. Russia is slowly being completely surrounded… Why?
How would WE feel if cHina formed a FORMAL alliance with states which goal was to thwart the growth and projection of The USA. Through this alliance got countries like Canada and Mexico to sign on, then but CHINESE MILITARY ASSETS NEXT TO THE US BORDER??? Would the USA feel threatened if a foreign alliance surrounded us with military bases???
You just have to look at it through the eyes of Russia. Why does NATO keep expanding? Better yet… WHAT does NATO do for the USA???
Not saying who’s right… Just trying to get folks to THINK. WTF is REALLY going on?