Why did Putin grant an interview to Tucker?

[Polishprince]

You think I am going to listen to an interview with a war criminal? You can, since you obviously have the hots for him.

Uncle Pooty is an ALLEGED war criminal. Never been convicted, merely accused.

A lot of people see him as the Russian Lincoln , trying to reunite the Soviet Union much as Honest Abe did with the USA in the 1860's.

 

[JGalt]

repubs are just another arm of Russian propaganda now.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

I thought the history part was far and away the most interesting part of the interview.....It good to get it from the Russian/Putin perspective.

Have you never read any of Putin’s many equally long rambling historical speeches made to his Russian audiences, speeches filled with lies meant to flatter and convince Russians of their moral superiority and right to possess or break up the lands of other nations like Ukraine with Russian minorities? That Putin has frequently defined Ukraine as Russian with no separate historical existence or right to exist as a nation? Those speeches have all been translated … and were equally nonsense.

So you didn't learn anything new about Putin?

What was there to learn? That Putin was able to fillibuster Tucker Carlson, never directly answer his weasely questions (were there really any challenging questions asked?), and still leave his “interviewer” impressed with his honesty?

One relatively new horrible and absurd theme — of course not even noted by Tucker — was that Poland was somehow responsible for its own invasion by Hitler and Stalin in 1939!

Poland angrily responds to Putin's claims about Hitler and World War II

Putin defended Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's 1939 decision to invade Poland during his recent interview with Tucker Carlson.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Woodznutz]

Have you never read any of Putin’s many equally long rambling historical speeches made to his Russian audiences, speeches filled with lies meant to flatter and convince Russians of their moral superiority and right to possess or break up the lands of other nations like Ukraine with Russian minorities? That Putin has frequently defined Ukraine as Russian with no separate historical existence or right to exist as a nation? Those speeches have all been translated … and were equally nonsense.


What was there to learn? That Putin was able to fillibuster Tucker Carlson, never directly answer his weasely questions (were there really any challenging questions asked?), and still leave his “interviewer” impressed with his honesty?

One relatively new horrible and absurd theme — of course not even noted by Tucker — was that Poland was somehow responsible for its own invasion by Hitler and Stalin in 1939!

Poland angrily responds to Putin's claims about Hitler and World War II

Putin defended Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's 1939 decision to invade Poland during his recent interview with Tucker Carlson.

www.newsweek.com

I don't think Tucker's plan was to interrogate Putin, as many 'interviewers' do, but to give the west a deeper look into Putin's thoughts. I think he succeeded pretty well. Tucker also has the gift of not interrupting his interviewee as so many do.

 

[Silver Cat]

Have you never read any of Putin’s many equally long rambling historical speeches made to his Russian audiences, speeches filled with lies meant to flatter and convince Russians of their moral superiority and right to possess or break up the lands of other nations like Ukraine with Russian minorities?

The Russians do not need to be convinced of their moral superiority. They already believe in it. And any Russian politician (however anti-Putin he is) who will say "we are bad" has no chances to be a Russian politician.

That Putin has frequently defined Ukraine as Russian with no separate historical existence or right to exist as a nation? Those speeches have all been translated … and were equally nonsense.

Really? Zelenskiy himself (when he was not a President) told that the Russians and Ukrainians are one nation. Don't you believe that Americans and Californians are one nation?

What was there to learn? That Putin was able to fillibuster Tucker Carlson, never directly answer his weasely questions (were there really any challenging questions asked?), and still leave his “interviewer” impressed with his honesty?

One relatively new horrible and absurd theme — of course not even noted by Tucker — was that Poland was somehow responsible for its own invasion by Hitler and Stalin in 1939!

Poland angrily responds to Putin's claims about Hitler and World War II

Putin defended Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's 1939 decision to invade Poland during his recent interview with Tucker Carlson.

www.newsweek.com

Every man, and every nation are responsible for their actions and their fate. If you live between Russia and Germany, if you occupy both Russian and German lands, if you discriminate and abuse both ethnic Russians and ethnic Germans on "your" territory, if you believe France and England who push you to fight simultaneously against Russia and Germany, if you are so stupid and self-blinded by your national pride... Yes, it sounds like you are somehow responsible for the natural outcome.

