Tonight at 6:00 the Putin interview with Tucker Carlson is being broadcast on TwitterX. Whatever else anyone thinks about it, or what is said, after 911 a journalist from a major network interviewed Osama Bin Laden in his cave somewhere in Afghanistan. There was nothing wrong with that. Either you believe people should have access to information and make informed decisions, sometimes ones you don’t like, or you do not believe people should be able to deviate in thoughts, words and deeds from official state positions.
Either way, it is noteworthy that the culture is being forced to the left with each new narrative/dialectic inserted into the public info-sphere. So it seems critical to me to allow the maximum possible amount of political and religious speech, including criticism of both. Primarily criticism of both as that is the fundamental purpose of freedom of speech. To criticize religious and political authority. Anything else is gossip.
We also know for a fact that the Western narrative on the Ukraine war is brutally inseminated with lies. Lies of omission primarily. History of the Donbas must start with the Russian invasion apparently. And Russia must be judged on what they did, not what restraint they show based on what they could do. Ukraine must not be judged on what they actually do, but on the imputed nobility of their cause, despite things like press ganging for instance and primarily of Hungarians within Ukraine, but others as well. Ukraine must be judged purely as victims.
But this isn’t a movie. All the above being true does not mean that Putin is without blame. Or that he will tell the truth on Tucker. He is not incognizant of the power this interview may have on a Western audience.
Still, I sit in an interesting position. The team I have had the tremendous privilege to work with for over a decade now, and too many to name, but Gates of Vienna in particular, have been having foreign language videos translated and subtitled from many many languages.
This includes videos of Putin in Russian giving speeches to sector leaders in Moscow, meant for internal consumption. So it will be interesting to see how consistent this interview will be with some of those. If I manage to find some of those older videos, I will repost them for a compare and contrast.
Personally not really excited for this interview as curious as to what will happen to Tucker as a result. We don’t think there will be any surprises in it.
Meanwhile, a couple of clips of interest that are quasi related.
1. Ontario MPP for Lanark, now retired, Randy Hillier said when leaving office that there was no political solution out of our problems. I think Geert Wilders may have to agree.
?? ELECTION UPDATE: The coalition formation process to form a right-wing government has failed due to a new centrist party (NSC) pulling out over some nonsense excuse about “budgetary concerns”.
Unless a minority coalition gets formed, it seems the VVD (Mark Rutte’s party) will… pic.twitter.com/H5rG5aOsPJ
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) February 7, 2024
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ELECTION UPDATE: The coalition formation process to form a right-wing government has failed due to a new centrist party (NSC) pulling out over some nonsense excuse about “budgetary concerns”.
Unless a minority coalition gets formed, it seems the VVD (Mark Rutte’s party) will now try to form a coalition with the Green Left and EXCLUDE Geert Wilders’ PVV – even though Wilders won the most votes and is continuing to grow in the polls (1 in 3 Dutch people would now vote for him).
If they succeed to form this hellish neoliberal left-wing coalition it’s most likely that Frans Timmermans, the EU “climate pope” will become our new Prime Minister – sending us doing the path of national suicide even further. Timmermans is the former Vice President of the European Commission, he’s the man responsible for the EU’s insane #NetZero and #GreenDeal policies, targeting i.a. the #DutchFarmers.
He is also known for saying “Europe will be diverse and diversity is humanity’s destiny” and that there is not going to be “even in the remotes places of this planet a place that won’t see diversity in its future”. If Timmermans becomes Prime Minister it will be a huge middle finger to The People of The Netherlands who’ve in massive numbers gone out to vote for change. Some sort of national revolt will be bound to happen.
2. This is actually one of the poorer examples of dialectical enforcement from the past few years, but still notable. During the most severe period of lockdowns, especially in Quebec, stores were looted and arson attacks happened during ongoing riots by BLM/ANTIFA etc. towards the colour revolution. These were not punished, or even mentioned by the PM himself, who even took a knee in front of large crowds of BLM protestors on Parliament Hill.
Remember that time when the truckers vandalized the office of the Prime Minister?
I don’t either. https://t.co/Tdvryjo8C2
— Andy Lee – Special Rebel Rapporteur (@RealAndyLeeShow) February 7, 2024
The above Tweet is from February 7th.
3. BREAKING/GRAPHIC: Leaders of KataibHezbollah of IRGC Quds Force are dead! A US Military drone (probably an RQ-9 of #USAF) launched an AGM-114R9X Ninja Hellfire at vehicle carrying Haj Aboubagher Al-Saedi commander of Kataib Hezbollah in Baghdad, Iraq!
4. So Disney
Here is the full racist, sexist, etc discriminatory set of laws enforced by Disney’s DEI Gestapo: pic.twitter.com/XvisnT2s7k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2024
5. The Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin
Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview pic.twitter.com/67YuZRkfLL
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 8, 2024