Here is why we are doing [the interview with Putin]: … Two years into a war that is reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed. They have no real idea what is happening in this region…. The war in Ukraine is a human disaster. It has left hundreds of thousands of people dead. An entire generation of young Ukrainians. It has depopulated the largest country in Europe….
Tucker Carlson
The war in Ukraine is a “human disaster.” It is not, in Tucker Carlson’s telling, a Kremlin-sponsored disaster. Carlson does not say Putin’s policies have “depopulated the largest country in Europe.” Carlson does not say Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukrainian Crimea and Donbas in 2014 with a follow-on invasion in 2022. No. He says nothing about naked Russian aggression. He says nothing about 19,000 Ukrainian children kidnapped and indoctrinated with the idea that Ukraine no longer exists. Carlson fails to quote from Putin’s speeches or papers, where the Russian dictator says Ukraine is not a real country even though it has been recognized as such by Soviet and Russian leaders for a hundred years. He does not tell us Ukraine is a country that wants to be free from Moscow. He does not mention the solemn treaties and agreements recognizing Ukraine’s sovereignty (treaties signed by the Russians). He does not explain that in 1994 Ukraine gave up a large nuclear aresenal in exchange for security guarantees from Russia. Instead of mentioning these points, Carlson is focused on how this war has “reshaped the global military and trade alliances” upending the world economy. In other words, this war is going to hurt Americans in their pocket books. Therefore, we need to end this war.
The idea that we need to end this war implies that this war somehow belongs to us, that we are responsible for it. In Carlson’s view, the Ukrainian people have no agency. Ukraine is an American puppet state and its independence and the freedom of the Ukrainian people is not at issue. The Ukrainian government is corrupt and deserves to be destroyed by the Russians. Carlson therefore advocates cutting off support for Ukraine, which would guarantee a Russian victory. He forgets to tell his listeners that a Russian victory would be a humanitarian catastrophe far worse than the ongoing war (just as the fall of Saigan resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe in South Vietnam and Cambodia far worse than the Vietnam War). In fact, more people were murdered as a result of the communist victory in Southeast Asia than were killed in twenty years of fighting. The same outcome would repeat in Russian-occupied Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians would be killed, imprisoned, or brainwashed. Millions more would flee into Europe, causing an unprecedented refugee crisis. The financial cost of defeat would be greater than the relatively small cost of supporting Ukraine’s holding action. Worse yet, the Russian Army would move to NATO’s doorstep. Where would we get the men and the money to strengthen that border? And if we abandoned NATO at such a juncture, Russia would become the master of Europe. China would then be master of Asia and probably the Pacific. Already they are advancing in Latin America. Already we see Russian and Chinese support for Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc. America would be surrounded on every side. America would be sanctioned by a world under Russian and Chinese dominance. America’s strategic position would be almost unsupportable.
Tucker Carlson’s position on the Ukraine War is irresponsible. Although this kind of irresponsibility has become common practice in America, there is no excuse for presenting set piece enemy propaganda as “truth.” Carlson blames America for this war. In fact, there was no military cooperation between Ukraine and NATO until Russian forces attacked Ukraine and occupied Ukrainian territory in 2014. Russian military aggression drove Ukraine into NATO’s arms. How is that America’s fault? The claim that the Maidan Revolution was a CIA coup is without foundation. According to the research of Boris Chikulay, half the Ukrainian elite were trained in KGB academies or served in the KGB. In other words, Ukraine was riddled with Kremlin agents in 2014. The ruling Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine owed allegiance to Moscow. When the Ukrainian people stood up to Moscow’s puppets in Kiev, many of these puppets fled to Moscow in panic.
Let us do some math. How many CIA agents were in Ukraine in 2014 and how many KGB/FSB agents were in Ukraine? The Russians must have had a hundred agents for every CIA agent. How then, could the CIA have orchestrated a coup against the ruling pro-Kremlin party? The idea that the CIA could have operated effectively in Ukraine, given the incompetence and risk aversion of CIA bureaucrats, is absurd. Nobody who knows the CIA thinks the CIA conducted a coup in Ukraine. It is ridiculous that Carlson, a famous American journalist, should be so ignorant regarding the CIA’s limitations. Has he ever bothered to read Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes?
Carlson warns of history-making changes that will “define the lives of our grandchildren.” In a curious turnabout, Carlson says that most of the world can see the truth about Ukraine: “And yet the populations of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware. They think that nothing has really changed. And they think that because no one has told them the truth.”
Yet Carlson is not telling the truth. It is Carlson who frames events to favor the Kremlin’s position. An American journalist should never cooperate with his country’s enemy in misrepresenting his country’s past actions. It is wrong to become a platform for Russian lies. Carlson talks as if the only wicked people in the world are in Washington, D.C. He forgets that Soviet policies resulted in the torture, imprisonment and murder of tens of millions of people. He forgets that the Russian Federation is a continuation of the Soviet Union, run by the same elite that ran the Soviet Union. Russia is policed by the same secret police organization. This organization continues to honor and celebrate the mass murderers of the Soviet past. In this context, every official Russian acknowledgement of Stalin’s crimes is calculated and cynical. There is no genuine repentence in the Kremlin because there has been no change in Russia’s support for communists abroad, no change in Russia’s militarism and subversion of the West. But you would never know this while listening to the befuddled Mr. Carlson.
Supposedly, Carlson is interviewing President Putin in order to present the English-speaking world with a truth that has been kept from them by the wicked American media — as if the American media were more dishonest than Russia’s state-controlled media. In this matter, if we want the real truth, we should recognize that Russia and China are allies, along with all the other communist countries. Carlson does not understand this. We would do better listening to a Chinese dissident journalist, like Mr. D. Wang of Lude Media.
Interview With Lude
JRN: My first question is about the May 2022 57-minute recording of the civil-military mobilization meeting in Guangdong: What happened to the Chinese mobilization? Is the CCP still moving toward war?
LUDE: The answer to this question is, no doubt, yes, they are still pushing for war against the Western countries. The second thing is, I have a concern about the interpretation of this military-civil meeting in Guangdong. We need to understand the hidden message behind that meeting; because in the Chinese political system, when they talk about something, they use terms which have hidden meanings. These terms are not fully understood, especially when they talk about strategic success. Strategic success is often talked about in the CCP in terms of a conflict with the U.S.
JRN: How does the CCP define strategic success? Is it in accordance with Mao Zedong thought?
LUDE: Xi Jinping has a new version of Mao’s ideology. He calls it “community with shared future of all mankind.” Xi’s current political theory is composed of many things, including the “thousand years of Chinese tradition” and the Soviet Union’s communist system and, also, he introduced a very modern Wall Street elitism. So, they pull all this together to make a mixture. It cannot be understood simply as communism. It is an evolved version of communism.
JRN: We hear that China’s economy is in trouble. It seems to be getting worse. Is Xi Jinping going to fix these problems or will there be an economic collapse?
LUDE: Currently, Xi’s economy has two parts: Foreign trade and domestic demand. Since foreign trade is down, domestic demand is in trouble. So, the solution for Xi is to move human resources to build up the military complex to get benefits from the Russian war in Ukraine and other global hotspots. The critical point is that when there is a sudden decoupling of China from the United States, Xi has to put everything into the military industrial complex to replace the previous economic pattern. At the same time, when Xi’s economy falls into the military pattern this will push Xi toward war – toward a global conflict.
JRN: Is China sending military equipment to Russia now?
LUDE: One hundred percent, yes. China is supplying Russia with weapons in the Ukraine War. They are supplying a host of things, especially ammunition. China is supplying Russia with chemicals needed for Russia’s munitions factories. They not only provide chemicals directly, but precursors. Secondly, they are sending ultra-high precision machine tools, so that Russia can assemble various weapons.
JRN: If China’s economy is slipping and it is inevitable that Xi Jinping will use his military to start a war, what kind of war will that be?
LUDE: First, we have to understand that currently we cannot use the definition of war as derived from World War I or World War II. We have to understand that World War III will have a hybrid form. Xi’s idea is different than Russia’s, where we see kinetic warfare. Xi’s hybrid warfare targets the United States in an attempt to divide the country politically. They are using psychological warfare, and they will try to target your elections. According to Xi’s hybrid war concept, China is already at war with the United States. We see this in terms of your political divisions and also COVID-19. The pandemic actually caused more damage than a traditional kinetic war.
JRN: We have a lot of Chinese men of military age crossing the U.S. southern border. Many of these may be trying to escape Xi’s government. Could some of these men be agents of the CCP or special commandos or terrorists? What do you think is happening?
LUDE: Remember the Easter Offensive in the Vietnam War. They used the Ho Chi Minh Trail to enter South Vietnam through Cambodia. Xi has his own Ho Chi Minh Trail running into America through Mexico. This invasion can be combined with cyber warfare and attacks on American infrastructure. At the same time, a lot of people are going to be mobilized into the streets to disrupt the cities, social system, and the economy. All these things will happen at the same time. The purpose is to disrupt the internal ruling system of America so that the U.S. cannot deal with foreign threats. As you can imagine, this disruption attack might do something to make people sick. So, they are going to put several different measures together. These measures will bring about strategic victory by pushing the U.S. into anarchy. The government will then lose control over society. Then they can target the dollar system. That is what’s important.
JRN: And is this disruption attack going to happen before the November 2024 election?
LUDE: We have to understand, in terms of game theory, they are waiting for an opportunity. So it’s hard to say whether the attack will happen before the election or after. There has to be a very good opportunity, and we should keep in mind that they have been preparing for a long time. According to a source I have in the CCP, Xi Jinping is closely watching the 2024 election. If there is an opening, if they see there is a good opportunity, and if they have prepared sufficiently, they will not hesitate to initiate a combined attack from inside America.
JRN: Is the Chinese diaspora aware of what is coming? Are they afraid of what Xi is going to do? Is there a threat to freedom-loving Chinese people living in the U.S.?
LUDE: Risk to Chinese people living in the United States definitely exists. A freedom-loving Chinese person, like myself, is considered a traitor by the CCP government in Beijing. I am called a traitor to China. If the CCP attacks America from the inside, people like me will be in serious danger.
JRN: Is there any sign that the Chinese people are getting tired of Communist Party rule? Are there signs of strain in China?
LUDE: Yes. I believe that 60 or maybe 70 percent of Chinese people are unhappy and have many complaints. They are tired of this whole system; however, the problem is that the battlefield on which the communists plan to fight is the United States itself. In other words, the U.S. is in a defensive position – and this is not right. How can the Chinese people get free of the CCP if the political battle is in the United States? As long as your strategy is purely defensive, the communists will find a weakness, an opening, and they will cause you trouble rather than suffering trouble themselves. So you have to change your position. You cannot be defensive all the time. You have to push the battlefield to your enemy’s side. You have to infiltrate and push this conflict to the China side. A more offensive strategy should have been adopted a long time ago.
JRN: Many Western analysts are afraid China will blockade or invade Taiwan. Is this a realistic fear?
LUDE: This is a definition question. If you consider that an economic blockade may be carried out subtly, through non-military means; for example, if the CCP can control what is imported to Taiwan, or what can be exported from Taiwan, then the blockade has already started as a form of pressure on Taiwan’s economy. The pressure on Taiwan advances a little bit at a time. What the U.S. must do is integrate itself with the military and intelligence system of Taiwan. If this integration does not happen, when the U.S. system is disrupted then Taiwan will be at great risk. So, we cannot say, “They did not do that, or they will do that.” It is more complicated and has to do with the America’s ability to interfere with the CCP’s plans.
