Tucker Carlson again questions why the US would side with Ukraine over Russia
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Tucker Carlson again questions why the US would side with Ukraine over Russia
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- Carlson questioned why the US would not side with Russia as it appears ready to invade Ukraine.
- "Why is it disloyal to side with Russia but loyal to side with Ukraine?" the Fox News host asked.
- Russia is building up troops on Ukraine's border. Governments warn of an imminent invasion.
The Fox News host Tucker Carlson again questioned why the US would side with Ukraine as Russia appears poised to invade the country.
"Why is it disloyal to side with Russia but loyal to side with Ukraine?" Carlson asked on Monday night . "They're both foreign countries that don't care anything about the United States. Kind of strange."
He said that Ukraine was "strategically irrelevant to the United States. No rational person could defend a war with Russia over Ukraine. Nobody thinks a war like that would make America safer or stronger or more prosperous."
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Carlson said that the US needed to focus on its own economy instead, and that China benefits from the US having a conflict with Russia.
"The Chinese government is the only certain winner here," Carlson said.
The US, Ukraine, and other Western governments say that Russia appears poised to invade Ukraine, and Ukraine says Russia has deployed more than 100,000 troops along the border. Russia says it does not intend to invade.
Carlson has previously sided with Russia over Ukraine, saying in December that Putin was justified in building up troops along the border.
The Pentagon says it has 8,500 US troops on "heightened alert" over the Ukraine-Russia tensions.
Russia seized Ukrainian territory by force in 2014, annexing the Crimean peninsula, and calls the citizens of Russia and Ukraine "one people".
Russia also supports rebels in a war against Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region. More than 13,000 people have died in that fighting.
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I wish I could say this was strange but the far right has been Russia- centric for quite a while now.
There is a sizable white supremacist movement in Russia and that explains Tucker's affection.
If Biden did nothing, or worse, sided with Russa Tucker Carlson and the Rethuglican Populists would call him weak and traitorous. There isn't any consistency here.
There isn't much in the way of brains either.
Being consistently inconsistent has been the Republican mantra ever since Democrats had the audacity to elect a black man to the highest office in the land.
The beginning of the populists movement on the right can be marked from the rise of the Tea Party.
Any facts to support this assertion
Consider this the last time I answer any of your questions . You do absolutely nothing to provide information to this forum. I do a hundred or a thousand times more than you do. All you do is ask questions and make up crap about the left.
Putin is laughing his ass off at the person that wrote this; and anyone dumb enough to read and believe that he is allowing close ties between the two groups.
Putin might find White Supremacists in the US useful tools; but that is as far as it goes. By the way, he finds BLM, Antifa, Democrats, and our media far more useful tools when it comes to fueling division.
As for Ukraine; tell us all John did Russia or the US back a coup to overthrow a pro Russian duly elected government in Ukraine? What strategic interests does the US have in Ukraine? If Ukraine is so important why did Obama only offer them non lethal aid only; and then sit idly by and allow Russia to annex Crimea? Why isn't Ukraine a part of NATO? Why isn't NATO drawing a line in the sand over Ukraine with Russia?
Our foreign policy has been stuck on stupid forever. We have been poking the Russian Bear for so damn long; that we finally have overextended ourselves. Now that Putin is poking back we don't know what to do. Especially with the current incompetent ass in the White House.
Meanwhile the real threat China is poised to take Taiwan- that would really mess the US up. It would cripple the world supply of super conductor chips. Xi isn't stupid. The US can't fight both Russia and China at the same time even with NATO's help. Move on Russia and China takes Taiwan. Think our European allies are worried about Russia? Try all of Asia if China takes Taiwan. We don't have a large enough military to deploy in Eastern Europe, and throughout Asia, to protect from Russia and China at the same time.
What is your answer John. Outside of screaming Russian collusion and racism; which sure as hell isn't going to work.
Who should NATO (and thus the US) favor? Expansionist meddling Russia, or Ukraine? Why do you think Tucker Carlson is taking Russia's side?
I think Tucker does it just to be contrarian and draw attention to his show. I don’t think he actually gives a shit one way or the other about Ukraine.
He likes to come out against whatever the Democratic leadership wants to do and he likes to imagine that he is a brave journalist exposing a corrupt and powerful oligarchy.
So if Biden said he thought people should shower everyday, Tucker would do a whole segment on how big government wants to shame and coerce people into being clean, while threatening to punish you if you ask too many questions. The banner would read “Take a bath! Or ELSE!”
