The President of Russia, Wladimir Putin, He assured that this Thursday has no “territorial claim” on the European continent, although the Ukrainian regions were annexed Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea, and that he has no intention of sending troops to other countries, all during a two-hour interview with the controversial Tucker Carlson, Former presenter of the American television channel Fox News. “This (territorial claims on the European continent) is absolutely impossible.” You don’t have to be an analyst: It defies common sense to become involved in a global war. And a global war will bring humanity to the brink of destruction. “It’s obvious,” Putin said.
Some analysts claim that the two-hour interview with the controversial Carlson, a friend of Donald Trump, was “incoherent” and “marked a new level of shame for Carlson,” says The Guardian, which recalls that the former star host of Fox News has criticized US support for Ukraine and He called Volodymyr Zelensky a “Ukrainian pimp” and a “rat-like person.”.
Putin emphasized in the interview that he would only send troops against other countries if Russia were attacked from thereand has reiterated that Moscow “has no interest in Poland, Latvia or anywhere else”, and that he only acts on the basis of threats, as the Russian news agency Interfax reports. “They talk about it and try to intimidate their population with an imaginary Russian threat. This is an obvious fact. And intelligent people (…) fully understand that this is a farce. The Russian threat is being exaggerated,” added the Russian leader.
After months of comments from senior Russian officials about the possibility of using nuclear weapons if Russia became a threat, now Putin says this possibility is a ‘horror story for normal people’ in order to “extract additional resources from them in the fight against Russia.”
In fact, he believes that Western countries should reach an agreement with the Kremlin because it is “smarter and more rational,” and that they never refused to negotiate, but rather that it was the “West” that “publicly agreed.” “Refused to engage in talks with Russia because they will not be defeated “on the battlefield.” “For some reason everyone had the illusion that Russia could be defeated on the battlefield either by arrogance or by sincere feeling, but not by great wisdom,” the Russian president noted.
Carlson asked him about the reasons that led him to invade Ukraine and when he made that decision. Putin replied that he had decided to send troops to Ukraine “with the blow of the Maidan”, in reference to the protests against the then pro-Russian Ukrainian president. The Kremlin tenant assured that he was not prepared to allow “neo-Nazism” on the Russian side. In his version of Ukraine’s recent history, Putin explained: “After independence from the USSR, Ukraine began to search for its identity. And she couldn’t think of anything better than to put at the head of that identity the false heroes who had allied themselves with Hitler,” he said in reference to Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist who collaborated with Nazi troops during World War II.
What does Putin think of Trump?
When asked about Donald Trump, he said: “We have received numerous insults and slanders from several generations of American politicians.” Mr. Trump was a refreshing change. He is very popular in Russia, although that may not help him at all.” Carlson asked him about the adjective Joe Biden gave Putin himself when he called him a “murderer.” after the invasion of Ukraine. “If he won again, our lines of communication would open immediately, then there was no war (during Trump’s presidency), while at the moment we have no dialogue with President Biden.”
What he said about the American journalist imprisoned in Russia
When Carlson called on Putin to release the American Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich Jailed in Russia as a sign of “goodwill” on Moscow’s part, the Russian leader said his “goodwill” had been exhausted and complained about a lack of reciprocity from the West.