JRN: How can we best interfere with CCP’s plans? How do we stop the communists?
LUDE: The best way is to attain military and intelligence control of the situation. Look at how things are being controlled or influenced. Look at the security situation, the police and intelligence situation. The CCP is good at controlling new territory by getting control of the military systems and police systems. In Taiwan, the police and military systems have weaknesses and openings. The reason China does not fully control Taiwan is that they do not exercise control over the police and military. But they are infiltrating those organizations. One danger is when the U.S. sends advanced weapons to Taiwan. If the Taiwan military has been infiltrated by CCP agents, these agents can inform China of America’s advanced techniques in warfare. First things first, you have to take hold of the intelligence problem.
JRN: So, you believe the Chinese communists are winning the intelligence war against America?
LUDE: First, because the U.S. has no serious intention to infiltrate the communist intelligence system, they failed to acquire agents inside the CCP that can tell them what is going on. At the same time, the Chinese communists are well informed about American intentions and capabilities. When Beijing and Washington were building up their diplomatic ties [50 years ago], the CCP never lost the hope that they would defeat the United States. They have always worked for the defeat of the United States – all the time. Even when they worked with the U.S. to defeat the Soviet Union, they were nonetheless determined to learn everything they could about U.S. intelligence and the U.S. military. When the U.S. began to trust China fully, China kept its intentions and methods secret from the United States. They used obscure Chinese dialects to transmit coded information, so that the American side could never figure out what CCP officials and operatives were saying to each other in private. They were able to completely fool the U.S. by preventing any true knowledge from leaking out to the American side.
JRN: We have a missile war out of Yemen in the Red Sea, we have Iran close to making nuclear weapons, and we have North Korea denouncing peaceful unification with South Korea. Are these political positions – taken by governments in Yemen, Iran and North Korea – connected with China’s larger strategy?
LUDE: Yes, of course, these countries are all related to the CCP. Let’s talk about North Korea first. It should be obvious that North Korea is not an independent country. It is much more integrated with the CCP government than Western researchers believe. North Korea is a CCP-controlled country. My sources in China say that there are a hundred CCP officials assigned to the North Korean government, and when Kim Jong Un gives a speech, these gather with the North Korean Ambassador. China uses North Korea as a cheap labor manufacturer. They also use North Korea to do what they officially want to avoid acknowledging as their own doing. Turning to Yemen and the Houthi rebels: Yemen was a socialist country organized by the Soviet Union, but after the Soviet Union collapsed China began using Yemen as a base to interfere in the Middle East. Regarding Iran: the U.S. has had sanctions on Iran for such a long time we have to ask why those sanctions have failed. How is Iran getting the money and technology to prosper? They cannot get global financial help. How did they build their nuclear industry? The answer is that China has been helping Iran. Hamas also gets external help, and this help is also from China.
JRN: So, these countries – Yemen, Iran, North Korea – are working with China. In the event China’s internal attack disrupts the United States, these countries will go on the attack against Israel, the Gulf States, South Korea, etc.?
LUDE: One hundred percent. They are working together and if America is disrupted they can, for example, close off strategic waterways. If a disruption of the U.S. happens, they want to control the Suez Canal. Iran will control the Strait of Hormuz. Then there is the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. Since they target the Western global system, they are also aiming at critical waterways and chokepoints.
JRN: And what happens if Russia wins the war in Ukraine?
LUDE: Currently, the Russians will not finish the Ukraine War in a short time. The CCP wants to support Russia with weapons because this facilitates China’s transition from producing consumer goods to producing military goods. So, the CCP depends on the Ukraine War to maintain their economic system and, eventually, if the Russians take over Ukraine, China will take control of key economic assets in Ukraine to pay for this war. This model is being established, and this model is very familiar to Russia. So, they are going to aim at the next war, and they are going to continue this process [of expanding and expropriating resources]. You have to understand, all these military operations have to be paid for with something. The side that Russia defeats is going to pay for that war. Naturally, they are targeting the U.S. in the same way, so that the U.S. will finance its own defeat.
JRN: How does that work?
LUDE: If the CCP defeats the U.S. through various measures, the U.S. will pay. This is China’s predatory pattern of bleeding its victims economically. If Russia defeats Ukraine, China will get to rebuild Ukraine as an example of the One Belt, One Road initiative. Then they will attack the dollar and create a new economic system.
JRN: About biological warfare, there has been news about the CCP working on a more lethal version of the Corona virus, and then there was a Chinese lab discovered in California with dangerous microorganisms stored on American soil. Is the CCP planning a biological attack on America?
LUDE: Absolutely. My thought is there are many strains of the pathogen already prepared. The CCP needs to find a really good opportunity to initiate such an attack. A biological attack cannot succeed just by itself. It has to be part of a larger strategy. We need to think deeper about this. In the California lab that was uncovered, where do you think they got the most dangerous pathogens from? These dangerous pathogens can only come from a government system. If you are a private corporate owner, you are very unlikely to get those pathogens – especially in China because they are so completely controlled. To come up with such pathogens you have to be supported directly by the military or the government. A second question would be, how are those pathogens getting to the U.S.? They are smuggled from China. And then we must ask how many similar labs exist on American soil. There must be others. This is a war preparation by the CCP on American soil. Think about it. Imagine how these pathogens can be used if a disruption of the U.S. is attempted by China. We have to understand that after this last pandemic, the CCP got a lot of experience. They optimized their model for the next pandemic. They are better prepared to disrupt your economic system. Next time, they definitely can do it better. Having the right opportunity is the key. I believe they can initiate another pandemic, for sure.
JRN: Is there anything further you would like to add, anything I missed?
LUDE: America should not be on the defense all the time. Why? If the battle takes place in the United States there will be damage to the United States. The U.S. will then bear the cost. Why did the U.S. have success in World War II? Because the battlefield was not in the United States. It was in the Pacific, in Europe. America then had the space to produce many weapons. We need to bring the conflict to the CCP’s doorstep.
Carlson’s Interview With Putin
After watching Carlson’s interview with Putin, the following thoughts come to mind: Putin turned the Carlson interview into a lecture on history. There was no proper interview at all. Carlson was used. And when Carlson gave Putin a chance to talk about his Christian beliefs, Putin refused to play along. Instead, Putin said that he believed in the “laws of history.” This is the way “scientific socialists” talk. In other words, it was a subtle Marxist-Leninist confession (a wink at the communists). Putin’s historical narrative was in keeping with Lenin’s teaching, “nationalist in form, socialist in content.” Essentially he blamed Western imperialism for the war, exactly as a communist would do. But he used a new kind of doublespeak to do it.
Putin took advantage of his naive American interlocutor, refusing to answer direct questions. He put Carlson off by asking whether the interview was a “show” or a “serious discussion.” Consequently, the interview degenerated into a self-serving two hour lecture on Russian history. In this lecture Putin smeared and blamed the Poles, the Austrians, the Americans, and NATO. His logic for attacking Ukraine was the same logic Hitler used for invading Poland in 1939. Their territory is our territory and we have a right to take it. He even blamed the CIA for the Chechen War, saying that America was trying to destroy Russia. In reality, of course, Russia and her communist allies have been trying to destroy America. Putin refused to take responsibility for invading Ukraine, for destroying Ukrainian cities, for kidnapping Ukrainian children, for attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure. He said that his “special military operation” was tasked with ending the war rather than enlarging the war. Such rhetoric is often heard from the lips of war criminals.
During Putin’s long and tedious lecture Carlson sat with his brows furrowed. He laughed inappropriately at some of of Putin’s comments. He smiled respectfully at other times. Carlson was out of his depth even as his softball questions fell flat. When he asked the dictator to show good will by releasing an imprisoned journalist, Putin said he was out of good will. Besides, this journalist was caught red-handed with classified documents. When Carlson asked if Putin would be satsified keeping the Ukrainian territory he presently occupied, Putin evaded the question. Why, indeed, would he take part of Ukraine when he can take the whole and useful idiots like Carlson are willing to help him?
I hope that going forward, Carlson will rethink his position on the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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302 responses to “Interview With Lude and Tucker Carlson’s Interview With Putin”
Carlson show is nothing but outrage porn targeting certain audience, he is incapable of doing serious interviews. His audience is mostly ignorant and chauvinistic, they would dismiss what Putin say about diminishing American power. Carlson is not different from other FOX people or from American liberal media who are using the same style focusing on different audience. The only intelligent person on FOX was judge Napolitano, who got fired long before Carlson. I think Napolitano’s audience would appreciate Putin better.
I am talking about the second part of the interview, not the history lesson. Carlson’s and FOX news consumers still believe America won the cold war and they can turn Russia into an ally. The liberal media consumers believe they can defeat and “decolonize” Russia which is even more deluded.
They are not going to turn Russia into an ally, unless there is a change of regime.
I am afraid Napolitano is now one of the worst ones. He has often chatted up Col. Douglas Macgregor and seems to enjoy the pro-Russian spin.
Andrew Napolitano is a rabid Libertarian thinker, a Ron Paul die hard follower, ie, “we have nothing to worry about” regarding Russia or China’s Communist regimes. He puts Macgregor and the convicted pedophile Ritter on his YT channel all the time as “experts” to weigh in. Another Faux News flunky that “conservatives” across America for the past 20+ years have came to believe unquestionably…as these “reporters” or “talking heads” were just seen as like ordinary people, conservative minded, God fearing, and held to their own morals, standards, beliefs. Duped! Again! Americans are too trusting of the media here. Too lazy to research themselves or question anything.
I am disappointed in the libertarians. They are not as intelligent as one might think.
Colonel Macgregor is not a propagandist, he is commenting the military matters with professional insight.
Yeah well Nyquist has talked with him, and he had some pretty intensely negative opinions on MacGregor. If I recall Nyquist said he knew that Mac was saying things that Mac must know were lies. There was a YouTube that did a point by point refutation of an interview Mac did with Carlsen. It was convincing to me. MacGregor is a propagandist for a pro Russian view. Or VERY nearly is at best.
And what flavour and intensity of troll are you?
Why Macgregor is a Russia propagandist is the mystery.
Are you nuts? What professional military insight did Macgregor have? Was it his great insight that the war in Ukraine was over on day 10, or his insight that Ukraine was coming apart on day 400? Macgregor’s military analysis has been flat wrong.
He is a pro Putin, pro Russia propagandist.
“The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle,” he said. “They’ve now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over.” Interviewed by Stuart Varney on Fox
March 4, 2022
“The war is really over for the Ukrainians,” Macgregor said. “They have been grounded to bits. There’s no question about that despite what we report on our mainstream media. So the real question for us at this stage is, if there is an agreement, Tucker, are we going to live with the Russian people and their government? Or are we going to continue to pursue this sort of regime change dressed up as Ukrainian war?”
Interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox March 17, 2022
And last but not least, Ryan McBeth breaks down the Macgregor interview with TC. McBeth gives his own military experience and pedigree prior to his analysis of the interview.
The take home message is that Macgregor is pushing pro Russian narratives every time he speaks. And second, that Tucker Carlson is really not up to the task in asking hard questions of former military officers, leaders, and certainly not former KGB as is evidenced in his latest interview.
https://youtu.be/E_NegaBRfRU?si=Y8aE4KsOGJLl9342
Thanks.
@KNHACKER8
MacGregor is an idiot whose predictions have been entirely wrong. According to him, Russia won two years ago. As a military commentator, he is utterly incompetent. He has shown why he never got that first star.
