Tucker Carlson’s newest interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin attracted a substantial variety of viewers, together with some US lawmakers, with about 206 million watches recorded on X.
However there’s one pretty essential one that did not hassle tuning into the interview in any respect: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In an interview with Fox Information’s Bret Baier that aired on Thursday, Zelenskyy informed the information anchor that he did not watch the interview performed by the previous Fox Information host, through which Putin usually rambled on with a revisionist model of Russian historical past. Zelenskyy mentioned he obtained among the details of the episode from the media and his advisors.
“I haven’t got time to listen to greater than two hours of bullshit about us, concerning the world, about United States, about our relationships, and this interview with a killer,” Zelenskyy informed Baier in his personal phrases and never by way of a translator.
Historians beforehand informed Enterprise Insider that Putin gave a curious interview with Carlson that exposed little concerning the battle in Ukraine (past that it’s going to proceed) and extra concerning the Russian chief’s delusions.
For about half an hour, Putin delved into an uninterrupted monologue about why Ukraine isn’t a sovereign nation, utilizing among the identical speaking factors he has used to justify the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“Putin looks like a delusional man who has misplaced contact with actuality, yammering on about Rurik and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,” Simon Miles, an assistant professor at Duke College’s Sanford Faculty of Public Coverage and a historian of the Soviet Union and US-Soviet relations, beforehand informed BI.
Carlson additionally admitted that he was “aggravated” at Putin’s solutions and felt the Russian president was “filibustering.” However he later concluded, “After watching all this, no, that was the predicate to his reply.”
Through the interview with Baier, Zelenskyy continued to push for extra US help, arguing that Ukraine is in an “unfair battle” as Russia fights with extra artillery and manpower.
“Our artillery has a variety of round 20 km as a result of we do not have long-range weapons,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “Russians have an artillery vary of 40 km. That is not truthful.”
Further US help to Ukraine stays in limbo.
On February 13, the Senate handed a invoice that might allot $60 billion to help Ukraine, however the funding faces an unsure future within the Home with sturdy opposition from MAGA Republicans.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson has mentioned that he will not rush to go the invoice.
