What NO ONE is saying about Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview

Guest Post by Kit Knightly

Everyone is talking about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The two-hour long conversation was live-streamed on twitter. Every major news outlet has had some form of coverage.

You can watch the whole thing here:

 

After eight years of covering the Ukraine coup/civil War, and more specifically Western propaganda on Russia, I could pretty much tell you everything Putin was going to say before he said it.

Anybody who has covered Russia or Ukraine could tell you that.

He was always going to detail, in cogent and historically literate terms, Russia’s position on Ukraine.

He was always going  to  cite  the (very real) broken promises Western diplomats made about NATO’s Eastward expansion.

He was almost certainly going remake his very worthy point about US foreign policy never seeming to change no matter who is President.

He’s an intelligent and persuasive speaker, and he was always going to  do well.

And, if this was 2014, that would be great.

But it’s not 2014 is it?

It’s 2024 & the world is being hurried fast toward the Brave New (“multipolar”) Normal. Russia is on board with Agenda 2030 &  very powerful  western establishment voices are now promoting Putin & his once-sidelined views.

In the face of these realities we should be asking questions about the relevance and purpose of this kind of geopolitical theatrics.

Let’s remind ourselves again that everyone is talking about the Putin interview.

EVERYONE.

From Hillary to Elon to Russell Brand.

Every major news outlet covered it, too. Maybe they “fact-checked” it, maybe they ranted about it or insisted it be banned, but they were all talking about it.

Let’s compare and contrast that coverage to the coverage of Oliver Stone’s 4-part interview with Putin in 2017.

Seriously. Look at the difference. It tells you a great deal about how the establishment agenda is changing. There were no big headlines then.

But I don’t want to talk about Putin.  Because everyone is talking about Putin.

I want to talk about Carlson.

The  Tucker Carlson who has been suddenly positioned as a supposed anti-establishment JFK-doubting, 9/11 truthing threat to the system.

The same Tucker Carlson whose father was director of the Voice of America. The same Tucker Carlson who censored and insulted 9/11 skeptics on his show.

The same Tucker Carlson who applied to (but was allegedly turned down by) the CIA.

How did this re-invention happen?

When did it happen?

Why did it happen?

And no, I’m not claiming everything he says is de facto wrong, a lot of it is in fact very right. His monologues on the state of the economy, the 2020 election, JFK and 9/11 have all been at least partially accurate.

…but that should make us ask more questions, shouldn’t it?

Did he have some great awakening?

Even if you believe he did, do you believe that his bosses at Fox did as well? Or that Elon Musk did? Or that either of these entities would be powerless to stop him dropping supposed truth bombs on their dime if they didn’t want him to?

Tucker Carlson was the most watched current events program on US television before he was apparently  fired by Fox News last year.

Since then, and with all the hero-kudos of being exiled by the establishment,  he has been live-streaming his shows on X/Twitter instead, and every single one of them gets more views than CNN or MSNBC or his old show on Fox…Combined.

Interesting, no.

The fact is, legacy media is dying. Which is a good thing. But do you think the establishment doesn’t see this? Do you think it hadn’t occurred to them to get out in front of it by seizing control of the new media platforms and planting “leaders” in supposedly independent media movements?

As we keep having to remind our readers  lately the people and institutions that run the world are not wed to any single platform, method, nation or flag.

Or media.

They bought up all the newspapers because they were useful, they “syndicated” all the television networks because that’s what people were watching…

so now as legacy media dies –  what do you think they’re gonna do?

Like a hermit crab swapping out shells – they will simply slide themselves from their old home to a nice shiny new  “indy” one.

Goodbye old fashioned corporate CNN, hello honestly completely organic guerilla news reporting livestreaming on X and getting totally accidentally promoted by the algorithm.

Goodbye long form editorials in newspapers, hello ten-second tiktoks from fake influencers in a government-run opinion factory.

Goodbye Tucker Carlson, paid disinfo promoter, hello Tucker Carlson voice of the new media who somehow still gets promoted by the very forces he’s supposed to be opposing .

