Tucker Carlson Goes Full Pravda, Praises Vladimir Putin as ‘the Only Adult’ in Ukraine Conflict: ‘His Restraint’ Preventing Nuclear War
Tucker Carlson praised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for being “the only adult” in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that began with his invasion of his western neighbor nearly three years ago in an episode of his show released on Wednesday.
During a conversation with Glenn Greenwald, the pair lauded President-elect Donald Trump for acknowledging that “nuclear war is the worst thing,” as Carlson put it.
“I’ve talked about it so many times. And I think it goes back to when Trump was president in the early stages of the presidency, every time Trump talks about the prospect of nuclear war, he knows that he’s limited in what everything he can divulge, but he’s so clearly trying to signal and he often says it: These weapons are of a different universe than even the ones we dropped on Japan,” chimed in Greenwald.
Moving on to the Biden administration’s decision to give Ukrainian forces their blessing to use an American missile system to strike more targets inside of Russia, Carlson mused that “it puts us in this remarkable moment where the only adult is Vladimir Putin.”
“This person, we have been told, is Hitler, and deranged, crazy, dying of nine different kinds of cancer, can’t be trusted. Like the only reason we’re not — I mean, we’re all relying on his restraint. That’s just a fact right now. How weird is that?” he submitted.
Carlson and Greenwald went on to mock those who criticize the propaganda of authoritarian Russia and China while turning a blind eye to American propaganda.
“Right after Russia invaded Ukraine and Western governments decided they wanted full on support for Ukraine and this very simple minded narrative that they fed their public,” said Greenwald.
“After they started the war, I mean the Biden administration started — that’s my view of it. They knew that Russia would invade if they publicly pushed Zelensky to join NATO, so they did that, Kamala Harris did that, and Russia invaded. My view is they started this war,” argued Carlson.
The former Fox News host later claimed to have “never been pro-Putin” and not to have “strong feelings either way.”
He was previously derided by voices across the political spectrum over videos he filmed during a trip he took to Russia to interview Putin earlier this year in which he expressed his wonder at and admiration for Russian grocery stores and subway stations.