Napolitano regularly “interviews” MacGregor, Ritter and Larry Johnson. He’s little different than Carlson.
Thank you, Jeff, for your interview. It was very interesting and informative.
The interview I am specifically referencing is with Mr. Wan(g) of Lu De Media.
You are very welcome. I thought it would be interesting to talk with Mr. Wang after so many months.
It was painful to watch last night. As I’ve lived in Ukraine and well aware of the truth, it was sad to see Tucker almost so excited to see this man that he had zero control over the interview. Putin was obviously lying several times, it didn’t take a degree in behavioral psychology to see. Worse still were all the conservative pundits, including Alex Jones, acting like this was some national treasure. Several of those influencers were praising Putin as some sort of genius. One posted that this man sure loves his country. I had to respond and say really? He loves himself. Just ask the countless people he has assassinated, ask the former president of Georgia whom he invaded after threatening to comply. No, the history books have been washed of any wrongdoing. What sad cognitive bias. And , as you pointed out, Ukraine is a real country that was approved by Soviets and the UN. So, Putin can go take it now because he doesn’t like a few people he calls Nazi’s (which is ridiculous in itself). There is no logic, no critical thinking about any of it. Just such a hatred for the Left they can’t think straight. The poor people of Ukraine, of which I have many friends, deserve much better from us.
I wonder how much the Cucker charged for this commercial? Or was it pro bono? I hope anyone that was previously defending Tucker based on the good things he’s said in years past has woken up.
Tucker means well, I think, and some of his broadcasts in the past have been valuable. But allowing yourself to be used by an enemy is inexcusable. And Putin is our enemy, despite his pretenses.
Tucker Carlson= Putin puppet.
As so many other “so-called conservative” and “independent” reporters, journalists….all spew pro Putin, pro Russia propaganda. Another former Faux News anchor, Clayton Morris and his wife’s YT channel devote the same propaganda. They have the likes of Douglas Macgregor, Scott Ritter, and a little known reporter who lives there (Patrick Lancaster) on all the time as “experts”. Truly shameful.
Carlson looked like a bewildered high school student in History class while Putin spewed Russian history and Kremlin talking points
for 2 hours.
Putin punked Tucker Carlson.
Yes. Acting!
The only thing that I was capable to catch Putin in error of, was his historical account of Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine predates Russia, not the other way around. However, I suspect that ethnic Ukrainians have been the minority since Stalin.
Ummmm, actually I caught more errors than his twisted version and lecture of Russian history. There’s also these :
-that “his” or “Russia’s” invasion was because of a coup de tat and since neo Nazis came to power, Russia had to go in and “restore order”….
-that Russia didn’t start this war, it was America and the West who started it…always blame America
-Americas economy is bad, America is suffering, so American government has to shift focus on a war and hardship somewhere else…refer to above (always blame America)
-America is afraid of China. But China is Russia’s friend
-asked about WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich? Russia has already made so many good will gestures that it wasn’t foreseen to do any kind of swap or trade for his freedom.
And yet he sits across from his puppet Carlson while he has a history of despising “free speech” via his fellow Russian journalists and reporters and killing or imprisoning any that he so desires.
I agree with what you say, but for the first two points.
Mr Lude is probably one of the top experts on the matter of China. He perfectly explained why the Ukraine War was drawn out due to economic reasons to aid the CCP and Russia. Longer the war, the more stable war economy. The West is being bled dry economically if Ukraine War has gone for much longer. If the West elites were really serious, they should have had the courage to put NATO troops in Ukraine. However, the West is compromised with the agents of CCP and Russia. In some Telegram posts, I read that there is an ongoing secret agreement to realign Germany back to Russia officially with the helps of Chinese who now practically dominate Europe economically. The true winner of Ukraine War is probably China here as it totally kicks the US out of economic sphere in EU.
If I remember from an interview that I saw with Mr Lude, he mentioned that China will definitely destroy Japan if the Taiwan crisis erupts. Xi Jinping will expand the war in East Asia to weaken the US. This fact was supported by a FSB defector who revealed Russia’s secret plan to destroy Japan before the Ukraine War in 2022. The plan was revealed around a few months before the invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Lude is right as the West should have gone on the offensive against the fake USSR (Russia) and China long times ago. Now, the threats have grown into malignant cancers that can’t be removed!
Yes, Japan is one of their priority targets. Think of it this way. Japan is the most important economic power aligned with America. And Japan is vulnerable to simultaneous attack from Russia, China, and North Korean forces. Japan is their ideal target.
This fact also confirms that China’s annexation of Taiwan will definitely involve Japan. Lude discloses that Xi Jinping’s private army had a plan for North Korea to annex South Korea but also using North Korean missiles (disguised Chinese missiles) to destroy Japan without revealing that China was the one who will fire them.
If you recently notice that there is an ongoing scrambler of electronic signal in Kaliningrad that blockades Baltic states, Poland, Nordic countries, then it confirmed to me that Russia still prepares a plan to attack Japan to help China. Because around 2019-20 when FSB defector reveals Putin’s plan for Japan, and it was also then TASS boasts the new EMP systems that can disable the whole of Japan. Mr Lude says that WW3 will be a hybrid one. So this new systems and cyberwarfare will be methods that CCP will use against Japan.
West Germany was basically continuation of Weimar Republic, the degenerate stuff was there even without Stasi.
Jeff, once you asked Russian defector, GRU Col. Stanislav Lunev who the number one target of the Russian Int services for recruitment in the US was. Can you remember his answer?
Lunev said that journalists were the most frequently recruited target of his service. He said that journalists are already spies in what they do. It is how the Russians see them.
I listened to Jeff’s weekly interview with Moore. Jeff’s brief comments about Tucker
reminded me of Jeff’s piece on the Pillow Guy over a year ago. Jeff correctly predicted the disaster and warned the Pillow Guy. Same way with Tucker. What a disaster. Carlson is proving that he is unlearned about Russia History and Putin. Tucker could read Jeff’s intro
in 3 minutes and would be surprised what Putin is all about. Is Tucker really that stupid about Ukraine and Russia?
Kevin Taylor
Yes, Tucker Carlson is really that stupid.
I’ve wasted a lot of pixels responding to pro-Putin trolls over the gateway Pundit. BRCC661 said it best and in fewer words:
“Putin punked Tucker Carlson.”
Carlson wanted it that way.
Of interest: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/02/09/china-produces-lunar-new-year-music-video-of-warships-surrounding-taiwan/
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It’s even worse than that. Tucker openly agreed with some of Putin’s premises at times: he stated that Germany knew that “a NATO ally” had destroyed Nordstream.
He implicitly agreed that the US was intransigently against Russia. He asked Putin who “the real power” in America was, endorsing this “Deep State” concept, which in turn implies they’re separate from Russia. He did not challenge Putin’s history lies once.
He did not challenge Putin’s justification for developing hypersonic weapons, which was America’s alleged creation of a missile defense system (lmao where?). Even if we had made a defense system, on what planet is that justification?
I think that many Commies’ strategy is to go into these interviews and see what they can get away with. At one point, Putin was essentially claiming Russia did zero offensive actions against the US. Tucker has zero knowledge of Red Cocaine, zero knowledge of Russia training Islamic terror organizations, zero knowledge of half the things they’ve done to America, so he couldn’t even challenge this ludicrous notion of Russia as this helpless puppy. Putin felt so confident he started building a case of “Western pressure”, based off nothing more than.. the missile defense system, NATO “expansion”, and some random support of separatists. That was it, 3 actions in the span of probably decades. A meager, thin case, and Carlson did nothing.
He successfully trained Carlson to sit back and let him propagandize with his shaming “serious convo or show” quip. Putin also mocked the dollar’s impending destruction and pretended they had nothing to do with it.
Putin is their face because of skills like this. He can reframe, flip accusations back, mock, shame, lie, I have even see him deny Russia’s involvement in their huge troll army by claiming Prigozhin, who ran the Internet Research Agency troll farm, was a disconnected restauranteur.
But worst of all, Tucker allowed Putin to make the MORAL CASE for nuking America. The general flow followed traditional Communist patterns, with accusations and declarations of sin. The “West”, led by the US, was constantly presented as essentially sinful and the aggressor. This is an argument they need to make if they are going to destroy America. Carlson does not understand this, or understand why it is important to push vigorously back on this lie, as it is literally being used to justify genocide. This was possibly Carson’s worst hour and will unfortunately go down as an enormous loss for the free world.
Regarding Taiwan, this might sound simplistic, but would it not be a very effective defense strategy to simply over-weight investment in naval mines and anti-ship missiles? It seems like the investment required to make an invasion impossible this way would not be high, compared to the current approach.
China is not going to invade Taiwan because that is not sensible. China is going to blockade Taiwan and force the country to terms.
I haven’t watched the interview but what you are saying is very troubling. Moral inversion is what the Communists excel at. The country that is defending itself is made out to be a violent aggressor. A missile defense shield that would prevent Russia from nuking the US or Europe is turned into a threat against Russia. And on and on. The Communists never concede the moral high ground, not one inch –it’s part of Communism’s core religious doctrine, as laid down by Stalin. And Tucker just helped Putin make the case for destroying America.
The most pernicious thing about Tucker’s interview and those who praise him for it is that they are acting like they are the only ones telling the truth. Tucker goes to Russia to be wined and dined by Kremlin apparatchiks before the big interview, but he’s the only objective journalist while the rest of the English-speaking media are just government propagandists. Tucker is not just befuddled and misinformed, he’s acting like an advocate for Putin but demanding people see him as a brave and independent journalist for it. As part of his pressure tactic on American audiences, he says they are the only ones not getting the whole story while the rest of the world knows the “truth” about the Ukraine war. But conveniently he doesn’t mention the Baltic states, Poland, Finland, Sweden and even German politicians who all have expressed publicly the fear that Russia intends to push farther after Ukraine.
Here’s the title of an e-mail alert I just received. Carlson “braved turbulent waters” to get the truth out of a country with no freedom of the press – and, what a surprise, the” truth” he got matches up perfectly to existing Kremlin propaganda! What a brave guy!
—Tonight on RebelNews+ | Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview proves the elitist, corporate media is on its last legs
Taking in the bias and hubris Tucker displayed in connection with the whole affair, I don’t know he can be excused as being well-meaning but wrong any longer. He is too willfully ignorant, too 100% wrong on Ukraine for it to just be the result of ignorance. This is even more perplexing given that he proved to be a lot better informed on most other issues. As Alex Benesch has revealed, Hubert Zeipel, a very famous and influential German journalist, who wrote numerous pro-Russian articles and books over the past decade, and even interviewed Putin once (the interview was the centerpiece of a famous documentary he made about Putin) was caught taking bribes from Russians with ties to the Kremlin. He received a 6 figure bribe for just one book about Russia, and he is suspected to have received similar compensation for his other works. Russia owns Western journalists and media figures on an industrial scale, just as the Soviet Union did. Whenever Russia does something bad, there are always vocal sections of the media who excuse Russia and point the finger at America, there are always people who act as if their job is to confuse and distort the public debate. This is not by accident. The idea of Russian intelligence services frequently recruiting journalists is confirmed by defector Col., and this also ties in with reports that most of the work of the KGB involves propaganda and disinformation.
Carlson’s behavior was inexcusable. And he does not deserve the following he has.
One has to at least entertain the possibility of ill intent on Tucker’s part. But he’s got such a puppy dog innocent look.
Did anyone notice Carlson’s admiring look toward Putin at moments during the interview? Or was it my imagination?
