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

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And some of it was bullshite.

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The BS was vis-a-vis omission especially as relates to WWII. But the facts he chose to include were interesting, and elements I'd not heard.

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I'm surprised he didn't speak english for the interview. Surely he is fluent in it?

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He does speak English.

Maybe he wanted to speak Russian because he didn’t want to get tripped up on a worldwide interview if he didn’t understand the way Tucker phrased something?

Possible.

Personally, he may have come off as being more relatable to hundreds of millions of people if he spoke English.

But speaking Russian allowed him to maintain some mystique. I’m sure a lot of what he said was calculated, and the delay needed for a translator aided in that.

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But the facts he chose to include were interesting, and elements I'd not heard.

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Careful you don't step into bullshite. Putin is an intelligent and crafty man who has managed to seize full power in a country known for being hard and unforgiving to its leaders. Take everything he says with a grain of salt. Tucker even warned his viewers prior to the start of the interview that the man did a lot of gaslighting during their two-hour conversation.

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Well, for example, Putin flat out lied about the reason for Russian withdrawal from the Kyiv surrounds.

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But did he lie?

That’s your opinion.

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But did he lie?

That’s your opinion.

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I think he did.

He claims this war was started to "de-nazify" Ukraine, but if you pay attention he states at the beginning of the interview his true war aims without drawing too much attention to them. He mentioned that up until the days of the First World War, the Russians had a long-standing history of controlling Ukraine all the way to the west of Kiev.

Putin is a an ultranationalist who wants to see a return to the pre-WWI borders. How does one de-nazify a country? By taking it over and liquidating them.

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Scott Adams

@scottadamssays

How many of you thought Putin was "all there" in the Tucker interview?

If he seemed lucid to you, it's because Biden is your comparison.

I thought Putin seemed unhinged. The history lesson was not a good sign.

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Well, Scott's point is that Biden makes Putin look like a stable genuis.

Putin is still a killer, thug, gang leader at heart.

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Careful you don't step into bullshite.

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Were you aware of the Polish assault on Russia 1918-20?
I wasn't.

It ties into the Versailles Treaty recreation of Poland in 1918. (The treaty allocated a further land grab which geographically divided Germany in order to provide Poland a Baltic port. That led to Hitler invading Poland 20 years later.)

Once formed, the new Poland immediately sought to further expand toward its 1792 boundaries. It attacked into Russia eastward past Kyiv, temporarily taking advantage of ongoing Russian Civil Wars. In 1920, Russian forces routed the Poles though, leading to the Treaty of Riga. Riga set the pre-WWII Polish boundaries, as well as the German-Soviet rationale for partitioning Poland in 1939.

Not BS. Just a different set of facts.

Putin only met with TC because he had an agenda…plus, Congress is the middle of determining if they’ll provide more support for Ukraine. Not a coincidence.

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Where is the information to substantiate this? It gets thrown around a lot, but what are the numbers we are looking at? People talk about Hillary and there's a long list of names connected to her that have suspicious deaths. Where is the analog for Putin?

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Right, I know what American media, who routinely lies says about Putin. I never really hear specifics. I dont see evidence of death camps. Ive heard he had a political opponent poisoned once. Ive also heard that he was in a hospice about to die. I have no idea what is really true. At this point after some serious self reflection, I only know one thing for fact: the US media lies and cannot be trusted