Pyotr Kozlov – Moscow Times Feb 5, 2024
President Vladimir Putin’s administration is seeking to use former Fox News star Tucker Carlson’s visit to Moscow as a propaganda coup both in Russia and the United States, four sources close to the Kremlin have told The Moscow Times on condition of anonymity.
“Tucker has been expected here for a long time. He is welcome here,” a source close to the presidential administration told The Moscow Times. “Now everyone in the presidential administration has rolled up their sleeves and is working together.”
The visit by Carlson, 54, has fueled speculation that the conservative pundit, who regularly voices criticism of Ukraine and its Western allies, plans to interview Putin for his online news show.
Neither the Kremlin nor Carlson himself have confirmed whether an interview will take place, with the latter merely saying “We’ll see.”
Alexei Venediktov, the former editor of the shuttered Ekho Moskvy radio station, hinted Tuesday that Carlson “got what he wanted.”
Several of The Moscow Times’ sources believe an interview is almost guaranteed to happen.
“Even without an interview, Carlson’s arrival is already a major benefit for the boss [Putin],” said a second source close to the Kremlin. “Look at what kind of reaction we’re already seeing ‘across the ocean.’ Tucker has a huge audience in the U.S.”
He added: “The interview is very likely to happen.”
A third source joked that Carlson has only two options after arriving in Moscow: “Either an interview or [going to] to the frontline in Donbas.”
Whether an interview takes place or not, Carlson, who remains one of the most prominent far-right figures in the United States, has given the Kremlin’s PR people and Putin a major trump card with both Russia and the U.S. in an election year, two sources close to the Kremlin and one Russian government official told The Moscow Times.
The arrival of a well-known American media personality allows Putin and his entire propaganda ecosystem to boast to Russians that his hardline policy toward the Biden administration and the Democratic Party is justified.
“If the interview also comes out, our propaganda will blast Carlson’s words criticizing the Democrats, which means he will confirm our hawks’ line up to the tiniest detail,” a Russian government official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, told The Moscow Times.
“The chief [Putin] will win the election without Tucker’s help,” the official added. “But access to an American audience through Carlson during the heated struggle between Biden and Trump is again an opportunity to exert that proverbial influence on the U.S. election, given Carlson’s huge audience.”
In addition, the Kremlin simply desires to spoil the mood of U.S. President Joe Biden’s inner circle as he grapples with his own re-election campaign.
“It’s that kind of message, saying, ‘You didn’t expect that? We can do that too. Suck it, Joe!’” said a source close to the Kremlin.
Carlson is an ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is now running in the primaries and is expected to clinch the Republican Party’s nomination again.
Trump has said that he would consider choosing Carlson as his running mate this November, and there has been speculation in the U.S. media that he is even secretly working for Trump’s campaign.
The Moscow Times’ sources said that the Kremlin wanted to organize a meeting and interview between Putin and Carlson at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2023. These plans ultimately fell through, however.
Since Carlson requires a visa to enter Russia his arrival in the Russian capital could not have come as a surprise to the Kremlin.
Russian state media, including the Defense Ministry’s Zvezda TV channel, pro-Kremlin TV celebrities and Telegram news channels have been diligently reporting on the former Fox News star’s stay in Moscow since he arrived on Thursday
So far, Carlson has visited the Bolshoi Theater for a performance of the ballet “Spartacus,” even going backstage afterward and pretending to be a dancer, holding a ballerina in his arms.
He also visited the “Russia” exhibition at VDNKh, Putin’s pre-election PR project that boasts of the success of the economy of Russia’s regions despite international sanctions.
On Monday, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported that Carlson visited a presidential administration building close to the Kremlin. After the meeting, he was seen leaving in a black minibus with tinted windows. No further details were disclosed.
But for some Russian public figures who support the invasion and favor a more open conflict with the West, the amount of media attention given to the former Fox host is a cause for irritation.
“For the third day, I am watching an amazing thing with interest: How people who ridicule Ukrainians for their subservient prostration before European politicians and public figures are meticulously recording Tucker Carlson’s every move and sneeze in Moscow,” Andrei Medvedev, a Moscow City Duma deputy and former state TV presenter, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“He flew in, he ate, he drank tea. How wonderful, an American has come to visit us! How happy we are. Comrades, do you feel bipolar?”
