"The Vladimir Putin Interview" is a

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hosted by the American journalist and political commentator

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with the

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. It premiered on February 8, 2024, on the

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and the social media website

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. It is the first interview with Putin granted to a Western journalist since the

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in February 2022. Historians have pointed out many false claims in Putin's statements.

Background

Tucker Carlson is an American journalist and political commentator known for promoting

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. Carlson said before the interview, "We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin. We are here because we love the United States." Carlson has defended Putin and has promoted pro-Russian disinformation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including the Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory. From 2016 to 2023, Carlson hosted the

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program ''

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'', a talk show in which he was critical of Ukraine, describing its

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since 2019,

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, as a "dictator." In April 2023, Carlson was dismissed from Fox News. He then established ''Tucker on X''. The first episode attributed the

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to Ukraine. Putin has instituted restrictions on press freedom in Russia. In March 2023, the

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imprisoned an American journalist,

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of ''

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'', on charges of espionage. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin had not granted an interview to any Western journalist. The

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media."

Production

According to ''

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'', Carlson arrived in Moscow on February 3. His presence was reported upon by the Russian state media, which speculated that Carlson may have been in the country to interview Putin. Carlson appeared at the

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to attend a performance of the ballet ''

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''. According to Putin's press secretary,

Interview summary

The interview began with Carlson asking Putin why he had ordered the invasion of Ukraine. Putin replied with a "history lecture" lasting around thirty minutes, giving his vision of the

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from the founding of

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in the 9th century. He said that

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

"collaborated with

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" before it was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939. He said that Poland provoked Nazi Germany to invade because the Poles "went too far" by refusing Hitler's demands for Polish territory. Putin justified the current invasion, in part, due to Ukraine's

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and ethnic relationship with Russia and Ukraine's alleged lack of

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and territorial cohesion. He also called Ukraine "an artificial state, established by

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's will" and asserted that Ukraine's southern and

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regions "had no historical connection" with it. He also blamed the war on Ukraine's alleged refusal to implement the Minsk II agreement. Putin repeated some statements he made in his speech announcing the invasion: that the

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was a "

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-backed coup d'état," that Ukraine started the

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, that Ukraine's government has ties with neo-Nazis, and that

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would threaten Russia through Ukraine. When asked whether Russia had achieved its war aims, Putin replied: "No. We haven't achieved our aims yet because one of them is

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." When Carlson asked whether Putin would "be satisfied" with the territory that Russia currently occupies, Putin avoided the question and referred to his previous answer. Putin indicated that he is ready to

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with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had issued a decree prohibiting negotiations with Putin. Putin urged him to reverse that decision. Putin asserted that Ukraine and its allies would fail in inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Russia. He predicted that if the United States stopped supplying weaponry to Ukraine, the war would "be over within a few weeks" and suggested that the U.S. could signal it wanted to end the war by stopping the aid supply. However, Putin expressed no hope that the Russia–U.S. relationship would regenerate with a new American president following the 2024 elections since, in his view, it is about the mentality of the elites. Putin conveyed to Carlson that Russia has no intention of attacking NATO members

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unless they attacked Russia. Putin suggested that the

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is secretly controlled by the

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(CIA) rather than its elected officials. He also portrayed Russia as a victim of Western betrayals and blamed the United States and the West for the

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and prolongation of the war, respectively. At a point during the interview, he said that he had asked the former U.S. President

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whether Russia could join the NATO alliance, but that after Clinton spoke with his advisors, he replied to Putin with a "no." Putin stated that he was not welcome there and that, despite "promises," NATO kept expanding eastwards, including to Ukraine, something he said Russia never accepted. He further said that Russia had archived a statement by the CIA admitting that it was supporting opposition groups to Russia in the

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. At the end of the interview, Carlson asked whether Putin would release

, an American journalist detained in Russia on charges of espionage, into his custody as an act of goodwill. Putin suggested that he was willing to

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Gershkovich for a Russian "patriot" who had "eliminated a bandit" in a European capital. This seemed to confirm that Russia was demanding a prisoner swap with Vadim Krasikov, a suspected Russian intelligence agent who assassinated a Chechen separatist in Berlin in 2019. Both men were released in the

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on August 1.

