In an exclusive interview with American media personality Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, among other things, that the war in Ukraine could be ended within a few weeks, that the Nord Stream pipeline was blown up by the CIA, and that he was surprised that Hungarians live in the entire Subcarpathian region. Tucker Carlson's Putin interview provoked strong reactions all over the world, of course the leftist mainstream media and Verhofstadt were completely fired up.

According to Vladimir Putin, NATO is trying to intimidate the population of its own member countries with an imaginary Russian threat, and by stopping arms subsidies, the fighting could end in a few weeks - the Russian president spoke about this in an exclusive interview with American media personality Tucker Carlson, which was made public Thursday evening according to Washington local time by the journalist on his social networking site.

The Russian president, who gave an interview to a Western journalist for the first time since the escalation of the war in Ukraine in February 2022,

in response to a question, he stated: it is completely out of the question that his country would have territorial goals in Europe.

He stated that he could imagine sending Russian soldiers to Poland in only one case, namely if Poland attacked Russia. "We have no interests in Poland, Latvia or any other country," the Russian president said, adding that it would be against common sense to engage in some kind of global war.

A global war would bring the whole of humanity to the brink of destruction, he said, and he believed that with the Russian nuclear threat, Western countries aimed to use their taxpayers' money to weaken Russia as much as they could.

When asked why he does not approach Joe Biden directly to find a solution, he said that there is nothing to work out and the answer to the settlement in Ukraine is very simple.

According to him, if they really want to end the war in the West, they must stop the arms subsidies to Ukraine, and the armed conflict will end within a few weeks.

After that, the conditions can be agreed upon, added the Russian politician.

He also recalled that when he last spoke with US President Joe Biden before the start of military operations in Ukraine, he drew the American side's attention to the fact that he was making a mistake on a historic scale by supporting everything that is happening in Ukraine and trying to distance Ukraine from Russia.

Responding to the US political debate over aid to Ukraine, he raised the question of whether it would not be better for the US to negotiate with Russia and reach an agreement, taking into account the current situation and recognizing that Russia will fight for its interests to the end. Recognizing this would bring us back to common sense, which means respecting Russia and its interests, he pointed out.

Regarding the prospects of the peace talks, the Russian president said that they had reached a high level earlier, but the Western side decided to carry the conflict through to the "bitter end". He objected to the fact that the Ukrainian president had forbidden all negotiations with the Russian side in a decree.

The Russian president added that he is aware that the Ukrainian head of state also has a draft regarding the settlement, but an agreement requires dialogue.

Putin revealed whether he offered Transcarpathia to Hungary

Hungary was also discussed in the approximately two-hour interview, and in response to a question, Vladimir Putin said:

he never discussed with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that Hungary could get back the territory of Ukraine that once belonged to Hungary. But in fact, I know for sure that the Hungarians living there wanted to get back to their historical land

- he added, and then told a personal experience.

Sometime in the early 1980s, I traveled by car from what was then Leningrad, crossing the Soviet Union via Kiev. I stopped in Kiev and then went to Western Ukraine. I went to Beregszasz, and there the names of all towns and villages were written in Russian and, in a language I did not understand, in Hungarian, Russian and Hungarian. Not in Ukrainian, Russian and Hungarian. I was driving through some village and there were men sitting by their houses wearing black three piece suits and black top hats. I asked if they were some kind of artists? They told me that no, they are not artists, but Hungarians. I asked what are they doing here? What do you mean by that? This is their land. They live here. This was in Soviet times, in the 1980s. They preserved the Hungarian language and all their national costumes. They are Hungarians and they feel Hungarian

- said the Russian president, which was written by Hungarian Nation

We were tricked

Among the roots of the war in Ukraine, the Russian president mentioned the past centuries of Russian history, and as a direct antecedent the fact that during the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Russian leadership assumed that they had close ties to Ukraine due to language, family ties, common culture, history and faith, as well as economic entanglements, and these factors made good relations a necessity.

He recalled that after 1991, Russia expected to be accepted as a member of the family of so-called civilized nations, but nothing of the sort happened. We were deceived, said the Russian president, adding that

the United States promised that NATO would not expand eastward, but there have been five waves of expansion since then.

According to the Russian president, the leaders of his country tried to convince the West, to ask them not to do this.

He claimed that the United States expects other countries to comply with the "unanimous vote" on Ukraine, even if they do not want to do so. He cited the decision taken at the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest, according to which the door of the organization is open to Ukraine and Georgia, as the main factor in the harm done to his country. According to his claim, the American leadership at the time persuaded the reluctant Germany and France to support it.