I was unable to watch the interview as there was insufficient alcohol on hand.
Yes, indeed. It is a terrible thing to be the guest of a dictator. One has to be polite to him when he is lying outrageously. Tucker is so uninformed he cannot see behind the lies. He just breathes them in.
If Gazprom is a NATO ally, then a NATO ally destroyed the pipeline.
For Carlson to change his ways, he has to not be a grifter. His two-faced text messages revealed he didn’t believe his own reporting and passionate opinions on the election and Trump, which is why Fox had to settle their dominion lawsuit losing a historic amount of money.
At the same time, I think Putin miscalculated. I don’t believe even his own propagandists anticipated that Putin would so openly disrespect Carlson. I think this interview could open eyes amongst our new traitorous Republicans, just not Carlson’s, as he is not an authentic person.
The longer this war the worse defeat of America. Why should Putin even try to appease Americans. First part was intended for Ukrainians and maybe Hungarians and Germans, the second part, talking about American weakness, for rest of the world.
So we should stop supporting Ukraine right? That way Russia can kill the Ukrainians faster, and the war will be shorter. Hell what if we armed Russia directly? Screw it why doesn’t the US team up with Russia to attack Ukraine and make the war even shorter? Makes sense you Russian bot.
Yeah, that would really shorten the war. Help Russia destroy Ukraine. Just don’t drag your knuckles when you do it.
The longer this war, the worse for Americans? That is counter-intuitive.
The opposite. Russia has lost over 500,000 people. Putin needs Republicans to stop aid to Ukraine so he can finally defeat Ukraine.
I haven’t followed Carlson’s career, in what way do you think he’s inauthentic? Do you think he’s in it just for the money? Of course, he could be dumb and paid by the Russians –the two are not mutually exclusive.
It will be interesting to see if any conservatives have a change of heart and come to see Russia as dangerous after this interview. But sadly, most people are set in their ways and those who support Russia are just as ignorant as Carlson. The lies and distortions spouted by Putin will go right over their heads. No alarm bells will be set off.
I watched Carlson last year at an event where he admitted to being a bad student in college. This suddenly helped me make sense of him. It seems that he does not like reading books or studying. I began to realize that he may not have the background for what he is trying to do. Many people look to him for the “truth,” and he talks about “truth” rather than “news.” In a way, Tucker Carlson does not understand the limitations of journalism, of producing TV shows every night. Such productions cannot be deep. And if you try for depth, when you have very little, some kind of bad thing is bound to catch you from behind.
I’m waiting for Laura Inghram’s response to the interview. I’m hopeful that she and her 2 Russian adopted sons can go over and have a fire side chat with Uncle Vlad. Maybe they can even get a tummy kiss.
Laura Ingraham could have a wonderful time in Moscow. She could adopt a brainwashed Ukrainian child.
Tucker is neither un-authentic nor paid by the Russians. He became popular for a reason – because he tries to genuinely speak what he believes.
The problem here is that what he believes is wrong, has been planted in his head, and has devastating repercussions for the entire world. And for some reason, he does not seem to understand evil – the pure, raw, malevolent form or evil. The people who do not understand pure evil have a kind of childlike naïveté about them – it’s why he could giggle at Putin’s snake-like charm.
@JRNyquist: So, then, Carlson is fairly unremarkable, like the rest of us? Average at best, and out of his depth?
I hope you were not insulted when I said Tucker Carlson is out of his depth. I meant no insult to anyone. Everyone has different skills and knowledge. We cannot all be good at everything. I could never build a bridge, fly a plane, or do brain surgery. I could never be a popular television icon like Tucker Carlson. Yet, for all his celebrity Carlson does not appreciate how dangerous Putin is. If I picked up a rattlesnake not knowing it was poisonous, would you congratulate me on doing something smart?
@JRNyquist: Please understand that I wasn’t trying to be deliberately belligerent or argumentative in tone or word with the previous comment. I apologize if it came across that way; I didn’t mean to insult you personally or professionally.
I was worried I had offended you.
No, not at all. Sorry, sometimes I am impulsive, and I have a rather sharp tongue.
For the longest time, I had put Carlson on a pedestal, especially when his show on Fox News was still running. Well, he is still my favorite of the ‘mainstream’ conservative news casters/journalists.
I had really enjoyed how he would say things on the air that no one else had the nerve to say, or so I had felt–again, this is among ‘mainstream’ journalists.
One of his greatest strengths, I believe, which was displayed nightly in his ‘opening monologues’, was his sincere and friendly demeanor–as a viewer, you felt that he was talking directly to you. I loved that about him.
Carlson was also my favorite. I even wrote an article praising him on this website.
I’ll have to look that up.
Oh yes, you are right. Putin’s lecturing tone and domince of the conversation does not give a good impression of him. He behaved like Hitler at a tea party. Simply talking talking talking — dominating the conversation.
Interesting insights into Carlson. It sounds like he became popular by being opinionated, by being more of an advocate rather than a hard-nosed investigative journalist. This kind of fame and belief in the brilliance of your own opinions leads a person to take shortcuts when it comes to investigating the facts, it leads him to decide what truth is based on what sounds right and whether it fits into his pre-existing ideology. I also think, given his high public profile and the constraints of being famous, Carlson is not above pandering to popular opinion on the right, which is now overflowing with Russian influences and ideas. And as he is a seasoned TV showman he is perfectly capable of appearing genuine on camera, he can sell ideas and opinions just as passionately whether he is receiving money to push them or not.
Makes sense.
Interesting, Laura.
Lots of naval mines and anti-ship missiles. That’s what Taiwan needs.
“That way Russia can kill the Ukrainians faster”
The sooner Ukraine (unconditionally) surrender the less people die. Putin uses the WW2 de-nazification terminology for a reason, he doesn’t hide the goal. It will happen sooner or later, the later is worse for your country. Or you can tell me other possible outcome?
But Ukraine is not a Nazi country. And neither is America. Putin can jump in a lake.
Neither Germany was a Nazi country, if you mean Nazis as painted in Hollywood movies. Putin uses the term because his goal is the same as was the allied goal in WW2 with defeated Germany.
No. Putin’s goal is not the same as the Allies in WW2. He is the invader, the destroyer of innocent life. And for what?
Allowing Communists to win is the only worse outcome – always and ever. There is no mercy from Communists, the more you give them the more they use that power to harm innocents.
KNHACKER8, you are obviously a NAZI.
“Holodomor”? …not even mentioned.
Not ever mentioned the Holodomor. Imagine leaving that episode of Kremlin mass murder out of a two hour history lesson on Ukraine. Putin really is a sickening gangster.
“I watched Carlson last year at an event where he admitted to being a bad student in college.”
He is a nepo kid from a family of biggest land owners in California. He used to profile himself as kind of an elitist snob wearing bowtie before becoming more populist.
Is that class analysis from the Marxist point of view?
A possible explanation of how as a bad student could attend good schools.
Putin even mentioned his unsuccessful attempt to join the CIA to humiliate him..
Yes he did. Making fun.
Nyet quite. Putin mentioned Carlson’s interest in being a CIA agent, to cast suspicion upon him as an current asset, which he actually, well may be.
What’s the story of Tucker wanting to be a spy?
“No. Putin’s goal is not the same as the Allies in WW2.”
Allies goal was unconditional surrender, what is Putin’s goal according to you?
The Allies goal was to save the world from a totalitarian tyranny.
Putin’s goal is to impose upon the world a totalitarian tyranny.
While Tucker Carlson and his pathetic attempt at journalism (or whatever it was) holds attention in the USA, Ukrainians have lived through one of the most demoralising weeks since the beginning of war. President Zelensky has fired general Zaluzhny, who is the most trusted person in power right now. And that is the reason why he did it. Nobody has any doubts about it. Zelensky has shot himself in a leg. Prior to this Zelensky and his manipulator Yermak have done several secret (but not very) polls checking people’s opinion on who they trust the most. General Zaluzhny won every time with great margin. Zelensky’s authority as a president runs out this spring. And his fear of losing power right now is far greater than a fear of losing a war. 80% of Ukrainians are grieving now. People would be happy to have a third Maydan and reclaim power back, but it is such a bad idea during the war.
Can you elaborate more on Yermak? Are you Ukrainian?
What exactly do you want to know? Who he is, or his influence on our president? He is the actual leader of Ukraine. Zelensky will not do anything without Yermak. Because Zelensky is a psychological child, he needs his every step to be guided and approved by somebody. Yermak is this fatherly figure for him. Yermak told Zelensky before the war, that Russia will not invade. So Zelensky did zero preparations and announced to the whole country that there will be no war. Yermak is totally untrustworthy. Very corrupt. Many consider him to be Russian agent. He knows all weaknesses of Zelensky and manipulates him in any way he wants.
Thank you. I have some more reading to do. What do you make of the allegations that Denys Yermak is corrupt. Here’s an article. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7116
I have heard this, too. Can it be verified?
Jeff,Would be nice to have an interview with a trusted source. I’m sure I can’t navigate this topic on my own. But if what Valentyna says is true, and I’m not doubting her, its certainly alarming. I recall you interviewing Ukrainian guy a few times back when you had your show posted on ITunes. Alex or Boris. Any chance of getting some answers from them?
Alex and Boris, for different reasons, are especially shy these days. Boris does not like Zelenskyy and hates Trump. His English is also hard to understand. I might reach out to him again, but it would have to be a transcript.
The problem of a comedian being president. His political judgment is not the best.
Carlson attempted to join the intelligence agency after leaving Trinity College in Connecticut, but was rejected on the basis that “the real-life agency, unlike its fictional counterparts, prefers not to hire young men who are gabby and insubordinate,” according to a 2017 profile of Carlson by The New Yorker.
While on a tangent about how the ousting of former pro-Moscow Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during the Maidan revolution was really the CIA’s fault, Putin took a pause to troll the conservative talk show host.
“The organization you wanted to join back in the day as I understand. We should thank God they didn’t let you in. Although it is a serious organization I understand,” the former KGB agent said through a translator.
newrepublic .com/post/178898/tucker-carlson-putin-interview-mock-cia-dreams
I find it anything but “funny” regarding TC attempting to join the CIA as R Limbaugh used to say “a young skull full of mush”. Carlson is a bumbling “useful idiot” to Russia today.
Why would Carlson want to join the CIA? That’s a curious biographical detail. If he was ever interested in the subject of espionage he might have bothered to read something. I doubt he reads serious books.
I asked myself the same question. He strikes me as the student who memorizes only material pertinent to the test (much as American education is today). It’s not about understanding concepts or actual critical thinking, it’s more about teaching to the test and testing accordingly.
And he’s no reader of books. His history and his bewildered look at Putin and with Macgregor shows that.
That’s a good point. If Carlson was really serious about joining the CIA he would have read a book or two about Russian espionage and KGB disinformation. At least enough to avoid becoming the total useful idiot that he is today. Joining the CIA was probably never more than a passing fancy to him, but it’s odd that this detail is being brought up so much now.
I suppose it can be argued that Carlson might have joined the bad guys (CIA), but — thank goodness, says Putin — he learned the “truth.” (Namely, that the CIA killed JFK, even though the CIA was being run by JFK’s brother Bobby from behind the scenes, and the CIA had been ordered by JFK to assassinate Castro. What does it mean to say the CIA killed JFK? Which CIA officials? On what evidence? Yet this is the truth as Tucker Carlson sees it, and Putin gently reminds him of this truth. In other words, the thought goes like this: “Oh yes, you might have gone to the devils at CIA. But now you are with me in Moscow. How lucky.”)
