Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin’s interview with American showman Tucker Carlson an absurd story.
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Scholz visited the United States, where he met with President Biden on February 9. The German Chancellor commented on Putin’s conversation with Carlson, calling it a “ridiculous interview.” As BILD columnist Herbert Bauernebel writes, Scholz and Biden “laughed” at the Kremlin dictator’s speech.
So far we have seen an interview with the Russian president. To be honest, it ridicules Russia’s actual actions in Ukraine and tells an absolutely absurd story about the causes of this war. There is a very clear reason. This is the will of the Russian president and Russia to annex part of Ukraine. And any stories told about this do not change the fact that this is precisely the purpose of his imperialist intentions,” Scholz said at a press conference in Washington.
Scholz said the overall content of Putin’s statements in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson makes it even clearer why allies should continue to support Ukraine.
The Russian President mocks what Russia is really doing in Ukraine and gives completely convoluted explanations for the reasons for this war. For us, this makes the question even more obvious: we remain completely on the side of Ukraine,” commented Scholz.
Reaction of the world and Ukraine
Putin is a sick man who exists in a fictional world that does not exist and will never exist. This is what Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Alexey Danilov said about the interview with the Russian President and American propagandist Tucker Carlson.
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council emphasized that “such journalistic unity” of Carlson is disgusting.
Didn’t the journalist, sitting next to this bastard, understand who he was diligently assenting to, the one on whose hands the blood is not abstract, but real – more than 500 Ukrainian children, tens of thousands of other innocent elderly people, women… And when will this journalist return to the USA and will hug his children at home, let him imagine that they may not be there, since they were killed yesterday by a Russian missile, and his parents were crushed by a Russian tank,” Danilov wrote.
According to him, this interview is “devoid of any meaning,” since all Putin’s conversations about Ukraine are copied as carbon copies, where on the one hand Russia is always offended and Putin’s own delirium, and on the other side is the whole world, which only “dreams of seizing” the wealth “Russia, whose soldiers steal toilets in Ukraine.”
Putin is a sick man who exists in a fictional world that does not exist and will never exist. His knowledge of history in general and the history of Ukraine in particular is based on personal mental disorders with signs of mania. I hope that such interviews will help Western politicians sober up, the NSDC Secretary added.
A new level of shame for Carlson – this is how most Western media and analysts reacted to the American journalist’s interview with Putin.
The Guardian:
The interview with Putin, filmed in Moscow, is the first interview with Western media since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. It marked a new level of infamy for Carlson, who has often criticized U.S. support for Ukraine and called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “Ukrainian pimp” and a “rat.”
Keir Giles, writer and Russian studies researcher:
Everyone involved in Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin is an enemy of the United States and the West.
Le Monde:
Carlson conducted not just a formal interview, but a real advertising campaign for Putin.
El Pais:
The timing of this information bomb seems to be no coincidence. Carlson’s visit to Moscow comes as fighting in Ukraine has stalled and amid a growing divide in the Republican Party over the war and aid to Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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