Tucker Carlson

It can only result in something horrible happening.

Like, I...

of the leadership of russia so we tell ourselves that putin is an absolute dictator chairman mao style dictator who can do whatever he wants who's got total autonomy sovereignty in his own country that there are no competing political forces he's not under pressure from anyone domestically he just like wakes up and decides what to do that's completely false and then two that he's like the most

scary Russian nationalist who's ever lived.

He hates the West.

He wants to rebuild the Soviet Empire.

Like, that's not true either.

He's pretty moderate by modern Russian standards, no?

I still, after watching this all these years, I still don't fully understand the motive.

Here you have one of the most beautiful countries and cultures in the world with flaws, but compared to what?

I mean, Russia is a beautiful place, the beautiful culture, a sense of itself, and it's a civilization, not just a country.

Why would you want to destroy it?

What drives people?

I understand why you'd be mad that Putin moved into Eastern Ukraine, fine, but destroy Russia?

Where does that come from?

Well, and not just that, provokes Russia by sending Kamala Harris to the Munich Security Conference and saying in public to Zelensky, we want you to join NATO on camera.

I kind of get it conceptually.

And I have no question that you're describing the thinking of the people who made these decisions.

But I think if you just ponder like the potential consequences of their plan, so you knock Russia out of the ranks of the great powers, you displace Putin somehow.

What happens then?