China News Service, February 7. According to "Russia Today" (RT), on the 6th local time, American journalist and former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson posted a video on social media saying that he was currently in Moscow. , will interview Russian President Putin.
Image source: Tucker Carlson social media screenshot
Carlson said in the video that most Americans "have no idea what is going on in Russia and Ukraine." He believes that this crisis and the sanctions that followed have completely changed the global military and trade landscape, leading to "the disintegration of the economic order that has guaranteed Western prosperity for more than 80 years after World War II" and "the subsequent loss of the US dollar's hegemony."
He said most people in English-speaking countries were unaware of "history-changing developments" because "no one told them the truth." After the Ukraine crisis escalated in 2022, the US media's interviews with Zelensky were "government propaganda" and the United States is becoming more and more deeply involved in this crisis.
According to RIA Novosti, Carlson previously said that the Biden administration in the United States twice tried to prevent his plan to interview Putin, but this statement was denied by White House Press Secretary Karina Jean-Pierre.
RIA Novosti quoted social media news as saying that Carlson was revealed to be in Moscow on the evening of the 3rd. Russian and American media have speculated that he may interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
RT said that the Kremlin has neither confirmed nor denied plans for Putin to interview Carlson and said any such event will be announced in due course.
According to reports, Carlson is a popular anchor on Fox TV and is mainly responsible for a news program called "The Carlson Tonight Show." He was fired by Fox in April 2023 and continued to publish interviews on the social platform X. Reuters stated that Carlson’s interview with former U.S. President Trump published on X in August 2023 received hundreds of millions of views.
The New York Times described Carlson as "Putin's defender," which also made him the pioneer of the "pro-Putin faction" in the United States. Carlson criticized the United States' support for Ukraine and suggested that the West was responsible for the escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine. If this interview is successful, he will be the first American media person to officially interview Putin since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis in 2022.