Well, I don't know about you guys, but for me the Tucker - Vladimir interview wasn't as disastrous (or thrilling, depending upon your point of view) as anticipated. But it still managed to generate a lot of reactions. For the fun factor alone, here's a representative selection.
Leading up to the Mega Event:
😅 t.me/R_Diplomat 🔸
t.me/professor_patriot_official 🔸
"It's a threat to our democracy"
@BazaFromOlga 🔸
A snippet of the interview is out, and it's everything you'd expect it to be!
t.me/putingers_cat 🔸
The Reaction:
🐦⬛️ 👔 Western media about the Russian president's interview with Carlson - Putin confident of victory:
German magazine Kompakt : this is already one of the interviews of the year;
Austrian newspaper Ekspres : while the public outcry is growing, one winner has already been decided - it's the TV presenter himself, who traveled to Moscow and collected millions of views;
New York Times: Putin's interview with Carlson underscored the Russian leader's tactical confidence at a time when his opponents are in a vulnerable position: Ukraine is struggling on the battlefield, further aid to Kiev has stalled in the US Congress, and pro-Kremlin politicians are on the rise;
Washington Times : The speech gave Putin a rare platform to describe the world from the Kremlin's point of view, and he took full advantage of it;
Wall Street Journal : This interview gave Putin a chance to increase his authority at home and show that he can still be heard in the West;
Washington Post : Putin used this opportunity to portray Russia as a country acting in self-defense surrounded by NATO and the CIA;
The Guardian : The interview marked a "new level of embarrassment" for Carlson, who has often criticized US support for Ukraine and called Zelensky a "Ukrainian pimp" and a "scumbag";
Daily Mail : Putin made a sensational statement that a peace deal on Ukraine was almost reached for once, accusing the "western side" of wanting to keep the war going as long as possible;
German TV channel N-TV: Regarding the Ukrainian conflict, the Russian president seemed confident of victory.
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🔸🇺🇸 US media on Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson
The Wall Street Journal:
"The interview comes at a pivotal time. Billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine are stuck in a political deadlock in Congress, and Russian forces are pushing forward on the battlefield against Ukrainian troops suffering from an acute shortage of ammunition and arms."
The New York Times:
"President Vladimir Putin of Russia was more direct than usual about how he sees his Ukraine invasion ending: not with a military victory, but a deal with the West."
Rolling Stone:
"Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin went exactly how everyone expected, as not so much of an interview, but a demonstration by Putin of the ease with which he could utterly overpower one of the United States’ most prominent media figures. [...] Putin barely broke a sweat, conceded little when directly questioned, and seemed to control the tone and pace of the conversation from its beginning. He felt [...] comfortable."
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The whole world right now.
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📰 The West's reaction to Vladimir Putin's interview with Carlson.
😂 The third minute of Biden's interview with Tucker Carlson.
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🔸Putin’s interview with #Tucker Carlson which is going viral—
What should you know?
Interview of #Putin with #TuckerCarlson—worth a watch
🔴PUTIN
👉INSPIRING parts:
~Excellent research
~Sounds genuine and concerned
~Has gravitas (ofcourse)
👉Misleading bits:
~ gave ppl a CAUSE to fight
~Avoided giving out REAL REASON 😊
<Sorry Putin!>
🔴This interview has info on
~History of Russia
~ How #CIA bulldozed every opportunity to have peace.
🔴You may watch it here.
@ResonantNews 🔸
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Fox News is the most watched cable network with an average of 1.85M viewers per night in primetime.
MSNBC averages 1.22M viewers.
CNN only averages 582,000 viewers.
Tucker’s interview with Putin is over 50M views on X within the first 5 hours.
The MSM is dead.
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Elon Musk trolls Ukrainians on Twitter after Putin's interview 😅🤣
📰 Western media were impressed by Putin's interview with Carlson and are doing their best (to cope).
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The Kremlin received dozens of requests for interviews with Putin
In recent days, the Kremlin has received several dozen requests for interviews with Vladimir Putin from the world's largest media, said President Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President.
He expressed gratitude to the foreign media for their interest in the president Russia. Peskov clarified that for obvious reasons it is now impossible to do more interviews, but in the Kremlin all applications will be considered.
This is the impact Tucker's interview had. He paved the way for Western journalists to do the same and stop being afraid.
What a legend.