Thanks, Jeff, for this article and interview. The plans of China leave me aghast; mostly because it is indeed so very clear that the US seems to be clueless; not even defensive, much less offensive.
And Tucker… he has such a fantastic platform to help the cause of freedom, but his interviews on Russia and the Ukraine are tragic, as you have explained. SO many conservatives simply believe him carte blanche.
I hope he’s not compromised. Ignorance can sometimes be fixed, but corruption is a different story.
I suppose being in Moscow is a risk in itself.
https://danwang.co/2023-letter/
In Section 2, “Running”, Dan Wang talks about “run” which includes young Chinese males appearing on the US southern border. They fly to Ecuador and later cross the hazardous Darien Gap on foot to finally arrive in Panama. But, Wang says it’s part of a much larger movement to flee current problems and disappointments in China. The rich go to Japan, the ambitious, Singapore, and the aimless, Thailand.
Most escaping China are undoubtedly fleeing tyranny. We need to keep that in mind. Yet there will be agents of the CCP, too.
Excellent point – and what if certain people go their not so much for the journalist work but to obtain directives and orders and so on, and operational secrets that cannot be transmitted otherwise ? What if those who are recruited are there to obtain these directives for future operations, and then go ahead and do their journalist work as the cover legend ? Yes, if they were genuine then there are many ways how to get rid of them, if needed, and the KGB has various means to do this without leaving any traces of involvement.
And yet Dr. Li-Meng Yan states that no one leaves China without the knowledge and permission of the government. In effect, that they are all controlled.
Yes. But once allowed to leave China, immigrants from China need not remain under CCP control. They can escape that control. I have spoke to Jews who immigrated out of the USSR in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were required to take a six week GRU course and to spy “for the motherland.” That was the condition of their immigration. They agreed to whatever they had to in order to escape, then they broke contact and hoped there would be no consequence once they were under the protection of American or Israeli laws. I believe the GRU knew that most would not follow through as spies, but some would. This was a calculation on their part.
Many excellent points in this video.
Col. Davis, the ex-American military fellow being interviewed in the above video, is a perfect example of the misleading “realist” school of thought. Without being explicitly pro-Russia, he paints a defeatist picture to Western listeners. He starts by urging the West to listen and to dialogue with the enemy, to learn the nuances of the Kremlin’s position, as if that isn’t already well known. The Kremlin has only been consistently repeating the same talking points for two years. By failing to acknowledge that Russia has been pushing an outrageous pack of lies, he creates equivalency between the two sides, as if the destruction of Ukraine as a state and the survival of Ukraine are equally reasonable starting positions from which a middle ground can be reached.
On the war itself, he naturally thinks that Ukraine can’t win. Therefore the US and Europe should stop feeding false hope by supporting the war effort and instead bring it to a quick end by pushing for a negotiated settlement. He deceptively claims that the US and Europe has given Ukraine $200 billion, thousands of vehicles and millions of ammunition shells. If Ukraine still can’t win with all that, then of course it’s time to throw in the towel! I’m sure Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines are wondering where all this supposed aid went. To date, Europe has only been able to deliver about 300,000 shells to Ukraine after promising 1 million per year. This has been widely reported, along with the pittance of equipment provided by the US. Davis is right that giving money to Ukraine is not enough. They need heavy equipment in much larger quantities than they have gotten so far, something closer to the fake numbers he cited. But Davis’ juxtaposition of money given to Ukraine with the West’s lagging behind Russia in terms of having a war economy footing implies that the Ukraine war is bleeding the West dry, and is preventing the mobilization of its defense industry. This conclusion is only possible if you ignore the fact that most of the military aid money is invested in domestic weapons production to replenish existing stocks. At the end he naively assumes that if the Ukraine war is brought to an end, Russia will give the West enough time to get itself ready for a larger war, should that be in the cards. Yeah right.
Just a note, this interview was filmed before Carlson’s interview aired. This is probably why Davis assumes that Carlson will actually be in the position to ask Putin hard questions. Clearly Davis never watched any of Putin’s typical rambling press conferences/interviews.
I appreciate your posts Laura.
It’s funny how the aid given to Ukraine has been exaggerated over these past two years. And I have it from multiple sources that a good portion of the material sent by Western countries to Ukraine was obsolete junk. The Ukrainians have worked very hard to defend themselves. Very few military analysts thought they would win such victories and hold on so long.
Precisely. If WWII surplus is mostly what Ukraine uses, then why print up so much money supposedly for Ukraine? Show US the receipts.
Laura, yesterday i talked to an old tour guide of the Palace of the Parliament and i asked him about his opinion related to the current situation in Romania. He told me that actually Romania is ruled by the same people who ruled the country in the past and that Ceaucescu has been removed by the communists (!!!). I asked him if he was sure and he replied that it is an “open secret”. He stated also that the Stasi was involved. Interesting, isn’t it?
Very interesting. I haven’t heard about the Stasi being involved, but it would make sense for the KGB to hand off the job to a sister agency. More plausible deniability on Russia’s part if anything went wrong.
This is what we hear from well-informed people in many of the former Warsaw Pact countries.
Carlson is a useful idiot.
Carlson and Trump are TV show hosts, owned by Blackrock. China and Russia no doubt have major bearer shares along with the EU and Great Britain.
Larisa: Now you are making fun of us. Oh dear. The West is so stupid. Of course. We fall for your lies. But why do you want to kill us? Your side is going to wreck the world and kill off the greater part and f humanity. For what? To be top dog over a pile of rubble. Today Ukraine is rubble. Tomorrow the world.
It’s much simpler than that, Jeff. Russia was given assurance that NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe. Minsk II granted autonomy to the Donbas, but was not implemented. These were not aggressive moves by Russia, but rather by the West. It would have been better to nuke Russia than to mission creep. What ever Russia’s intentions were and are, have only been obfuscated by NATO”s encroachment. All we can do now is take YOUR unsubstantiated word.
Larisa: Russia was given no such assurance of NATO NOT moving East. Secretary of State Baker offered to make a formal agreement to this effect. Gorbachev was not interested. Only a formal agreement could bind Bush’s and the NATO structures to any such promise. Baker could not make a promise for NATO. He was not a representative of NATO. He could not make a promise for future American presidents. He only represented George H.W. Bush. So please stop with the misrepresenting of history. And Minsk 2 was never formally adopted by Ukraine. Why? Because the Minsk process required Ukraine to change its constitution to adhere to the agreement — which was unconstitutional under Ukraine’s Republican system. Putin knows all this. You should know this, too.
NATO did not expand in Eastern Europe, at least not on the ground where it counts. There is no significant number of NATO troops there and no missile defense shield, absolutely nothing to defend those countries with if Russia attacked tomorrow. NATO only expanded on paper, in the sense that former East Bloc countries joined the alliance hoping for protection against a resurgent Russia. This is completely different from Russia having troops and military bases all over Belarus and the former Soviet Central Asian republics. How come NATO supposedly gave Russia assurances against further expansion, but Russia gave no similar assurance about withdrawing from former Soviet countries? In January 2022 Russian troops intervened in Kazakhstan to save their client government, when did NATO ever do that in Eastern Europe? All NATO militaries are defensive, and right now the biggest of them are much too small to defend their own countries. Only Russia has the military might to start aggressive wars of conquest, and that’s precisely what they are doing.
NATO never should have expanded into Eastern Europe. If anything, NATO could have built their own Berlin type wall at the borders, creating a buffer out of the former Soviet satellites and Warsaw Pact. Transnational corporations would still have been able to do business with the East, but with sanctions on technology transfers which Russia could confiscate, if we weren’t to trust Russia.
Larisa: So you don’t think any of the former communist countries should have had independence or sovereignty from Moscow?
It’s not the responsibility of Americans or even NATO to fight for or pay for Eastern Europe.
Hey dummy, some members of NATO are Eastern European nations. Go away.
Helping Ukraine to survive contributes to NATO’s ability to defend. This is undeniable.
Jeff is either incredibly patient or a masochist putting up with these trolls..
It is useful to address enemy propaganda because so many people believe this propaganda.
I pray for your patience.
Thank you.
He’s pushing the same stupid line MacGregor pushes. Davis has no better judgment. He’s just another failed wannabe General.
Just wanted to share this excellent interview featuring Mr. Nyquist. This is a 2 hr 50 min tour-de-force that explores a range of subjects relating to the global communist movement.
https://youtu.be/QPTFfiZwUho
“Entrevista com Jeffrey Nyquist” by Instituto Borborema.
This is a truly excellent 2h 43m interview. Some things Jeff has said before, others are new or with more added nuance. These are some points I jotted down.
– Early Soviet Union, fake collapse of USSR, China/Russia long-term strategy to subjugate the world
– first step is to isolate the US from its allies, ideally coerce or blackmail Europe and Japan to submit to Russia/China without going to war, embargo and weaken the US, then a nuclear war and land invasion of the US is possible
– Unknown how many US nuclear warheads still work, but enough for now to keep Russia/China from going to all out war. The reason why China and Russia invested in their nuclear forces but not so much in their militaries is because only nuclear weapons will be decisive in subjugating the entire world. Invading countries one by one would only push the West to decouple from Russia and China and collapse their economies. But a massive nuclear attack on the US avoids all that, it can stun the whole world into falling in line.
– Bolshevik Revolution, NEP, in its first decade the USSR allowed capitalism to flourish to build up Russia’s economy
– But true capitalism could not be allowed to go on for too long. In 1929 Stalin implemented farm collectivization and state capitalism, in a speech in Siberia where he announced this policy he said that the independent small business owners were the main obstacles to Communism, they had to be destroyed.
– We see in Ukraine in 2014 that Stalin was right, it was the new middle class/small business owners who stood up to Moscow’s diabolical agents and forced them to flee
– Now, under the guise of a war economy, Russia is moving closer to the state capitalism of the USSR and crushing small independent businesses
– Communists prefer large corporations and monopolies headed by a few rich businessmen that are easy to control, controlling thousands of small business owners is more difficult. So we saw during Covid the push for extended, rolling lockdowns that destroyed a lot of small businesses
– People in the West have a very simplistic understanding of Communism, they think it’s just an economic system which collapsed in 1991. In reality Communism is very complicated, it involves dry convoluted doctrine, religious-like faith, moral outrage, flexible tactics, practical politics, conspiracy, deception, coercion, brutality, front organizations, useful idiots, true believers, and finally layers and layers of propaganda and disinformation to confuse the entire world. The simplest way of boiling it down is that it is a system of consolidating total power in the hands of a very small group of people.
– The reason the Tsars stayed in power for so long is because the Okhrana secret police practiced deception and other forms of trickery adopted from Chinese political culture (controlled opposition, provocation, double agents etc)
– However because Russia was Christian there were some limits to what the Okhrana was willing to do (eg in the time of “Crime and Punishment” the death penalty was used sparingly)
– When the Bolsheviks took over the Okhrana all the moral limits were removed and thousands/millions of people were killed and tortured by the KGB
– Initially most members of the Okhrana weren’t Communists but they joined with the Bolshevik regime to keep their jobs, the Soviets learned all their bag of tricks from them; once they got what they needed, the last remaining Okhrana members were done away with and the organization became fully Communist.