We’ve seen other examples of this kind of thing already, for example AOC’s obviously fake “look at me live streaming my random off the cuff thoughts” videos. As if she hasn’t had a focus group decide exactly how little make up she should wear or how “unkempt” her hair should be be, or signed a sponsorship deal for the fried chicken she’s eating.

The selling point of new-media was that everyone had access to it instantly, with that came realness marked by rawness.  The establishment quickly seized on these markers of authenticity & tried to make them  their own. Now that rawness is being manufactured and realness is being faked on a production line.

And by seeding the rising new-media with establishment voices allegedly “gone rogue” , the establishment take control of it.

On top of that, the transition from old to new media can also be used to co-opt independent outlets and construct agenda-controlling fake binary narratives. With the old media selling one “side”, and new media the other.

That’s how you end up with crazy scenarios where billionaires like Elon Musk are cast as some kind of outsider, no matter how many Great Reset talking points he promotes, or podcasters like Joe Rogan apparently get $250 million from the system to attack the system, or the “intellectual dark web” shilling vaccines and Israel in equal measure.

The old establishment voices (Guardian, CNN, New York Times or whoever) noisily attack these new “anti-establishment” voices (who are always selling the same agenda in a slightly altered form), knowing that the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” mindset will give them cred  in genuine alternate media circles.

I mean it’s pretty cool to get a big old “ex”-mainstreamer on your side and agreeing to be on your podcast, right? Instant kudos, excitement. “See, even Big Name X admits we’re right about this”. It’s too easy to be seduced by the lure of  “celebrity rebel” narratives. We all want to believe them don’t we.

And thus, by putting “former” establishment insiders in leadership positions of “the alternative”, the ‘elite’ control the direction of their supposed opposition.

Tucker Carlson is the first really big voice to make the swap in a major way, but he won’t be the last. And his interview with Putin is yet another sign of the “approved alternative” messaging.

According to Twitter, the interview has been viewed 140 million times in 24 hours. Tucker and Putin have been trending ever since, promoted by the all powerful algorithm on a site owned by the richest man in the world, whilst simultaneously appearing on the front pages of every paper.

Wow, cool, right. The new media is just so right about this the establishment has no choice but to promote it!

Too easy to  fail to notice there’s nothing really  “new” about this media at all. It’s just a very old hermit crab in a very new shell.

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Administrator
February 11, 2024 8:24 am

Is there anything funnier than someone telling you that there is a false binary and then assuring you that there are only two choices?

I submit that there is not.

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  hardscrabble farmer
February 11, 2024 10:23 am

I would posit that someone telling you there is not even a binary choice, because they are all in on it, to be even funnier.

fujigm
fujigm
  hardscrabble farmer
February 11, 2024 5:20 pm

As HSF logically states:
“It’s all fake and gay.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
February 11, 2024 8:35 pm

In fact there is only one choice, the three masks (Biden, Trump, RFKjr) of the beast.

Aodh MacRaynall
Aodh MacRaynall
February 11, 2024 8:03 am

oi, we’re fucked!

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
February 11, 2024 8:38 am

While total-skeptic pieces like this must continue to be written and published, it must also be pointed out that “perfect is the enemy of the good”.

So
1. Celebrate the release of information
2. Be and remain vigilant and skeptical
3. Everyone always had underlying motives which they never share

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Swrichmond
February 11, 2024 10:57 am

“perfect is the enemy of the good”.

I’d expect that sort of thing from losers, quitters and other non-productives…

Darren
Darren
  The Central Scrutinizer
February 11, 2024 11:22 am

If you choose to interact only with those who agree with you 100 percent of time you’ll be very lonely.

It’s entirely possible to take all the pleasure and glean all the information possible from sources as divergent as Ayn Rand and John Lennon, for example, as long as you understand that each spouted his or her own portion of clap-trap that can be disputed or ignored.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Darren
February 11, 2024 11:56 am

‘portion’

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Darren
February 12, 2024 12:33 pm

I JUST INTERACTED with someone I disagree with! What’s YOUR fucking problem, Daryl?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Swrichmond
February 11, 2024 11:08 am

I suspect all those who are suspicious of a human who is not perfect. It is so fucking easy to be the backseat driver, the armchair quarterback, the hind-sighter, The Critic.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Anonymous
February 11, 2024 11:38 am

Obviously media darlings do all the heavy lifting.

