{"id":66770,"date":"2024-02-09T07:07:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66770"},"modified":"2024-02-09T07:07:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:07:36","slug":"tucker-carlson-the-putin-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66770","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson: The Putin Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__z0vIZ\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\" data-attribute-guid=\"88091\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/tucker-carlson-putin-interview\">Tucker Carlson: The Putin Interview<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv\">\n<p>Last week, Tucker Carlson traveled to Rusia to interview President Vladimir Putin. This sent the left into hysterics &#8211; some of whom have called for the journalist to face sanctions, or worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url%284%29.jpg?itok=7A0tdosv\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url%284%29.jpg?itok=7A0tdosv\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/get_attachment_url%284%29.jpg?itok=7A0tdosv\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"2f02eb0c-ff35-455d-bda8-d827146449e4\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the interview &#8211;\u00a0<b>which can be seen right now in its entirety at\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/tuckercarlson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\"><b>tuckercarlson.com,<\/b><\/a>\u00a0Carlson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/most-americans-are-not-informed-were-here-because-we-love-us-tucker-carlson-explains?ref=biztoc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">explained\u00a0<\/a>that it&#8217;s his job as a journalist &#8220;to inform people,&#8221; as &#8220;most Americans are not informed&#8221; as to what&#8217;s happening in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><b>To that end, let&#8217;s get into it.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tucker starts the interview\u00a0<strong>by asking Putin why he invaded Ukraine<\/strong>, &#8220;and the answer we got shocked us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Putin proceeded to delve into the history of Ukraine,\u00a0<\/strong>going back to the middle-ages.\u00a0<strong>Tucker pushed back, saying &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure why it&#8217;s relevant to what happened two years ago,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>to which Putin continued with the history lesson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But why didn&#8217;t you make this case for the first 22 years as president, that Ukraine wasn&#8217;t a real country?&#8221; Tucker asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The Soviet Union was given a great deal of territory that had never belonged to it, including the Black Sea region<\/strong>. At some point when Russia received them as an outcome of the Russo Turkish wars, they were called New Russia or another Russia. But that does not matter.\u00a0<strong>What matters is that Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state, established Ukraine that way,<\/strong>&#8221; Putin replied. &#8220;For decades, the Ukrainian Soviet Republic developed as part of the USSR. And for unknown reasons, again, the Bolsheviks were engaged in Ukrainization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The trigger for the Ukraine war:\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Initially, it was the coup in Ukraine that provoked the conflict&#8230; They launched the war in Donbas in 2014 with the use of aircraft and artillery against civilians. This is when it all started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NATO Expansion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson: The Putin Interview Last week, Tucker Carlson traveled to Rusia to interview President Vladimir Putin. This sent the left into hysterics &#8211; some of whom have called for the journalist to face sanctions, or worse. Prior to the interview &#8211;\u00a0which can be seen right now in its entirety at\u00a0tuckercarlson.com,\u00a0Carlson\u00a0explained\u00a0that it&#8217;s his job as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[694,14693,857,4318],"class_list":["post-66770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-russia","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66771,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66770\/revisions\/66771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}