Putin Speaks: The Tucker Interview – The American Spectator

Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin for over two hours. Watch the conversation, at times a filibuster, here.

He seems more coherent than our president. At the same time, KGB agents, former and present — whatever the agency currently calls itself — can persuade even when they lie.

Putin spins the Hitler–Stalin Pact, preposterously, as a reaction to Poland’s betrayal of Russia. He claims the Poles collaborated with Hitler. “The USSR, I have read some documents in the archives, behaved very honestly,” he claimed. I went into this with an open mind, but he sounds like a Commie.

He damaged himself with sensible American right-wingers not eager to keep pouring money into Ukraine. He calls Ukraine an “artificial state.” Putin clearly regards Kiev, and parts of Lithuania, as Russian property. He seeks to redraw the map of Europe to what existed prior to not only the Second World War but the First World War. His cartographical grievances dates back 1,000 years or more.

One imagines everyone can curse the map in some way. The conflict in Israel-Gaza, and the one brewing in Formosa, stem from this.

Make up your own mind both on Putin and why it took so long to hear from him.

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