Is the Establishment Afraid of Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin?
In an era where the Department of Justice refuses to prosecute an incumbent president because it wants him to win the upcoming election and also believes that he is too senile and mentally incapacitated to stand trial (but not to run for president) for mishandling and “willfully retaining” classified documents, we have the Department of Treasury partnering with banks to spy on Americans, basing its investigations on internet search terms and the assumption that the January 6th “insurrectionists” are likely to purchase firearms or Bibles. Donald Trump and his supporters are clearly being politically targeted by the Democratic Party, the bureaucratic state, and the establishment full of rich and powerful elites, and of course, Trump will be prosecuted under the same Espionage Act that President Joe Biden violated but was acquitted under (by his own Department of Justice), even though the latter held onto those classified documents so that he could write his 2017 memoir. The Biden administration is so corrupt and tyrannical since it assumes that all conservatives are inclined to commit violence just because they may be gun-carrying Christians, and the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments seem to be just recommendations to our current regime.
From the Twitter Files (see part one and part two of my summary), we learned a lot about how the federal government has bypassed the Constitution by soliciting and forcing social media companies to influence the narrative and eliminate unfavorable posts. The censorship against Americans who do not support the status quo has gotten out of hand, and even the United States Post Office is monitoring conservatives’ social media accounts. With the merging of government and corporations to create a fascist censorship-industrial complex, rivaling that of the powerful military-industrial complex that pushes blood for profit in faraway lands, Americans are constantly being fed propaganda and manipulated on what to think.
Just take the recent interview that journalist Tucker Carlson conducted with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, which saw immediate outlash from neoconservative and liberal pundits because someone dared to give the Russian “dictator” a platform. Bill Kristol wanted a travel ban against Carlson to prevent him from returning the United States, and Adam Kinzinger called the journalist a “traitor.” Despite the fact that Barbara Walters and Megyn Kelly have interviewed Vladimir Putin in recent years and CNN (Peter Arnett) and CBS (Dan Rather and 60 Minutes) have done interviews with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, the corporate media and political pundits still went on to slam Carlson personally by reiterating that he was not a true journalist because he does not parrot the official narrative and introduces Americans to ideas that help them see alternative perspectives to what our government is doing around the world.
MSNBC had to do a quick sit down with Hillary Clinton before the interview dropped so that she could delegitimize his efforts to bring both perspectives of the Russo-Ukrainian War to light. She called him a “useful idiot” who has been fired from news outlets for not playing ball with the establishment, and she created a conspiracy theory that he would eventually receive a contract with a Russian news outlet.
Besides the defamation displayed by the former secretary of state, she then went on to say that Americans are freely spreading Putin’s propaganda and how she does not understand why they would voluntarily do that. I mean, she was secretary of state, so it is a bit inexplicable how she can make such a bold claim without evidence and also not know the answer to her own rhetoric. Could it be that she is just making things up, that perhaps her neoconservative viewpoints are finally becoming more and more unpopular with the public, and that she does not want her preferred regime’s reign of terror overseas to be halted? It was clear that Clinton’s purpose on MSNBC was simply to drag Carlson’s name through the mud and persuade Americans that he is up to no good so that the Ukrainian narrative and funding can continue into perpetuity. Why else would it be an emergency to get her on television right before Americans became exposed to another perspective? Was the establishment nervous that the pro-war narrative was cracking?
Interestingly, in making an argument against Carlson’s point that he was the only journalist to get an interview with Putin, CNN admitted that it (and other news corporations) tried and failed to secure such an interview. Where is the outrage against CNN for attempting to give Putin a platform? The news outlet may not have succeeded, but it wanted to do so, and then, it had the audacity to put Carlson down as an illegitimate journalist for doing what it was not able to do itself (not based on principle but jealousy, perhaps?). Why did MSNBC not call up Clinton to do a hit piece against CNN? Could it be because all of the corporate media is ultimately working to further the Ukraine narrative and undermine the work of non-corporate-funded journalists? MSNBC and CNN are ultimately on the same BlackRock-Vanguard team at the end of the day.
It is not just the United States that has a vested interest in keeping the Ukraine narrative going. In fact, some lawmakers in the European Union wanted to place economic sanctions against Carlson and ban him from freely traveling throughout the continent. There is an international effort to keep the status quo warmongering in place, and Carlson is a threat to that established order.
