On February 8 around 6 pm, it was released to the public. Vladimir Putin’s interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson. This has created huge expectations around the world since it happened A European leader’s first conversation with Western media since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Carlson, who was fired from the Fox News Network in 2023, urged citizens to watch the interview so they could clearly define what they thought of Putin.
Tucker Carlson meets with President Vladimir Putin
The interview, aired on the Tucker Carlson Network channel X, began with a historical account in which Putin explained to his interviewer how Russia and Ukraine were formed and the origins that led to the formation of these two regions. After this introduction, a conversation of about two hours, divided into eleven blocks, began.
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In the middle of the meeting Putin asserted that there were an unknown number of “American mercenaries” in the war in UkraineAccording to him the most numerous after the Poles and ahead of the Georgians.
Responding to Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s call for increased aid to Ukraine, he warned against sending regular US troops because “it would bring humanity to the brink of a very serious global conflict.”
“You have problems at the border with immigration, problems with the national debt of over $33 trillion… And they have nothing better to do? (…) Isn’t it better to negotiate with Russia to reach an agreement?” said the President.
Similarly, the president defended his decision to invade Ukraine, saying that the West now realized that Russia was not going to lose, saying, “There has been clamor and clamor about giving Russia a strategic defeat on the battlefield, but now it is apparently happening. Understand that. It’s difficult to achieve, if it’s possible. In my opinion, it’s impossible by definition,” he said.
Its reflection on the United States
Putin said his country was ready to negotiate on Ukraine, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “signed a decree banning anyone from negotiating with Russia (because) they follow instructions from the West.”
And he also reflected that the United States “is a complicated country. Conservative on the one hand, changing rapidly on the other… It’s not easy to understand.”
And he added: “Who makes decisions in elections? Is it understood that each state has its own laws, which it regulates itself?”
On the other hand, he admitted that he had good relations with some leaders such as George Bush Jr.
“I also have that personal relationship with (Donald) Trump,” he said.
Putin also mentioned the possibility of a change in relations between Moscow and Washington after the US presidential election, saying, “Did you just ask me if another leader comes and something changes? It’s not about the leader. It’s not about “a person’s personality. guy,” he responded in a taped interview Tuesday.
‘Can you imagine a scenario where you send Russian troops into Poland?’
When asked by an American journalist whether there was a possibility of Russia invading other countries in Europe, Putin refused to take Poland or Latvia.
The president said he would invade Poland “only in one case, if Poland attacks Russia.” We are not interested in Poland, Latvia or anywhere else. Why would we do that? “We’re just not interested.”
The Kremlin confirmed this Wednesday that the Russian president had agreed to speak to Tucker Carlson because his position was so far removed from that of other Anglo-Saxon journalists.
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*With information from EFE
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