TUCKER Carlson has made history by releasing a bombshell interview with Vladimir Putin.
The ex-Fox News star is the first Western journalist to sit down with the dictator since the Russia-Ukraine War started in February 2022.
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Carlson took a trip to Moscow, Russia, with the Tucker Carlson Network to “inform” Americans who have “no real idea what’s happening in this region,” he said in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter.
He insisted the trip was self-funded, and that they took no payments from the Russian government.
A long-time critic of US support to Ukraine, Carlson first spoke out against the conflict while he was still the face of the Fox News program, Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Months after the war was declared, the journalist started to criticize Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behavior and questioned the amount of money being siphoned to NATO.
“The war in Ukraine is a human disaster,” Carlson said in the video shared before his interview.
“It’s left hundreds of thousands of people dead – an entire generation of young Ukrainians. And has depopulated the largest country in Europe.”
A staggering 10,000 Ukrainian civilians deaths have been recorded since Putin launched his brutal Ukraine invasion in February 2022.
As of December 2023, the Joe Biden administration and the US Congress had directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, per the Council on Foreign Relations.
Carlson said he was motivated to sit down with Putin to give an alternative perspective to Zelensky, whose army is thought to have lost at least 70,000 soldiers to Putin.
You should know as much as you can. And then like a free citizen and not a slave, you can decide for youself.
Tucker Carlson
In the days before the war, Carlson asked the public to consider what was motivating the conflict.
“It may be worth asking yourself, since this is getting pretty serious, what is this really about?” he said on Fox News.
“Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he ever threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?”
Carlson has since been criticized for being too gentle toward Russia and its war-mongering leader.
Former Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger called Carlson a “traitor” on X after rumors circulated that he was in Moscow.
Meanwhile, Carlson asked his audience to consider Putin’s words and then draw their own conclusions.
“We are not encouraging you to agree with what Putin may say in this interview, but we are urging you to watch it,” Carlson said on X.
“You should know as much as you can. And then, like a free citizen and not a slave, you can decide for yourself.”
Horror war crimes committed in Ukraine after Putin launched invasion
Ukrainian officials believe there have been more than 100,000 cases of war crimes committed by Russian forces since February 2022.
On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for his crimes against children.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on the war against Ukraine found that Putin’s cronies were responsible for the abduction and deportation of tens of thousands of children.
Russian forces have also been found responsible for the torture and murder of thousands of Ukrainian civilians – alongside countless rapes.
The Russian despot has denied targeting civilians, but further inquiries into the war found that there have been purposeful missile strikes on civilian refugees, multiple shootings at civilian vehicles, and cases where civilians have been used as human shields.
Ukrainian forces have also alleged that Russia has been using filtration camps, which they describe as “modern-day concentration camps”, where masses of Ukrainians have been subjected to electric torture, beatings, stabbings, and shootings.
In the annexed regions, there have also been cases of Ukrainian civilians who have been forced into joining the pro-Russian separatist forces.
KREMLIN SILENCE
Both the Kremlin and Carlson had remained silent on the impending interview after he was pictured entering a presidential building in Moscow with a film crew on Tuesday.
He was pictured early Tuesday exiting his hotel in downtown Moscow as his team loaded video equipment into a vehicle.
Putin’s powerful spokesman Dmitry Peskov, believed to have green-lighted an interview, said, “I am not commenting in any way on the movements of an American journalist.”
Pro-Kremlin commentator Sergei Markov said the United States “trembles” at the thought of the interview, claiming the American public will turn on Biden following Putin and Carlson’s discussion.
“[US] trembles in anticipation of the interview of America’s most popular enemy, Putin, with America’s most popular journalist, Tucker Carlson,” Markov said.
“It is believed that Putin can tell the Americans through Tucker Carlson that the Americans will throw Biden into the political dustbin of presidents and elect Trump as president.
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“And Trump’s Biden gang will be sent to prison for election fraud.
“So they tremble.”
Putin’s war in Ukraine wreaks devastating death toll
A staggering 10,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths have been recorded since Putin launched his brutal invasion in February 2022.
But the UN believes that the real number is much higher.
This estimate includes more than 560 children.
Ukraine is also thought to have lost at least 70,000 soldiers in the fight against Russia.
174 civilian citizens from other countries have also been killed during Putin’s offensive – three of which were from the UK.
Meanwhile, it has been estimated that Russia has only lost 79 civilians.
Putin has lost over 300,000 soldiers in bloody meat-grinder battles since the start of his war.
Just ten months into his own war, Putin had already lost 100,000 Russian men.
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