– The CIA is a tiny, hopelessly outmatched organization compared to the KGB; at the end of the Cold War the KGB employed about 1 million agents in all of the USSR, even if that number is only 500,000 in the Russian Federation it is huge compared to the CIA which only has around 21,000 employees; this size disparity is one reason why the CIA and other Western intelligence services are so easily penetrated by Russians and Chinese agents
Here in the comments I read something about Stanislav Lunev. In one of his interviews he said that the Chinese intelligence is like a kid game compared to his service GRU. Now the Chinese intelligence may be more advanced than before but the Russians don’t sleep. They are becoming more advanced too along with the Chinese. Only God knows what is the real power of FSB/SVR/GRU. I’m afraid that the United States won’t win the next big (world) war. But the hope is the last that dies.
Here’s a very informative video on disinformation from a personal favorite of mine who is an author, intelligence analyst, programmer, and cyber guy (Ryan McBeth).
https://youtu.be/DpO3FX3lnAE?si=2e4YxUhDVnVD8dgX
I don’t see the link.
https://youtu.be/DpO3FX3lnAE?si=YrzAsBt4aCnhA24D
Thanks
The points made by Lude regarding a coming attack by China on American soil are eerily the same points made by yesterday’s webinar on “Committee On The Present Danger China”. Frank Gaffney had some great guests on it to discuss the imminent threat of a surprise attack. Check it out:
https://presentdangerchina.org/webinar-xis-pearl-harbor-its-not-just-the-plan/
This is a really great presentation about the threat of China launching a surprise attack on American soil. It’s the latest presentation webinar of Frank Gaffney’s CPDC. It eerily lines up with Lude’s assessment.
https://presentdangerchina.org/webinar-xis-pearl-harbor-its-not-just-the-plan/
The Carlson ‘interview’ was a charade. Putin had Carlson on a tight leash to be sure.
The second the interview was over, I messaged my father on how Putin masterfully played Carlson. Putin was in total control, it was obvious. It wasn’t an interview but a strange lecture to a child being inquisitive of the actions of his mafia boss daddy.
Looks like Venezuela is about to make some trouble.
Venezuela Deploys Tanks, Armored Carriers To Guyana Border
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/venezuela-deploys-tanks-armored-carriers-guyana-border
Concerning Russians crossing the border, here’s an interesting video.
https://t.me/IntelRepublic/32877
I have the time, so I monitor dozens of Telegram channels. I also don’t suffer the censorship of these channels like in EU or US. It’s interesting to see the ‘other sides’ perspective.
There’s so much garble that unless one is an avid reader of history and understands real strategic thinking, one will be lost in a sea of propaganda noise. Many will just latch on to what they want to hear and support that notion without thinking past what was served to them in order to deceive them.
AI bots are also a huge problem and they’re becoming more advanced with each passing day. AI video/audio can fool millions. How can the average Joe 6-pack tell what’s what?
Danger Will Robinson, danger!
My semi sarcastic yet serious prayer for the day.
El Elyon,
Your planet is fine, but your workers are restless with nothing to do but destroy each other. They’re behaving this way because there is no higher power exercising control over or demanding consequence to their actions. It seems the Elohim have gone awol.
Please remedy. Thank you.
-Bill Freeman
Lude’s comment on pushing the threat of war over onto China’s soil is something that I have not heard anyone bring up but should be being discussed. I guess we are just being set up to be sitting ducks. I think that the lone sheriff in Ohio is at least doing something by rallying his community for the upcoming invasion. I checked my counties sheriff departments website and I found good ole southern, comfort food recipes so I guess we will be welcoming them with dinner.
Also, keeping the war going in Ukraine to keep China’s failing economy above water was insightful. Thanks again, Jeff, for all that you are doing to inform and educate us.
In the sense of being helpful to the communist cause all these people are complicit, and it doesn’t matter whether it is intentional or out of ignorance, the result still is and will be Russian worldwide communist domination.
On the subject explained in previous posting in regards to this Hungarian woman – Katalin Kariko – the main point is her biography – here presented excerpt comes from the unreliable but somewhat complex Wickipedia – there could be more serious points present elsewhere:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3#Early_life_and_education
Karikó obtained a BSc degree in biology in 1978 and her PhD in biochemistry in 1982, both from the University of Szeged. She worked with Jenő Tomasz and continued her postdoctoral research at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre (BRC) of Hungary. From 1978 until 1985, she was listed as an intelligence asset by the Communist Hungarian secret police, something she says she was blackmailed into out of fear of repercussions on her career or reprisals against her father. She claims that she did not provide them with information nor was she active as an agent.
In 1985, her lab at the BRC lost its funding,[22] and Karikó sought work at institutions in other countries. After being offered a research position by Robert J. Suhadolnik of Temple University,[26] Karikó left Hungary for the United States with her husband and two-year-old daughter[22] (and, smuggled inside her daughter’s teddy bear, £900 that they had received from selling their car[27][28] and buying British pounds on the black market)
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The main point, confirmed by the source familiar with the defectors from Soviet Bloc, is that she was able to leave the country with her husband and child, which is absolutely confirming she was on communist espionage assignment, as OTHERWISE she wouldn’t be able to leave at all.
Another point, or rather MAJOR RED FLAG is the fact that she was able to leave directly to the US, for a job, which the communists would never permit anybody who wouldn’t be their agent, here a spy.
The assessment of the whole situation is simple – she was a sleeper agent, tasked to gain confidence in her new jobs, including the one in US military connected University in Bethesda, MD, and also to be prepared to inflict this poison toxic injection formula on the world, including the main enemy of the communists the US.
One question remains whether that was her own work at all, or team work of the communist military bio-chem scientists working on this major bio-chem weapon.
The CCP virus was advanced man-made flu and it was a bait for the people, after they were substantially induced into fear (and some case may have been more severe) to accept this by far more lethal “vaccine” – and to ruin their immune system and cause, in millions of cases even death itself.
That the CCP virus was altered is proven by the testimony of the French virologist Luc Montagnier who testified to this effect – and so it was the evident bait and now the Russian GRU controlled communist satellite bio-chem research personnel was involved in supplying the main formula, through German based BioNTech, to cause this kind of evil worldwide.
Another side note – they claim that the Lab in Hungary this woman was working at lost its funding – this is not only simply laughable, but outright lying – there is no chance that communist biological and chemical research (all under military intel command, and GRU in charge) were (are) fully funded and they continue their work no matter what else could occur.
So the above claim is just part of her elaborate legend – and that she did agree to leave, and was allowed to take her family with her, that is the main proof that it was an communist espionage assignment, the result of which is biological warfare attack at present time, causing harm and death to millions of people on this planet. If she had a conscience, she would refuse to be part of it, she had to know that mixing nano-particles of God know what toxins into intravenous injections which these criminals call “vaccine” is intrinsically evil and a serious crime of genocidal proportions.
One of her bosses there in Hungary was at the same time member of the Communist Party Politburo, that’s how evil the situation really is. And her saying that she was blackmailed, if that was true, she still accepted to leave the country DIRECTLY to the US, so she was not a defectors at all, and they let her go with her husband and child, which is the proof it was a communist espionage assignment and nothing less – RUSSIAN GRU assignment.
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Tucker Carlson is one of the people who will one day regret his fallacy – and that the Russian communist propaganda was used and that the demoralization effect these enemies of all good seek, including demoralization of the main enemy, the US and its population, is the self-evident truth. That’s why they installed that KGB asset inside the WH.
These are the questions Mr. Carlson should have asked the KGB criminal Putin:
1) Have you any intention to apologize to Poland for the Katyn forest massacre of the 15 thousand Polish military officers which the Red Army took there and Belarus and executed them ?
2) Have you yet returned the Spanish gold reserve Stalin had stolen from Spain in 1939, with the help of the fleeing communist puppet government ?
3) What are you exactly hiding in those 200 plus deep underground bunkers which you have built like the one in Yamantau Mountain in the Urals ? (article on WND from 2000 “Inside Russia’s Magic Mountain”).
https://www.wnd.com/2000/06/4137/
4) When will you release the list of name of all spies recruited by the KGB and GRU and related spy agencies of the Soviet Bloc, including those names of the CPUSA and Socialist Party etc., in the United States, since you do claim that there was a real collapse of communism and of the USSR ?
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One thing more – there are communists and communist agents inside the US media, and so this controlled opposition is making sure that their communist propaganda and deception, which are supplied by Moscow, is fully promoted and publicized. And then of course the various conspiracy “theories”, which all sway the blame away from Russian and China to other targets…no need to name a few, including the US agencies, today vastly penetrated by communist assets themselves.
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Mr. Nyquist – the question you had – the source of that publication looks reliable as it is their cover story for this woman, and the proof of it is that she left the US and is now teaching professor in her native Hungary, and they are protecting her from being in any way implicated in this pandemic jab evil, including Hungarian pro-Russian government honorary titles etc. – but the results matter, she will have to answer to God for them at the end, and there will be no such deceptive excuse as “communist blackmail” possible !
NOT posting previously – glitch or intent ?
In the sense of being helpful to the communist cause all these people are complicit, and it doesn’t matter whether it is intentional or out of ignorance, the result still is and will be Russian worldwide communist domination.
On the subject explained in previous posting in regards to this Hungarian woman – Katalin Kariko – the main point is her biography – here presented excerpt comes from the unreliable but somewhat complex Wickipedia – there could be more serious points present elsewhere:
———————-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3#Early_life_and_education
Karikó obtained a BSc degree in biology in 1978 and her PhD in biochemistry in 1982, both from the University of Szeged. She worked with Jenő Tomasz and continued her postdoctoral research at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre (BRC) of Hungary. From 1978 until 1985, she was listed as an intelligence asset by the Communist Hungarian secret police, something she says she was blackmailed into out of fear of repercussions on her career or reprisals against her father. She claims that she did not provide them with information nor was she active as an agent.
In 1985, her lab at the BRC lost its funding,[22] and Karikó sought work at institutions in other countries. After being offered a research position by Robert J. Suhadolnik of Temple University,[26] Karikó left Hungary for the United States with her husband and two-year-old daughter[22] (and, smuggled inside her daughter’s teddy bear, £900 that they had received from selling their car[27][28] and buying British pounds on the black market)
——————
The main point, confirmed by the source familiar with the defectors from Soviet Bloc, is that she was able to leave the country with her husband and child, which is absolutely confirming she was on communist espionage assignment, as OTHERWISE she wouldn’t be able to leave at all.
Another point, or rather MAJOR RED FLAG is the fact that she was able to leave directly to the US, for a job, which the communists would never permit anybody who wouldn’t be their agent, here a spy.
The assessment of the whole situation is simple – she was a sleeper agent, tasked to gain confidence in her new jobs, including the one in US military connected University in Bethesda, MD, and also to be prepared to inflict this poison toxic injection formula on the world, including the main enemy of the communists the US.
One question remains whether that was her own work at all, or team work of the communist military bio-chem scientists working on this major bio-chem weapon.
The CCP virus was advanced man-made flu and it was a bait for the people, after they were substantially induced into fear (and some case may have been more severe) to accept this by far more lethal “vaccine” – and to ruin their immune system and cause, in millions of cases even death itself.
That the CCP virus was altered is proven by the testimony of the French virologist Luc Montagnier who testified to this effect – and so it was the evident bait and now the Russian GRU controlled communist satellite bio-chem research personnel was involved in supplying the main formula, through German based BioNTech, to cause this kind of evil worldwide.
Another side note – they claim that the Lab in Hungary this woman was working at lost its funding – this is not only simply laughable, but outright lying – there is no chance that communist biological and chemical research (all under military intel command, and GRU in charge) were (are) fully funded and they continue their work no matter what else could occur.