His excuse for not going to Ukraine, you killed Gonzalo.
Zelenskij should go to Moscow if he wants to chat.
Of course Carlson’s in Russia…he’s a CiA mole and they run things out there… no doubt he’ll be having lunch with Ritter and Mac-egregore and Lavyrov at some spooky restaurant .. you see these people ‘act’ for team B..they play anti.. because the whole game is posited on which side the muggles fall..(and fall they will).. as they tie up all the loose ends.. and rehearse for the next ‘Act’…
Team Russia and the Carlson’s of this world..and you could throw in a host of other hehe..conservative heroes…all play for the Red team or builders of ‘Yahood-salem’…these imbeciles pretend to fight injustice and trannyfication and nazis.. and believe in a more ‘equitable’ despotic scientism..and free multipolar markets which means easier access to your resources for exploitation.. and love bio-democide and digital gulags… they are all also fervently antiwhite…
So other than the men in tutus and silk panties and noncery…(which no doubt they secretly love)… it’s difficult to distinguish them from team ‘B’..the blues or asses of Yahooda..
You may as well compare terminal cancers on the oncology ward….
So Commie Russia is holding their rigged ‘democratic’ elections soon too, where the same crypto-Commie has been President for the last 20 years & will be ‘reelected’ again. More kabuki theater for the morons. Tucker Commie Carlson playing his scripted role to keep the Trumptards supporting Jew-Commie ghoul Putin as he liquidates thousands/millions of Aryans in Holodomor II.
Tucker is doing what every journalist in America should be doing. Journalism. Journalism is not just feeding government propaganda to the people.
@ chesterton
Team B or not, controlled-opposition or not, I do not care anymore. There is a real fight going on between by the major powers (banking cartel, major corporations, all globalist shill governments and international institutions) which are systematically usurping and eradicating our basic morality and personal rights and freedoms, as well as over jobs, our children, and the sovereign rights of our nations over our lands and resources. As long as he is exposing the evils, then he is at least on the right side of things.
Tucker could be CIA. He is most certainly a part of the US establishment. His father was a US diplomat. He was most likely used by the more level heads in the US deep state during his recent trip to Hungary, to do the very important diplomatic work in patching up the insane harm the Biden woke-fool ambassador had done which had served to push Hungary away from the US orb. As things stand now, he is doing a great job in exposing many of the evils destroying his nation and the West, including the absolute mess with the TOTALLY CORRUPT American health-care system which is killing its own people.
Of course, it is time for a team B, to enable the US to get out of the war, because the EU simply has no will to follow the US lead, and also because, the Rothschild-Soros-US-UK plans (at least in my view) have always been to cede the Russian-speaking eastern oblasts in the Ukraine to Russia, in exchange for something else. Also the Ukraine has been so systematically destabilized and corrupted since the Soros groups went in there some 12 years ago using banking cartel and US money, and now with a quarter of its population dispersed, and fragmented and broke because of the war, it is ready to be plucked and divided up. Big BlackRock agri-firms are already taking over tracks of its rich farmlands, and it would be interesting to know who now owns its shipping terminals on the Black Sea.
Here’s a ‘Mengele Double Feature’ for everyone to enjoy, recommended by Nico X:
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
The German Doctor (2013)
Tucker Carlson is false opposition; CIA spook?
That’s all you need to know. The details fill in themselves if you watch and listen closely.
These comments that Tucker is CIA are BS-put some real evidence on the table.
@ Bobby McDay
Good for you!
With the possible exception of Fred,the rest no hope just MIND-FUCKED!!! Surprised no one said crypto, or he looks jewish. CIA??? Here’s a link:
https://tuckercarlson.com
Or, just watched this, and I highly recommend:
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-encounter-bret-weinstein-at-the-darien-gap/
But yeah, last name Weinstein, (lol) OH…MY…GOD!!!
Speaking of Him, and also his Son…know HOPE!!! Not in religion, (but as JC said) the kingdom of God is within YOU. Cause without Him YOU have no hope, only illusions of the truth, casting of doubt, and (never any real proof)!
But there is HOPE!!!
(thus endth the days rant)