He called the change of power in Ukraine forced in 2013 with Western support, according to his claim, a colossal mistake.

He claimed that the political change in Ukraine posed a threat to Crimea, which Russia had taken under "protection". According to his words, in Eastern Ukraine, in the Donbass region, in 2014, the Ukrainian side started a war by deploying air force and artillery against civilians. "This is how it started," the Russian president explained the start of today's war in Ukraine.

He called it a mistake that the current Ukrainian leadership refused to implement the 2014 Minsk agreement on a peaceful settlement in the Donbass region.

He expressed his conviction that if the Minsk agreement had been implemented, the Donbas areas would have been slowly reintegrated into Ukraine.

Putin made up about blowing up the Nord Stream

Tucker Carlson also asked the Russian president about blowing up the Nord Stream. When asked who blew up the pipeline, Vladimir Putin said: "Themselves." watched the interview .

In response, the journalist humorously noted that he himself was "busy" that day, but like the Russian president he responded:

you may have, but the CIA has no alibi.”

When asked if the Russian president had evidence that NATO or even the CIA had carried out the bombing, the Russian president replied: "you know, I wouldn't go into details, but in such cases you have to look at for whom it can stand. But in this case, we have to take into account not only whose interest it can stand up for, but also: who can do it. Because it might be in the interest of many, but not all of them are capable of diving to the bottom of the Baltic Sea to carry out such an explosion. Both of these components must be given: in whose interests it is, and who can be able to do it.”

Tucker also asked the Russian president that if he has evidence of who committed the attack, why doesn't he make it public? Laughing at this, the Russian president pointed out, among other things: "in the world of propaganda, it is very difficult to defeat the United States. Because the United States controls all of the world's media, including many in Europe," and as he put it:

the source of our information would be in the spotlight, and we would gain nothing from it. It is clear to the whole world what happened, even American analysts are openly talking about it".

The mainstream media is in panic mode

The more than two-hour conversation received many reactions from both sides of the political spectrum.

Popular conservative opinion leader Candace Owens, host of the Daily Wire says the mainstream media is in "panic mode" after US TV host Tucker Carlson managed to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Incredibly wise. Not only wise, but also brave. We've obviously been sold a lot of lies

Owens said of Carlson.

Just go back and see what the mainstream media said the first day Russia invaded Ukraine. It's largely their emotional engineering, people didn't understand what was going on, but they told us we should just be okay with billions of dollars going overseas. This is what I call political commentary, they control our thoughts, but we don't really have access to the truth

- said the well-known opinion leader.

CNN began vehemently attacking the interview. the portal article

Putin walks away with a propaganda victory after Tucker Carlson's questioning interview.

According to the article, Carlson gave the autocrat free rein to manipulate the public and tell his own version of history, no matter how deceptive it was. In the paper's view, the renowned American journalist provided Putin with a platform to spread his propaganda to a global audience while doing little or no investigation into his claims.

According to The New York Times, Carlson's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin put him back in the spotlight for the first time since Fox Newson's show was canceled. According to the left-wing paper, Tucker's interview came in handy as Republicans block further aid to Ukraine. According to the newspaper, Tucker wants to survive with such and similar pitches since his show was canceled.

The New York Times headline was "Putin Urges US to Talk to Ukraine in Tucker Carlson Interview."

According to Rolling Stone magazine, Putin mopped the floor of the Kremlin with Tucker Carlson. According to the paper, Tucker Carlson's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin turned out exactly as everyone expected, not so much as an interview, but rather as Putin's demonstration of how easily he can defeat one of the most prominent media personalities in the United States.

Verhofstadt is also fully prepared

Left-liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt could not leave the event without a word either, he wrote about the meeting on his social media page:

The Carlson interview is the best thing that ever happened to Putin. 

America will suffer tomorrow from spreading unquestioned and "unfiltered" lies. This is how democracies die…”

The video uploaded to Tucker Carlson's X page had 60 million views as of this writing

Source: MTI / Magyar Nemzet / Mandiner

Cover Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (l) gives an interview to American media personality Tucker Carlson in the Kremlin, Moscow's Government Quarter on February 9, 2024.
Putin gave an interview to a Western journalist for the first time since the escalation of the war in Ukraine in February 2022. MTI/EPA/Sputnik/Kremlin pool/Gavriil Grigorov