Tucker Carlson explains why he’s traveled to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin

The neocons in Washington and their establishment lackeys in the corporate media are all in a dither about Tucker Carlson going to Russia to interview that country’s president, Vladimir Putin.

I thought that was what journalists did: Travel to foreign countries to interview world leaders. God knows we’ve seen enough interviews with Mr. Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine who has shut down all opposition parties and banned all media that he considers unfriendly to his cause and yet somehow gets lifted up as a paragon of “democracy.” But we’ve heard nothing from Putin. Our Western media has blacked Putin out while at the same time assigning motives to him that may or may not be accurate. He wants to “restore the old Soviet empire,” said Mike Pence. That’s a refrain we hear over and over again. But is there any evidence of that?

Some of the more low-IQ folks in the conservative media have never concerned themselves with evidence. They just like to pile on. And they’re all jumping on Tucker. The neocon warmonger William Kristol, who has for decades served as a water boy for the military-industrial complex, has even suggested the U.S. government should prevent Tucker Carlson from returning to the United States of America.

These crackpot politicians and fake journalists really do want Americans to only hear one side of the Russia-Ukraine story. They are terrified that the money-laundering gravy train that runs through Ukraine could come to a screeching halt if the people ever became informed on the historical backstory surrounding Ukraine, Russia and NATO.

Major newspaper outlets like the New York Times, USA Today, the Daily Mail, The Telegraph and the Washington Post, along with TV networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN and even Newsmax, are big on feeding us Western propaganda and little on facts.

But I did find one fair-minded article on the topic of Tucker’s visit to Russia. It was authored by Spencer Brown at Townhall, which I have reposted below, along with a video of Tucker Carlson speaking for himself on why he’s interviewing Putin.

By Spencer Brown

Confirming reports and rumors that the former Fox News Channel anchor had traveled to Russia to interview President Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson released something of a preview on Tuesday before he conducted his interview with Russia’s president in Moscow.

“It’s our job,” Carlson explained of why he’d undertake such an interview while acknowledging “there are risks” involved in such a project. “We’re in journalism, our duty is to inform people,” he reiterated. 

“Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine, or what his goals are now,” Carlson continued. “They’ve never heard his voice – that’s wrong. Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they’re implicated in, and we have the right to tell them about it because we are Americans too,” Carlson emphasized in the video posted from Russia’s capital.

“Freedom of speech is our birthright,” Carlson said, contrasting Americans’ freedom with the bleak lack of individual freedoms in Russia. “We were born with the right to say what we believe, that right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House,” he noted. “But they’re trying anyway.” 

One hopes this emphasis on journalism and a free press means Carlson will press Putin on Russia’s wrongful imprisonment of the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich who’s been held in the notorious Lefortovo prison for more than 314 days.

“Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leaked their contents to their servants in the news media,” Carlson reminded. “They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning. Last month, we’re pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again,” he revealed. “But this time we came to Moscow anyway.”

Speaking to the effects of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Carlson said that the “post-World War II economic order, the system that guaranteed prosperity in the West for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast – and along with it the dominance of the U.S. dollar.”

Calling such impacts, along with the human lives claimed in the fighting, “history-altering developments” that “will define the lives of our grandchildren,” Carlson lamented that many Americans are not adequately informed on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and “think that nothing has really changed” as a result of the war. 

Carlson torched “corrupt” media outlets that “lie to their readers and viewers…mostly by omission” for the lack of American notice of the way things are shifting while the war drags on. He also criticized the way media outlets in the U.S. have been “promoting a foreign leader [Ukrainian President Zelensky] like he’s a new consumer brand” while “not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict: Vladimir Putin.”

Noting that he has also requested an interview with Zelensky that the Ukrainian leader has yet to accept, Carlson called uncritical reporting on Ukraine “not journalism” but “government propaganda of the ugliest kind.”

“We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin,” Carlson emphasized. “We are here because we love the United States – and we want it to remain prosperous and free. We paid for this trip ourselves,” he clarified. “We took no money from any government or group nor are we charging people to see the interview” once it’s posted. Carlson said his Putin interview would be “shot live to tape” and be posted “unedited on our website.” 

