Peloni: Carlson is quite correct to have pursued this interview, and it is quite regrettable that he was blocked from doing so three years ago. This will be an important chance for people to actually hear Putin’s responses to real questions, questions to which they have never heard the answers because the sycophantic Western media have been co-opted to buttress the control of Western leadership over the public, instead of providing the much needed role of public oversight, the proper purview of journalists.
Tucker Carlson, X February 6, 2024
Why I am interviewing Putin.
@Laura
And if Trump succeeds in unhooking Russia from them as he tried to do before, what then?
@Laura
I disagree that such a claim would not matter, and as I have explained there is only the faithful belief that Putin is pure evil which supports it.
This is quite true, but the basis of this alliance has been an unsteady one in the building, where the partners have separate interests and their alliance is limited to the relative interests of the parties. In fact, Russia came to such an alliance due to its limited choices, choices which were limited due to the obvious enmity and threat raised against his regime by the West. In truth, Russia can not be pleased with being forced so closely into China’s sphere of influence, and hopefully matters will change radically enough in the future to provide Russia with an alternate choice to her current situation.
This is quite untrue. Unlike the Neocons and their Putin-badman devotees, my dial of support is not fixed for or against Putin, and accordingly, I have criticized Putin for what I judged to have been wrong.
It doesn’t matter whether Russia was directly responsible for 10/7 (though I think it was involved}. The point being that Russia is allied with Israel’s worst enemies. But obviously there’s nothing so horrible that the Putin regime could do that would cause you to rethink your support for it. As for the Biden officials interactions with Iran, you never see me defending the Biden administration. They are traitors. You don’t need to convince me of the treachery of the Biden administration. However, you’ll never waver from your support of Putin.
@Laura
That does seem to be an arbitrary basis to draw your rather certain conclusion that Putin is somehow responsible for October 7. In that same time period, the US govt provided Iran with billions in cash, provided Hezbollah with billions in Israeli gas revenue, and provided Hamas with billions in financing. Even now, the US is continuing to finance all these players, while blocking Israel from eliminating the threat which they pose to Israel. Yet, based on the notion that Russian officials met with Hamas a year or two ago, your spidey sense tells you that it must be true that that Putin did it in the Library with the Candlestick.
Forgive me if I suggest that there are far greater points of contact than a meeting a year or two ago between the US and Iran, as an Iranian spy still sits in the top echelons of the Pentagon where she oversees all US special operations after being exposed as an influence peddler for Iran. Meanwhile, Iranian spies have been indicted for incognito for their role in hacking into as many as 10 states during the 2020 election which placed the current administration in the White House. Also, the US is presently still pressing Israel to abandon their claim to the Golan as they were pressed to abandon their ownership of the off shore gas fields to the benefit of Iran, again.
So, your interest in pointing the finger for October 7 at Putin would seem to be based upon more than just the connection made in the meeting you keep citing, as the US has far more connections and far more activity in maintaining the threat which faces Israel than just a meeting. In other words as rational conclusions go, you suggestion that Putin was behind the October 7 massacre is a rather large leap from a logical conclusions. Some might call it a conspiracy theory, but I think that is granting it too much credence, based on the details you have shared in any event. Rather I would simply describe it as a theory in support of your outspoken hatred for Putin/Russia.
EvRe1, you seriously don’t know why I hate putin? While I don’t expect you to give a damn about the unlawful invasion of Ukraine and the slaughter of its citizens, I at least would expect you to care about his alliance with Iran and hamas and its mercenaries aiding hezbollah. I told you people that hamas met with Russian officials in Moscow a year or 2 ago.
@EvRe1
I think Putin is a war criminal, but I think anyone has the right to interview anyone anytime. I will watch the interview.
However, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have reservations about a known CIA shill doing a puff piece right before the war criminal launches missiles at civilian apartment buildings.
Very interesting discussion. It seems that those who hate Putin also feel it is unacceptable to even listen to him, and as if it is a crime to interview him.
This seems very similar to those who hate Trump, for example Rachel Maddow, who believe he should not be interviewed on their Cable Channel or even have his speeches aired on their channel.
Is hate for someone a reason to “cancel” someone? Haven’t we all had just about enough of cancel culture?
Aren’t we tired of political correctness and those who want to decide for us what information we are allowed to have and what information we are not going to be allowed to have?
Have we forgotten the values of our founders? They forged this nation with their blood and treasure in order that we should have the right to freedom of speech and association. Do you want to cancel the First Amendment to the Constitution whenever there is speech you don’t like?
Isn’t that kind of totalitarianism exactly what you are criticizing in Putin?
@Laura I challenge you to express he facts upon which you base your hatred of Putin. Let us know your sources of information and the data upon which you have decided no one should ever interview him. I am actually curious to know what has led to the intensity of your hatred. I am sure you have very specific reasons. Could you share those reasons with us so we would understand better where you are coming from?
