Zelensky has never been asked about:

- His conscription officers beating people to a pulp
- His offshore money revealed in the Panama Papers
- Terrorist attacks which killed civilians that his officials have taken credit for
- His blatant lies about the missile in Poland

— Baron of the Taiga (@baronitaigas) February 7, 2024

But here's the point. There is no such thing as an objective journalist. There are only journalists who lean more towards allowing stories and people to explain themselves, and those who instead favor embellishing everything with their own melodrama and moralism.

— Baron of the Taiga (@baronitaigas) February 7, 2024

Western mainstream journos are, for the most part, absolutely incapable of conducting watchable interviews with people they disagree with. What's worse, they are in such ideological conformity with their governments, they might as well be taking marching orders.

— Baron of the Taiga (@baronitaigas) February 7, 2024

Good thread.

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Tucker, has, for a long time made an effort to subvert American democracy for conservative, evangical dictatorship. He wants America to have a decades long "conservative" leader LIKE Putin.

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Completely baseless claim. Insane, honestly!

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The fact that some of you cannot immediately identify right and wrong in this conflict suggests serious moral, mental, and ethical decay on your part.

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Oh the irony!

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I'm sure many of you will nod in agreement as if this is not a tailor-made propoganda to get you to have sympathy for Russia. But the truth is, Russia wants to hurt American interests all around the world. They are deepening an alliance with Iran, North Korea, and China (who have no problem handing over piles of weapons to Russia) to undermine America and our interests. Putin wants your life to get orders of magnitude worse and if that means pretending he's on "your" side, then so be it. Tucker has made someone who started a needless land war in Europe and caused untold and endless suffering a sympathetic martyr to the "own the libs" crowd. It seems so small, distant, and irrelevant now. But I genuinely fear a situation 3 years from now where China begins building up troops to invade Taiwan. Meanwhile Putin masses troops on the Estonia border, and Trump is president. I know some of you believe Trump will magically just dissappear those problems, but Trump proudly states how he won't come to NATOs aid (a sign of real strength of course) so what leverage does he have.

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You should get a job writing fiction. Russia is not going to do a darn thing. Russia's military has been shown to be barely capable of fighting a 3rd world country. Trump has never said he would not come to the aid of NATO. You need to stop reading Rolling Stone... sources say! LOL. He did say they need to pay more. He did say its outdated.

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I mean who wants to send our sons to fight for Estonia, right? The problem is, if we get to that point we either end up in World War 3 or we end up losing access to many resources that make our standard of life possible while the entirety of Europe is plunged into a land war and that's before talking about the cluster**** that Asia would become. It would be an absolute disaster, even if we weren't in the conflict. Tens or hundreds of millions dead and every supply chain off the North American continent gone.... Depression, hyperinflation, threat of Nuclear strikes and that's if we don't get involved miltarily. This is easily preventable as the window for this happening is small for these autocrats - maybe a decade, probably 5 years. The less strength and unity we project the more likely this outcome is to happen. How do you break American unity and strength? Convince a political ideology that you're actually on their side by talking about their grievances with America. It's not about censorship; it's about what's at stake and how much of a threat to America's interests... YOUR interests... this kind of calculated propoganda is, no matter how much Tucker masks this threat. I know some of you will take the nihilistic approach to what I say, or something to the affect of "Putin is better than democrats". Being an ******* feels good if you're frustrated (probably why Trump is so popular if we're honest - he gives you permission to be an *******). But your life can only be as good or better if America is prosperous going forward. America will not be prosperous if we listen to Putin for inspiration.

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Wow! Did an AI chatbot to generate that mumbo jumbo for you?

It's hilarious that a hard lefty like you is concerned about the resources for our standard of living when Biden is trying hard to kill those resources. The basis, the absolute foundation, for modern civilization is hydrocarbons. Joe is the most anti oil and gas president to ever occupy the WH.

You are pro censorship FOR THE SAKE OF DEMOCRACY. Guess what, you and your fellow liberals don't get to define what speech is right and wrong. That's what you did during the 2020 election to help Joe win. Conservatives were banned from social media and you guys cheered. FOR THE SAKE OF DEMOCRACY, you said!

You hard leftys actually believed the pee tapes. You still believe Trump is Putins BFF despite the mountain of evidence during his admin which shows the exact opposite! And yet YOU believe yourselves to be the arbiters of truth! Its mind blowing!

Our enemy is inside the gates. In the WH. We will be destroyed internally long before Putin or Xi have a bite at the apple.

I'm old enough to remember a time when the left encouraged open dialog with Russia. Of course that was back when they were commies and ideological cousins of the left.

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What's kind of weird is when the guys in the 5th Column don't know that they are in the 5th Column.

You are admiring and praising a genocidal dictator. That is your hint that you are in the 5th Column, MAGA.

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Why does Tucker interviewing Putin bother you so much? I still don't understand the outrage about any of this…

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Why, because it's literally government propoganda, you know the thing Tucker *****ed about... Let's not pretend it's journalism. Tucker, has, for a long time made an effort to subvert American democracy for conservative, evangical dictatorship. He wants America to have a decades long "conservative" leader LIKE Putin. And the dark part is he crafts his story under the guise of "FrEE SpEEcH". Do you think Putin would allow an uncensored, unedited interview with Biden by Gary Kasparov be aired in Russia since Putin just loves free speech? Forgive me, if through all it's faults, I want a multiparty Democracy even if that means sometimes defending and supporting ideologies I do not agree with #concernedmoderate.

