The Clayton, Sidney, Mohamed and Jugdish of countries.
Posted on 02/09/2024 8:22:14 AM PST by marcusmaximus
“Are we having a talkshow or a serious conversation?” Vladimir Putin asked Tucker Carlson at the start of their interview on Thursday.
By the end of the two-hour conversation, the answer was clear: neither.
Instead, viewers got a lesson in Russian history, going all the way back to Prince Rurik – a Scandinavian who came and dished out a good kicking in the region in 862 – and taking in the reign of Yaroslav the Wise, the circa-1300 threat of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia going to war with Poland in the mid-1600s.
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“So that you don’t think that I’m inventing things, I’ll give you these documents,” Putin said early in the interview, after telling Carlson about how after Yaroslav the Wise died in 1054 the throne passed to Yaroslav’s brother, rather than his sons.
Putin beckoned to someone off camera and a lackey appeared with a binder containing letters written by Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who is not a household name in the US but is vaunted in Russia for telling the Poles to clear off in 1654.
The interview dragged on like this for about 40 minutes. It was not the veil-lifting insight into the region that Carlson had promised in a video message he released two days earlier.
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Unfortunately, as Putin’s sally through Russian history approached the modern era – “In the early 80s, I went on a road trip in a car from then Leningrad, across the Soviet Union through Kyiv,” he told Carlson at one point, as the interview threatened to become an episode of This Is Your Life
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They are paranoid about foreign invasions. It goes back a thousand years. Don’t go through the motions of invading or cutting them off strategically and you will be fine.
In Russian history you will find out why things are the way they are in Europe, and the world, today.
It was neither talk show nor serious conversation.
It was what I expected it to be; because that was the only way it COULD be. There was no way the Kremlin was going to allow a debate; and there was no way Carlson was going TO debate. So, like I said, it was what it was supposed to be.
For people who don’t read, it gave them the opportunity to hear Putin’s positions. Though, he did contradict himself vis-a-vis some previous comments and positions. But, that is not unusual, as politicians often do that.
It was better — though not more entertaining — than the Biden clown show “press conference.”
Jealousy is such a negative emotion.
Tucker stole nearly all the attention away from Biden’s press conference debacle.
Russia has never had a seat at the grownup’s table so they’re stuck having to sit at the kids table with Iran, North Korea and Africa.
Exactly!
Tucker didn’t steal anything from Biden.
Biden stole from Trump
But that’s why America has to even listen to Putin and Biden on same night..
Stolen elections have consequences
The Clayton, Sidney, Mohamed and Jugdish of countries.
You and biden should get a padded room together. They’ll bring you pudding, and change your diapers, don’t worry.
It's all rather simple. Because Lithuania at one time controlled Ukraine, Russian power shifted to Moscow.
ping for later
You wanted a debate?
Are you running for high school class president or something
Lol. Everyone is a critic now. Carlson scooped every one of these incompetent CIA/MI6 run “news” outlets. Buncha spook run propaganda outlets. Only the worst sort of lying propagandists cite the sex”sources”.
Adumb is probably a poofter who is angry that his morning interlude with his boyfriend was interrupted by having to write about The Putin.
What Zaluzhnyi doink?
Yeah - intellectual discussion do tend to look boring to stupid people.
Where’s Gerasimov?
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