The hype is fake, reminds me of Geraldo Rivera. Some people will assume the information is true because the hero had to fight so hard. Don’t forget, Putin was KGB and also a WEF young leader. Carlson used to be an anti-Trumper before his handlers told him to switch sides. Maybe they’re all on the same side.
Also: the interview was probably done before last night, when I saw footage of Russia sending missiles to civilian apartment buildings, not military targets. This is a war crime. There were Ukrainian civilians in those buildings. This will not be discussed in the interview, because Putin is very smart, he waited until after the interview to attack civilians with missiles. But Putin was forced to do it, he dindu nuffin, he’s just trying get his life together.
From Jonathan Turley:
As I noted.
@Peloni Thank you, Peloni.
Tucker Carlson Could Face Sanctions Over Putin Interview
This is so many levels of wrong. So Carlson should face sanctions for asking the leader of Russia some questions, but Biden, Blinken and Malley should not, even after they have provided massive funding to Iran which led to the October 7 slaughter, a nuclear Iran, and the shut down of shipping thru the Red Sea. Fauci, Baric and Dazac shouldn’t even as they perpetrated a fraudulent pandemic on the world. The Dems, the RINOs, and the Iranians shouldn’t even as they took part in the election fraud which overthrew the US govt.
Yet the journalist who is actually doing an interview should be targeted. The overreaction to this interview by the Neocon West does bring some interesting questions to mind as to what might be revealed in that interview.
@Laura
I see you chose not to answer the question I posed to you in my last comment.
Also your continued attempt to paint Putin with the same brush as Hamas and Iran lacks all merit. Putin has acted with great empathy towards Israel in the past, and his people are not trained to annihilate the Jews of the world. Your support of Neocon narratives might sway to think of Putin as pernicious and evil as is Hamas and the Mullahs, but you have nothing to support such a conclusion.
As to defending Putin, I have no need to defend or attack him. He has been placed in a position in which any of us would have likewise responded. The consequence of his being so isolated by the Neocon West is the growing axis between China, Russia and Iran which is becoming more difficult to undo as Russia is supplying (though not yet delivered) the SU 35 to our enemies in Iran. Regardless of this fact, and in part because of it, I fully support Carlson’s interview with Putin.
Negotiations require both conversation and an empathic understanding of one’s adversaries, and right now the West lacks both of these factors. Hopefully this interview will bridge some of the gaps, provide some clarifications, and move towards opening a dialogue between the Russians and Washington. Only a fool would wish to continue the lost war in Ukraine, further pressing the Russians towards China while also continuing to enable Iran.
You’re wrong, Russia is allied with hamas and Iran. hamas met with Russian officials in Moscow. What does Putin have to do to demonstrate that he’s a monster? I don’t know why everyone here is so defensive of putin regardless of what’s revealed about him. I’m the only one here who sees him for who he is. Frankly I don’t get the attachment to putin by right wingers. It’s especially confounding coming from people who support Israel.
@Laura
The false comparison which you make between Putin and Hamas or even with the Mullahs demonstrates the twisted view which many hold of Putin. No matter what you believe about the Russian premiere, he has not been waging a war focused aupon the savage genocide of his neighbors.
Furthermore, I would argue that Carlson committed a far greater crime when he joined the ranks of those choosing to normalize antisemitism than he might commit by interviewing any antisemite.
Additionally, the advocates who readily speak out on behalf of the pernicious evil which personifies the Mullahs and their proxies do not face the censoring consequences which are reserved for those advocating on behalf of Russia. Rather, those advocating against the interests of Iran are subject to similar censorship and throttling as has been used to stifle any pro-Russian commentary.
So, your comparison between Putin and the Mullahs is quite a false one to make. None the less, if Carlson did make such an interview as is suggested in your false comparison, I would still not support charging him with treason, nor barring him from returning to the US as has been suggested penalties for interviewing Putin. These are the musings of disturbed people, who have no sense of what become of small tyrannies waged against those we oppose, simply because we oppose them – and let us recognize that charging someone with treason is no small tyranny.
So, perhaps you will tell us, is it acceptable to threaten the press to submit to the demands of their respective govts or face charges of treason? If so, when Desantis is no longer on the approved interview list, how will you respond to him being silenced by a captured state media which you support as it applies to Putin?
Perhaps then he should interview the mullahs in Tehran or members of hamas?
Well put, Peloni.
It is those who would penalize Carlson for conducting an interview, with anyone, who stand as the very real threat to the possible return of the American Republic, and the liberties and values which made America great. Regardless of what Putin might say, or what Carlson might askhim, the notion that Carlson should be in any jeopardy for conducting an interview is quite in line with the totalitarian demands which defy a free press, which should be noted as being the reason why the American Republic fell in the first place. If you dislike what you hear, you can voice your disagreements as it suits you, but to suggest that there is a Right-think which is exclusively acceptable and a Wrong-think which is exclusively unacceptable is completely contrary to the very foundation upon which the American Republic was founded.
