why does he look like he got an artificial tan on?

edit: okay fuck you tucker I can't believe you got free copies of historical papers from the Russian archives.

edit2: intellectual dishonesty on the establishment of Soviet Ukraine, the assignment of the Donbass basin to the republic from Putin. States it's unknown why Lenin, and Stalin, and the Bolsheviks did the things they did, when there's writing on it

Edit3: Putin being longwinded fucking with tucker's kinda funny.

edit4: tucker thinks there's a real fear of a strong Russia than there is of a strong China, fucking dumbass. Putin dead on said that's dumb and the U.S obviously fears the Chinese Reds more than the Russians.

edit5: lol in the bit right before NATO & Clinton, where Putin says "NATO expanded 5 times, and each time they did we said "Please don't, we're as bourgeoise you you are. " "

edit6; Isn't this a shot of Biden in 1993 at Yeltsin's "GOD BLESS AMERICA!" speech? (Front row, middle)

Edit7: later on, I disassociated for a bit and stopped paying attention for a bit, Putin says the reason why the troops outside Kiev withdrew was because the other world leaders in western Europe suggested to him to withdraw those troops as a sign of good will as peace negotiations were kicking off.

Edit8: Putin talks briefly on the history of Ukrainian fascism, so far nothing inaccurate.

edit9: wait there may be an innacuracy, but that may be on Putin's own part of erasing Ukrainian nationhood, he states that the ukrainian nazis in ww2, who are worshiped as heroes in modern ukraine, conducted genocide against poles, jews and russians while leaving out ukrainians.

edit10: Putin says he considers Ukrainians to be a part of the one Russian People. He says obviously Ukrainians disagree with him, okay fine. He then accepts their opinion that they have the right to consider themselves a separate people but says the caveat must be this seperation must not be built on Nazism.

edit11 Tucker or whoever he pays to make the video Table of Contents fucking sucks at doing so. The way the interview is conducted so far is clucker asks a question, hoping for a quick answer lol, and Putin spends a good amount of time answering it. the TOC should reflect this and not make generic section selections.

edit12: tucker interrupts putin again, and putin tells him essentially to shut up and let him answer the question, when asked about denazification.

edit13: Tucker interrupts putin again, but now about pursuing peace talks. Putin answers this with saying the original peace talks were close to fruition but then were torpedoed by the West, and that the Ukrainian President and Legislature have now made it legislatively illegal to negotiate with Russia. Tucker interrupts again and says he meant whether if Putin was negotiating with Biden for peace in ukraine and not with the Ukrainians. Fucking lol

edit14 apparently Biden and Putin haven't talked since feburary 2022, at least publicly on official channels. Bit later after talking about western fear mongering to extract more money from their respective citizens to continue fueling the Ukrainian war machine, Fucker asks Putin - in reference to New York Senator Upchuck Snoomer's recent comments - if he's afraid of american soldiers fighting on the frontlines of ukraine. The response is that there's already Americans fighting on the frontlines of Ukraine in the form of mercenaries. Also the countries with the most mercs in Ukraine are Poland, the U.S, and Georgia in that order.

edit15: Well right after that last blurb, Putin says he's not worried about U.S troops being sent to Ukraine because doesn't the U.S have more pressing matters to attend to in their own country? Immediately lists off the most recent republican brainworms as red meat to face pucker's audience. Namely the border, migration, and national debt.

edit16: finally reached the nordstream boom boom talks. It's funny that Putin immediately laughs at tucker's proposition of releasing evidence that US/CIA/NATO blew up the pipelines and "wins a propaganda victory". It reminds me of the Soviet joke about Soviet propaganda vs American propaganda. Putin immediately replies saying it is really fucking hard to win against the american propaganda machine that has its tendrils all across the media sphere of the world

edit17: in discussing financial power and the Dollar as the world reserve currency, Putin says the American leadership's greatest mistake is leveraging the power of the dollar for political actions in foreign policy struggles, as the Dollar is the cornerstone of American power in the world. The weaponization of the Dollar has weakened the trust in it and as a result dollar reserves has shrunk in the treasuries around the world. Additionally, prior to 2022, the majority of foreign trade transactions made by Russia was done in dollars and euros and currently the Ruble and the Yuan are utilized in foreign trade transactions. This forced change in utilized currencies for trade has erroded the strength of the dollar to the point that oil-producing countries are beginning to accept the Yuan as legal tender alongside the Dollar. Putin finishes out the blurb saying the U.S government is killing itself slowly through its conduct with regards to the weaponization of the dollar.

edit18: when tucker's asking if putin's afraid of China's economic successes eclipsing Russia and turning them into an economic colony, Putin tells him that's a boogeyman (aka you're full of shit), that China's peaceful, willing to compromise, has existed as a neighbor that Russia has coexisted with for centuries and will continue to do so. Says America's also economically hurting itself by trying to cut out and cut off China from it's economy.

edit19: Apparently Putin worked with his friend Xi to make a financial goal of $200 billion in mutual trade this financial year, and as of when the interview came out they've accomplished the goal with a surplus windfall of an additional $30-$40 billion dollars in mutual trade. China stay winning

edit20: tucker asks a bunch of spiritual mumbo jumbo bullshit trying to give putin red meat to feed to tucker's evangelical nutjob section of the audience. I think putin's too much of a stick-in-the-mud nerd to put on a populist performance because he keeps talking about history'n'shit.

edit21: ducker asks about Elon musk and AI, Putin says Elon will do whatever he wants (because america is a playground to the rich) but should try to restrain himself on these topics with formalization and regulations akin to what's usually seen in government regulations and international agreements on experimental tech.

edit22: after disassociating through the blurb about some dipshit journalist in Russian jail for espionage, Tucker asks putin again about why not just calling up biden and trying to negotiate a peace settlement - something that was already asked and answered way earlier - and I'm like dude you already asked him that and you already got an answer. Are you naïve dude? Do you think you talking to putin could somehow deus ex machina the end of the war?

edit23: I pretty much blanked out on the final minutes of the interview. All in all, it's an interesting interview of Putin and probably one of the most easily-accessible ones to an english-speaking audience. I can think of so many better questions I'd like to ask him and other members of Russian leadership on economic and political matters, but in terms of filling in some gaps of knowledge of prior events over the past two years and hearing his perspectives on the costs of economic warfare makes this interview worth spending two hours listening to so as to gain a better grasp on the mindset of the Russian leadership with regards to the martial and economic war they are currently embroiled in.

That's it. I'm done editing this.

Fucker Tarlson, jesus christ. In his introductory summary he said he had thought Putin was afraid of NATO expansion, but that Putin said the issue was that he had "historical claims to parts of Ukraine". But in the actual interview, Putin laid out exactly the security issues, the CIA-backed Maidan coup, the failure to implement the Minsk agreements, the build-up of the war since 2014, etc. Carlson straight up lied in his intro. Did he think people wouldn't watch the rest of the video? And, like, why the fuck is he suddenly repeating Democrats' propaganda about it? What a fucking jackass.

Funny. At one point Putin says he knows Tucker tried to join the CIA and they rejected him. And seems to imply they rejected him because "they are a serious organization". LMFAO.

i like how Putin disses him right off the bat lmao.

"Is this an interview or a talk show?"

The part about Nordstream is pretty good, but Tucker's confused questioning face is seriously annoying.

Good for him, don’t care enough to watch

Damn. Was hoping Nick Mullen had gone deep undercover and interviewed Putin as Tucker

Right when I have to leave for work!