In addition, Carlson praised Elon Musk for promising “not to suppress or block this interview once we post it on his platform, X, and we’re grateful for that.”

“Western governments, by contrast, will certainly do their best to censor this video on other, less-principled platforms, because that’s what they do,” Carlson predicted. “They are afraid of information they can’t control. But you have no reason to be afraid of it.”

“We are not encouraging you to agree with what Putin may say in this interview, but we are urging you to watch it,” Carlson reiterated. “You should know as much as you can. And then, like a free citizen and not a slave, you can decide for yourself.”

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24 thoughts on “Tucker Carlson explains why he’s traveled to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin”

  1. I listened to the entire interview between Carlson and Putin. Very interesting on so many levels. Despite Carlson’s initial impatience with Putin’s history lesson of the region, Carlson admitted later he came to see that it wasn’t “filibustering” on Putin’s part, but an integral facet of his thinking on the Ukraine issue. Once Carlson realized this, the interview became deeper and deeper in exploring the conflict between the West and Russia and ways to resolve it. This interview was well worth watching.

    Interesting that Putin said several times that when Russia had talked to our past presidents about curtailing NATO expansion and developing more mutually beneficial relations, our elected presidents (Bush, Clinton, Trump) expressed positive reaction to these ideas, but somehow someone or some institution within their administrations nixed a coming together every time. So in Putin’s view, he finds it nearly impossible to come to an understanding or agreement with our presidents because they seem to obey some higher entity whose players are shadowy and secret. If that’s the case, that’s just another clear indication that the Swamp in DC rules, and this illegitimate shadow government just adds another level of danger to international relations.

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  2. Hey Tucker

    ask him If he’s going to secure Schwabs back `til the end

    and then when he’s going after Jerusalem

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  3. now get this

    while Hermann Hesse was drinking in the pubs – Daimler invented his first engine in a garden nearby and took it to river Neckar by a boat

    this happened around 1890

    I live here 😉😄

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  5. Jesus is coming this passover after the great American Eclipse showing the final Hebrew letter Tav => X

    a cross on the side

    To get us out of Egypt

    are ye sure this time ?

    yes 😊

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  6. Leo has it right. The Ukrainian war is a Money laundering scheme. I read an article that rang true. The Sam Bankman-Fried ftx scam was involved. Ukraine would launder the money using their Bitcoin and funnel it back to the Democrats.

    On a side note, of course we should take what Putin says with a grain of salt but we deserve to hear what he says and decide.

    God bless you Leo.

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  7. I’m not sure where to find this interview, but I do want to hear what Putin
    has to say. Always good to hear both sides of the story. I respect him
    as a true patriot to his country who shoots from the hip. Even if we dont
    like what we hear. He has a right to be heard and we have a right to hear
    him. Congrats to Tucker for having the courage to follow through.

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  9. I must have missed the great freakouts when American journos interviewed people like Fidel Castro, Osama bin Laden, and the Ayatollah. No pearls were clutched when those interactions occurred; the people involved were praised and lauded for daring to go where many fear to tread or some such self-aggrandizement. But this, somehow, is different. Well, sure it is; it defies the administration narrative. It lets the Tucker haters mindlessly pile on without a hint of self-awareness. And it seems to revel in the promotion of ignorance, as if an American talking to Putin is almost a criminal act.

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    1. I was talking to a man discussing the Birch soc. We both agreed like Fox channel these org. are controlled opposition. I quit fox news. I just get local and online w/ assoc. press, Reuters and misc. alt. news, Jerusalem post and some on European news sites (have to pick thru since all news is slanted.) Birch soc. is 501c3 (a red flag) also only teaches electing patriots on local and state levels, and we all know that doesn’t work since 1958/.Ditto for Eagle Forum. Look at border states, these local politicians haven’t solved a thing really. Calif. and Az. are now blue states. If these org. had an objective we would have seen progress over that much time.

