Kremlin Appoints Tucker Carlson Minister of Agitation-Propaganda
It should have been predictable even by the deafest, blindest & dumbest fanboy/fangirl...
Tucker Carlson offered an explanation in his video, “Why I’m Interviewing Vladimir Putin,” in which he allegedly stated, “I love America.” That is why for over two years he’s been the Kremlin’s top media warrior, by literally regurgitating FSB, GRU, RT and Kremlin-sourced agitation-propaganda on American media, aimed not only at the America he purportedly loves, but to split America’s conservative movement and its NATO allies - more or less the same nations that fought with us in WWI, WWII and the Cold War, against the very same Kremlin that has enthusiastically rolled out the red carpet for Carlson.
Is Carlson above the law? Journalist or something else? See:
Carlson’s and Putin’s purpose? To discourage, dispirit, dissuade, and deter American commitment against the illegal invasion of Ukraine; a bullwark against Putin’s publicly-stated strategy to reconstitute the Soviet Empire on the territories of what are now democratic, allied nations. Their narratives are meant to weaken America’s Reaganite resolve “We win; they lose!”, and split the conservative movement in the United States.
It has. Read the last paragraph HERE.
ROD DREHER, Senior Editor of AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, who moved permanently to Budapest, writes:
Why Ukraine Must Win the Russia–Ukraine War - HUNGARIAN CONSERVATIVE
Perhaps Carlson thinks Dreher and this writer have lesser conservative credentials that he?
The magic trick Carlson played for his audiences is that, for backing Trump publicly after having privately calling him a “demonic force,” he alone amongst us is the genuine conservative.
I had predicted it all HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE - and in a half dozen other articles going back another year.
BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID! (figuratively) shouts Tucker at his audiences, referring to Washington DC, New York City, LA, Paris, London and Berlin to be imminently covered by a nuclear cloud.
According to Tucker: Vladimir Putin is to decide which European nation joins the European Common Market (EU), or NATO. America that leads NATO and Europe has no voice in the matter. Carlson’s sleight of hand is the border, even though one issue, the American/Mexican border, has nothing to do with the other, the sovereignty of European nations. Never mind that the funds for Ukraine constitute 5% of the military budget, or less than one percent the cost of a real war between the two superpowers.
Can you name anyone better to lead the free world than the heroic Russian despot sitting bare-chested on his horse, with Russia’s collapsed economy, collapsed currency, and rusted military as his saddle?
Picture Putin lounging on his 500 foot $750 million yacht. Do readers think Tucker might enjoy a few days cruising the Med with a bottle of vodka yukking it up with the Boss?
And why not?
YAHOO/DAILY CALLER: “Tucker Carlson’s trip to Russia came as a shock to many, except for the Russian propagandists who have been lobbying for the fulfillment of his long-standing wish to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the head of RT (Russia’s state news outlet) Margarita Simonyan pleaded with the Kremlin to make appropriate arrangements, and state TV host Vladimir Solovyov offered Carlson a job on his channel, Solovyov Live…”
“Like many Putin propagandists, Simonyan realized that Carlson’s softball sit-down with Putin would be even more of a propaganda boon than his pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian, and borderline anti-American rhetoric over the years…”
“While Solovyov had to settle for Scott Ritter, it seems like Simonyan may have finally got her wish…” (sic)
Tucker lowers his voice with a more ominous tone, “It's an extinction event,” he might suggest, warning Americans to bend a knee to his Kremlin boss, creating images of planets colliding, comets hurling toward the earth, Godzilla and Mothra roaring at each other before they stomp the Empire State Building into smithereens and crush the entirety of Manhattan.
As images of exploding thermonuclear bombs crossed his weak-knee audience’s imaginations - Tucker, with his chin quivering, tears almost rolling down his face, posted actual images of a nuclear explosions behind his desk to make his point: “You gonna’ die!” (sic) he was about to announce…
Tucker's predecessors shouted from their respective soapboxes:
Stalin will nuke us.
Krushchev will nuke us.
Brezhnev will nuke us.
Andropov will nuke us.
Hitler will crush us, suggested Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh in earlier times.
Repeat loudly.
Louder please!
