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| Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview | |
| 2024-02-09 | |
Russian President Vladimir Putin attempted to use an interview with American media personality Tucker Carlson published on February 8 to present to a wider Western audience a long-standing Kremlin information operation that falsely asserts that Russia is interested in a negotiated end to its war in Ukraine. Putin illustrated throughout the interview that Russia has no interest in meaningful or legitimate negotiations, however, and that Putin still seeks to destroy Ukraine as a state. Putin also displayed his overarching hostility towards the West and falsely accused the West of forcing Russia to attack Ukraine. Putin repeatedly stressed that Russia is open to negotiations in order to falsely frame Russia as a reasonable actor and "Western ruling elites" as the main obstruction to a negotiation. Putin also repeatedly reiterated a Russian information operation alleging that Western officials coerced Ukraine to reject an agreement favorable to Russia during negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul in March 2022. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #26 "As the Poles had not given the Danzig corridor to Germany, and went too far, pushing Hitler to start World War 2 by attacking them. 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." [...] This under the well known Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, a part of the territory including western Ukraine was to be given to Russia, thus Russia, which was then named the USSR regained its historical lands. After the victory in the Great Patriotic War, as we call World War 2, and all those territories were ultimately enshrined as belonging to Russia, to the USSR." History, Putin style. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2024-02-09 18:32 |
| #25 Let it be said. Tucker Carlson is not Tom Snyder. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 17:34 |
| #24 "We always did it like this before" is routinely derided after a company collapses. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 16:46 |
| #23 Thanks Abu; looking forward to it now. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-09 16:42 |
| #22 If history is the go-to, we should have more slavery, muskets and cannibalism. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 16:41 |
| #21 History as an excuse for what is going on now is nonsense. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 16:39 |
| #20 Yawn. It was supposed to show how Russia was in the right. It didn't do that at all. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 16:38 |
| #19 ^Because (a) It was "in your face" to western elites - who thought they can cancel Russia the way they cancel domestic dissidents. (b) It always pleasent to see a world leader who knows some history - most of the category are monkeys. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-09 16:29 |
| #18 Utterly hilarious the fanbois screech about how good it was but can't say exactly why. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 16:18 |
| #17 re: 14, nerds is good. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2024-02-09 16:13 |
| #16 Excellent interview. |
| Posted by: Beldar Uneter3543 2024-02-09 15:32 |
| #15 The interview was warmed over gruel. Anyone who got excited about it should seek help. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 14:01 |
| #14 Sorry if I wrote a lot of words there. It was interesting to me. But then, I'm a nerd. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-02-09 13:51 |
| #13 the attention it deserves. Sorry. Tucker is just another victim of "Internet time." The content, as laid out in the transcript, is not worth two hours. If it had been paywalled some people would realistically want their money back. Gummint approved media breathing a big sigh of relief today. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 12:59 |
| #12 ^I don't think Vlad's translator is a diversity hire. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-09 12:57 |
| #11 Everyone in the interview wore an earphone. Repeating what is said into your ear smoothly and naturally is a rare talent. Is that what happened here? IDK. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 12:54 |
| #10 ^ Watching that interview clearly affected your ability to "keep it brief." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 12:52 |
| #9 Putin managed to sound more like a history professor than the ruthless dictator that he is. Even if I'm sympathetic to his aims for Ukraine, I cannot be taken in by his charisma. He is certainly a cold, hard dude who doesn't mind if a few heads have to role. That doesn't mean we have to provoke a war with him. I would keep him at arm's length but he is a very interesting character. He might well be the best man for his job. It's not our place to decide that. It should be clear to everyone that all the talk we heard after the invasion of Ukraine about him dying of cancer and being an alcoholic were lies. It would be stupid to underestimate him. For sure, Biden could not have spoken so coherently for so long. Not many American presidents, if any, could. Yes, he did omit certain aspects of Russia's relationship with Ukraine, most notably Stalin's collectivization. I also found his remarks on China disingenuous at best. When he claimed that China's foreign policy is not aggressive I nearly gagged. Tell it to the Taiwanese, Vlad. Tell it to the Vietnamese, the Filipinos, the Japanese, the Tibetans and the Uighurs. Oh well, maybe that's our fault for driving him into the arms of Xi Jinping. But, as a former student of Russian history, I found it fascinating. I think the vast majority of Americans, even our most astute leaders, know very little of Russian history and it seemed that Vlad was attempting to remedy that. I believe he is correct in thinking we cannot understand what is happening in Ukraine now without some historical perspective. But, realistically, I'm not sure how many people have the patience to sit through it all. I can just imagine Joe Biden falling asleep after the first few minutes. Baraq Obama probably wouldn't make it either. In all of their arrogance, I think most of our elites will not give this interview the attention it deserves. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-02-09 12:45 |
| #8 It was TLDW - too long (most people) didn't watch. It guaranteed anyone could shade it any way they wished in the summarizing process. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 10:54 |
| #7 Putin did present certain portions of Russia (Muscovy, in olden days) and the surrounding area's history, but he ignored (or selectively forgot) many others. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-02-09 10:50 |
| #6 When I saw this western spin on Putin,"falsely asserts that Russia is interested in a negotiated end to its war in Ukraine." I watched the interview and it went very well. The falsely asserts jab was low brow. Putin's grasp of history was amazing. Tucker is also well schooled in history. Putin took the time to school him on Russian history and the world. Biden would have never made it. Russian will restore Ukraine minus the Nazi's, NATO and the West. |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-02-09 10:21 |
| #5 It was not as bad as Geraldo opening Al Capone's vault, but it was underwhelming. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-09 06:45 |
| #4 The transcript is more informative than the interview - easier to follow Putins long rambling answers. |
| Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2024-02-09 06:06 |
| #3 Thanks for posting this. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-09 01:53 |
| #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo The above is Tucker's YouTube channel. At this time the number of replies on X here as linked to by Badanov has 37.5 thousand comments. |
| Posted by: Beldar Uneter3543 2024-02-09 01:40 |
| #1 7 hours after the interview was posted at this Tucker's YouTube channel, there are 2,350,693 views, and 51,874 comments from Russia, Ukraine, the US, Germany, Australia, and many other countries around the world. |
| Posted by: Beldar Uneter3543 2024-02-09 01:37 |