Putin rambles for two hours in Tucker Carlson TV interview for ‘X’

Russian President treats viewers to a revisionist 1,000 year history when asked about Ukraine

Interview images: credit: kremlin.ru. Montage © Facts4EU.Org 2024

Facts4EU.Org presents the video and also looks at President Macron’s complicity

On Tuesday (08 Feb 2024) the American journalist Tucker Carlson, formerly of Fox News, conducted a two-hour filmed interview with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Heavily criticised in the western media for doing this, Mr Carlson had to endure extremely lengthy diatribes on highly debatable Russian history from Mr Putin, going back more than 1,000 years.

Many times Putin blamed the EU and NATO – and specifically France and Germany – for creating the conditions for the conflict in Ukraine. He also blamed Ukraine itself for starting the war back in 2014, as well as blaming Boris Johnson for preventing peace talks. Bizarrely he then kept going back to the year 984.

Was this Tucker Carlson’s finest two hours? No

Typically, interviewees of a country’s president or leader are given 5-10 minutes – perhaps up to 30 minutes if it’s a ‘special’. After all, these people have a country to run. In this case the Tucker Carlson interview with President Putin in the Kremlin dragged on for two hours.

We must assume that the Kremlin’s propaganda team laid down some strict criteria with the Carlson team before granting this interview.

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Here are some of our best guesses

The President must be allowed to ignore questions and talk about something else
He should not be interrupted when he rambles on at great length about irrelevancies
He must be allowed to rewrite history and not be challenged
He must not be questioned when he lies about matters which are in the public domain
He cannot be asked about Russia’s appalling human rights record
He must not be asked about the total lack of democracy in Russia
The subject of the President’s complete control of Russian media must not come up
The President’s wealth accumulated during 24 years of power is off limits
Likewise his past life as a Colonel in the notorious KGB
At no point can he be questioned about the war crimes committed by his forces in Ukraine
The interview must not be edited down to make it watchable
If Mr Carlson abides by these conditions he will not be locked up without trial on trumped-up charges like other Western journalists and he will be allowed to leave the country

Here is the interview

Tens of millions of people have allegedly watched this film, but quite how many of these were able to sit through the whole thing – as two members of the Facts4EU team forced themselves to do - is debatable. Hard-hitting, riveting and action-packed it is not.

Nevertheless we felt some readers might want to watch it. Here is a man who has been in power in Russia for almost 24 years. Generally leaders who have been in power for longer than 10 years begin to become a little delusional. We leave readers to decide what they think about President Putin.

Click to watch

Tucker Carlson has been panned for doing this, but what about French President Macron?

The EU and particularly the French President Emmanuel Macron have a long history of attempted appeasement of dictators like Putin.

In February 2022 it seems the French President thought he could prevent Russia from invading Ukraine. On his visit to the Kremlin, Putin soon put him in his place, sitting him so far away he must have had to shout to be heard at all.

Two short men, one enormously long table

Clearly choreographed by the Kremlin, this was not a good look for the French President after he had made a special trip. Naturally the Kremlin used this visit by Macron for their propaganda.

Freed from the EU, the United Kingdom was able to act unilaterally and rapidly against Putin’s Russia. Below is a chart we produced in August 2022, after Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.

And it’s no better when Macron and von der Leyen go to China

Desperate for relevance, President Macron made a trip to Beijing to meet the Chinese dictator President Xi-Jinping, along with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is also not shy of photo opportunities.

Anyone who has witnessed President Macron on state occasions – and especially on state visits abroad when inspecting an honour guard – will testify to the Little Napoleonesque manner he adopts. Rising to his full, diminutive height it seems it is all he can do not to put his hand in his tunic, in the style of the former Emperor of France.

(April last year)

Again, the Chinese Communist Party used this visit for propaganda.

Observations

We have seen much negative comment in the media about Tucker Carlson doing an interview with Putin.

Carlson is a journalist. Given the possibility of interviewing the man running the pariah state of Russia, what self-respecting journalist would not go for this?

Ironically, the value of the interview was not so much in Putin’s answers, (which were generally off-topic and very long-winded), but in our ability to see the nature of this man, his distorted version of history, and perhaps to get some sense of what he might and might not do next.

We have no doubt that defence analysts from the MoD and the US Dept of Defense have been pouring over this tape in forensic detail since it was published on Thursday.

The EU as a ‘Peace Projekt’

The EU has consistently presented itself as ‘peace projekt’. It is not. Perhaps not deliberately, but it has been indirectly responsible for many actions which have endangered its citizens. It has done so politically, because it has not yet managed to assemble any meaningful military force, even though it has desperately been trying to do so for many years.