So the above claim is just part of her elaborate legend – and that she did agree to leave, and was allowed to take her family with her, that is the main proof that it was an communist espionage assignment, the result of which is biological warfare attack at present time, causing harm and death to millions of people on this planet. If she had a conscience, she would refuse to be part of it, she had to know that mixing nano-particles of God know what toxins into intravenous injections which these criminals call “vaccine” is intrinsically evil and a serious crime of genocidal proportions.
One of her bosses there in Hungary was at the same time member of the Communist Party Politburo, that’s how evil the situation really is. And her saying that she was blackmailed, if that was true, she still accepted to leave the country DIRECTLY to the US, so she was not a defectors at all, and they let her go with her husband and child, which is the proof it was a communist espionage assignment and nothing less – RUSSIAN GRU assignment.
———
Tucker Carlson is one of the people who will one day regret his fallacy – and that the Russian communist propaganda was used and that the demoralization effect these enemies of all good seek, including demoralization of the main enemy, the US and its population, is the self-evident truth. That’s why they installed that KGB asset inside the WH.
These are the questions Mr. Carlson should have asked the KGB criminal Putin:
1) Have you any intention to apologize to Poland for the Katyn forest massacre of the 15 thousand Polish military officers which the Red Army took there and Belarus and executed them ?
2) Have you yet returned the Spanish gold reserve Stalin had stolen from Spain in 1939, with the help of the fleeing communist puppet government ?
3) What are you exactly hiding in those 200 plus deep underground bunkers which you have built like the one in Yamantau Mountain in the Urals ? (article on WND from 2000 “Inside Russia’s Magic Mountain”).
https://www.wnd.com/2000/06/4137/
4) When will you release the list of name of all spies recruited by the KGB and GRU and related spy agencies of the Soviet Bloc, including those names of the CPUSA and Socialist Party etc., in the United States, since you do claim that there was a real collapse of communism and of the USSR ?
————
One thing more – there are communists and communist agents inside the US media, and so this controlled opposition is making sure that their communist propaganda and deception, which are supplied by Moscow, is fully promoted and publicized. And then of course the various conspiracy “theories”, which all sway the blame away from Russian and China to other targets…no need to name a few, including the US agencies, today vastly penetrated by communist assets themselves.
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Mr. Nyquist – the question you had – the source of that publication looks reliable as it is their cover story for this woman, and the proof of it is that she left the US and is now teaching professor in her native Hungary, and they are protecting her from being in any way implicated in this pandemic jab evil, including Hungarian pro-Russian government honorary titles etc. – but the results matter, she will have to answer to God for them at the end, and there will be no such deceptive excuse as “communist blackmail” possible !
Katyn was done by Germans, it is well documented. German bullets found on place.
What are you? A Stalinist? Moscow admitted guilt for the Katyn massacre a long time ago. Please see: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-admit-to-katyn-massacre
And stop trolling me with Stalinist lies.
It mass graves were found by the Germans. It was done on the orders of Stalin and the man that what most responsible for the killing was a man that was considered Stalin’s executioner. After Yeltsin came to power, Russia admitted they did it, but it was already widely known the Soviets did it.
Interesting.
To the best of recollection Russians have never properly apologized for that horrible atrocity and they may may have admitted one time that they were behind it. It is true that the German military found the graves and conducted autopsies and made it public that this was the work of the Red Army and NKVD etc., so this was documented by Wehrmacht back then, their scientific investigation was very thorough.
The point is that Russian communists must NEVER be trusted, and even when they are forced into the corner, they will lie as much as is in them, about anything that can damage their reputation and strategy. God will visit that country with horrible punishment, they were the cause of a lot of evils in the world and for quite some time now.
Prior to Desert Storm, President Herbert Walker Bush Sr, went around country to country in successful effort to garner support for invading Iraq. Bush made the case publicly to the American people that Saddam Hussein had used poison nerve gas on Iraqi Kurds. Bush left out the part about how the US gave Saddam that gas in case he needed to use it to kill Iranian soldiers someday, even in violation of international law.
Eventually, after about six months of creating an international coalition under the United Nations, authorizing the US and Great Britain to lead the mission, Russia had plenty of time to head the warning and transfer Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Baqaa Valley of Syrian occupied Lebanon. Even though the CIA had observed Russia truck Saddam’s WMDs out of Iraq, Bush invaded anyway. I would argue rightly so, considering that the US is responsible for those WMDs Saddam used on the Kurds, being there in the first place.
Dubya Bush returned to Iraq with a follow up mission to his daddy’s. That too, was presented to the public with a plausible explanation. After that, there were missions to Afghanistan and Syria which were done without public explanation, or any attempt to gain support of US citizens. This jump into Ukraine is even more audacious abuse of American citizens.
Nice of you to make the case, Jeff, but that should have been Biden’s job. Furthermore, I don’t see it as in the interests of America. If the US needs to support a war, we really should invade and conquer Mexico. If you want to pay for Ukraine, that’s fine by me, but you your own money; not mine.
Tucker seemed to attempt to challenge Putin with hard questions, but he didn’t push, too, hard. He did ask Putin to release the young American captive, and when Putin rebuffed, Carlson made a second effort, but he is a TV pro, and I wonder if the entire program wasn’t scripted?
All in all, it’s good that Putin’s positions have been made widely disseminated so that the public is free to question what was said. Pundits such as yourself, Jeff, can scrutinize the interview for people to consider in their own evaluation. Otherwise, the one sided presentation is reduced to chauvinism, and censorship which undermines the US Bill Of Rights.
Of course it was edited and at least partially scripted.That’s why it wasn’t live.
Putin led Carlson by the nose, insulting him one minute, directing him to stay on point the other. In prison terminology, Carlson was a submissive “bitch” to this former KGB Colonel who has murdered, imprisoned many a journalist as head of the Communist regime in Russia. Why are we even debating Putin, his character, much less his authoritarian regime in power today?
Journalists should never give a platform to a murderer of journalists.
What onesided presentation is chauvinism and censorship? I don’t understand. Are you accusing me of this?
Biden ignores Putin. You censor any posts of Russia’s position. If the shoe fits.
Carlson as interviewer is irrelevant. Putin got his censored position out to the World. Now, it can be debated by the public and if Putin can be demonstrated to have a hidden agenda or having lied to Tucker, then Putin can hang from his own petard. Conversely, to the extent that Putin might be accurate, then Biden can be shown to have the hidden agenda.
Tucker Carlson self deprecates in his tale of how he was rejected by the CIA, and Putin mocks that. That suggests that Carlson is in fact an CIA asset, no matter what political position he might seem to hold. You, Jeff, support Biden. That makes you appear as Deep State. CIA – Deep State, good cop – bad cop, what’s the diff?
What? I don’t have my secret, CIA issued communist babble decoder ring handy. I can’t really even make sense of this. Is the AI failing today or is it human error Larisa?
Putin is the one who censors journalists. And I do not censor any posts of Russia’s position. I just censor trolling — when you start filling up my site with lies lies lies.
I do not support Biden, Larisa, and don’t come here posting videos of comedians mocking Reagan’s foreign policy as if this rebukes me. It’s insulting. And the fact is, Biden is on Putin’s team. But maybe you are also on that team. You post something anti-Reagan and I am supposed to believe you oppose Biden? Come now. This is a game you are playing.
Invade Mexico? Back under your bridge troll. Insinuating you pay US taxes? Lol.
illegal aliens stole my bridge.
So you are a communist, Larisa? You mock anything patriotic.
Americans need to reposes our Government. If Biden is on Putin’s side, and you support Biden, then how does that make you patriotic and to what? I am loyal the the US Bill Of Rights, not to subverted government. Don’t wave the flag like a sig heil.
Larisa: Either you are very confused or you are having fun at our expense. You are apparently unfamiliar with my views and those of my readers. You are clearly not interested in my work. Please go and read what interests you. Don’t write to me when you have not bothered to read my work. It comes off badly.
Larisa: I do not understand your comment. Why are you bringing up the Iraq War? Did you know I disagreed with the 2003 invasion of Iraq? I did not believe in state building in Afghanistan. Not sure why you interject that here. What case am I making that should be Biden’s job? I am not convinced you have any real familiarity with my thinking.
My point is that Bush Sr went to great lengths to not appear dictatorial in is quest for the New World Order, but Biden is all out to turn the US into a totalitarian state in the model of China. While Biden spends money like a drunken sailor in Ukraine, it seems to me that you act as apologist for Biden. That suggests that you, like Tucker, are Deep State.
George H. W. Bush was not dictatorial. And his Gulf War coalition stopped Iraqi miltiary aggression that might have spilled over into Saudi Arabia. Saddam served as an apt distraction, by the way, helpful to Moscow as it drew U.S. and NATO forces out of Europe at a crucial moment when the Soviet Union faced grave problems.
That last bit, I hadn’t considered.
Interesting conversation I had a few minutes ago online with a pro Putin individual. His first sentence in a 3 paragraph reply to my own comments:
“Putin is not a Communist.”
To which I replied that this first sentence confirmed he was indeed an apologist for Putin as well as the current Russian Communist regime….and then I added a quote from Vladimir Putin that confirms he IS indeed a Communist…
“You know that I, like millions of Soviet citizens, over 20 million, was a member of the Communist Party of the USSR and not only was I a member of the party but I worked for almost 20 years for an organization called the Committee for State Security,” Putin said, referring to the KGB.
“I was not, as you know, a party member by necessity,” he said. “I liked Communist and socialist ideas very much and I like them still.”
So far, no reply back from this pro-Putin apologist.
Did you catch early on in the interview where Putin says he was KGB, just as Tucker Carlson was interested in being an agent of the CIA? Tucker just sat there unresponsive to that. I wonder what’s up?
Putin was basically insulting Carlson.
I remember these quotes from Putin very well. It makes clear who he is. Why are others so ready to be fooled?
They live in a land of make believe. They will not allow anything to disturb their little world. They may not stop believing even when they are frog marched to the wall.
Jeff, how about YOU interviewing Tucker Carlson? What if you play Tucker and Tucker plays Putin, in an exercise where you ask the questions that you feel that Tucker should have asked, and Tucker answers like he thinks that Putin would answer? In lieu of that, how about you write a fictional interview with you and Putin?
Tucker wouldn’t allow it. Jeff would eviscerate him. You are trolling to suggest it. Tucker has likely never heard of Nyquist. You likely only have because you were targeted on him by your bosses.
Tucker was allowed to interview Putin, because that serves the interests of Putin and the CIA. Jeff and Tucker are supposedly both conservatives, yeah? They too, can script their little tête-à-tête.
“A lot of russian journalists can’t interview vladimir putin, in a country which despises the freedom of speech. Some of those people have to hide abroad, some are already dead. Now there’s Carlson with his sh*t show. Money don’t stink, right?”
“THEY” want out of Ukraine, now that it’s been decimated. Biden has convinced everyone of his senility, so he won’t be charged for treason and genocide, and the face saving is in bringing Trump back in office via the same rigged voting machines that have been used since Dubya Bush’s first term.
Pro-Russian propaganda again, Larisa? And you did not like Reagan. Hmmm.
“A lot of russian journalists can’t interview vladimir putin, in a country which despises the freedom of speech.” –brcc661
Bingo!
While Putin put his forces on the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, he deported the second highest ranked US Ambassador, with a letter to hand deliver to Biden, who ignored it. Now, via Carlson, Putin gains a platform to widely disseminate the essence of that letter to the public at large.
Biden could have prevented Carlson from traveling to Russia.
Carlson serves the mutual interests of the US State Department and Russia.