Darren
Darren
  hardscrabble farmer
February 11, 2024 1:16 pm

It was obviously easier for you to summarily criticize the preceding post with a touch of reductio ad absurdum than to offer a more thoughtful analysis thereby proving the point made in that post to be correct.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Darren
February 11, 2024 1:29 pm

Bullshit doesnt deserve thoughtful analysis.

Darren
Darren
  Anonymous
February 11, 2024 1:34 pm

The world is full of bullshit. Ignore it at your peril.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Darren
February 11, 2024 2:05 pm

Heuristics can reduce the bullshit workload.

Darren
Darren
  Anonymous
February 11, 2024 3:52 pm

What do heuristics tell us about the advisability of expecting other people to be perfect before seeing any value in them at all?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Swrichmond
February 11, 2024 12:40 pm

When information is covered up for decades, I feel like bringing it up later is kind of a giant Fuck You to the people who noticed and tried to talk about it earlier.

When I’ve read him, Knightly always to be very reasonable with his skepticism.

If you’re going to start questioning motives, why not start at the top?

Tt4head
Tt4head
  Swrichmond
February 11, 2024 1:40 pm

But let’s hope that some simply want to expose truth for altruistic reasons.

i forget
i forget
  Swrichmond
February 12, 2024 10:28 pm

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166982.Looking_for_Mr_Goodbar

Read it in the 70’s. (Ate a few of the candy bars, too.)

Perfect/good is false dichotomy … It’s in the candy food group.

(Could call it positive Duchovny, tho. Or false-positive Duchovny. He’s an entertainer-entrainer. To the entrainable, that’s real sugary-sweet addictive.)

True (accurate, correct – even asymptotic as it albeit may be, is) dichotomy is pass/fail (w/point-by-point letter gradations … but ultimately “there can be only one” per contest – but any number of ties will all go to the runners – – gold stars for everybody … that ties top score).

Laws, principles, reality is pass/fail.

Contrarily, the fashion shows, “legalities,” are rube-lube … to make slippery the Rube Goldberg cogs that mostly cogito, ergo sum/mary self/other-execute in the biological imperative murder-suicide pact (of which pax Americana is just a chapter heading).

Measured accurately, TBTF is a far larger cohort than the initials commonly refer to.

Which of course begets huge little sibling TLTS. Too little to succeed. Or “tilts.” (Pinball wizards, gamblers anonymous …)

You got your Masters & you got your Blasters. Thunderdome Sunday was yesterday, right?

Gravitas of gravity & the gravitaslessness of vanity. Cue Cormac McCarthy’s Ellis character.

All is good. Nothing is good. In between is No Man’s Land & Hamburger Hillper (not O)K-rations … that make bankers et al lots of blood🩸money. And establishes the bona fides of all the blood-in blood-out citizen-canon-cannonfodder.

(Hello Muddah, hello Faddah, Here I am at Camp Borgata ….)

The protagonists in Rossner’s true-life-based novel failed.

So have most of the protagonists in novel, exceptional, destiny-manifestation america … from the get-go that keeps on re-gifting in place.

Saw scribbles here taking exception to Weinstein, in his Darien Gap adventure/xposé.

Whether by inclination or affectation, the over-careful, fragile mincing, is the “reasonable” tone that tone deaf audiences of possible, but highly unlikely, re-conversions require.

And that has been the true case/state of the safety-in-numbers bunch since long before cia coined “conspiracy theorists” – – which is why the cia coin spends so well.

“Reasonable” is a religion. Is a hedge. (And a topiary-maze carved to suit spirit animals du jour. Like in The Shining. Pulitzer shortlist All Work & No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy was not reasonable. The Overlook Hotel in Rocky Mountain winter was some Cuckoos Nest.)

But hedges are an expense – &/but a “profit” center of the actuarial prophets – like insurance, pitched & sold & bot, sometimes even honestly designed, to “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”

Hedges pitch the woo of keeping what you already “have.”
Or most of it.
Or at least some of it.
OK, can I just *say* I own it ???
Yes sir/ma’am, you can say you own it, just as soon as you pay your subscription fee for the month.

