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.
But there’s one pretty necessary one who did not hassle tuning into the interview in any respect: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier that aired on Thursday, Zelenskyy instructed the information anchor that he did not watch the interview performed by the previous Fox News host, wherein Putin usually rambled on with a revisionist model of Russian historical past. Zelenskyy mentioned he bought a few of the details of the episode from the media and his advisors.
“I don’t have time to hear more than two hours of bullshit about us, about the world, about United States, about our relations, and this interview with a killer,” Zelenskyy instructed Baier in his personal phrases and never via a translator.
Historians beforehand instructed Business Insider that Putin gave a curious interview with Carlson that exposed little concerning the battle in Ukraine (past that it’ll proceed) and extra concerning the Russian chief’s delusions.
For about half an hour, Putin delved into an uninterrupted monologue about why Ukraine just isn’t a sovereign nation, utilizing a few of the identical speaking factors he has used to justify the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“Putin seems like a delusional man who has lost touch with reality, yammering on about Rurik and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,” Simon Miles, an assistant professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and a historian of the Soviet Union and US-Soviet relations, beforehand instructed BI.
Carlson additionally admitted that he was “annoyed” at Putin’s solutions and felt the Russian president was “filibustering.” But he later concluded, “After watching all this, no, that was the predicate to his answer.”
During the interview with Baier, Zelenskyy continued to push for extra US help, arguing that Ukraine is in an “unfair war” as Russia fights with extra artillery and manpower.
“Our artillery has a range of around 20 km because we don’t have long-range weapons,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “Russians have an artillery range of 40 km. That’s not fair.”
Additional US help to Ukraine stays in limbo.
On February 13, the Senate handed a invoice that will allot $60 billion to assist Ukraine, however the funding faces an unsure future within the House with robust opposition from MAGA Republicans.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has mentioned that he will not rush to move the invoice.