re: The Tucker interview was my first long form exposure to Putin

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Today, I view anything DC or MSM says very critically which continues to expose how corrupt this federal government is.

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I exist here. We're not in Russia, we're not in Ukraine. Most of us will never go to either of those places and gain a first hand understanding. So we're told what happens and we take someone else's word for it. From that perspective, it's not hard to see how easily we can be manipulated. How easily we can be lead to sympathy and financial support for Ukraine. Or under the idea of patriotism support an invasion of Iraq. I exist as a cynic and a skeptic because I'm hesitant to react how I'm told by politicians and media.

I have no doubt he's highly intelligent and very shrewd. He doesn't go from being some low level bureaucrat in St Petersburg to being the forever president of Russia.

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The point observed here is Putin discussed details, dates, people, places, events, consequences, etc. in a way many of our respective US favored politicians couldn't. That does not speak to right or wrong, lies or veracity. It simply reflects acuity. As do his matter-of-fact observations about the US and even Tucker.

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How tf does this get down voted? You people are fn nuts.

John Sweeney's a British journalist who's been covering Putin since the beginning of his Presidency. Sampling his book is a good place to start.

Killer in the Kremlin

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How well did he explain it?
Did you fact check him?

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I'm sure if anything he said concerning Eastern European history was wrong there would be plenty of twitter posts he can link.

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You don't have to have a political leaning, to appreciate the contrast between Putin and Biden.

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Who brought up Biden?

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I did

It's a natural comparison, the presidents of the US and Russia. If you're old enough to remember the Soviet Union, it's an even more prominent comparison, as those were the 2 acknowledged superpowers.

And interestingly enough, both men had "speaking events" available to view yesterday.

Biden- about 12 minutes of a statement and some Q&A, in response to the Special Counsel's findings. It was objectively disturbing as an American citizen; he rambled a bit. He got legit angry and combative with the Asian reporter- it wasn't like the Trump back-and-forth snarking. He yelled "that's your opinion! That's your opinion! That's not the press", which sounded bad, and then when you analyze it was confusing. She IS press. And she was specifically referring to what the Special Counsel put in his finding, which kinda was the purpose of the announcement.
Then, he fades on so many sentences, often repeating words or putting in some variation of "you know". You just could tell he was fishing around to finish his thought.
And then of course the Mexican president statement as referring to the Middle East. You take that with the earlier Mitterand and Kohl remarks, and he's developing a pattern of losing track of time, of the here and now. He's disoriented at least part of the time.

You contrast that with the Putin interview, and if nothing else, you can see Putin is still in full control of his faculties.

You absolute cuckold

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. He also did a fantastic job of painting Russia as the good guys and the "ruling elite" of the west as the bad guys.

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Putin jails or kills naysayers and political opponents. I'd take anything he said with a huge grain of salt.