It's all rather simple. Because Lithuania at one time controlled what is now Ukraine, Russian power and government wound up in Moscow.
Posted on 02/09/2024 5:18:44 PM PST by canuck_conservative
Yet, even by Vlad’s standards, it was bad. Let’s just say it won’t do anything to challenge the stereotype of Russians as stiff and melancholic. Putin hijacked the exchange with his eccentric view of history. He gave that lecture he loves, about how Ukraine is an “artificial state” magicked up by Stalin.
But there was very little grilling. Carlson asked for evidence that the CIA blew up the Nord Stream gas pipeline and then just accepted it when Putin said “I won’t get into details.” Hold on — the man who just bored us to tears with his fantasy history of Ukraine-Russia is suddenly not big on “details”?
Carlson was also far too unctuous on Putin’s haughty dismissal of Ukrainian sovereignty. Putin’s insistence that Ukraine “belong(s) to Russia” went largely unchallenged. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, given Carlson is one of the new right’s Ukraine-sceptics, whose suspicion of U.S. funding for Zelensky at times crosses the line into creepy sympathy for Putin...
On the flipside, the insistence of the pro-Tucker camp that this interview confirms the death of the MSM doesn’t stack up either. I found myself pining for old-world journalism during this snoozefest. A good producer would have ensured Carlson had snappier comebacks. A good editor would have chopped 45 minutes from the cursed thing...
The best thing about the Tucker-Putin chat is that it has revealed a little appreciated truth about Vladimir Putin — he’s boring. This is not to detract from the regional threat he poses, as best illustrated by his criminal and bloody assault on Ukraine. But it is clear now, that he is neither an all-powerful demonic figure nor a whipsmart cultural warrior from whom western conservatives might learn a thing or two.
He’s a bore. A dangerous bore, but a bore nonetheless...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
And the grapes are sour.
I understand Biden was interviewed for 2 hours by a Russian journalist. He gave some rambling stories about fighting with Corn Pop and that time he was with Xi Zheng Ping in the foothills of the Himalayas. It should drop soon.
He is serious as are most Russian men. They also don’t have much of a sense of humor.
LOL! And the usurper that sits in the White House isn't dangerous?
A critic once said that before getting sick and ending up in a hospital bed with his skin peeling off and his hair falling out as he complained about seeing ancestors.
Replacement said “Great speech, sir. Inspiring.”
Amen! I tried to watch...i felt bad for Ticker. It was like Geraldo and Al Capone’s vault!
No memorable lines, no witty observations, no humor
Putin is the opposite of Ronald Reagan!
I thought it was a fascinating interview. Putin was in charge of his faculties, never misspoke or got countries mixed up, and seemed to know about history. I don’t agree with many of his actions but he’s obviously a deep thinker and a learned man.
It's all rather simple. Because Lithuania at one time controlled what is now Ukraine, Russian power and government wound up in Moscow.
Yep, like Brendan O'Neill, Evan Gershowitz thinks Putin is boring.
Has this asshat watched ANY interview with our head of lettuce president?
Don’t care about your need for gratification, O’Neill
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I’m surprised Tucker forgot to ask Puting about the Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty...
The Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation was an agreement between Ukraine and Russia, signed in 1997, which fixed the principle of strategic partnership, the recognition of the inviolability of existing borders, and respect for territorial integrity and mutual commitment not to use its territory to harm the security of each other. The treaty prevents Ukraine and Russia from invading one another’s country respectively, and declaring war.
Isn’t that spectacularly interesting!?
Russia violated that TREATY by invading Crimea in 2014, and then invading Donbas... and then trying to take Kiev (which miserably failed) forcing Ukraine to evidently abandon the russia-raped treaty in 2018.
So Russia recognized the ENTIRETY of Ukraine’s borders before it violated it in 2014.
Alternate Title: Brendan O’Neill Ruins Another Punch Bowl
Is finding out peace was negotiated the first month of the war, 250,000 dead Ukes ago, but quashed by NATO boring? Ukraine was offered all its territory but Crimea and no war. NATO said no, no peaceful neutrality. Pretty infuriating stuff if you ask me. Far from boring.
“Davyd Arakhamiia, leader of the Servant of the People faction who led the Ukrainian delegation at “peace” talks with the Russians in Belarus and Türkiye in 2022, said that the Russian delegation promised Kyiv peace in exchange for refusing to join NATO, but the Ukrainians did not believe them.
Source: Davyd Arakhamiia in an interview with Nataliia Moseichuk
Details: Journalist Moseichuk noted that at a meeting with an African delegation, Vladimir Putin showed a supposedly ready-made draft peace agreement with Ukraine agreed during the negotiations in Belarus, which was allegedly initiated in Istanbul (Türkiye). According to Putin, there were 18 articles in the so-called agreement On the Permanent Neutrality of Ukraine and Security Guarantees, where “everything is spelled out, from military equipment to personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” and allegedly the document was signed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation.
Arakhamiia stressed: “For some reason, Putin did not publish this document. Why do you think? If he had such a document, he would have made it public.”
Quote: “They really hoped almost to the last moment that they would force us to sign such an agreement so that we would take neutrality. It was the most important thing for them. They were prepared to end the war if we agreed to, – as Finland once did, – neutrality, and committed that we would not join NATO.”
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