Now we have not crushed this horse to demise. A minimum of not but. However there are another essential outcomes from Tucker’s interview of Putin that benefit some consideration.

First, I checked all the cable information websites — Fox Information, CNN and MSNBC — this morning and never one coated any side of Tucker’s interview with Putin apart from a point out that Tucker requested Putin to free the Wall Avenue Journal reporter. The print media did its finest to downplay the occasion. The NY Instances revealed a bit beneath the headline, Putin Calls on U.S. to ‘Negotiate’ on Ukraine in Tucker Carlson Interview, whereas the NY Submit centered on Putin’s declare that Invoice Clinton initially was open to letting Russia be part of NATO however his advisors vetoed that concept (Putin says Bill Clinton told him Russia could join NATO before pulling back hours later: ‘You tricked us’). Nobody did a deep dive to research what Putin needed to say.

Whereas the Western media is bending over backwards to disregard the interview, it has caught fireplace on the web. As of 9pm Jap Commonplace Time the interview on X/Twitter has over 159 MILLION views.

Did you discover the one President that Putin declined to call? Barack Obama. Putin had some optimistic issues to say about George W Bush and Donald Trump. He talked about Clinton and the U.S. refusal to entertain Russia as a NATO accomplice. And he described the fruitless interactions with demented Joe Biden. So, why not speak about Obama? It was beneath Obama’s stewardship that the CIA, in tandem with Britain’s MI-6, launched the Maidan coup, which culminated within the ouster of Ukraine’s elected President Viktor Yanukovych. I interpret not saying the identify of Voldemort, err I imply Obama, signifies Putin is mightily pissed off at Obama. Rightly so.

Putin additionally offered the primary confirmed rating of the international locations supplying mercenaries to battle for Ukraine towards Russia — Poland, the USA and Georgia (in that order). I didn’t understand that there have been that many U.S. mercs working round in Ukraine.

Ray McGovern and I mentioned the Tucker interview with Decide Napolitano on right now’s Intel Roundtable.