Analysis

Various media outlets reported that Putin made many false claims and misleading statements during the interview and that Carlson failed to challenge him properly. They said that Carlson did not ask Putin about alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, ongoing Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian civilian targets, or Putin's repression of political dissent. Oliver Darcy of

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wrote, "Carlson provided Putin a platform to spread his propaganda to a global audience with little to no scrutiny of his claims" and had "even fed into Putin's narratives" in some cases. The website '' Polygraph.info'', produced by

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, contested several of Putin's allegations about the

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. It rejected that the 2014 revolution was a "coup," saying that Ukraine's then-President

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was not overthrown by the military but instead "abandoned his post and fled to Russia amid mass protests." It also said, "Russia started the war on Ukraine in 2014" when it occupied Crimea and secretly sent military units to seize government buildings in Donbas. ''

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''s Peter Baker compared the interview to the objections over monetary assistance to Ukraine in the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act by some American Republican Party politicians. The former ''

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'' editor

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— who interviewed Putin in July 2019 — told ''

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'' he believed that Putin leveraged Carlson's sympathy for Russia. Historians who spoke to the BBC said that Putin's historical narrative was selective and misleading. Rejecting Putin's statement that Ukraine is "artificial," the historian Sergey Radchenko said: "Countries are created as a result of a historical process ... If Ukraine is a 'fake country,' then so is Russia." The historian

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said the interview "showed that it wasn't Russian insecurity, but Putin's personal

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, that motivated the war." Professor

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, a historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, said: " st of what Putin says about the past is ludicrous." Snyder argues that Putin's "kind of story" brings war since, by Putin's standards, "no borders" of any state would be "legitimate" because anybody might claim foreign territory based on borders of arbitrarily chosen dates in the past. Snyder also says that Putin's "false distinction between natural nations and artificial nations" brings genocide because, in Putin's logic, "artificial" nations have no right to exist. In addition to war and genocide, Snyder analyzes fascism as the third "horror" justified by Putin's thoughts, stating that "Putin's war has been fought with fascist slogans and by fascist means."

Reaction

In the first three days, the interview had 14 million views on

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and 185 million on Twitter. When Carlson announced on February 6 that he would interview Putin, he erroneously stated that no journalist outside of Russia had "bothered to interview" Putin during the war. He also said: "Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine." Some American and European journalists disputed this and said that they had repeatedly been denied interviews with Putin and that some had been expelled or banned from Russia. They also noted that Putin's speeches had been widely covered in American media. In a podcast conducted with

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following the interview, Carlson described Putin's justification of "

" as "one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard" and likened Putin's conduct as akin to "an over-prepared student."

Reaction in the United States

The former U.S. Representative

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referred to Carlson as a "traitor," while Representative

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praised Carlson's decision. The former

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and the former Congresswoman

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described Carlson as a "

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," a phrase that is frequently erroneously attributed to

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, the first leader of the

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. On

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, Clinton again criticized Carlson by stating that some individuals serve as a "

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" for Putin, alluding to Carlson. Carlson was criticized further after the death of the Russian opposition leader

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in a Russian prison several days after the interview.

Reaction in Russia

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, the deputy chairman of the

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and Putin's predecessor as president, commented that Putin "told the Western world as thoroughly and in detail as possible why Ukraine did not exist, does not exist, and will not exist. Tucker Carlson did not get scared and did not give up."

Other reactions

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, the

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from 1999 to 2008, wrote that the

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(EU) ought to consider issuing Carlson with a travel restriction should he amplify Putin's message. Peter Stano, a spokesperson for the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

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, stated that the EU was not considering sanctions against Carlson, despite rumors from

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and others. Tsakhia Elbegdorj, the former

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, posted on Twitter a map of the

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, which included and encompassed all of Russia, saying: "After Putin's talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don't worry. We are a peaceful and free nation." The

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activist and journalist

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,

said that hundreds of Russian journalists were compelled to flee Russia after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and to go into exile "to keep reporting about the Kremlin's war against Ukraine. The alternative was to go to jail. And now ucker Carlsonis teaching us about good journalism, shooting from the $1,000 Ritz suite in Moscow."

References

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