Tucker Carlson's immediate thoughts and impressions after conducting his interview with President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Talks on Ukraine and Elon Musk: What Putin spoke about in interview with Carlson
Moscow has never refused to hold talks on Ukraine and is confident that the conflict will sooner or later end in peace and relations between the two countries’ people will be restored, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Tucker Carlson published on the US journalist’s website. The Russian leader also did not rule out that US national Evan Gershkovich, charged with espionage in Russia, might be released, and shared his opinion of celebrity entrepreneur Elon Musk.
TASS has gathered the key takeaways from the president’s interview.
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🔸💢 I've learned some valuable life lessons from this Putin interview.
🔹 Tucker: Hey XF - why were you late to work today?
👍 XF: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had long believed that a trans-Appalachian road was necessary for unifying the young country
But the tradition of the country, back then, of course, and its structure, had been that of a decentralized state, consisting of 13 colonies which, as you can appreciate, had themselves developed going back to the 17th century, but as you know, had also been a project of the Dutch as well.
The National Road, in many places known as Route 40, was built between 1811 and 1834 to reach the western settlements, but funding and maintenance of this road, and its expansion, would continue to be a matter and subject of contention and debate well through the middle of that century.
When break-away states fired on Fort Sumter off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina .…
💢 CNN announces temper tantrum
💢 Robert Kennedy Jr. commented on Putin's interview with Carlson, noting the Democrats' dissatisfaction with the fact that the journalist was simply doing his job.
Americans can handle thought-provoking conversations. With dangerous thoughts and opposing ideas that don't fit into the agenda. Let us decide for ourselves.
t.me/NewResistance 🔸
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🔸An analysis of the Putin-Carlson interview
1. The “try to ignore” strategy failed. Gallop writes that in Ukraine alone, approximately 75% of the population watched Putin’s interview (of those who have the Internet, of course).
2. Therefore, the “Interpret in the correct way” command was given. That is, cut out of context, misinterpret, take a phrase and invent a continuation, and so on. But even this doesn’t work out very well - Clinton is an idiot because he didn’t accept Russia into NATO, and Johnson is an idiot for persuading Kiev to fight (and as a result, things only got worse for the West).
3. Translated into English well, quite accurately. The phrase "хрен его знает” was translated as “hell knows”.
4. “I’ll tell you the background for 30 seconds” - and a lecture about a thousand years of Russian history for half an hour.
And “quite by chance” a folder with copies of documents from the archives.
In general, I believe that Bogdan Khmelnitsky’s letters with a request to join Russia (and signed “Russian Colonel”) should be put on public display. Maybe even create a special website for this matter.
5. The history of the creation of “Ukraine” this time is almost 100% complete - with the Polish Uniates and the Austrian General Staff. Only Skoropadsky was not mentioned in the circus, but this is not significant.
In general, the historical part (this is my justified IMHO), was a summary of “there was no Ukraine, and soon there will be no Ukraine again.”
6. Putin generally led Carlson by the hand like a little boy and brought him to the conclusions he needed. The dominance was undeniable (even though Carlson is an experienced interviewer and tried to stick to his line). And when Tucker reacted, “It turns out that the United States is ruled not by those we elect, but by the special services,” Putin sat with the look of “You said it yourself, and I have nothing to do with it.”
7. During the entire interview, not once “Help”, “Give me something, good people” and other things “think about our pensioners who are dying". No begging like Zelensky.
8. No, you won’t get away with territories. We need denazification.
9. “And finally, the last question”... followed by three or four more questions, because you can’t get away from Putin so easily. And only then, “Anything else?”, “No, I think that’s great.”
The resulting picture for Western audiences is that Russia wanted to be friends, and it was Western leaders and intelligence services that expanded NATO and did nasty things (including supporting terrorists with weapons and money). Clearly.
t.me/PMCTchkvsky 🔸
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Another distraction away from all the news they don't want you to see. Entertainment value is primarily in that the news media nonces (at least in the US) were literally becoming rabid jellyfish
in front of the whole world. Maybe next time it will be puffer fish or ostriches.
Until then we can only wait, keeping our eyes on the real stories that are buried every time this happens. Details on Pakistan (and probably Senegal) are on deck.
As always … Enjoy the show!
Nice collection of visuals. Some very funny. Thanks for your work.
Great to see some familiar faces in the comment section.