A former Fox host has interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where he asked him about relations with the US and the conflict in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson Network reports.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson confirmed that he is in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin. He said his goal was to air his conversation with the Russian president to counter what he called pro-Ukrainian “fawning pep talks” by Western media covering the war.
Tucker conducted an interview with Putin on Tuesday. The journalist asked the Russian president numerous questions about the world’s most important geopolitical conflicts. But as expected, the main topic was a discussion of the conflict in Ukraine and Russia’s relationship with the United States.
Responding to Tucker’s question about addressing the Americans, Putin said:
Our message is that Russia is not your enemy. We do not want war. We are ready for peace. Your leaders are seeking conflict. That is not what we want. Russia stands for its people. We don’t want what doesn’t belong to us.
Asked whether Putin would have visited Washington, the president replied:
Yes, of course. I have been to the United States before. I like to visit them, and I have met all the presidents except Joe Biden. If I were invited, I would go. YES.
On Russia-America relations, Putin also reiterated that he did not consider the States an enemy. He said:
We were allies in the Second World War. The Russians helped settle Alaska, California, and we were in Hawaii too. Our people are not the enemy, but those in Washington are definitely not our friends.
In a post on website X on Tuesday afternoon, Carlson presented the interview as a chance for the American public to see the “truth” about the Ukrainian war. He wrote:
You’ve never heard his [Putin] voice. That’s wrong. Americans have a right to know all we can about a war they’re implicated in, and we have the right to tell them about it. Western governments by contrast will certainly do their best to censor this video. They are afraid of information they can’t control.
Later, in a post on X’s website, Carlson made comments about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:
The populations of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware. Their media outlets are corrupt. They lie to the readers and viewers. The interviews [Zelensky has] done in the US are not traditional interviews, they are fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelensky’s demands that the US enter more deeply into a war in eastern Europe and pay for it. That is not journalism. It is government propaganda of the ugliest kind.
