“The nice parts are very nice. But Moscow is a huge city, and I’m sure there are not so nice parts of the city.”
Well you can bet that Tucker was not allowed to visit or view those “not so nice parts of the city” there. And Tucker damned well knows it. He is pandering.
That's absurd. Russia is not North Korea where the movement of visitors is restricted.
You don’t have to take Carlson’s word for it.
You can actually go on Google Earth and “drive” around all of Moscow, even the suburbs.
There are “working class” neighborhoods - but you will not see a single piece of trash on the streets, nor any graffiti.
Absolutely no one is going to tell you where you can or can’t go in Moscow (unless it’s a military facility or the like). This goes for anywhere in Russia. Tucker could have rented a car, driven down the M4 to Rostov na Donu and then driven straight into Crimea without anyone bothering him or even paying attention (there might be a security check on the bridge now, but that would be a car inspection only). I’m not sure how you imagine Russia but moving around is almost exactly the same as the USA. No one cares what you are doing, even as a foreigner.
He isn’t pandering. It is you that wants to believe the worst. We can’t fix this problem in the US until we admit what we have turned into. Our cities used to have great areas too. Now those great areas are going to shat. Denying it because you hate Russia isn’t going to fix us.
Problem we have is that the large cities are looking like big dumps and smelling like toilets.
Think about San Francisco. It was a gorgeous diamond and bustling with business and life. Now? Boarded up, smelly, and full of homeless.