But most of the hedge dies come with a fine print, or implicit-invisible, siamese-schizoid die twin.

Call that one “Benson.”

Like the healthcare prescribed cancer sticks. Benson & Hedges. I forget … what was Cancer Man pitching in “I want to believe” X-Files?

Or maybe call it the stacked up to the sky twin towers dice.

“Reasonable” fails. Both sides of it. Slowly at first. Then at free-fall speed into databased footprints. Jenga!

(And then jengaslighting ensues.)

Loneliness was tough 🎶 … Marylin failed.

Kennedy brothers failed.

A whole bunch of associated/related others failed. And not while attempting greatly, either. But while doing the exogenous disingenuous dirty: I got holes, please “complete me,” Jerry McGuire.

Scientologeewizard canard of Ozymandias bullshit.

And the ones that put holes into them dead kennedys, or that made holes where their side-kick support cast marks were, up on that stage, failed, too.

Saw Farmer channeling student of humanimal-Pitt channeling a hitman-murderer with a minor in American history (Cue end scene in Killing Them Softly). Another false dichotomy.

Crime is not business.

Perfectly good crime “got away with laundered” is not perfectly good business.

Not when 51% take the bribes, fence the narrative/lectrified stolen property & run. Not when 99.9% do it, either.

((Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.))

Crime fails. Both sides of it. No matter what it’s called. Words.

Sticks & stones do what they are used to do, no matter what they are, or that is, called.

John Wick – not even a politician or world leader – killed a bunch with a pencil.
Or a stick.
Or a graphite saber-toothed stiletto.
Or call it whatever else. Matters nought whatcha call it.

Chris(tos – Terms Of Service?) In The Morning radio show (Northern Exposure, S3 E16, Lost & Found):

“In ancient Greece & Rome, the community, the city, was everything. The whole enchilada. You had no identity without it. You piss off the powers that be & you got the boot. The Big E. Exile. Persona non grata. You take Oedipus, that unlucky fellow who killed his father & married his mother. They string him up? Did they slit his throat? No way. Check it out. “Let him flee, nor ever approach the temples, let no citizen speak to or receive him, let no one admit him to the prayers or sacrifices, let no one offer the lustral waters.” You talk about a cold shoulder. Brrr! They called that capital (capitol?) punishment. Think about that.”

“Pondering this here phenomenon we call Cicely, Alaska you might ask yourself “Where do cities come from in the first place?” Well, like most things, from an idea. You see our ancestors had the notion that the dead weren’t really dead, they just kept on boogieing on underground. So to make sure that the dead had a regular supply of chow & vino they put feed-times on the calendar. Presto. We had rituals, festivals, religions. Now, you take some families & you give ‘em the same religion, you got a tribe. A few tribes, what do you got? Athens. Thebes. Rome. It’s weird, but true. We got cities cuz those ancient folks wanted to do right by the dead. It’s no accident that the church & the graveyard stand side-by-side. City of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.”

“The ancients knew that we all share a common fate. They gathered around their hearths, their sacred fires, not just to remember those who had gone before but to comfort each other in the face of their own inevitable journey. Mr. Einstein put it like this, “Strange is our situation here upon earth. However there is one thing that we do know. That man is here for the sake of other men. Above all for those upon whose smile & well-being our own happiness depends. And also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected to by a bond of sympathy.” Good night, Cicely.”

((( Northern Exposure: Gentlemen, he offers us his front. Briefly next will his turning flank be on offer. Then his retreating back. Unless “his” rear echElon (What’s That Musk Smell? – Lynyrd Skynyrd) decides to waste wave after wave of marines, infantry – then that might be that, & weus’ll be wasted too/instead. )))

The death thing.

Elephant in the LR (& left-right) centrality of it – because the pachyderm is surrounded by an epiderm of blind wiseguize holding forth (it’s a wall – & you’d best wail; it’s a speer – root tuber of spirituality; it’s a snake – & it’s all Eve’s fault; it’s a tree – & it’s all those treasonous apples’ fault; it’s a fan/atic – like belfry-bats flapping wings; it’s a rope —a—dope).

