[PGalt]

The Fourth Reich

[bk1000]

Methinks they doth protest too much.

[Lockbox]

“It is important to remember that Democrats are not engaged in an act of dissent or speech. They are propagandists carrying water for a the war criminals who hate the United States, and are committed to conflict for fundamental change in the west.”

Fix it…

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "So, what was it about the interview that so incensed the Fourth Estate? "

Stepping well back from the latest incarnation of "Russiagate" hysteria, an obvious phenomenon is observed, having NOTHING to do with either Putin or Carlson (no, I haven't listened to the interview).

That phenomenon is that the so-called "gate keepers" in the media, worldwide, are ever more losing their monopoly. The internet has accelerated alternative news and opinion, and bolstered free speech. For this the EU's chief growled about "misinformation," which of course means information a gate keeper wants suppressed, as much as disinformation gate keepers want promoted.

Subscribers walk away. News staff are being laid off in ever larger numbers. Some corrupt, Lefty media is teetering financially. And they know it. The "walk away" is measurable.

Gate keepers who have ever smaller gates to keep, but who dream still of their glory days, are unhappy folk. Angry folk. Per such as Adam Smith's imagery of the "invisible hand," they are being laid off. And it is the market of ideas which is the 'guilty' party.

These gate keepers hate the contemporary versions of the "samizdat" of the old Soviet Union days or the "White Rose non-violent resistance group" of Nazi Germany" and like groups which "spread" information unwanted by the "authorities."

Authorities losing authority can be rather upset....

Best wishes.

[bray]

Ukraine was the main money laundry for the DNC.

[tlozo]

Putin-Carlson Interview Riles the Fourth Estate

Putin riled Tucker at the start.

At the beginning of the interview, Carlson asserted that Putin "had come to the conclusion that the United States, through NATO, might initiate a 'surprise attack'" on Russia.

"To American ears, that sounds paranoid," Carlson continued. "Tell us why you believe the United States might strike Russia out of the blue. How did you conclude that?"

"It's not that America, the United States was going to launch a surprise strike on Russia," Putin responded. "I didn't say that. Are we having a talk show or a serious conversation?"

Carlson reacted by laughing and offering to read the Russian president his own quote. Putin ignored him and instead began an extended explanation of the "historical background" of Russia and Ukraine, before arguing that Moscow was justified in claiming parts of Ukrainian territory.

[Sacajaweau]

I’ve been saying it right along...we were responsible for the 2014 coup...and the Chocolate King, who absolutely hated everything Russian, began the campaign to make Russians the most hated people on earth. And it continues to this day.

[hardspunned]

Putin is practically begging for a negotiated settlement but the neocons demand unconditional surrender. Fortunately, the rats nest of NATO Quislings in Kiev is falling apart. Unconditional Surrender is closer than the neocons suspect.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Pat and Jeff on the Blaze this morning were not impressed. That tells me it was an important interview. I think this tools are still pulling for Jeb.

[SharpRightTurn]

The American Lamestream media is having an apoplectic fit because Tucker has found such a huge audience without them. And the fact that he has done so as a conservative drives them insane.

[bert]

Freeper duper

[metmom]

“Russia has defined impartiality as hewing to its official line, deviation from which risks the decidedly censorious penalty of jail time. That goes against traditional journalistic standards — standards that Mr. Carlson does not have to concern himself with at X,” The Times caustically observed in a February 8 “Media Memo” feature article.

Just like the American government. Jan 6 anyone?

Putin is referring to the citizens in Ukraine’s disputed eastern territories, who he asserts see themselves as Russian. Putin emphasized as part of his argument that Ukrainians as a whole are spiritually Russian, with Ukrainization being a creation of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin.

The Ukrainians had their own language, culture, and identity before Lenin came on the scene. MY grandmother emigrated from the Ukraine BEFORE WW1 and the Communist Revolution. She had every intention of going back once she had earned enough money to buy land and live free and independent.

WW I and the Communist Revolution destroyed everything. There was nothing left to go back for.

[Alberta's Child]

[IYAS9YAS]

The fifth column maybe. But not the fourth estate.

[Degaston]

I’m glad that Carlson interviewed him. Putin sure does like to twist a lot of things about the history of Europe in a way we typically see Russians lie and try to justify what they have done. The Russians are greatly feared by their closest neighbors to the west and their actions of 2014-2024 have only cemented this further for decades and possibly centuries to come. The unfortunate situation now is that Russia is a nuclear power and they are hell bent on spending lots of money and lives to keep Crimea and their land bridge thru the Donbas. It will cost trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, and risk nuclear war to ensure that Russia is expelled. At the same time he’s risking a lot to try to hold firm as his “special military operation” is extremely unpopular in Russia.

What’s needed IMO is an Armistice and then a return to Diplomacy towards trying to resolve this mess.

Putin’s reputation 100 years and 1000 years from now will be terrible and well-deserved. For the rest of his life he will continue to be a pariah on the international stage. But I doubt he’ll ever face real justice. His nuclear arsenel and the West’s long history of not being prepared to deal with him has assured that.

[BitWielder1]

I watched the Putin interview and even though it's very much from the Russian perspective, I found it quite informative.
Do I trust Putin?
No.
But.
He is making a lot more sense than anyone I heard from the West.
Why don't we have a leader or spokesperson who can clearly lay out the reasons for the Ukraine war, why we are pouring billions in money and weapons into a corrupt state, corrupted by us BTW, what do we hope to achieve there and why?
The West is drowning in information but important data is false or missing. I have felt the information vacuum for a long time. The west better step up and lay out a coherent case, clean up their own mess or lose the world even if they win the war.
Also, CIA has always been a disrupting force, it can not be trusted to build nations.

[PIF]

TC interviews his hero right after Prigozhin and the Wagner Group. Gets a gift from Putin: the captured watch of a Ukrainian military man who was liquidated in Mariupol. He can add that to his collection of gifted Wagner paraphernalia.

https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets

[libertylover]

See Tagline.

[Kazan]

Carlson: A Puppet for Putin? Carlson has been pilloried by establishment political and media figures for talking with Putin. Hillary Clinton garnered headlines by calling him a “useful idiot.” Never-Trumper Steve Schmidt, who worked on presidential campaigns for John McCain and George W. Bush, was even more harsh in his assessment.

And, we have Zeepers siding with the Biden regime, Deep State, Hillary, the most vile Never Trumpers and globalists, all of which corrupt, rotten the core and enemies of the MAGA movement and anyone that loves the country.

Their only defense for uniting with this kind of evil is that ridiculous notion that modern-day Russia and Putin are somehow the equivalent of the old Soviet Union, which they aren't.

The political establishment, big money behind it and "liberal world order" are infinitely greater threat to the citizens of this country than the Russians, who would be no threat whatsoever if had gone out of our way to make them our enemy.