In Part III of this short series we will look at all of this and assess the EU’s culpability in the threats we in the United Kingdom face today.

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Reader Comments 9

1. LuxuryBalloon , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 07:51:

Trump said yesterday that he would encourage Russia to attack any NATO country that doesn’t pay enough. It would be interesting to hear if Facts4EU supports that view.

2. Ashley Great Britain , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 08:41:

1 LuxuryBalloon.
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Of course the rejoiner Blob trump haters will be all over this like a rash, Expect sparky to chirp up soon.
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For many years Most EU nations haven't been paying what is expected into Nato.
They believe that they will be protected just because they are part of Nato. The EU loves others paying for them.
(Here's one the Blob will love)
Countries like Poland, Italy, Germany, and France are not honouring the treaty, They are breaking international law.

3. LuxuryBalloon , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 09:12:

2 Hi Ashley. I am personally very comfortable to make a clear distinction between NATO and the EU.

4. Harry Potter , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 10:59:

1. LuxuryBalloon what you fail to mention was the fact he actualy said it when he was President and after he warned them, the money started to flow in the billions. The big stick worked. Ye gotta pay ya bills not let others pay the bill, and leach off others

5. Northern Muppet , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 16:36:

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you 'pay money in to NATO'. The agreement within NATO members is that they all spend a MINIMUM of 2% of their GDP on THEIR OWN defence. What is correct, is that the US spends much more than this (about 3.5% if memory serves me right) while Germany spends less than this (again, from memory, but less than 1.5%).
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Here in the UK, since Bliar's time we've dodgily included pension payments for ex-servce peeps in this 2% figure, which means we too don't spend nearly enough!!
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There's a whole lot of risks growing in the world right now from Russia (though I think they're less of a threat than they like to make out), from China (who i think is the most likely to start a significant war in the not-too-distant future) and the middle east (or Islam, more accurately - where I think the greatest long-term threat comes from). There are, of course, much smaller risks from the likes of North Korea, but I don't think they have the ability to pose a serious threat to the world.
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What we're going to find out pretty soon is that we'll regret the years of under-spending since dear, uncle tony, and also that if we continue to allow the woke-loons to be in charge, we'll take an absolute battering at the hands of the ruskies, the chinese, or the PoPers!

6. Northern Muppet , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 16:38:

Popers?? Of course, I meant RoPers!!!
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I absolutely wasn't thinking about catholics!!!
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:-D

7. Have You Wondered, , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 17:36:

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Have I missed something in the logic?
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Why is Ukraine trying to join the EU when the EU are funding Putin's war to the tune of €15.31bn?
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Why is Ukraine not seeking some accountability from the EU?
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Why are member EU nations sending arms to Ukraine when the EU are funding the war contrary to those nations?
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Have I missed something in the logic? Have I missed my medication or have they?
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Yet again : Why does the UK (or any other nation) need another level of corruption and malfeasance above that which the UK has already?
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8. jon iivesey , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 18:33:

7. Have You Wondered, , "Why is Ukraine trying to join the EU when the EU are funding Putin's war to the tune of €15.31bn?"
Basically the phrase "funding Putin's war" is misleading. The EU is importing goods and energy from Russia, which is not the same thing as "funding" Russia, although it does amount to evading sanctions. The EU have been evading sanctions from day one, since EU (Greek) tankers have been carrying Russian oil to India where it is refined and shipprf back to the EU. I think the EU is playing this game in the hope of avoiding a rupture with the US today, while keeping the door open for a resumption of good relations with Russia in the future.
Ukraine is in a bind because they are under attack by Russia and will need billions to rebuild, no matter how the war ends. So they are making the calculation that they can get the loans to rebuild from the EU, and they might as well ignore the fact that the EU is evading sanctions on Russia.

9. jon iivesey , Sunday, February 11, 2024, 18:50:

There is a lot of excitement over this interview, as if Putin talking to a western reporter "proves" something. But I think people are missing the fact that the current propaganda campaign is coming from Russia. It's not the White House or No10 pulling out all the stops to convince people, but Putin. If Putin were really as invincible as he claims, and his victory in Ukraine as inevitable, why is he bothering to do all this, and why are there so many pro-Putin stories planted in the Press? If he is winning so easily, why doesn't he just relax and let the inevitable happen?
I think a key concept here is to ask "How do people operate?" And we know that since 1917 Russia has operated propaganda campaigns intended to influence western public opinion, and these propaganda campaigns have always involved capturing some part of the western Press for Russian purposes. The reporter doesn't seem to know it, but he is being used by Putin just the way that HG Wells was used when he interviewed Stalin in 1934.
I think that anyone who lived through the Cold War probably finds the current Russian propaganda campaign quite familiar.

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