Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview pic.twitter.com/67YuZRkfLL

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 8, 2024

As I watched the above interview between Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin, I used to be impressed with Putin’s apparent intelligence. It is no marvel US President Biden avoids partaking with him.

Many, together with Carlson, had been annoyed by Putin’s preliminary historic discourse, relationship again to the founding of the Kievan Rus state in 882. This will likely have been Putin’s refined means of highlighting a noteworthy remark about People: though our authorities eagerly dispatches weapons and troops worldwide to implement dominance over humanity, we wrestle to endure a 30-minute historical past lesson concerning the areas and populations we search to dominate.

Putin made it clear that after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia desired to take care of a peaceable coexistence with the USA.

It is also clear that it was the U.S. Army-Industrial Complicated that wished to create a state of discord.

Putin additionally talked about NATO violating the enlargement pledge they made to Russia. The next is a little bit of historical past of what occurred:

Throughout the negotiations resulting in the reunification of Germany in 1990, there have been discussions between Western leaders and Soviet/Russian officers concerning the longer term growth of NATO. On the time, there have been assurances given to the Soviet Union that NATO wouldn’t develop its navy alliance eastward in the direction of the borders of Russia. Regardless of these assurances, NATO has expanded to incorporate a number of Jap European international locations, together with Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, amongst others. This growth has been a degree of competition with Russia viewing it as a breach of belief and a safety menace. To make issues worse, now there’s discuss of getting Ukraine be a part of NATO.

Beneath are among the key statements made by Putin statements through the interview:

• Relating to the negotiation course of and its unsuccessful final result: “[Talks] reached a really excessive stage of coordination of positions in a fancy course of, however nonetheless they had been nearly finalized. However after we withdrew our troops from Kiev… the opposite facet threw away all these agreements.”
• Relating to the final time he spoke with Joe Biden: “I talked to him earlier than the particular navy operation, in fact… I advised him I imagine that you’re making an enormous mistake of historic proportions by supporting all the pieces that’s occurring there, in Ukraine, by pushing Russia away.”
• Relating to the potential of world struggle: “It goes towards widespread sense to become involved in some sort of a worldwide struggle and a worldwide struggle will convey all humanity to the brink of destruction.”
• Relating to Russia’s territorial ambitions: “We merely haven’t any curiosity [in Poland, Latvia, or anywhere else]. It is simply menace mongering.”

Tucker Carlson Displays on the Putin Interview

Watch this video wherein Tucker Carlson displays on the Putin interview:

Tucker mulls over post-interview with Putin.
Says it’ll take him a 12 months to essentially perceive what all was mentioned.
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