Lawyer Ian Corzine opined that although Carlson’s interview is technically legal and does not violate the Espionage Act, since he is not sharing classified information or willingly harming the United States, this could lead to possible “bogus charges” down the road. Just like the Democratic Party is throwing the book at Donald Trump and looking for every excuse that it can to prevent him from becoming president again, Carlson could be targeted for one of the many superfluous laws on the books in the United States as retaliation (the United States has the largest prison population in the world and chases journalists and whistleblowers out of the states and to Russia and other places, but other nations are the authoritarian ones, of course).
Plus, he is on the non-governmental organization Myrotvorets’ threat list, and although the fact checkers like to point out that this is not an official kill list from the Ukrainian government, Myrotyorets has “close ties” with Ukraine’s security services and law enforcement agencies of other nations. And of course, those on the list who have opposed the Ukrainian government or sympathized with the will of the people of Donetsk and Luhansk and mysteriously ended up dead have absolutely nothing to do with Myrotyorets or the Ukrainian government.
In addition to the kill list, there are speculations that the Biden administration and the National Security Agency (NSA) started unconstitutionally and illegally surveilling Carlson after his revelations pertaining to January 6th and how the narrative that Americans were fed was completely misleading, and it is possible, as he claims, that the NSA sabotaged his previous plans to interview Putin a couple years ago. However, this time, he was not going to let intimidation stop him from keeping Americans informed and critically thinking against what we are spoon fed by the media (do not be surprised if Carlson soon faces allegations of sexual assault or something else, or he winds up inexplicably dead).
What are these elites so afraid of? Why are we the people not allowed to hear certain viewpoints, and why is the censorship apparatus in full gear trying to eliminate anything running contrary to the selected narrative? We have the George W. Bush perspective that we cannot “negotiate with terrorists,” and the corporate journalists, who are really mouthpieces for the establishment, cannot stand the idea of Americans understanding the perspectives of their enemies for the purposes of diplomacy and peace. War is the American regime’s way and pastime, so we must forgo mature conversations about how to end conflicts and regain trust and respect for other nations.
But, what about the interview itself? Was there anything shocking or groundbreaking that would cause Americans to jump on the Russia bandwagon and become the agents of Putin that people on the left side of the political aisle already accuse you for if you oppose the narrative and bring up anything contrary to the pro-war establishment’s talking points? Aside from spending one-quarter or more of the interview ranting about how Russia has claims to parts or all of Ukraine based on historical ties, which is no more valid or relevant than arguing that the Israeli government can commit genocide against the Palestinians because God gave Jews the land thousands of years ago, Putin discussed the 2014 American-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Viktor Yanukovych, the de-Nazification of Ukraine, the American destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the lack of imperial ambition to conquer NATO countries, and the mass propaganda campaign by the United States government, all things that those in the alternative media sphere were already familiar with. So, what this interview did was invite a more broad audience to understand the nuances of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The largest concern that Carlson pressed Putin on was the imprisonment of journalist Evan Gershkovich, who, like Edward Snowden and others seeking asylum in Russia to avoid prosecution in the United States, has been charged with espionage. Although the Russian leader did seem open to the possibility of releasing Gershkovich, he was less than pleased and did not seem too interested unless the United States could reciprocate in some way. So, just like with the United States, we can be confident that Russia has anti-press tendencies and will jail political dissidents and journalists who pose a perceived threat to the regime. However, Putin has allowed American asylum-seekers to make a new home in Russia, and what they have described is that Russia is not nearly the authoritarian country that the Western propaganda paints it to be.
In any event, we should expect to see increased censorship in the United States and a crackdown of dissent when it comes to continuing foreign wars. The Senate just passed a bipartisan $95 billion aid package for both Ukraine and Israel, while Americans are struggling to pay their bills and necessities under the wonderful and statistically-approved Bidenomics, and although Democrats may manipulate a discharge petition over Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s objection to the bill being brought to the floor, in the end, I think we all know that the welfare program to foreign countries will pass. The war with Ukraine and American support of it will ultimately continue unhindered by the political theater.
Now, the Democratic Party and its pro-war establishment ally are so terrified of the prospect of Donald Trump regaining the presidency that they are now pushing safeguards to be put in place to prevent him from being able to weaken NATO (by pulling out troops, not participating in exercises, reducing spending, and refusing to send or receive ambassadors to or from other NATO countries), and they already succeeded at prohibiting a unilateral withdrawal from the anti-Russia alliance. The once self-proclaimed anti-war Democratic Party has now become more hawkish than ever before, and it will do anything, including utilizing authoritarian tools, to feed the military-industrial complex, combat Russian influence throughout Europe, censor information that does not go along with the anti-Russia perspective, and prevent Donald Trump from becoming president. Freedom is up for some difficult times in the United States.
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