Tucker Carlson has returned to Moscow to interview Putin’s foreign minister, months after being criticized by the Russian president for his lack of “sharp” questions in February.
Carlson posted a video on attack Russia deeply with long distances. -range missiles.
He claimed that the United States was already in a “hot war with Russia, unbeknownst to most Americans,” which had brought the nation “closer to nuclear war than at any other time in history.”
The former FOX News host criticized what he called Washington’s “shocking” lack of communication with Moscow and bristled at the perception that the “Russian perspective” on the war is not shared.
Carlson also claimed that the State Department had blocked his proposal to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when he announced that he would soon share an “absolutely fascinating” chat with Lavrov via Elon Musk’s social platform, X.
Carlson said they had discussed how a “nuclear holocaust” could be avoided and the shape of Russia’s informal ties with China.
Russia confirmed that a chat of about 90 minutes would be published within days once translated and edited.
Carlson published a video for X from Red Square in the Russian capital
Carlson claimed to have asked Lavrov “where exactly we are” on the path to an “unprecedented conflict between Russia and the United States.”
He said he asked how the election of Donald Trump, considered Russia’s preferred candidate, “would mean the end of this war.”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that “Ukraine and other issues were raised in the conversation.”
“Emphasis was placed on the modern and current history of our difficult relations with the United States, the impact of all this on world geopolitics, the possibilities of the future state of affairs,” he said.
Carlson claimed in the video that the United States and Russia were closer to a nuclear war than during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
‘We feel there must be someone behind the scenes in Washington working to ensure that this conflict does not turn into a nuclear holocaust.
‘But we discovered that no, in fact, there was no one.
‘(Anthony) Blinken, the current Secretary of State, cut off all contact between the governments of the United States and Russia. There is no secondary channel,’ he said.
Carlson claimed there had been no talks with Russia for “more than two years.”
In fact, Russia and the United States are still in contact.
Just yesterday, the Pentagon said there were used his military hotline with Russia to communicate about events in Syria.
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said the hotline exists “to avoid potential miscalculations.”
Reuters aforementioned However, a US official said in November 2022 that the hotline to Russia had been used once since the start of the war.
In the video posted to X on Tuesday, Carlson also claimed that “US military personnel launched missiles into mainland Russia, killing at least a dozen Russian soldiers.”
While President Biden allowed US military contractors to deploy to Ukraine last month, reversing a de facto ban, Russia has not come into conflict with the US military.
Biden controversially granted Ukraine permission to use the supplied ATACMS long-range missiles to hit targets deeper inside Russia after reports emerged that Russia had brought in some 10,000 North Korean troops to reinforce its lines.
Russia appeared to respond with the unprecedented use of an experimental hypersonic missile in Dnipro, called Oreshnik, on November 21, and vowed to continue testing the weapon.
While Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons if cornered, the United States and its NATO allies have not done so. Three NATO members (the United States, France and the United Kingdom) possess nuclear weapons.
NATO maintains that it “does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia” and “will continue to respond to Russian threats and actions in a united and responsible manner.”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg did so say Earlier this year, the organization was discussing putting more nuclear weapons on hold.