Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin

[pieter]

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[Jaga]

Pieter, thanks for posting. I did not see the whole interview yet, but apparently it was a soft-ball interview, with no difficult questions. In Polish mass media they noticed that Poland was mentioned several times, Putin said that he is not interested to invade Poland. Apparently Tucker had to wait long time for Putin to show up. Still, maybe it is good he did this interview.
Putin went on to get to the history of Ukrainian ties with Russia - which I understand from the position of a person who is stuck with the vision of the empire. The history seen by Putin is Russia-centrist. He even says that Hitler was giving Poland chance for peace by accepting corridor to Prussia, which is a complete nonsense since this was unacceptable.

[Jaga]

Here is another lie by Putin that went unchallenged, that Poland is to blame for Hitler's attack during WW II. I heard it and this was ridiculous: www.mediaite.com/politics/tucker-carlson-roasted-for-not-challenging-putins-claim-that-poland-was-to-blame-for-hitler-invading/

[Jaga]

Here is more from Putin's interview with Tucker related to Poland:

www.mediaite.com/politics/tucker-carlson-roasted-for-not-challenging-putins-claim-that-poland-was-to-blame-for-hitler-invading/

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sitdown with fired Fox News opinion host Tucker Carlson resulted in an avalanche of criticism for both participants, with many critics highlighting that at one point Putin parroted actual Nazi rhetoric from World War II – rhetoric that went unchallenged by Carlson.

Carlson posted the two-hour-long interview to X on Thursday night and noted that Putin spoke for a solid thirty minutes about Russian and European history when asked why he invaded Ukraine.

Tucker told his viewers that “what you’re about to see seemed to us sincere whether you agree with it or not. Vladimir Putin believes that Russia has a historic claim to parts of western Ukraine. So our opinion would be to view it in that light as a sincere expression of what he thinks.”

After Putin’s long opening, Carlson said, “But may I ask, you’re making the case that Ukraine, certainly parts of Ukraine, eastern Ukraine is in effect Russia, has been for hundreds of years. Why wouldn’t you just take it when you became president 24 years ago? You have nuclear weapons. They don’t. It’s actually your land. Why did you wait so long?”

“I’ll tell you, I’m coming for that. This briefing is coming to an end. It might be boring, but it explains many things,” Putin replied.

“It’s not boring. Just not sure how it’s relevant,” Carlson replied.

“Good, good. I’m so gratified that you appreciate that. Thank you. So before World War II, Poland collaborated with Hitler. And although it did not yield to Hitler’s demands, it still participated in the partitioning of Czechoslovakia together with Hitler, as the Poles had not given the Danzig corridor to Germany, and went too far, pushing Hitler to start World War II by attacking them,” Putin continued.

“Why was it Poland against whom the war started, on 1st September 1939? Poland turned out to be uncompromising and Hitler had nothing to do but start implementing his plans with Poland,” Putin continued. After speaking for another few minutes, Carlson simply interjected, “Right” and let the Russian strongman continue.

While Carlson didn’t pushback on the idea that Poland is responsible for Hitler invading it, many critics and historians were quick to cry foul and call out the irony of Putin, who is claiming to “denazify” Ukraine, pushing actual Nazi rhetoric used to justify World War II in the 1930s.

“The irony of Putin, the self-appointed “de-Nazificator” of Europe, openly embracing the Nazi historical narrative of WWII,” replied the Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov.