re: More people have watched the Tucker/Putin interview than the Super Bowl

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To be fair - Putin’s first question was “is this a serious talk or an interview” And Tucker said “a serious talk” so Putin started And then when Tucker asked Putin how the history was relevant, Putin responded “I thought you wanted a serious talk and not an imterview” And Tucker responded “I did” To which Putin responded (paraphrasing) “well this is how we do this here, you must understand the history and then the present will make more sense”

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Putin spitting half-truths. It looked like manipulation to me. But what was Tucker supposed to do? Cut him off?

There’s some middle ground between a “talk show” as Putin said it, and a lecture, or long history lesson. An interview does need to allow for questions to be asked and answers to be given in a timely fashion. Fine if he was to support his answers with historical points, but that was strangely aggressive.

I think Putin came with a prepared agenda. Fair enough. Take the “interview” for what it’s worth, but don’t assume that every historical “lesson” that Putin provided is a balanced and inerrantly true.