The questions that Tucker Carlson did not ask Putin, who even justified Hitler

@ElentirENG ES 2·09·2024 · 5:18 0

The American journalist Tucker Carlson has published a very long interview with the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

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The mistake of giving a criminal the opportunity to justify himself

I did not want to comment on that interview until I had seen it, although interviewing Putin seems the same to me as interviewing any other dictator, a terrorist or any other criminal: it is a simple opportunity that is given to a bad person to justify himself and to try to convince others that he is right, when he is not.

On the other hand, a really critical interviewer could hardly do a rigorous interview with that type of interviewee, because for him to accept the interview, the journalist would have to give up asking really annoying questions and for which the interviewee would lose all interest in that conversation.

The pro-Russian bias that Tucker Carlson has been exhibiting

First of all, the American journalist does not meet one of the basic requirements to be critical of the interviewee. As I explained here last year, Carlson has been exhibiting his harmony with the Russian narrative about the invasion of Ukraine. He has done it without any concealment. Putin has probably agreed to be interviewed by him precisely for that reason, because he knew that with Carlson he would have the opportunity that any other unrelated journalist would not give him.

A very long monologue with few and biased questions

Secondly, Carlson has not done a critical interview. What he has given Putin is the Russian dictator's favorite communication format: a very long monologue in which the journalist interrupted him very occasionally, without actually asking him anything really annoying and even focusing more on the US and NATO than on Russia. I expected Carlson to do a biased interview, but I didn't imagine it could be so biased. Knowing the enormous diffusion that the interview would have, I thought that Carlson, in order to avoid giving a complacent image, would at least take the trouble of being more critical, but that has not been the case.

I am not going to insert the interview here for a basic ethical reason: I refuse that Counting Stars serves to spread the propaganda and lies of a criminal like Vladimir Putin. If anyone wants to see the interview, it can be found on YouTube, clicking here.

Putin even justified Hitler and Carlson did not question him

I have said propaganda and lies because that is what Putin has dedicated himself to in a very long interview of more than two hours, in which the Russian dictator has had the audacity to justify Hitler by blaming Poland for the start of the World War II, accusing Poland of having been "intransigent" with the Nazi dictator's demands to hand over the Danzig corridor to him. And all this while Putin returned with his lie of "denazifying Ukraine" as an excuse to invade a neighboring country.

It is normal for Putin to go to that extreme, taking into account that Hitler did the same thing he is doing: invading another country under false pretexts and massacring its civilian population, committing all kinds of atrocities. What is not normal is for a journalist to accept that lie without further ado. Carlson did not ask Putin about the alliance between Nazi Germany and the USSR in 1939, a week before that invasion. Putin did not quote her and Carlson listened to Putin's aberrant statement without objecting.

Putin's lies about Ukraine and forgetting about the Holodomor

Likewise, when Putin said that the USSR promoted Ukrainian culture (a lie: just as it did in other Soviet republics, the USSR promoted the Russification of Ukraine) Carlson also did not ask him about a fact as atrocious as the Holodomor, the Ukrainian genocide provoked by Stalin, a genocide that Putin's regime continues to deny to this day.

Carlson did not ask a single question about Russian crimes in Ukraine

On the other hand, Carlson did not ask Putin any questions about Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Let us remember that as a consequence of these crimes, last year the Criminal Court International issued an arrest warrant for Putin, in connection with war crimes relating to the deportation and illegal transfer of children from occupied Ukraine. Apparently, Carlson did not consider the issue important, despite the fact that there are almost 20,000 Ukrainian children deported by Russia. It is the largest kidnapping of children in Europe since the Nazis committed thousands of Polish children in World War II.

Carlson patiently listened to Putin's long speech justifying the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with stories from the Early Middle Ages. The Russian dictator's rampage was so long that Carlson ended up interrupting him impatiently, and Putin went so far as to demonstrate how he reacts to a slightly uncomfortable question, when in response to his accusations against Ukraine appealing to Nazism, Carlson told him that Hitler disappeared 80 years ago. This is the crazy face that Putin made in his response:

Carlson's painful desire to thank Putin

Otherwise, when a journalist interviews a guy who is committing terrible atrocities in Ukraine, including massacres of civilians, rape of women, torture, murders of prisoners of war and indiscriminate attacks on residential areas, what can be expected at least is a little seriousness. I don't know if Carlson was very comfortable or very nervous, but I was surprised to see the interviewer laughing at Putin every time he tried to be even remotely friendly, something very difficult in his case.

The purpose of the interview: sow doubt in the US

In the end, after more than two hours listening to Putin's boring monologue, with Carlson's occasional questions, the conclusion I draw is that this interview has only one reason for being: to try to sow doubt among the citizens of the United States., the main supplier of military aid to Ukraine, so that this aid stops and Putin obtains an advantage, with which he can at least fulfill one of his objectives with this invasion: subdue the people Ukrainian to his whims.

The mistake of conservatives and patriots who sympathize with Putin

It is difficult to understand that a conservative and patriotic journalist like Carlson would do such a favor to a tyrant like Putin, perhaps in the belief that the Russian dictator has an ideological tendency similar to his. It is a serious mistake, and even more so coming from a patriot of the USA, a country that forged its founding values in the fight against tyranny. It is an error shared by some conservatives and patriots in the US and Europe, who have allowed themselves to be fooled by lies and Russian propaganda, forgetting that Putin's regime is today the greatest military threat facing the West, and particularly countries like Poland and the Baltic republics. I don't understand that someone who calls himself a patriot views a tyrant who invades a neighboring country favorably.

As a conservative and patriot, what causes me admiration is the Ukrainian people, who are heroically defending their country from an invader and a tyrant who is nostalgic for communism, no matter how hard Putin tried to pretend otherwise in that long monologue before Tucker Carlson, in an attempt to win the sympathy of US conservatives.