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Carlson thinks he is doing some kind of a service interviewing a man who blows his internal opponents out of the sky. Throws them out of windows. Poisons them. Bans political rivals from running against him over spelling mistakes on application forms. Arrests old women and little girls for laying flowers and holding placards. What insight will such an interview reveal I wonder? Putin is a proven beyond a shadow of a doubt liar . The words from his mouth have less than zero value and utterly meaningless. We watched him rant and rave in that statement to the world on the eve on the invasion. All meaningless clap trap spouted with his ‘serious’ face on. Stating objectives and grievances that have long disappeared and being discredited. Putin is going to inform us here in the west that our deep state is corrupt and we are only pawns voting for puppet politician's. Meanwhile people flood into our country’s trying to get away from actual corrupt politicians and governments like his. Not buying that .

Fell from a window.

I’m going to have acquaintances of mine spouting that he is the only journalist who would interview Putin and give Putin a hearing. And how it’s important to hear both sides. And this interview is some sort of profound journalistic achievement. That is the spin being put on it. Whether Carlson believes it or not is another matter. Also that take down by Jon Stewart should be amplified more I wasn’t aware of it until I read it here today. Tucker Carlson has largely been irrelevant in my life but I am starting to see him appear more frequently in forwarded what’s app messages etc.

Tucker did have a debate with a Dutch journalist and was also completely destroyed. Tucker isn’t capable of winning a debate against an intelligent person. His persona is careful managed.

Large swathes of America think Tucker is a great man and very intelligent. I rember Joe Rogan described him as a brilliant person. Dont be surprised if he runs for President in the future.

This is currently doing the rounds Russian over ran Ukrainian positions and inflicted casualties on the Ukrainians till only one survived who called in Danger close only to be told they had run out of shells.....

Hopefully this is just a propaganda piece to ramp up support,

My question is Why should Ireland get serious about defence? Defence against what exactly? Where is the big threat? Ireland might have been a strategic and resource rich prize a few centuries ago so the Brits gobbled it up for religious reasons (in case the Catholic Spanish rocked up to go head on with the Church of England), but also to strip the country of wood to build Nelson’s ships and corn to feed the troops. A few lads from Cork and Tipp armed with Lee Enfields put paid to that and the country has been left alone ever since.

you talk about paying through the nose for something that is highly unlikely to happen. A blizzard hits Ireland about every 7 to 10 years and the place comes to a halt for a few days. So let’s shell out for Switzerland levels of gritters, snow-ploughs, mountains of salt and have that inventory rotting in warehouses for years.

Soldiers in Avdiivka given order to retreat

Avdiivka folds...

Why the apoplexy about Carlson interviewing Putin? If they are both the compulsive liars that they are made out to be then why is this interview even getting attention?

Lots of explosions in Belgorod

Didn’t Assad spend a couple of nights in Buckingham Palace? Who has interviewed Bin Laden, Mubarak, Saddam, Ghaddafi, Mugabe, Marcos, Pinochet, Mao, Nasrallah, etc., etc? All dreadful people. Why the kerfuffle about Carlson interviewing Putin?