You know what, I will give Tucker a pass if he asks two key questions: #1 all of your serious political opponents have either ended up poisoned, murdered, imprisoned, or died a mysterious death, could you please explain why that seems to happen so frequently and #2, Putin you claim to be a strong Christian, how do you reconcile your "faith" and "thou shalt not kill" with the decision to kill millions of innocent people over your imperial ambitions? If he doesn't ask those two questions (he won't) then you know he's running blatant propoganda for Putin. As I said, I'm sure he'll spend a lot of time talking about Christianity, how hypocritical America is, how bad trans people are, #conservativevalues, the western world is falling apart, NATO is such a threat (but of course European militaries are so weak), CIA coup, Trump is a martyr, Iraq, etc. Etc... But you know, just because you're countercultural doesn't make you inherently righteous. The fact that some of you cannot immediately identify right and wrong in this conflict suggests serious moral, mental, and ethical decay on your part. I'm sure many of you will nod in agreement as if this is not a tailor-made propoganda to get you to have sympathy for Russia. But the truth is, Russia wants to hurt American interests all around the world. They are deepening an alliance with Iran, North Korea, and China (who have no problem handing over piles of weapons to Russia) to undermine America and our interests. Putin wants your life to get orders of magnitude worse and if that means pretending he's on "your" side, then so be it. Tucker has made someone who started a needless land war in Europe and caused untold and endless suffering a sympathetic martyr to the "own the libs" crowd.

It seems so small, distant, and irrelevant now. But I genuinely fear a situation 3 years from now where China begins building up troops to invade Taiwan. Meanwhile Putin masses troops on the Estonia border, and Trump is president. I know some of you believe Trump will magically just dissappear those problems, but Trump proudly states how he won't come to NATOs aid (a sign of real strength of course) so what leverage does he have. I mean who wants to send our sons to fight for Estonia, right? The problem is, if we get to that point we either end up in World War 3 or we end up losing access to many resources that make our standard of life possible while the entirety of Europe is plunged into a land war and that's before talking about the cluster**** that Asia would become. It would be an absolute disaster, even if we weren't in the conflict. Tens or hundreds of millions dead and every supply chain off the North American continent gone.... Depression, hyperinflation, threat of Nuclear strikes and that's if we don't get involved miltarily. This is easily preventable as the window for this happening is small for these autocrats - maybe a decade, probably 5 years. The less strength and unity we project the more likely this outcome is to happen. How do you break American unity and strength? Convince a political ideology that you're actually on their side by talking about their grievances with America. It's not about censorship; it's about what's at stake and how much of a threat to America's interests... YOUR interests... this kind of calculated propoganda is, no matter how much Tucker masks this threat. I know some of you will take the nihilistic approach to what I say, or something to the affect of "Putin is better than democrats". Being an ******* feels good if you're frustrated (probably why Trump is so popular if we're honest - he gives you permission to be an *******). But your life can only be as good or better if America is prosperous going forward. America will not be prosperous if we listen to Putin for inspiration.

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When Ronald Reagan famously said, "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." he was talking about someone who would post this emotional, delusional rant with more strawmen and just made up crap than I can count. Get a grip, dude.

"Oh no!!! Tucker interviewed the wrong evil dictator. I wanted him to interview the evil dictator that paid off my hero's family."

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I'm old enough to remember a time when the left encouraged open dialog with Russia. Of course that was back when they were commies and ideological cousins of the left.

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The roles have reversed in some ways. The Soviets used to block any messages, recordings, or comprehensive writings from American Presidents. Their system could not handle opposing views because Communist ideology cannot withstand freedom. Now, it is American "progressives" who want to censor opposing views. What does that tell you about progressive ideology? It is fascist at its core. Bring on Putin! Let's hear what he has to say and to hell with weak-minded progressives.

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It's actually not too dissimilar but they (Democrats) have changed the messaging on Russia. Ted Kennedy absolutely coordinated his 1984 presidential campaign to leverage support from the Soviets against Reagan.

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icking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.

"On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov."

Kennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. "The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign."
Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.

First he offered to visit Moscow. "The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA." Kennedy would help the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.

Then he offered to make it possible for Andropov to sit down for a few interviews on American television. "A direct appeal ... to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country. ... If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interviews. ... The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side."

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What changed is that Hillary used Chris Steele's phony Russian spy contact/reports as a lie against "Russian Collusion" by Trump and their ignorant Dem-CCP voter base in the US has perceived the Russians as Pro-maga/GOP ever since.

Nellie Ohr speaking Russian on a ham radio to dupe partisans into thinking Trump was involved with Moscow is a story far too few know. Biden enticed Putin to invade Ukraine and the rest is essentially a tragic comedy of propaganda.

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No matter how Tucker tries to justify this, he should not have interviewed Putin.

No matter what Biden and his clowns say, Putin is not a good person and has no intentions of doing the right thing. I am not advocating for the war, but Putin has no intentions of stopping with Ukraine. History has shown he wants the old USSR back, and he has said it was a mistake to let it go. He plans to take all of eastern Europe again, and won't stop.

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Uh, have you been watching the pathetic Russian military the last TWO YEARS? They have struggled and bled just to get into a stalemate with Ukraine. If you think they have the wherewithal to take on NATO by invading another country I don't know what to tell you. Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger. They'll be lucky if they get any land concession from Ukraine so they can save face.

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