THE TUCKER FACTOR
SOMETIMES WHAT APPEARS TO BE SO, IS SO. WHAT IS NOT SO ABOUT UKRAINE ARE THE FICTIONS!
AUGUST 2022, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
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On borders, the economy, Joe and Hunter Biden and James (FBI) Comey’s and Hillary’s epic corruption, self-dealing and criminality, what constitutes rule of law and equal application of justice under the law, about Hungary and PM Orbán, Donald Trump’s massively-successful presidency, as well as other topics, Tucker and I are on the same page.
On Ukraine however, Europeans depart from armchair generalissimo Tucker’s foreign policy.
Who’d buy Carlson’s conflating food lines (caused by inflation) with weapon deliveries to Ukraine (caused by war)? Who’d accept the absurdity of mostly old stock , some obsolete weapons sent to Ukraine, for causing inflation decades after their manufacture? Or the evidence-free fabrication that Pakistan, and not Ukraine, is getting the weapons the West sent?
As for Putin’s and Tucker’s descriptions of Ukraine’s “Nazis?”
RUSSIAN POLITICIANS ADMIT: UKRAINE INVASION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH NAZIS!
What knowledgeable person takes Tucker’s denial of Chinese military activities as being innocuous and yet to be feared; while insisting that America should have no interest in keeping our trading partners in the Pacific region free? We are speaking of our military partners too: Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and India.
Who would seriously consider Tucker as a serious foreign policy and strategic pundit?
Not Sean Hannity, not Mark Levin, not Breitbart, National Review, Daily Mail, UK Express, Wall Street Journal, and not FOX’s own Victor Davis Hansen or Charles Krauthammer (RIP).
“How is protecting the borders of Ukraine in America’s interest?” Tucker keeps asking, while conflating European security interests with Joe Biden’s deliberate importing of Democrat voters from Mexico…
Ukraine’s central location for international trade and transport, rail and truck routes across Europe, southern ports, shipping lanes accessing three seas, NATO’s military movements defending Europe’s underbelly and NATO allies Greece, Italy, Spain, Malta, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, and Egypt, and Europe’s dependence on Ukraine’s natural resources: steel, food, coal, gas and oil, are vital for Europe’s security.
Global Security Mr. Carlson, is in the National Interest .
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) visit to Taiwan, completed in defiance of belligerent threats from the hideous regime in Beijing, drew genuine bipartisan support from U.S. lawmakers and voters alike...Even in a time of deep political divisions, with a potentially earthshaking midterm election coming up, Americans are united in their concerns about the new Evil Empire and its malignant influence upon the freedom, health, and security of the Western world.” - BREITBART
The Budapest Memorandum governs European security as I write these words from Budapest.
BROOKINGS: “As many analysts note, Vladimir Putin may have more at stake in Ukraine than does the West. The United States, however, has a strong interest. That stems not just from twenty-three years of bilateral relations with Kyiv but from U.S. commitments in the Budapest memorandum…”
Russia unilaterally violated treaties it signed. It is destroying and seizing Ukraine’s ports and shipping lanes to the Black, Aegean and Mediterranean seas, with access to the Atlantic. Ukraine’s ports deliver food, goods, oil and gas, medicine and materials to the free world.
NATO guarantees the security of its neighbors. And emerging EU members. The U.S.-NATO alliance guarantee the security of America’s current and future allies in the American Interest - period. In addition, review:
As well as, Russia allied itself to terrorist states China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.
Are these too, in the American interest, Mr. Carlson?
The news released July 28, 2022 about Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, recently elevated to head the Kremlin’s Ukrainian operations, is that Shoigu is a self-avowed communist:
PUTIN’S DEFENSE CHIEF OUTLINES RUSSIA’S REAL WAR AIMS
“Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu stated the goal is to return to the Soviet Union. Speaking to other military personnel, Mr Shoigu said: "Soon, there will be the Soviet Union again...”
The USSR’s intelligence services used active measures and elite capture of US media for decades as Uri Bezmenov, the top Russian intelligence and media defector, and I detailed. Recently the Kremlin has managed to infiltrate both the radical left and reactionary right media with former lefties (pretending to be something other).
The term “useful idiot” described closeted communists and fascists (i.e. lefty Howard Zinn and righwinger Pat Buchanan), and West-and-America-haters who aided and abetted the aims of the open communists in the Kremlin.
For example, the regulars on Tucker Carlson’s show.
· Tulsi Gabbard is a lifelong Democrat, leftwinger antimilitarist, Bush and neocon hater, and a globalist.
· Veteran conspiracist Lara Logan’s New Age (leftwing) spiritualism can be seen at her website. During Rathergate, Lara’s CBS 60 Minutes conspiracy factory tried to crush the Bush presidency.