Conscious-subconscious-subbasement-suborning-perjurys-of-pupae-catacombs. Like what termites do to the insides of outwardly aesthetic & sound-looking lumber. And lumbering polity-hives do to themselves.

And sympathy, too much of it, begets & re-begets & ♾️begets what “Sir” Mick & the Stones sang about. And stuff like the bombs, nukes or not, that hot sympathy-seeking missile Einstein had a hand in “developing” are ever-incoming. And stories like Camp Of The Saints.

Thought experiment. Eternal sunshine of the spotless (of death consciousness) mind. What would wiping that bit of hard drive do to/about the hard charging drive to death? Hey, Elon, when’s that neural link TP gonna be rolled?

It might could even restore circulation & 98.6 to those cold shoulders roadies that make banneds on the run (or with the runs) not only possible, but ineluctable. That just might be an Aristotelian A is A.

As for me now death be not proud, again, & wintry mournings are not called off, or scheduled, by groundhogs.

******

Battle Hymenoptera of the repub/salt/lic is the buzz-music of two beating wings attached to a single quid pro quo-less (or negative QPQ) & venomous/explosive (a la that vid showing a ukie/ruskie/e-i-e-i-oh! being chased down by a bumblebee drone that exploded next to his head) nectar stealing parasite that, mechanical-insectile socio/psychopathic that it is, harbors no compunctions whatsoever about going full-parasitoid (kills the host, or the posterity, even if the s/corp/oration drowns with the ferry-frog it killed).

*’Two wings, L&R, same insect of destruction’ works better, is more accurate I think. ‘Bird of prey’ elevates the clay-footed (at the least) “all too human” process all too much.

Speaking for this human person I’ve got less than no use for Kafka’s bugmen carpetbagmen. Neither the lesser, nor the greater, of those evil options.

Bzzz-bzzz: Hive up or die (saith some of the flashing lightning bugs). Human hymenoptera & walking dead zombie herds ain’t exactly dead. But not exactly alive, either.

Including not exactly alive to the ever-present history, goes-round-comes-round ouroboros, & eternal recurrence regime-day-is-long groundhog leader-follower mechanism.

Jury nullification, like “It’s a republic! Not a democracy!”gets played (by the played-players) regularly. Theoretical magic-words-mythical, those exoskel-bodies have long since been mostly a jury of “your” pupae.

Point is, in a more human, less insectile/subhuman, world villain-nullification would be normal-unequivocal @local scale & not merely confined to sequestered “little boxes, little boxes – & they all look the same” jury panels.

But that’s not how proximate jury-security operates, mostly, is it?

The praetorians close-in by the top of the trash midden protect the actualized trash pinnacle (using skills typically burned in courtesy of the military-gladiator academies that train, select for, mercenary paths-socio/psycho … those thin blue & camo lines), they don’t take out the trash.

But soon/late, trashes to trashes, dustoevskis to dustoevskies, anyway.

Malignancy. Malevolence. Superstitious simple-mindedness that orders the fastest “food” on the menu – us&them – & then, self-satisfied, pockets a 100% gratuity – or more – & promises to pay next Tuesday (that never comes) for Burgher-burgers stolen-eaten today (that never ends). Pink slime never does not ensue. Or does not precurse. Or does not posthole.

Been hearing this hum my whole life. In Wichita, & everywhere else.

I hear you singing in the wire
I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line

The choir is the garrote wire is the medium is the message. And that mass/ing shoots messengers, just like horses, too. Soylent Green & Alpo.

1968. Mitchum as an other named (Dick Ennis) Ernie Pyle, in
Anzio:

“You did a great job, Mr. Ennis.
Thank you.

I suppose you’ll be taking a good,
long rest in Naples?

No, as a matter of fact, general,

I think I’ll stick around your show little while longer.

It’s no longer my show, Mr. Ennis.
I’m going home.

I was relieved.

I was replaced the day before yesterday
by General Howard.

It would seem as if you and Napoleon had a point.

My epitaph…

written by no less a person than Winston Churchill:

“I had hoped we were hurling
a wildcat onto the shore…

but all we’ve got is a stranded whale.”

He knows how to use words.

Yeah.

