Al Jazeera reports:
Carlson did not even try to refute Putin’s outlandish and ungrounded claims. One was Putin’s belief that elected leaders do not run the United States. “So, twice you’ve described US presidents making decisions and then being undercut by their agency heads. So, it sounds like you’re describing a system that’s not run by the people who are elected in your telling,” Carlson said. “That’s right,” Putin said and Carlson readily agreed.
Putin reiterated his old claims that today’s Ukraine is an “artificial state” created by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who annexed areas in Poland, Hungary and Romania making them part of Soviet Ukraine. Putin also suggested that Hungary, whose nationalist helmsman Viktor Orban remains the most pro-Russian leader within the European Union, “has the right to take back its lands.”
Read the full article. The cult is exulting because Carlson’s original clip with Putin already has 122 million views.
I at first thought this must be a mistranslation. But after watching video, I can confirm Putin really said it (I am native speaker of Russian): “the Poles overplayed their hand and forced Hitler to start World War II with them.” https://t.co/K0XSWPMwA8
— Ilya Somin (@IlyaSomin) February 9, 2024
He continues: “Hitler had no remaining choice but to begin the realization of his plans with [the attack on] on Poland.” Poor Hitler was boxed in by those unreasonable Poles!
— Ilya Somin (@IlyaSomin) February 9, 2024
“America first” traitors. pic.twitter.com/zPsMpqUQmG
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 9, 2024
Now Tucker is yet again trying to take Putin into one of his fantasy narratives – that he is a devout Christian leader. Putin shuts that down too. Unfortunately the real Putin in this interview isn’t matching up with Fantasy Putin that Tucker created on Fox. pic.twitter.com/yzV0ipzjoY
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 9, 2024