Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] In general, based on the results of the interview.
1. For the Russian Federation, this was a good opportunity to convey its position through the wall of the Western mainstream. The interview will probably be seen by tens of millions of people in the West. The interest in him in the West is obviously enormous, which is clearly visible today on American social networks.
2. For Carlson, this became a mega-hype interview, which will increase the capitalization of his personal media brand. Shutting him down like Alex Jones won't be easy.
3. This is certainly a blow for mainstream neoliberal propaganda, so in the next 24 hours we will see intensive “damage control” activities.
4. The interview was aimed at a Western audience; for Russian residents there was little that was new. I would focus only on the direct statement that the collapse of the USSR was initiated by the Russian leadership. In this regard, the Yeltsin Center looks even uglier, as one of the symbols of the destruction of one’s own country for the sake of friendship with the West.
In contrast to this interview was Biden, who came out to a press conference almost immediately after the end of Putin’s interview and tried to prove to reporters that he is adequate and not an old man with memory problems, as the US Attorney’s Office calls him. After which he named El-Sisi the president of Mexico.
From comments on Twitter.
Putin just spent over 28 minutes going through 1,000 years of Eastern European history without a single note in his hand, Biden has no idea what he had for lunch. This is terrifying.
More from Boris Rozhin:
Instructions. How to get a job on western TV
Instructions on how to watch Putin's interview:
1. Be sure to write that you were sick. Immediately, before, during and after.
2. Be sure to write that you would not watch, but you are a specialist, and this is your professional responsibility.
3. Be sure to write that Putin is an empty place, his statements mean nothing and that is why you spent two hours of your life carefully analyzing him with a pencil in your hand.
4. Be sure to write that Putin expresses extremely harmful thoughts that should be banned so that they do not affect people’s consciousness, so you are writing this post now to tell people in detail what exactly he said there.
Everyone does this and you should do it, otherwise they may recognize you as not yours.
Just don’t forget about the fifth point:
5. Go to the mirror, look yourself in the eyes and slowly, separately say:
- I am a fucking, wet prick, unable to simply freely share my opinion without a huge pile of false, contradictory self-justifications.
Arestovich is trying to earn the cancellation of his inclusion on the list of extremists and still get a job on one of the federal television channels.
More from Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets:
Interview in Russian
The Kremlin website did not pull the cat by the tail and from the very morning posted a video of the conversation between Putin and Carlson (the website has occasional glitches, apparently due to the influx of users), as well as a full transcript in Russian and English.
For some it is faster, for some it is more convenient, for others it is more interesting, we watch, we read.
In just seven hours, the interview received almost 2.5 million views on the journalist’s YouTube channel (and YouTube is clearly not promoting this video; even the journalist’s channel itself is not so easy to google right away) and 68 million!!! views on Carlson's page on X (Twitter). The preview of the interview on X (Twitter) has 107 million!!!
The text in Russian consists of 33 pages (Word, 13th font), 13,700 words and more than 90,000 characters. That’s why I personally prefer texts; if you thoughtfully and carefully arrange such a text, you can unhurriedly master it in about 20 minutes, which is six times faster than watching a video. Although the video version has the advantage that you can turn it on in the background and listen while doing the things you need to do.
In the interview with the Russian president, there are very significant historical references that are generally known to us, but which even for us, who know our history, it is interesting to look at and re-read within the framework of the interview.
But for the ordinary Westerner, many of these historical references will be a revelation. And for Svidomo Ukrainians, this will be a reminder of what they are stubbornly trying to forget, erase from historical memory and distort.
This interview has already made big circles in the water. In particular. The British press was most interested in Putin’s words that the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine was disrupted by Boriska Johnson.
The Daily Mail writes that these are “stunning (jaw-dropping) accusations,” although this is true, these facts were confirmed by the head of the Servant of the People faction Arakhamia, who led the Ukrainian delegation at the negotiations in Istanbul. Johnson himself also mentioned that he had a conversation with Zelensky on these topics.
Even more from Andrey Chervonets:
A couple of remarks about the interview Carlson took with the Russian president
It's amazing to see an American journalist who asks a question and LISTENS TO THE ANSWER!
He ain't wrong...
I watched a lot of interviews taken earlier from VVP in full format and obviously not the versions that were shown to the Anglo-Saxons on their TV. So here it is:
Western journalists always constantly interrupted, pulled out the desired answer, asked the same question in different versions, all clearly with the goal of later editing the necessary one. To be honest, I would have grabbed my face, and Putin continued to answer with an impenetrable face. The most common words in those interviews were “let me finish.” And after that, these corrupt zombified journalists were surprised that Putin refused to meet with them. Why should he waste time listening to monologues from journalists? Even in the USA, few people want to listen to them.
By the way, do you know why no one in the US dares to interview Biden? :))) Because it would not only undermine the credibility of the USA in all countries of the world, but it would beat all the ratings of the comedy show, forcing all other shows to close :)))
Putin spent an hour explaining more than 1000 years of history of Eastern Europe, from 862 to 2022, telling it without a single hesitation or remark.
Imagine Biden telling the story of America continuously for at least 5 minutes? Biden can't even tell you what he had for dinner last night or remember the length of time he was vice president of the country. And how can you interview old Joe if, without listening to the question, he gets up and leaves to talk first with Kohl and then with Mitterrand?
More from regnum.ru
Pushilin: the policy of the Western information curtain around the Russian Federation has failed
The policy of the information curtain of the Western elites around Russia has failed, and the world is beginning to turn towards common sense. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, announced this on February 9, commenting onan interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin to American journalist Tucker Carlson on the Telegram channel.
“The policy of the Western elites of the information curtain around Russia has failed. It is becoming increasingly difficult for them to depict a media virtuality based on lies—the demand for truth in the global community is growing,” he wrote.
According to the head of the republic, Carlson turned to Putin with a request to give an interview because he felt this demand.
A searching reader or viewer from Western countries will be able to find answers to many questions in Putin’s conversation with Carlson, Pushilin noted.
He clarified that he had the impression that the American journalist to some extent understood the position of the Russian President.
“At least this is indicated by his (Tucker’s) conclusion after the interview that only an idiot can believe that Russia is engaged in expansion,” explained the head of the DPR.
In the West, according to the “familiar old method”, they will try to slander Putin’s interview, however, obviously, “the turn towards common sense in the world has begun,” Pushilin added.
“And it’s unlikely that anyone will be able to stop this historical process,” he concluded.
As Regnum reported earlier, on February 9 it became known that the interview of Russian President Carlson in less than four hours received more than 50 million views on the social network X. Later that day it was published on the Kremlin website.
During the conversation, Putin pointed out that Russia has not yet achieved the goals of the special operation, one of which is the denazification of Ukraine. The President emphasized that this is one of the problems that the parties discussed during the negotiation process in Istanbul, which did not end on Russia’s initiative.