The US is through with Ukraine, so if people now sympathize with Putin, that makes it politically more viable to reverse stance on Russia in Ukraine.
Larisa: Putin’s statements to Carlson are not new. There is no revelation here.
Are you really saying that the Russian army spilled over the border because a letter was ignored by Biden? The same Biden who okayed a small incursion in Ukraine? And that poor little Russia, with no ambassadors or media representatives in the West to call on, had to wait until Carlson went to their country to publicize the message? Unlike in Russia, where everything but the party line is censored, people in the West have always been able to imbibe as much Russian propaganda as they want. RT, Sputnik and countless pro-Russian blogs are freely available in the West. The same cannot be said for Western media in Russia. What do you think is the reason for this imbalance? Why can’t Russia allow its people to hear all sides of the story and make up their own minds?
And why would Biden prevent Carlson from going to Russia since they are both on the same side –that is, Russia’s side. Carlson is only doing and saying things that Biden can’t for political reasons, he is trying to shift public support away from Ukraine so that Biden has an excuse to pull the plug on military aid.
Larisa: “Tucker was allowed to interview Putin, because that serves the interests of Putin and the CIA.”
Carlson interviewing Putin serves Putin’s interests, but how does it serve the CIA? Is Russia in control or allied with the all-powerful CIA? In that case Russia has nothing to fear from the US, which means that Putin once again lied in the interview.
Are Russian troll farms so short-staffed they can’t employ any fact checkers?
Lol
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Same as Jeff disallows all comments which present Putin’s view in any context whatsoever, until now. Jeff is in on it as well.
Larisa troll: I have written extensively about Putin’s views. I don’t censor his views. He censors his whole country. But as a guest on my site, I will kick you out if you lie or waste my time — which you have done. You do not argue honestly. Are you Russian or American? We all want to know. But then, how would we know about f you answer honestly? You argue for Putin. But that even hurts Russia, for Putin is a curse to Russia. Peace could be enjoyed by all if that maniac kept inside his borders. Why spend your time here defending an evil man? Are you paid?
The only time I ever voted Republican was for Reagan, and against my grandmother’s wishes. Ron and Nancy were so charming with Johnny Carson. I soon regretted it.
Iran/Contra, yeah?
I haven’t voted for President since Reagan until Larry Elders a few years ago. I was more of a Sam Nunn – JFK Democrat.
Why are you on this site? Do you even know what we discuss here?
I post here Jeff, because until this attention to Ukraine, you were the only one still talking about the Russia / China threat. It took me quite some time to realize your bias. Either you are not Conservative or Biden is not Progressive.
Putin has been saying the same thing all along, but nobody has heard it for a very, long, time. It’s kept down in the mix until this interview with Carlson. This is not happen chance.
The US is done with Ukraine, and this interview is to soften the rhetoric as part of an exit strategy. Truth be damned. It’s all about getting the people to go along with whatever the exit pretext is.
Larisa: How about you get me an interview with Carlson. If you can do that, I will write any fictional account you please.
You asked for it. I will try to get you an interview, and the fictional account is optional.
Here’s a great article on Putin years prior. Still applies today.
http://jrnyquist.com/misreading-putin.html
Thanks.
Thank you for posting that.
Tucker’s comments here lead me to assess that Tucker is indeed a proagandist for Russian. I’m not buying the ignorant useful idiot idea.
He also accused American media outlets of being “corrupt” for publishing interviews with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, which he described as “fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelensky’s demand that the US enter more deeply into war in Eastern Europe and pay for it”.
“That is not journalism”, he said. “It is government propaganda, propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people.”
“Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are now, you’ve never heard his voice, that’s wrong”, he said.
Carlson also made unsubstantiated claims that the Biden administration had “illegally spied” on and leaked text messages three years ago to “stop a Putin interview that we were planning”.
He claimed the US president had tried to do “exactly the same thing” last month but he had decided to travel to Moscow.
“We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin, we are here because we love the United States and we want to remain prosperous and free,” he said.
Carlson previously claimed that the US should take Russia’s side in its war with Ukraine, and denounced Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator” and a “dangerous authoritarian”.
https://news.yahoo.com/watch-tucker-carlson-confirms-unedited-185736364.html
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Strong words and then a Yahoo News link???? Reliable in any sense of the word? Good grief. Regardless, Tucker Carlson IS a useful idiot, a Sophist. Remember what a Sophist is?
“authentic users who knowingly or unknowingly spread disinformation”.
Carlson should have as much reliability publicly as a Douglas Macgregor or a Scott Ritter (convicted pedophile).
Bro, It’s a Telegraph UK article with a link to a Tucker YouTube vid, talking about his upcoming interview.
My mistake. Just saw “Yahoo.com” although I’m skeptical of any media that claims to be “conservative”.
“Faux” News says so for 20+ years and yet they have had more Leftist reporters than CNN or MSNBC.
Sophistry goes back to Greek philosophy. I’m familiar.
Again, I apologize for earlier comment.
No worries
The Sophists were men that argued a position in a silly manner that seemed, on the surface, to be logical. Often it was done as entertainment and Athenians enjoyed listening to them. I did a paper while in engineering school in the early 80s that purported to show, through rambling, disconnected logic, why alcoholic beverages should be allowed into final exams.
These days, sophistry is rarely funny, or done to entertain. It is done seriously and there are too many people that are unaware of what is going on, and their lack of education and reliable information, comes back to haunt.
The problem of the sophists is a problem in the philosophy of Plato. The truth matters. When persuasion becomes a game of advancing untruth, and that game pays rich dividends, how does truth survive?
Ohengineer: your comment that sophistry works because of poor education reminds me of a “science” article that my son was required to read for class. The teacher claimed it was an excellent article. It had eight points in 16 short paragraphs—every one of them was based on a logical fallacy. That’s not counting the science fallacies it also contained. And this was written by a scientist and recommended to my son by a science teacher?
A good demonstration of the poor education given in our schools today. I wish that article were an isolated case, but, unfortunately, it isn’t. The example above was in a magnet school.
The ancient Greeks said that those that the gods want to destroy, they make mad first. How is it not mad not to take seriously threats made by an avowed enemy? Yet I am considered mad when I bring up those threats! It appears that a majority of Americans are mad.
Lude is a voice of sanity in a sea of madness.
All of Carlson’s jibes agaisnt Zelensky and the West apply to his treatment of Putin. It was a fawning interview, in my opinion, because of the way it was framed — and because Carlson will never challenge Putin’s narrative as counter-factual.
Very true! So why can’t Carlson see how hypocritical he appears?
Another thought. If Carlson really thinks the Russian point of view is not given enough airtime, he could do daily updates of what the Kremlin and Russian media are saying about the war. You know, things like TV guests routinely urging the invasion of East European countries while praising Stalin’s handling of the kulaks. He could be the first to introduce Solovyev to American audiences! So why doesn’t he do that? Because he knows it will shatter Russia’s narratives and give instant credibility to the Ukrainian side. Plus, from what I’ve seen, there are probably not enough media clips in which pro-war Russians come across as reasonable –not even enough to fill one half hour show.
Laura: Russian media does have an image problem. They feed so many lies to the Russian people it is sickening. How could the mouthpieces of a murderous thug appear attractive? It is a problem. So then we have Larisa coming here and prettifying Putin. Preying on the ignorant and the blind. Sad. And do we get equal time on Russian sites? No.
We don’t even get equal time on YouTube.
This fulsome moral posturing is the worst thing about Carlson’s coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. He displays a very Communist-like habit of inverting morality and blaming the victim. But as long he does it with passion and vigor certain types of people will be attracted to it and not look too closely at the facts.
And yes, it’s hard to square his distortion of basic facts with being well-meaning but ignorant. A comedian who was barely in office for 3 years before the war started is a corrupt tyrant, but an ex-KGB officer who has been in power for 2 decades is a well-meaning statesman just looking out for his people. It’s not credible. Carlson is pushing an agenda here. He can’t just be a useful idiot. The Col. Davis interview posted above is a much better example of what a useful idiot sounds like, he at least managed to sound reasonable and balanced while repeating Russian disinformation. The fact that Carlson calls Western media corrupt for interviewing Zelensky is telling, he’s really saying that only the Russian position should be believed while the Ukrainian position should not be given the time of day. But Western media can only interview Zelensky if he is willing to talk to them. Putin rarely gives interviews to Western reporters, the only he time he does is to a few hand-picked muppets who can be counted on not to ask any real questions.
Well said.
Laura: When you frame Carlson’s rhetoric as you have, it looks very bad for Carlson. It appears that he is more than just confused. There is method in his confusion.
Here is a link to a timely presentation of the threat of Xi’s China launching a surprise attack on American soil. It’s the latest webinar of Frank Gaffney’s CPDC. To me it eerily lines up with Lude’s assessment. Thank you Jeff as always for very valuable insights. I enjoy a number of your reader’s thoughts as well.
https://presentdangerchina.org/webinar-xis-pearl-harbor-its-not-just-the-plan/
Mr. Lude says :”I believe that 60 or maybe 70 percent of Chinese people are unhappy and have many complaints. They are tired of this whole system; however, the problem is that the battlefield on which the communists plan to fight is the United States itself. In other words, the U.S. is in a defensive position – and this is not right. How can the Chinese people get free of the CCP if the political battle is in the United States? As long as your strategy is purely defensive, the communists will find a weakness, an opening, and they will cause you trouble rather than suffering trouble themselves. So you have to change your position. You cannot be defensive all the time. You have to push the battlefield to your enemy’s side. You have to infiltrate and push this conflict to the China side. A more offensive strategy should have been adopted a long time ago”.
Even if the US invaded China, wasn’t that one of the things the national-socialists thought when they invaded USSR? People are disgruntled with the soviet regime, so they would help them destroy the soviet communist party. On the contrary, the USSR managed to hold control of the population and reorganize the war effort by utilizing national symbols and presenting to society the slogan of the “Great Patriotic War”. Why would China not do the same? Is the People’s Republic of China more disorganized than it was the USSR in 1941 so dissidents could overthrow their communist ruling elite? What is the percentage of people disgruntled with the regime that would allow to bypass state security totalitarian mechanisms and make it possible an implosion?
Lude was not suggesting that the U.S. invade China. I think he was suggesting we unite with the Chinese people against their tyrannical rulers. This would be a nuanced strategy, not involving a military invasion.
Yes, It was just an imaginary situation.
But about the intelligence work with anticommunist people in the enemy, which is what he propose, does this has any precedent in history? North Korea, Ussr, China, Cuba, Venezuela, all communist regimes seem unscaved of infiltration and insurrections due to their closed society nature and lack of need of justifying actions to public opinion, different from non communist regimes.
So, the military direct action (invasion and things like that) didn’t work to make soviet citizens turn against the government, but the indirect action suggested seems almost impossible, even because western regimes should do a counterintelligence work first before doing a proper blow on China and Russia stability.
You ignore the full history. What ruined the German invasion was how they treated the Slavic peoples—just as bad if not worse than the Soviets. The Germans made the case for the Russian people to stick with Stalin.
Hitler failed in the USSR because he came as a conqueror and not a liberator. The same has happened in the Donbas. Putin’s thugs treat those of Russian descent as badly as they treat Ukrainians.
The Kremlin rules with propaganda and the controlled media. They are constantly pouring out false narratives designed to entice and mislead. There are even more sophisticated messages aimed at Europe and America. It is so sophisticated some of my friends lose patience with my explanations. Being one person, it is hard to get a hearing with this massive confusion machine — and all who have been ensnared by it.