Had I been given a few more days…

I might’ve gotten out of Anzio with a little honor.

Well, at least you are getting out…

with your life, general.

I guess that is something.

Well, what happens next?
Next?

How does it work out on the table?

Oh, we’ll win.

It’ll take considerably more time now…

more lives…

but we’ll drive Kesselring back.

General Carson will have his day in Rome.

And then?

Then?
Why, we defeat the enemy.

We win the war.

What happens then?

You mean we just choose up sides…

and start all over again?

You think of this as a game?

Well, after all, general,
is it not the ultimate game?

And not for survival?

Not for survival…

nor to secure shelter nor to appease hunger.

Oh, you’ve found your answer then.

I believe I have, general.

Men kill each other because they like to.

Because they like to?
And that’s it?

That’s it. Plain and simple.
They love to.

War has never solved anything,
history teaches us that.

But you face a man with a gun in your hands…

you live more intensely at that moment…

than in any other moment in your life.

Because you’re scared to death,
and you’ve got to kill him.

We kill each other because we like to.

That’s a hell of a condemnation of mankind,
Mr. Ennis.

Yes, I’m afraid it is, general…

but maybe if we recognize it
and admit it to ourselves…

we might learn to live with each other.

We hope.”

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. But what other kind of games could stupid people be expected to play? Long stupid, short Napoleon – They like it.

Stu/p.i.d. The sous vide immersion stew-circulator/heater’s got a proportional-integral-derivative controller on it, too. That’s how the frogs are cooked. Low & slow, in an organization-name-stamped plastic bodybag, with a quick sear at the end.

But the auto(nomic)sear “end” is the POSIWID.

Hell Or High Water ending scene. “He liked it.” And “they” preceded him in liking it. And liked him the way he liked them. The mononulikeosis gets kissed around a lot.

Emphasis always on the 2nd “S” initialing “stupid.”

How’d that old Life cereal (serial … killers) commercial go? “He likes it! Hey Mikey!”

But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die 🎶 & now all I can do is hang my head & cry … my snake eyes out.

🎲🎲

Tlate
Tlate
February 11, 2024 10:00 am

Is everything a ruse? Are we constantly being played? Is everything to foster agenda 2030? I am always leery of writers who make blanket statements. Discerning the truth amongst all the noise is a challenge but not impossible.
I do believe US caused the Ukraine war. My opinion I could be wrong.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Tlate
February 11, 2024 10:59 am

How much of your life can you afford to waste trying to understand problems you’ll never be able to fix?

That is THE question. And that dv was here when I arrived.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  The Central Scrutinizer
February 11, 2024 11:41 am

It is neither good nor bad. Waste has its purpose. Ecclesiastes and all that jazz.

We are all just pilgrims on a journey, the goal isn’t the destination, but the things we learn along the way. The only people who miss it are the ones who fail to take it.

YMMV

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  hardscrabble farmer
February 12, 2024 12:36 pm

No one said it was good or bad, you pompous fuk. WTF are you on about now?

Defector
Defector
  The Central Scrutinizer
February 11, 2024 10:03 pm

You cannot fix the map. But you can use it to navigate. You can do without one. If you know the place. Otherwise you are just wandering. If you do not know where you are going, you will probably get there (R.Fripp),

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Tlate
February 11, 2024 11:07 am

I don’t know how much you have read or thought about who started the war. One thing is incontestable though, Russian tanks crossed into the Ukraine first. With that as a starting point, one needs fairly convincing evidence that it was the Ukraine who was the aggressor. Ukraine may have irritated Putin, but that is no excuse or justification for starting a war and killing people. And no, joining NATO would not justify sending in the tanks after acceptance of Lithuania and Estonia into a defensive alliance that is virtually a paper tiger.

MMinWA
MMinWA
  Anonymous
February 11, 2024 11:32 am

“irritated Putin” Good grief, Ukraine had killed over 10,000 Russians in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia since they reneged on the promises made in 2014. Putin has made it clear for several decades that Ukraine would not be allowed in NATO as NATO itself has slowly moved eastward.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Anonymous
February 11, 2024 11:42 am

There is no point in participating unless you intend to play.

