Posted on 02/14/2024 7:48:45 AM PST by marcusmaximus
At the World Government Summit, Tucker Carlson told a gathering of world leaders that Moscow “was so much nicer than any city” in the United States. “It’s radicalizing for an American to go to Moscow,” Tucker went on. “I didn’t know that. I’ve learned it this week, to Singapore, to Tokyo, to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, because these cities, no matter how we’re told they’re run and on what principles they’re run, are wonderful places to live
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If you’re wealthy, I imagine, Moscow is pretty great. This is true of most European cities. When you’re an American tourist, you tend to stay in clean and beautiful city centers, eat at the best spots, and wander around the most attractive areas of town. In Europe, you get to see onion domes that were built by serfs dotting the skyline. I’m sure it’s neat.
It is also true that if you’re an average person, Moscow is awful. The average Muscovite is most likely to live in some grim outlying apartment complex, many of which were built during the Soviet era. That’s if they’re lucky. Many Russians live in Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, and Ufa. Russia’s per capita yearly GDP is around $13,000. In the United States, it is around $83,000. It’s around $46,000 in Mississippi, our poorest state. Most Russians are living in what most Americans would consider poverty.
Not everything is about money, of course. Religious commitment? Around 50-65 percent of Americans claimed religion was important to them (depending on the poll). In Russia, it’s at 16-34 percent. The Russian divorce rate is at 74 percent, the highest in the world.
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But that doesn’t change the fact that 20 percent of Russian households don’t have indoor plumbing. Or that a third of Russian hospitals don’t have running water.
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Yep. They think America is still 1950’s culturally and 1980’s militarily.
Simpletons.
As for the paid propagandist OP wrapping himself in patriotism, (comment removed)
And Tucker is worshiping a city that is entirely centered around a government building. With leaders that still refuse to give Lenin a proper burial.
You mean the account that had little presence and then suddenly became a full blown Ukie site with organized link arrays? Overnight?
Obvious Uke Spook. Like Megan and Mom.
Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About Moscow - And The United States. And this comes as a surprise?
In fairness, Lenin doesn’t deserve a proper burial. He should be cremated and his ashes dispersed in secret.
Tell us about your travels in American cities—we want to hear about it.
I wonder if Tucker’s FSB handlers (tour guides) took him to visit Lenin’s corpse while he was there.
Somebody has handlers all right.
Lol.
“Obvious Uke Spook. Like Megan”
Yup. I’m SBU and I’m here to irritate you.
Of course that’s what Tucker was talking about about. So the Uke Spooks have to obsess about it and misrepresent it because that’s what Paige foreign Intel Ops (Spooks) do, with heavy support from the REMFs.
I worry about who Tucker went to Dubai with...his Muslim sugar daddy Omeed Malik.
Not unlike the average New Yorker in the Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn, with the difference being its 100% safer (and cleaner) living in Moscow...which is Carlson's point.
Who are these myopic pinheads who write this drivel anyhow?
I heard of it long before I moved here.
I spend the summer 20 miles from Johnson City in Elizabethton,Tennessee selling books and Bibles door-to-door back in the 80s. Beautiful area and great people.
That being said, under the communists America’s cities have gone to sh1t.
Romanticized view of today’s USA, which is no more lovable than today’s Russia.
Most Western cities are looking more like Beirut in the 1980’s & not like San Francisco in the 1950’s.
Democrat leadership & lax policing have driven us into a dystopian landscape.
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My wife has been to Moscow and says her impression was the same as Tucker.
BTW, We are not now and never have been “Rich” so the rich American tourist argument doesn’t work for me.
And THAT was TMI [too much information].
Best one-handed keyboard guy on FR. 
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