 

[Ringo]

Here is a short paraphrase:
"We did not have one reason to recognize Ukraine as an independent state, but we did not just do it, we let them for many years demonstratively wipe themselves with any treaties and declarations just to please you, handsome gentlemen with beads and trinkets. It was only when we sensed an existential threat that we reluctantly took action. So tell it to your elites, if there are any normal ones left."

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

So here we have it: our Trump-loving apologists for Putin’s bloody invasion of sovereign internationally-recognized Ukraine now dare to echo Putin’s support of Nazi Germany’s bloody invasion of Poland in 1939.

We are told by these folks that Hitler was forced to invade and destroy Poland and start WWII!

Poland wasn’t the last country Hitler invaded. Not by a long shot. Our job is to make sure that Ukraine is the last country this pathetic tyrant Putin tries to invade and conquer in the heart of Europe…

 

[skye]

 

[Silver Cat]

So here we have it: our Trump-loving apologists for Putin’s bloody invasion of sovereign internationally-recognized Ukraine now dare to echo Putin’s support of Nazi Germany’s bloody invasion of Poland in 1939.

We are told by these folks that Hitler was forced to invade and destroy Poland and start WWII!

Poland wasn’t the last country Hitler invaded. Not by a long shot. Our job is to make sure that Ukraine is the last country this pathetic tyrant Putin tries to invade and conquer in the heart of Europe…

Really? And do you support Nazi Germany's and Nazi Poland's invasion in Czechoslovakia in 1938?
Hitler has a choice - to invade, or not to invade, discrimination or not discriminate Jews. And Germany had paid for his choice. Pilsudski had choice - to invade or not to invade, discriminate or not discriminate Jews, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarussians, Germans, Lithuanians, etc. And Poland had paid for his choice.

It was stupid choice of Hitler to fight simultaneously against Russia, Britain and the USA. It was stupid choice of Pilsudski to fight simultaneously against Germany and Russia.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Yeah, it’s time to get rid of this skanky low-life, low-information, troll. Skye is on permanent ignore. Bye, dummy!

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

A lot of people see him as the Russian Lincoln , trying to reunite the Soviet Union much as Honest Abe did with the USA in the 1860's.

Nobody but brain-damaged Trumpsters would dare compare Russian mafia chief & longterm tyrant Vladimir Putin with America’s greatest President.

 

[jbrownson0831]

True.

Putin also knows that Carlson is a fellow rightwing fascist and enemy of democracy, that the interview would be a way for Putin to communicate with conservatives in the United States who support and defend Putin.

Fascists are leftists diaperface.
Your desperation is ridiculously obvious now.
Where will your and jimboliar move Mrs Jones???

 

[FranklinRoosevelt_FTW]

Opinion | Tucker Carlson just gave Vladimir Putin exactly what he wanted

Putin is a former KGB officer. That means he’s a master at manipulating and exploiting events for desired outcomes.

www.msnbc.com

Simple, Carlson is not a journalist. He is an entertaining populist...and a treasonous opportunist. Journalist do not allow those they interview to lie and distort facts. They ask hard questions. Tucker did not. He was and is Putin's puppet.

This whole Putin is a master manipulator thing is tiresome and boring. The United States has had CIA officials and generals like Dwight Eisenhower serve the highest political positions. And they don’t get torn apart in the media, as being some kind of “master manipulators” when talking with foreign journalists.

It’s getting absurd at this point. Americans who want to support Ukraine should be able to go fight and die if needed for that country. Same with Americans who support Russia. Just like it was in the Spanish Civil War. Russia has zero interest in attacking America.

Russians are beautiful people and they’re getting a garbage treatment. The sanctions against Russians are disgusting.

The average Russian soldier is brave and courageous in Ukraine. Same with your average American soldier in Iraq in 2003. We might not agree with the two wars, but those are the undeniable facts. God bless the Russian people is still tall in ww2

 

[JLW]

Uncle Pooty is an ALLEGED war criminal. Never been convicted, merely accused.

A lot of people see him as the Russian Lincoln , trying to reunite the Soviet Union much as Honest Abe did with the USA in the 1860's.

I just read this and thank you for your post. Your post comparing Putin to Lincoln just confirms what I suspected all along: MAGAs want to see the revitalization of the Soviet Empire/CCCP. Trump's declaration that he would encourage Putin to invade Europe is just part of the MAGA sellout of our allies and this nation's principles. We know where MAGAs loyalty lies.