Where’s Neville Chamberlain when we really need him? - Tucker might have asked his fans.
Henceforth, taking Tucker Carlson’s advice, America's and NATO's foreign and military policy will be predicated on obeying the wishes, delusions, and commands of despots speaking Russian, Korean, Mandarin, and Farsi.
Putin's, Kim's, Ji's, and the Iranian mullahs!
Surrender or else!
YAHOO CONTINUES:
“Carlson’s arrival in Moscow threw Russian state TV media into a frenzy of (hyperventilating) coverage, showcasing Carlson’s visit to the ballet, his luncheon, visiting a Kamchatka stand at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, and going for a ride on a subway…”
KABUKI THEATER
“…a Russian government official anonymously told The Moscow Times, “The boss [Putin] will win the election without Tucker's help, but access to an American audience through Carlson during the heated struggle between Biden and Trump is again an opportunity to exert that proverbial influence on the U.S. election, given Carlson's huge audience.” He also noted, “our propaganda will blast Carlson’s words criticizing the Democrats which means he (Carlson) will confirm our hawks’ line up to the tiniest detail…”
“On Tuesday, Alexei Venediktov, former editor of Ekho Moskvy radio station, hinted in a post on X (formerly Twitter), “As I understand, Tucker Carlson got what he wanted.”
These are why we are a superpower and not “Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys” meaning to make money off ignoramuses at the fringes, and clickbait on X.
Earlier I wrote: American interests are subsumed in Ukraine because if Ukraine fell, much of Europe will also fall, along with America’s future prosperity, as well as access to global markets and military movement. These “privileges” are what define the United States a super power. These are the very universal freedoms Reagan championed through his “Peace Through Strength” policy.
Military interests exist to promote national security and economic interests. The American Interest subsumes all three.
America has come to the aid of its allies for over 225 years, even during George Washington’s and Thos Jefferson’s time.
THE RONALD REAGAN LIBRARY - PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH
We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted.
Ronald Reagan, Republican National Convention, July 17 1980
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine to further an agenda to rebuild the Soviet Empire and said so. Also see HERE. Given what we’ve seen in Mariupol and Bakhmut, whose words would you take seriously, Carlson’s, MacGregor’s, Greenwald’s, Vivek’s, Medvedev’s, Putin’s, or Reagan’s?
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No nation under the Russian boot, and certainly not the United States that has spent trillions keeping Russia at bay for two thirds of a century, not Harry Truman, not Dwight Eisenhower, not JFK, not Donald Trump, would consider going back to Berlin Wall-era Europe. Which is exactly what Carlson and Putin desire.
THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIANCES!
“The United States’ common interests are shared with its trading and military partners and the world’s third largest economy, Europe. Europeans are progenitors and scions of America’s founding fathers and America’s ancestors. In other words, they are us, and we are them.
The United States is obligated under several agreements and NATO’s strategy to block Russian forces from seizing Europe’s territories, trade routes, ports, rails, highways, airports, military bases, and access roads to the entire underbelly of Europe and the seas that serve them, Azov, Aegean, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Black, Marmara, North and Baltic seas - routes to the Atlantic Ocean that connect them all.
These waterways also lead to North Africa, Malta, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Libya, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, the Red Sea, and Egypt’s Suez Canal - the mainline for energy resources that power the west’s economies.
Access routes are vital for American trade, American prosperity, global security, and the movement of the American military. It is why we are bombing Yemen from the Red Sea right now.
Most importantly, these seas encircle the entire European continent - which is very much in the American national interest to defend. That is, unless we prefer to be cut off from the rest of the world, from our heritage, and our destiny. All these constitute the recommendations of the Tucker & Co. isolationists and libertarians cited.
United we stand. United is the last thing Tucker and Putin want from American policymakers.
In this light consider: Tucker & Co’s narratives are the height of historical and geopolitical knownothingness.
November 25, 2019 Tucker Carlson: “Why should I care about Ukraine?”
Kissing Putin’s ring finger, encouraging the Kremlin to split the Republican Party by cynically kowtowing to Putin’s propaganda to force an American retreat by cutting funding, may not constitute the height of American Patriotism.
Ronald Reagan might even agree.
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