"WE ARE CLOSER TO NUCLEAR WAR THAN AT ANY TIME IN HISTORY"
Tucker Carlson Following His Interview with Russias Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov
Several days ago, I posted a piece on Substack titled “READY FOR A NUCLEAR WORLD WAR III?” In that post, after providing a video link to the interview itself, I summarized what seemed to me to be the most salient points of Tucker Carlson’s exchange earlier this month with the Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov.
Observing that Americans - indeed the whole populations of Western countries - have been consistently and deliberately denied access to the Russian perspective on this conflict, at the conclusion of my summation I asked the question: Who are really the good guys in the war in Ukraine and who are the bad guys, and how might we tell the difference?
Noting first that the ongoing slaughter in Ukraine is an expression of complex regional issues rooted in ancient ethnic and cultural history, fraught with greys and with few clear blacks and whites, I proceeded to conclude that, in the face of the ongoing slaughter, one obvious indicator of good or bad intentions - an indicator, one might say, of the presence of some basic humanity - has to be the willingness of the warring parties, or the lack of it, to sit down and negotiate. I said, “Talking is always better than killing - unless you’re a monster.”
I then proceeded to note that Russia, from the onset of this brutal mechanized butchery that has taken perhaps a million human lives on both sides, has been willing to talk and negotiate. On the other hand, the West, led by the Unites States, has rebuffed every such initiative from Russia. Clearly, our leadership - that is, the illegitimate Biden regime - has chosen to spend hundreds of billions of our money fighting and killing Russians and, indirectly, Ukrainians, rather than talking and thereby encouraging a negotiated end to the carnage. I then asked what sadly seems to be a rhetorical question: That being true, who indeed are the bad guys here?
You tell me.
This morning, my wife forwarded to me a brief video clip from Tucker Carlson done in Moscow immediately after his interview with Lavrov. Short (3 minutes) but critically important, Tucker - who has rendered us great service in providing interviews with Putin and Lavrov - emphasizes in his few comments the great danger we face right now - a nuclear war with Russia - and how, as I noted in my earlier post, citizens of the United States have been deliberately denied good information about the war in Ukraine - especially the Russian perspective on that war. This willful refusal flies in the face of that ancient adage, “Know thine enemy” - if indeed Russia, in this conflict, is our enemy in any basic sense important to the strategic national interests of the United States.
You can watch Tucker’s 3-minute comments in this video clip via this link:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1864092222091657502
For those who prefer to read rather than watch, here is my own transcription of Tucker’s 3-minute comments:
In the weeks since we left Russia in February - Moscow, where we are now - after interviewing Vladimir Putin, we’ve watched from the United States as the Biden Administration has driven the US ever closed to a nuclear conflict with Russia, the country that possesses the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. It has accelerated ever since, and it’s reached its apogee so far in the weeks after Trump’s election - he’s now the president elect.
In that time [Trump’s election victory], just a few weeks ago, the Biden Administration - American military personnel - launched missiles into mainland Russia and killed at least a dozen Russian soldiers.
So we are, unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war, an undeclared war, a war you did not vote for, a war most American’s don’t want and is ongoing.
Because of that war, because of the fact the US military is killing Russians in Russia right now, we are closer to nuclear war than at any time in history - far closer than we were during the Cuban missile crisis. That [nuclear war] would mean the elimination of Russia, the United States and most of the rest of the world.
We felt there must be someone behind the scenes in Washington working to make sure this conflict doesn’t become a nuclear holocaust. But we found out that, no, in fact there is nobody. Tony Blinken, the current Secretary of State, cut off all contact between the US and Russian governments. There is no back channel, there is no conversation, and there hasn’t been for more than two years.
That’s shocking.
Meanwhile, most Americans have no access to any perspective other than that granted to them by NBC New and the New York Times. They don’t know how close we are [to nuclear war]. They don’t have the Russian perspective.
We’ve been trying for over a year to get that perspective out to American news consumers. We’ve also tried for over a year to get an interview with Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. We’ve attacked that from a bunch of different angels. We’ve spoken to a lot of different people around him, had dinner with them - we’ve been in talks continuously, and those efforts have been thwarted by the US Government. The American Embassy in Kiev, which our tax dollars pay for, told the Zelensky government, no, you may not do the interview. [The US Government told Zelensky], “You can talk to CNN, but you can’t talk to [Tucker Carlson]”. So we’ve been unable to speak to him.
So we came back to Moscow yesterday [December 2nd] to interview the Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, the longest serving foreign minister in the world - he’s been a part of this government for 25 years - he’s been in the diplomatic corps for over 40 - and ask him, where exactly are we? Are we headed toward an unprecedented conflict between Russia and the United States? Is there any way to peel Russia back from the East, from the sphere of China back into the West? Is that alliance permanent and does the election of Donald Trump mean an end to this war, which is reshaping the world, the US economy, the global economy, and risking the life of every person on this planet? Is that possible? We just walked out of that interview. It’s very fascinating… we hope you’ll watch.
Here again is the link to the Carlson/Lavrov interview - long - about an hour - but if you’re interested in better understanding how your heinie might be turned into a pile of nuclear ash, worth the time:
With a demented madman controlled by warmongering seditionists and traitors still in the White House for a few more weeks, we can only hope that Mr. Putin and his government - not withstanding Biden’s deliberate provocations - will be possessed of sufficient forbearance to wait until Donald Trump is back in office, the Ukraine war brought to a speedy conclusion, and nuclear war averted.
The alternative is unthinkable.
Torquemada