The conservative journalist feels the US and Russia are the closest they’ve ever been to a “nuclear holocaust”
Independent American journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson has teased his upcoming talk with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, promising to provide a perspective on how close Washington and Moscow could be to a direct clash.
Despite the growing risks of conflict, Americans are only provided the perspective allowed to them by “NBC News and The New York Times,” Carlson said in a three-minute video on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. With his upcoming interview, he could provide a glimpse of the Russian perspective, the journalist noted.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also teased the upcoming interview with a photograph of Carlson and Lavrov sitting opposite each other. “Be patient,” she added.
Carlson’s attempts at getting a Ukrainian view on the conflict have been stonewalled at the behest of Washington, he claimed. The US Embassy in Kiev has told the administration of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky that it “can talk to CNN,” but not to Carlson, the journalist claimed.
In just a few weeks of Donald Trump being elected, under the administration of outgoing President Joe Biden, “American military personnel launched missiles into mainland Russia and killed at least a dozen Russian soldiers,” Carlson said.
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“We are, unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war with Russia, an undeclared war, a war you did not vote for and that most Americans don’t want,” he added. The fact that US service members are killing Russians in Russia has brought the two superpowers far closer to a direct clash than ever in history, “far closer than we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis,” the journalist noted.
Late last month, Russia struck a Ukrainian military industrial site in Dnepropetrovsk with its new Oreshnik ballistic missile as a response to Biden’s authorization of the use of US armaments in strikes on internationally recognized Russian territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the hostilities have taken on the aspects of a “global conflict.” High tech missile systems such as US-supplied ATACMS cannot be used by Ukraine without the direct involvement by US troops, he added.
Putin has also moved to adjust its nuclear doctrine to account for “joint attacks” on Russia in these kinds of long-range strikes by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear one, allowing for retaliation.
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