· A specialist at leftwing revisionist history at Foreign Policy, Doug MacGregor’s record of predictions were 100% correct after the events happened. Gabbard’s and MacGregor’s hatred of the dreaded neo-cons (whose analysis in fact has always proved to be accurate in contrast to MacGregor’s or Buchanan’s), is now playing out in Ukraine. Also, Tulsi and Doug are spiritual mates of the reactionary antizionist Walt-Meirsheimer cheering squad at the self-same magazine. So is Buchanan.
· A vocal neocon basher (and strange bedfellow with Pat Buchanan), Glen Greenwald aided Edward Snowden’s defection to Putin’s Russia. Greenwald’s association with the leftwing Washington Post, Salon and Guardian was...described by Rachel Maddow...as "the American left’s most fearless political commentator." Cementing the alliance, Snowden called Greenwald “my partner,” as Greenwald asks: Where’s Edward Snowden now?
THEY KNEW THEY WERE RIGHT: The Rise of the Neocons – Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor, AMERICAN INTEREST
The neocons of both parties are still right, and the cited Tuckerites are still wrong.
Kyle Smith of the center-right New York Post seconded my words above. To the clear-eyed, the radical left and the reactionary right are simply two sides of the very same coin.
Tucker’s, Buchanan’s, and even the far leftwinger Brit PM wannabe Jeremy Corbyn’s fictions about Russia’s military superiority, Ukraine’s imminent downfall, corruption in Ukraine, unfair censorship of Ukraine’s seditious pro-Russia opposition, can be unpacked in this context.
Tucker & Co’s narratives constitute the daily anti-Zelenskyy/Ukraine disinformation memos sent to Putin-friendly media in the West via RT (Russia TV), an FSB/GRU/Kremlin operation.
Exactly as I had described it months ago, as I write this note a stone’s throw from Ukraine.
Tucker, MacGregor, Logan, Greenwald and Gabbard, under-estimated the astonishingly-successful “neocon-thinking” Churchillian, the high achiever Jewish Zelenskyy’s rise, as the global-standard in competent statesmanship.
BORIS JOHNSON GIVES CHURCHILL AWARD TO UKRAINE’S ZELENSKYY
As for Buchanan, he never liked Jews much.
Zelenskyy single-handedly garnered the world’s respect and bipartisan support to his cause. He kneecapped the Russian strongman’s quest to hegemonize the region. That is precisely why Nancy Pelosi, not my fav politician to state it mildly, deplaned in Taiwan, to do likewise to Xi Jinping.
Tucker Carlson will awaken to find that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will not decide America’s foreign policy...that the two, Putin and Xi, have instead united America on these issues. All, in spite of Tucker’s attempts to divide conservatives.
Tucker covered for and overestimated Russia and Putin. He conveniently ignored Russia’s massive battlefield losses, strategic incompetence, inferior equipment, worthless currency, fading fortunes, ahistorical narratives, and collapsed economy displayed in the references next.
© Andrew G. Benjamin
REFERENCES
LOGISTICS COLLAPSE: Has Russia already lost the war?
Russia is on the Ropes in Ukraine – Andrew G. Benjamin April 1, 2022
Russian economy collapsing amid crippling sanctions, study says
Russia facing 'economic oblivion'
Russian economy poised for 'devastation' as Putin's narrative implodes
Putin's forces in Bucha fought off by 64-year-old firing grenades from 'his own backyard'
Experts say momentum may soon shift in Urkaine war — here's why
Russians 'highly vulnerable' after Ukrainian forces bomb 3 bridges
Russians 'about to run out of steam' in Ukraine, UK intel chief says
'This is Putin's plan' Russia hatches deflection ploy as Moscow maps out new Soviet empire
Russia casualties top 75,000 as Ukraine 'hits Putin in teeth' & gears up for final blow
Putin devastated as THREE more ammo depots wiped out
'Real problem' Putin recruits prisoners as THIRD of entire army destroyed
Desperate Russian troops 'mutilating' themselves to escape horrors of war
Russia 'makes EVACUATION plans for Putin in case of defeat
Putin's huge war vulnerability as Ukraine train strike was 'unusually high-casualty event'
Desperate Putin forced to turn to Kim Jong-un for help – North Korea offers reinforcements
Putin suffers hammer blow as UK and Canada team up in major boost to Ukraine's military
Xi Jinping's Taiwan invasion plan torn up as Beijing's navy assessed: 'Massacre for China'
Andrew G. Benjamin is in finance, real estate and equities, a former advisor to New York City mayor’s office (Subcommittee on Taxation, Finance and the Budget). Benjamin wrote extensively about politics, transnational and domestic, intelligence and military affairs, security and strategy, economic issues, Mideast, terrorism, technology and high end audio.
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Poor Tucker. Turned himself into a pompous jerk almost overnight. And he can't even contemplate the possibility. It's likely that one of his bosses put him up to it. Surely he couldn't be that brainless on his own?