The Russian leader wasn't exactly impressed by the former Fox News host.
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You should already have been prepared how a Western media outlet would spin the words for our Western agenda. But since these are the words of the Russian President it’s only fair and I’m still surprised I can access it here in America (Censorship) the Russian perspective like I already posted from RT and now here Sputnik. And here’s the actual words rather than what American’s typically only read or post, the attention grabbing headline.
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"If today, for some reason related to them [the West], we are unable to conduct a direct dialogue, then we should be grateful to Mr. Carlson for the fact that we can do this through him as an intermediary," Putin said.
"I think that Carlson... is a dangerous man... Because, to be honest, I thought that he would behave aggressively and ask these so-called pressing questions. And I was not just ready for it — I wanted it. Because it would give me the opportunity to respond just as sharply, which, in my opinion, would give a certain specificity to our entire conversation," Putin emphasized.
Carlson chose a different tactic, and was surprisingly rather patient for a Western journalist, Putin said.
"He went through his plan, as I said and as I understood, and that is it, he did not go beyond this plan. There were some other topics that I think it would be important to talk about. But I did not further promote topics that the journalist did not bring up in conversation with me. Therefore, the issue of demonizing Russia, related, say, to the same interethnic events, to the Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire, well, of course, they should have arisen during such an official part," Putin told Rossiya 1 reporter Pavel Zarubin.
Off the record Carlson and Putin discussed the demonization of Russia in the West.
"But one of the topics that we talked about with him already when the cameras were turned off is exactly what the US Secretary of State talked about several times, he talked about it, Mr. [Antony] Blinken, that his relative, his great-grandfather, fled Russia from the Jewish pogroms. And in different countries of the world, in Europe, in the United States, this topic constantly arises, I repeat, it arises with the aim of demonizing Russia," Putin said, adding that Blinken should not make such public personal statements as they can lead to problems.
US sanctions against American journalist Tucker Carlson after his visit to Russia would show the true face of the modern liberal and democratic dictatorship in the United States, Putin stressed.
“But from the point of view of making people all over the world understand what a modern liberal-democratic, in quotes, dictatorship, which is allegedly represented in today’s ruling class of the United States, is, this would be nice. They would then show their true face,” the president highlighted.
He said everything is possible these days in the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it is good that the interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson made the West listen to what Russia has to say.
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