Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Although his questions were on the sophomoric side, Tucker Carlson did a good thing by giving us a two hour view of how Putin thinks. The neoconservative warmongers and the shills for the armament industries are angry, because Putin did not present as they have portrayed him–an evil aggressor out to conquer Europe.
What comes across from Carlson’s interview with Putin is that Putin remains a captive, after all the betrayals and deceptions he has suffered, of his ideal of reaching an agreement with the West. He discounts Washington’s insistence on its hegemony. The fact doesn’t fit with Putin’s idealistic approach to international relations. Putin still hopes for sanity and good will to emerge in the West. His idealism blocks him from proactive actions, which he regards as provocative. He is yet to accept that his tolerance of Western aggression encourages more aggression and thus continues to frustrate the emergence of the cooperative multipolar world that he envisions.
I don’t think we are going to get the mutual defense treaty between Russia, China, and Iran that would cause Washington’s neoconservatives to accept reality and to give up their goal of American hegemony.
Watching the interview will help to free you from the propaganda that keeps you in The Matrix.
My concern remains that Putin’s reasonableness will continue to be taken advantage of by Washington until the conflict Putin seeks to avoid becomes unavoidable.
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I think PCR is wrong. Putin is following Napoleon’s advice.
Tucker Carlson: For the truth, but against everyone
https://www.voiceofeurope.com/tucker-carlson-for-the-truth-but-against-everyone/
Is the decision of one American journalist to go to Russia and interview the president of this country such a terrible catastrophe as “politically correct” American politicians and public figures try to portray it? I think we already know the answer to this crucial question.
I think PCR is marginally wrong about Putin. I think Putin knows the financial power of western banksters. I think Putin cares about Russia and “puts Russia first”. I think he doesn’t want to provoke the west any more than necessary until HE is ready, rather than responding to western agitation when the west wants him to.
IOW, I think he intends to deal with the west on his own terms, not on terms dictated to him by others.
Perhaps I am projecting.
Traitor to UK calls Tucker traitor to MSM: