US Tucker Carlson Reportedly Spotted In Moscow As Fans Speculate Interview With Putin

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Tucker Carlson Reportedly Spotted In Moscow As Fans Speculate Interview With Putin​

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was reportedly spotted in Moscow over the weekend, leading fans to speculate he plans on interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to the popular Russian telegram channel Mash, Carlson after arriving to the country on February 1st has spent the last three days in Moscow. The conservative firebrand was first seen boarding a plane on Turkish Airlines from Istanbul to Moscow Vnukovo airport.

On Saturday, Carlson reportedly attended the ballet “Spartacus” at the Bolshoi theater in the Russian capital. Pictures began to surface over the weekend showing Carlson at the theater and in the airport heading to Russia.

Some right-wingers on X, formerly known as Twitter, began to speculate Carlson may be the country to interview Putin.

Previously, Carlson said he had planned to sit-down with the Russia president while at Fox News but then called it off claiming the U.S. government was monitoring him.

“I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, and the U.S. government stopped me,” Carlson told the Swiss publication, Die Weltwoche back in September. “By the way, nobody defended me. I don’t think there was anybody in the news media who said, ‘Wait a second. I may not like this guy, but he has a right to interview anyone he wants, and we have a right to hear what Putin says.'”

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

did they edit out Vlad saying the N word?

 

[The Gene Genie]

The dubbing is ridiculous.

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

Let’s get TLDR shall we

Russia is awesome and friendly but America is silly, let's shake hands and be besties. BIG HUG, but America is being very silly right now.

 

[Alabama Gamer]

Putin is very clearly an autist at heart, and I love it.

 

[BMO_]

Sounds autistic.

Because it is.

 

[IKOL]

Because it is.

You people are implying we were being ruled by an autist this whole time, come on n~

... oh no.

 

[El Duce]

The dubbing is ridiculous.

Captions work at least.

 

[fargoamadeus]

Here’s a Weibo report about it. How uh, nonspecific about the actual content… just thought this was interesting. They attached a screenshot of his Instagram too.

 

[Agent of Misinformation]

Here’s a Weibo report about it. How uh, nonspecific about the actual content… just thought this was interesting. They attached a screenshot of his Instagram too.

I'm presuming that the Kremlin, at this point, knows Carlson will become a target of Pro-Ukrainian groups, so they're introducing him to his future environment if he isn't allowed out of Russia or not safe back in the States. I know not to trust the Russos, but American tourists and violence are inseparable. Look at Gonzalo, for Christ's sake.

 

[likeacrackado]

While I don't doubt that Putin's people signed off on the topics and the final tape, it was much less soft than some people said it would be. Putin had to deflect and put his own spin on things at points where he wasn't able to go off on a long monologue.

 

[Merry]

I'm seeing many Ziggers accusing Putin of being a rambling autist for a lot of the interview and I agree

I get he's trying to communicate to an American audience that knows nothing about Russian history, but it's being done very poorly

Coming across as a Russian boomer big time

 

[BMO_]

>History sperging

 

[Marche]

Did he at least ask what Putins favourite anime is?

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

I just want a backstory on that clock in the background.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Did he at least ask what Putins favourite anime is?

It’s obviously this one

 

[IsaacShraeder]

Having watched (most) of it, gotta say it turned out much better than expected purely from an journalistic point of view.
I was afraid Putin would try and use Tucker to appeal to his US audience by dwelling on US culture war topics (MUCH CHINESE NATO BIOLABS CRP MURDERED BY HUNTER BIDEN HIT SQUAD), but instead he gave what I think is his actual justification for the war.
He opened with history autism because he genuinely thinks Russia has a historic claim on (the) Ukraine. That's it. Everything else, even stopping NATO expansion, is window dressing.
It seems weird from a western point of view because we have come to view wars as almost always economically motivated. Wars for land as is are passé - Putin would probably have gotten more western sympathy if he had said that he invaded to secure the LNG deposits in eastern Ukraine for Gazprom.

 

[4090 Chad]

The best part is when Putin is going on about the de Nazification of Ukraine and just randomly remarks about Zelensky being a Jew.

 

[Milkshake Sniffer]

On the same day that we're told by a special prosecutor that Biden is too mentally defective to know that he stole classified govt documents (and was almost 8 years ago when he did it) Putin, who I was told a few months ago by the always reliable mainstream media was in terminal decline if not already dead, is looking pretty good.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

He opened with history autism because he genuinely thinks Russia has a historic claim on (the) Ukraine. That's it. Everything else, even stopping NATO expansion, is window dressing.
It seems weird from a western point of view because we have come to view wars as almost always economically motivated. Wars for land as is are passé - Putin would probably have gotten more western sympathy if he had said that he invaded to secure the LNG deposits in eastern Ukraine for Gazprom.

Assuming you actually believe him.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

People not caring about the historical elements of it deserve the present they get.
I especially like when he blamed the Ukraine identity on the Austrians.