It is legitimate, in principle, for a journalist to interview a murderous dictator. But this was something else.
It is legitimate, in principle, for a journalist to interview a murderous dictator. The uproar over Tucker Carlson’s announcement that he would interview Vladimir Putin was that the session would amount to pure Kremlin propaganda. Carlson, after all, is anwho, in his days as a Fox News host, hoped out loud that Russia would win its war against Ukraine.
One bit of good news is that Putin kicked off the big event with a half-hour-long monologue about Russian history, and, amid his holding forth on Yaroslav the Wise, the Ryurik dynasty, and the baptism of Rus , many viewers likely tuned out and turned it off. The upshot of Putin’s lecture, it soon became clear, was that Ukraine never existed as a nation, a culture, or an ethnicity separate from Russia; that there was no mention of such a place until 1919, when the Bolsheviks created the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine; and, therefore, the assertion of Ukrainian independence, after the breakup of the USSR, was an absurdity and a gesture of ingratitude..
Putin omitted or distorted much context. First, the expansion of NATO, which began under Bush’s father and President Bill Clinton, was encouraged most of all by the small central and Eastern European countries—chiefly Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary—which did not want to be left defenseless in the face of what they saw as Russia’s inevitable revanchism. Putin also claimed that he has always been ready to make peace.
Otherwise, Carlson asked nothing about the many other journalists and critics that Putin has shut down, arrested, or killed. He asked nothing about Putin’s incessant bombing of purely civilian structures across Ukraine. He asked nothing about Russian cyber-operations against the West. He asked nothing about his cooperation with North Korea or Iran.
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