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  13. It’s going to be refreshing to hear what Putin has to say. I don’t think we are getting the total truth of what is happening. Where I live in Alberta there is a large Ukrainian community. There is the official narrative which you don’t dare question.

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    1. Trust Putin with what?? Is he working for the US government?? Is he supposed to represent our interests?? Is he supposed to be our vassal or ally?? No, he represents his country, not ours. He takes care of Russian interests, not ours. He does not do our bidding, nor should he be expected to. Furthermore, he is no traitor to his country. He is the leader of a sovereign nation. Unfortunately, our foreign policy makers arrogantly forget this and want Russia to allow itself to be wrecked by us. Putin won’t subject his country to this or allow Russia to degenerate like America, and that’s what you can trust him to do.

      Whereas Biden, our leader, is clearly a shameless traitor —stealing an election by fraud, imprisoning protesters against that fraud, aggressively pushing our nation into a world war we cannot win, destroying our economy and currency, subverting our laws and military, deliberately encouraging a massive invasion of our borders. And that’s the short list. So you can trust Biden to do one thing—to wreck our country in every way possible. It’s him and his ilk we were stuck with, not Putin.

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      2. I trust Putin to be like Biden in that he will lie, manipulate, deceive, kill and destroy. They are both allies of China and Iran. Together, all of them want the USA and Christians out of the way.
        In other words, I do not trust Putin or Biden to have the best interest of the USA at heart.
        Your fondness of Putin is sorely misplaced.

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      3. This is not about “fondness” for Putin, but reality. You said: “I do not trust Putin or Biden to have the BEST INTEREST OF THE USA at heart.” Listen to yourself. Biden should have the best interest of the USA at heart—he swore an oath to do so. He’s American. Putin has no business having the best interest of the USA at heart—he’s supposed to have the best interest of Russia at heart. Let me point out he’s Russian, committed to the Russian people. Why do Americans expect leaders of OTHER countries to have the BEST INTERESTS OF THE USA at heart, sacrificing their own interests on our behalf??? It’s an arrogant assumption, ignorant of geopolitics and laughable. Also tragic because this attitude cost many lives in useless wars.

        Yes, Russia is an ally currently of China and Iran. And it makes geopolitical sense. These countries are in their backyard. They have centuries of interaction in their histories. Should Russia be at continual war with them because WE say so? To accomplish what? To be our proxies in a war with those countries, to send their men to die on OUR behalf (just like what Ukraine stupidly continue to do at our urging)???

        And it’s not Putin who wants the Christians out of the way—it’s our leadership and EU leadership that has been persecuting Christians. You need to get up to date.

        Why don’t you question our foreign policy leadership, how stupid and wasteful it has been for decades, how it has put our country at continual danger for terrorist blowback, bankruptcy and/or world war. If we so fear China today, it was the US who industrialized and modernized them starting with the Nixon administration. Our population experts went to China in the early 70s to craft their abortion policies. We didn’t convert them from communism, we merely gave it a superficial capitalist gloss because that’s how we operate on the geopolitical stage. Superficially. Thoughtlessly. If we so fear Iran today, it’s because we, along with the British, toppled their elected government in 1953, installed a dictator who was later rejected by the Iranian people. Then we pushed Iraq to go to war with Iran in the 1980s, which killed over 1 million Iranians. Do you expect them to be “fond” of us after all that???

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    2. It’s not about trust Bob, it’s just about truth. Obviously neither one can be “trusted” and the truth falls down….somewhere between the two.

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      1. If the U.S. and other Western countries hadn’t meddled so much with ceasefires and other concessions in the last two decades, Israel could have eliminated Hamas sooner and probably prevented the horror of Oct. 7th.

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    4. That’s actually wisdom, Bob, because we’re told not to trust in flesh and blood.

      It is better to take refuge in the Lord
      Than to trust in princes. – Psalm 118:8

      Do not trust in princes,
      In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. – Psalm 146:3

      Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;
      For why should he be esteemed? – Isaiah 2:22

      Even if someone doesn’t intend to mislead, we’re all human and will fail others.

      But we have a remedy!

      Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
      And lean not on your own understanding; – Proverbs 3:5

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