Do your homework first, comment after.

Walter
Walter
  Anonymous
February 11, 2024 1:02 pm

Sight line is too short here. Broaden and extend your view of the situation.

Tt4head
Tt4head
  Anonymous
February 11, 2024 1:43 pm

You don’t understand why. We were going to install Ukraine in NATO as a total expansionistic move. They reacted defensively using a first strike capability. If you understand that, it was the West who hit Mother Bear with a stick until it had to respond. .

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Tlate
February 11, 2024 11:39 am

If it’s a war, why are the enemies still doing business with each other?

I know, I know, muh contracts, but seriously?

zappalives
zappalives
  Tlate
February 11, 2024 3:01 pm

Your not wrong !
The author of this piece is doing disinfo.
He is attempting to create doubt.
Its what democrats do.

Mr. Hyde
Mr. Hyde
February 11, 2024 10:56 am

Putin murders his critics and opponents so why wouldn’t he lie?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Mr. Hyde
February 11, 2024 11:09 am

JIDF? Is that you?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Mr. Hyde
February 11, 2024 11:44 am

You’re not wrong.

Darren
Darren
  Mr. Hyde
February 11, 2024 1:18 pm

If Putin is lying why wouldn’t you point out the specific lies and provide the countering evidence?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Mr. Hyde
February 11, 2024 2:00 pm

i think you are thinking of clinton and bush

Obbledy
Obbledy
February 11, 2024 11:17 am

The demise of the legacy media is long in coming and well deserved!
Their crying about it in print is even more delicious.
Any business that neither knows nor cares about their customer,goes OUT OF BUSINESS!….
I have a suggestion…..Tell the Truth,…
I know…..radical idea…….it is the Way!

piearesquared
piearesquared
February 11, 2024 12:25 pm

Extremely insightful article by Kit Knightly as usual. He gets it. But it is not just Tucker Carlson. Most of the so-called alternative media is controlled opposition. David Icke calls it the Mainstream Alternative Media (MAM). About the only prominent or semi-prominent people in the alternative media that I am aware of who are not either controlled opposition or dumber than dirt are David Icke, Jeff Berwick (dollarvigilante.com), David Knight, Jeff Rense, Donald Jeffries, and Kit Knightly himself.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  piearesquared
February 11, 2024 12:48 pm

I don’t know how he uses it, but MAM is a great description.

piearesquared
piearesquared
  piearesquared
February 11, 2024 1:12 pm

Excellent video of David Icke on the Alex Jones Show Friday that discusses much of the same information covered in this post. Alex Jones himself is controlled opposition, but he tells more truth than most other controlled opposition. I don’t know what happened to Jones. He was very accurate 20 years ago, but he either sold out (or was blackmailed) somewhere along the line or else he was a plant from the beginning. But in either case, he is definitely controlled opposition now.
https://davidicke.com/2024/02/10/david-icke-debates-alex-jones-over-elon-musk-and-ai/

B_MC
B_MC
  piearesquared
February 11, 2024 6:18 pm

they stand as a collective blockade to the deep levels of the rabbit hole within which their ‘dots’ are mere symptoms, not the cause.

Of course Alex Jones is back on Twitter/X. As I have been writing here, the ‘poll’ and waiting for God Elon’s pronouncement, has all been a GAME to hijack your perception and that of the Mainstream Alternative Media (MAM). You are being had, people, but most will never get that…

Musk could have simply done this long ago, but the ritual had to be played out to both eulogise Musk, the new MAM God, and to put Alex Jones centre stage as a symbol of the Mainstream Alternative Media alongside Musk, Carlson, Rogan, Tate, Peterson, Brand, Vlaardingerbroek, and all the rest.

They may each have useful things to say about some ‘dots’ but they stand as a collective blockade to the deep levels of the rabbit hole within which their ‘dots’ are mere symptoms, not the cause.

These are now the MAMMIES of the New Mainstream Alternative Media

Of course Alex Jones is back on Twitter/X. As I have been writing here, the ‘poll’ and waiting for God Elon’s pronouncement, has all been a GAME to hijack your perception and that of the Mainstream Alternative Media (MAM). You are being had, people, but most will never get that.… https://t.co/uzbwETNoMu

— David Icke (@davidicke) December 10, 2023

piearesquared
piearesquared
  B_MC
February 11, 2024 8:14 pm

I haven’t seen this particular statement by David Icke until just now, but it is correct, as is nearly everything that he says.

