Posted on 02/08/2024 6:07:38 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin spent the first 30 minutes of his two-hour-long interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson giving a revisionist historical tirade on the founding myths of Russia and Ukraine, the breakup of the Soviet Union and NATO expansionism.
From there, admonishing Carlson when he interrupted, Putin pontificated on everything from the war in Ukraine and relations with the United States, the case of imprisoned American reporter Evan Gershkovich, and even on artificial intelligence.
By the end of the conversation, it was clear that Putin had no intention of ending his brutal war against Ukraine. But Carlson, who was sacked from Fox last year, seemed ready to surrender. Putin offered to keep talking. Carlson, evidently exhausted by the Russian leader’s longwinded conspiracy theories and grievances against the West, thanked him and called it quits -- far short of the media coup that he had been touting.
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Carlson spent most of the two-hour interview in silence, or looking confounded.
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At several moments, when Carlson tried to interject, he was chastised by the president.
“I'll tell you, I'm coming to that. This briefing is coming to an end. It might be boring, but it explains many things,” said Putin in a condescending tone.
“It’s not boring. [I’m] just not sure how it’s relevant,” said Carlson. Putin responded that he was “gratified” and appreciated that.
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My husband thought the interview was interesting.
Usual suspects are pushing this narrative today. Attacking the messenger is a democrat ploy. 🤣
Ok, tell us where I was wrong, genius
It was great interview. Tucker asked very good questions and got answers.
Unlike Yellow Journalists at The Washington Post, Tucker maintained professionalism.
All that hype and it ended up with nothing more than the two of them making weird faces.
PS The /sarc was about sleeping well...
It’s a pleasure to see masculine energy behind this interview.
However, I wonder if Carlson had at all researched Russian history?
I’m OK with it. In an interview, the answers should always take longer than the question.
40 million views now.
Tucker took all the attention away from Biden’s dementia disasters today.
“In spite of feudalism, the collective name of the Eastern Slavic land, Rus’, was not forgotten, though it then became a cultural and geographical rather than the political term, as there was no single political entity on the territory. Since the 14th century various Muscovite princes added “of all Rus’” (всея Руси, vseya Rusi) to their titles, after the title of Russian metropolitans, “the Metropolitan of all Rus’”. Dmitry Shemyaka (died 1453) was the first Muscovite prince who minted coins with the title “the Sovereign of all Rus’”.[citation needed] Although initially both “Sovereign” and “all Rus’” was supposed to be rather honorific epithets, since Ivan III is transformed into the political claim over the territory of all the former Kievan Rus’, a goal that the Muscovite prince came closer to by the end of that century, uniting eastern Rus’.
“Such claims raised much opposition and hostility from its main rival, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which controlled a large (western) portion of the land of ancient Rus’ and hence denied any claims and even the self-name of the eastern neighbor. Under the Polish-Lithuanian influence the country began to be called Muscovy (Latin: Moscovia, Muscovy, French: Moscovie) in Western Europe. The first appearances of the term were in an Italian document of 1500. Initially Moscovia was the Latinized name of the city of Moscow itself, not of the state; later it acquired its wider meaning (synecdoche) and has been used alongside the older name, Russia. The term Muscovy persisted in the West until the beginning of the 18th century and is still used in historical contexts.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Moscow
big continent?
...big joke
...LOL!
Tucker allows his guests to speak. I gave up on Hannity.
Interesting. I just watched the whole interview and Putin seemed well informed about history and skilled in making it matter.
Far more intelligent guy than that awful crybaby Zelensky
Tucker was able to ask several good questions. I disagree with them. He let Putin speak and say what he thought. That’s exactly what he should have done. Its not the interviewer’s job to interrupt the person he’s interviewing constantly and act combative.
Exactly. They suffer from the delusion that the interviewer should seek to make himself and his own views the story.
Ukraine was "Russia" (Kievan Rus') before Moscow even existed. So better to say that Muskovite territory should be ruled by Ukraine.
Because it’s a great smokescreen/misdirection. Look over here at how I’m protecting children from the LGBTQ agenda and ignore how I kill my political opponents, rig elections, and conduct an illegal invasion of a sovereign country.
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