Indeed, the market place of ideas demands a fair hearing of opposing views, and an explanation for why they might actually be wrong. In fact, the censorship which is everywhere present today is only a crutch for those who have not the arguments to win an open debate. Such loathsome standards should be held with great disdain by all who hold any value for liberty, or any hope of preserving such values for their children.
Putin has not the means to destroy the West with an open interview, but the West has all the means of destroying itself to prevent hearing what Putin might say. Notably, Kruschev did not win the Checkers debate, and the US was none the worse for publicizing his comments. Also, the West survived the consequences of the interview between Putin and Simmons some 4yrs ago. The fear of such alternate views is a foolish standard upon which to limit liberties, and the weakness expressed by those such as Bill Kristol demonstrate either their love of tyranny, or their recognition that they are in fact simply in the wrong. Either way, the little minds which call for Soviet style echo chambers should in fact be shunned for their fine example of what will bring the West to its utter collapse if such unbridled authoritarian tactics are allowed to prevent the return of an independent press.
First of all America is very involved in this war against Russia…at a very touching level…like money out of your hip pocket level.
But acting as Ukraine being a proxy belonging to America at the level of NATO on the Russia border and America placing NUKES on that very border. The whole point of said nukes being that they are indefensible against. Most Americans are unaware of that and are incapable of making the link to the Cuba CRISIS in the 60s.
As for Tucker people can disagree with this reporter but must be opposed and CONDEMNED if they are trying to muzzle a Free Press.
An historic interview in every way.
“Americans have a right to know about a war they are implicated in and journalists (like Tucker) have a right to tell Americans about it”
Given the context Jews have a big interest here and especially in the Free Speech angle.
“Americans have a right to know about a war they are implicated in and journalists (like Tucker) have a right to tell Americans about it”
From a Hollywood Report (placing it above a Taylor Swift report) and very justified in doing so.
Only people who want to squash the Great American Revolution and the historical First Amendment (Biden Democrats and RINOs) would oppose the Tucker Putin interview.
Given the context Jews have a big interest here and especially in the Free Speech angle.
One thing above all that I feel sure these two men will draw out is the context of the war. America and Britain have maintained a special hatred for Russia, also later China, because in Russia in 1917 workers threw down a severe challenge to capitalism. Stalin later arose as a counter revolution creating Stalinism. Maoism was a form of Stalinism also. All of this can be explained by using historical data.
Putin himself only partly represents that past history. He is not a socialist but still cannot escape from THAT past either.
And remember on taking power in 1917 among the first tasks Lenin and Trotsky carried out was to end the secrecy of such warring Governments – a good thing indeed!
https://youtu.be/WZL5B2lR5Is?si=aLR-q15MFWgAQo7L
First of all America is very involved in this war against Russia…at a very touching level…like money out of your hip pocket level.
But acting as Ukraine being a proxy belonging to America at the level of NATO on the Russia border and America placing NUKES on that very border. The whole point of said nukes being that they are indefensible against. Most Americans are unaware of that and are incapable of making the link to the Cuba CRISIS in the 60s.
As for Tucker people can disagree with this reporter but must be opposed and CONDEMNED if they are trying to muzzle a Free Press.
An historic interview in every way.
“Americans have a right to know about a war they are implicated in and journalists (like Tucker) have a right to tell Americans about it”
Given the context Jews have a big interest here and especially in the Free Speech angle.
“Americans have a right to know about a war they are implicated in and journalists (like Tucker) have a right to tell Americans about it”
From a Hollywood Report (placing it above a Taylor Swift report) and very justified in doing so.
Only people who want to squash the Great American Revolution and the historical First Amendment (Biden Democrats and RINOs) would oppose the Tucker Putin interview.
Given the context Jews have a big interest here and especially in the Free Speech angle.
One thing above all that I feel sure these two men will draw out is the context of the war. America and Britain have maintained a special hatred for Russia, also later China, because in Russia in 1917 workers threw down a severe challenge to capitalism. Stalin later arose as a counter revolution creating Stalinism. Maoism was a form of Stalinism also. All of this can be explained by using historical data.
Putin himself only partly represents that past history. He is not a socialist but still cannot escape from THAT past either.
And remember on taking power in 1917 among the first tasks Lenin and Trotsky carried out was to end the secrecy of such warring Governments – a good thing indeed!
https://youtu.be/WZL5B2lR5Is?si=aLR-q15MFWgAQo7L
This degenerate has questioned the patriotism of those of us who support Israel. We don’t need lectures about being patriotic and “America first” from a scumbag propagandist for putin. It’s quite obvious fucker Carlson is Russia first.
Fucker carlson should rot in hell with putin.