The Decentralised Disregarder
The Decentralised Disregarder
  piearesquared
February 12, 2024 2:16 am

David Ike is the original controlled opposition from way back in the nineties. Revealing of controlled opposition is a deliberate part of the game being played by TPTB, it creates disillusion, demoralisation, paranoia and mistrust amongst the ranks of the opposition movement. It’s psychological warfare, and Mr Ike is throwing the mind grenades.

Gadsden flag
Gadsden flag
February 11, 2024 12:38 pm

I periodically launch MSN homepage to get the flavor (I realize I am curated). The page is a mosaic of noise. Articles transcribed from tik tok sized peripheral vision . In fairness TGP is an encyclopedia by comparison. The banner is the headline is the article.

The mosaic of noise is autismic. It is difficult to absorb the firehose of content.

The viewer is reduced to scanning the headlines and the headlines are succinct in the directional message.

The matter at hand is abstracted and distilled to a single talking point. Memed.

The technology of belief (James True) affords you permission to accept the headline without personal due diligence and diligent action.

The Pol Pots of the world (yes, they exist in the USA gov and institutions of the world) fill the void where due diligence and vigilance are lacking.

Defector
Defector
February 11, 2024 12:45 pm

Bottom line: Tucker is right in many ways, so maybe he is a tool of the enemy?
Scepticism, even borderline paranoia, is quite appropriate these days.
Of course I will watch out, observe, make my reasoning, make the conclusions and decision based on them.
So far, I am glad the interview took place and was aired.
My point: be paranoid. But be moderate ( ~est modus in rebus).

Undeniable
Undeniable
  Defector
February 11, 2024 3:05 pm

Right on, Defector.

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The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Undeniable
February 12, 2024 12:39 pm

And like most things, it remains useless until it is put into operation.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
February 11, 2024 12:56 pm

Like Tower 7 … maybe it’s all just controlled demolition … and Towers 1 & 2, also …

Undeniable
Undeniable
  Anthony Aaron
February 11, 2024 3:16 pm

Vlad is a wizard, too. Chaotic dissolution precedes coagulation, then order. Alchemy yields outcomes as one world is divided united by ten.

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Question: Does it still count as conspiracy if it’s all been published?

Tt4head
Tt4head
February 11, 2024 1:37 pm

New media is now the new legacy media because its successful? Oxymoron. Paranoia is good on some level in a near total surveillance state but we can’t let it take control of our lives.

Defector
Defector
  Tt4head
February 11, 2024 9:52 pm

Our posts have different wording but the meaning is almost the same.

Tr4head
Tr4head
February 11, 2024 6:14 pm

I would say this is a massive win for Tucker and Vlad.

Dawn
Dawn
February 11, 2024 10:04 pm

A circular argument, though the summary of the interview is good.

When it comes to the author’s opinion on evolving news industry however logic evaporates utterly. The plus ça change claim just doesn’t wash. I wonder who fed him the notion.

Now i’m not saying things won’t go back to the way they were in the bad old days of legacy media; just that the author appears quite cyclopic about CONTEXT.

The war is information, power is information, the weapon is information. Different players are emerging.

The dying corrupt on both sides will fight for survival to the finish … meantime some real information IS ESCAPING into public view for those who know where to find it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 12, 2024 11:12 am

Biden has issue with White people who believe in real Nationalism. Putin has an issue with White people who believe and practice Nationalism. Every economic measure Biden makes (supposedly) against Putin, hurts Western economies and makes the ruble stronger. Driving ever more nations away from trading on the dollar and into the arms of Putin. Zelensky provokes and plays Ukraine’s White Nationalists against the White Nationalists of Russia. Putin obliges sending Russia’s young White men to die under false pretenses. Looks and smells like Putin and Biden are working hand in hand to destroy the West. Pick a side and you’re playing along. We have our own invasion up close and personal. Which Biden provoked and now encourages.