The Vladimir Putin Interview | Tucker Carlson
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Man. Some of the stuff Putin is saying, I can totally understand, and am sort of sympathetic to: the feeling hurt that the Soviet Union sort of "peacefully" collapsed, and went away, and that their leaders did this, thinking Russia was going to get tons of help, not be encroached upon, and even be sort of enthusiastically invited into the fold with open arms? That that's what they felt, and they now feel that's not what happened? That, instead, it's clear that NATO/The West is still treating them as a threat, and expanding towards them? That stuff is sympathetic.
The part where he is saying that the main goal for this war now is "Denazification"? Come on. Get the fuck out of here. There is zero way that Russia is afraid of like - what - a fourth reich forming in the Ukraine? That that's the main reason for the fighting here? Two years of war to stop Nazis, and he's saying that successful denazification is the only condition for ending this?
In any event, it's absolutely ridiculous that this guy - the leader of a big country like Russia - a country that clearly has the potential to cause big problems for the world (they are doing it right now), clearly has all these grievances (whether or not they are legitimate or not), and Tucker fucking Carlson is the guy that has to go there to air all this out. What are our fucking politicians doing? What is the fucking media doing? Why wouldn't they be holding those politicians feet to the fire? Why is it up to basically an independent guy to do all their jobs?
To be fair: Ukraine isn't really doing themselves any favor with how some of the people are. I know a couple Hungarians who are also not the biggest fans of Ukraine specifically because how they treat their Hungarian minority who've lived there for many generations(attempt to poison water supply, general unrest and attacks). Just one angle to look at.
That is such a difficult subject for Americans. I talked about Ostis to someone here, and they had no idea there were Germans in places like Poland and the Ukraine. They know there are German villages in the US, but have a hard time believing it can be like that all over.
It's not difficult for me. If Putin, or whoever, wanted to show me evidence that there are Neo-Nazi types - and not just a couple, but huge amounts - in the Ukraine, and that they are causing problems for ethnic Russians, I could believe that.
That's a far crying from saying that the problem is so bad that you need to wage a massive two year war killing hundreds of thousands over Nazis? What sort of power do these Nazis have there? What are they doing to Russia/Russians?
Russia’s “massive two year war” isn’t against Ukraine. Without untold billions in cash and weapons, Ukraine would have folded in three months. Russia is at war with NATO. Ukraine are simply providing the meat for the grinder. And it’s no skin off the Ukrainian government’s back; they’re skimming billions, and they aren’t even Ukrainian.
Besides shelling the Russian speakers in Luhansk and Donetsz for the last ten years?
They've been bombing and mortaring and politically suppressing and linguistically suppressing the eastern russian speaking provinces (and the small hungarian enclave in the west aint all too happy with their treatment either) for a long time.
Azov had been at war with them long before Russia officially came in in 2022
If you ignore the fake new official borders drawn up on maps by the west, like in Africa, and think more along actual nation lines, then yeah I do see why some of these fights start, and they had been at war with Russians before 2022. People don't like to be forced together, and when you do it, one oppresses the other. The swiss are 3 different nations who joined together voluntarily. The Ukraine is 3 who have been forced together, and they hate each other. Let them split.
Threat to Russia less so maybe depending on definition, but threat to Russians? Absolutely.