He uses them the same way right wing white nationalists do, as boogey men to scare right wing white conservative Christians into to voting for slimy bigoted scum bags like Donald Trump.
Russia backed the pro-Russian Putin puppet separatist group in a shady Eastern Ukraine election that both the US and Kiev called illegitimate.
Why do right wing conservatives seemingly love Russia so much that they feel the need to defend them so vociferously?
There are dozens of reasons we would want to have a close relationship with Ukraine and we should fight for their entrance in NATO. Our relationship with Ukraine is a cornerstone in the eastern European region for security, democracy, and human rights on the border of our old enemy Russia who is back to trying to hold the world hostage threatening to invade a neighboring sovereign democratic society with a prosperous market-based economy and financial ally of western Democracy. Russia clearly wants to rebuild their old cold war empire, why would anyone in America want to enable them or defend them in their bloody ambitions?
While China needs to be taken seriously and we should do all we can to protect the sovereignty of Taiwan, the threat and consequence are very different and far less severe than a Russian invasion of Ukraine. There is very little chance of China going on any military offensive against the US and western Democracy allies because that would harm their massive financial ties they have with all the western democracies and wealthy capitalist countries they sell their made in China products to. Russia is clearly the larger threat because financially they have little to lose, their GDP is smaller than that of California, invading Ukraine and getting hit with sanctions is barely going to effect them since their trade with the rest of the world is relatively small compared to many other western countries and China, and their resource gains from taking over Ukraine would outweigh any losses.
Again, China doesn't want a war with the west, we are their biggest customers and fattest consumers. Do they want to steal intellectual property? Yes, of course they do, all for the profits. Do they want to take back Taiwan which they've always considered part of China? Yes, and again they see it as a profit opportunity as well as a symbolic achievement but it certainly won't be some huge all out war because that would cause the rest of the world to stop buying Chinese goods and they know it.
US should have stayed the fuck out of Ukraine; but flipping former Soviet border countries has become the vogue for the past several presidents before Trump.
Carlson isn't taking Russia's side. He is taking the US side that says Taiwan is far more important than Ukraine. The US doesn't have the resources to defend both; so take care of Taiwan.
He is also saying China is a far bigger threat than Russia- which they are. To use Obama's own words against him.
Biden needs to stop pretending this is still the 80's.
Putin used Trump to get the US to elect the single worst President ever in Brandon. Both he and China are taking full advantage of that folly.
You don't think US/NATO wasn't backing the pro Western candidate? What planet are you from? Of course the US and Kiev called the election illegitimate- the candidate they wanted lost! Russia would have done the same damn thing if the pro Western candidate won.
So, thinking that we shouldn't be in Ukraine; which holds no strategic value what-so-ever is being pro Russian? Why is it good that we are propping up a Ukrainian government that is filled with Fascists?
Why do leftists have such a dysfunction with Russia? There is a far bigger threat to the world than Russia. Xi in China couldn't ask for more willing dupes than Democrats and the left. Have fun when China controls semi and super conductor chip after they take Taiwan. See how far the military, automakers, and the tech industry gets.
BS and more BS. NATO doesn't want Ukraine- otherwise they would already be a member. Ukraine is as dysfunctional and corrupt governmental wise as Afghanistan. Someone should tell Ukraine how great they are doing economically- it would be news to them.
Top 10 Poorest Countries in Europe (by 2020 GNI per capita, Atlas method, current US$)*
Top 10 Poorest Countries in Europe (by 2020 GDP per capita, Atlas method, current US$)**
1. Ukraine
With a per capita GNI of $3,540, Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe as of 2020. Ukraine once had the second-largest economy in the USSR. However, when the USSR collapsed, Ukraine had difficulty transitioning into a market economy, which sent much of the population into poverty. Some of Ukraine's continuing issues contributing to its poverty are government corruption, Russian aggression (specifically Russia's illegal seizure of Crimea in 2014), and weak infrastructure.
You were saying. Is it any wonder Ukraine's government is corrupt, shaky, and weak? They are a great success story for the west. No wonder NATO doesn't want them; they would make a wonderful anchor and financial drag.
Xi would like to thank you for not taking China seriously. He will be laughing hysterically when the world has to come crawling to him for semi and super conductors.
Please, stay far, far away from any position that involves foreign policy; we already have more than enough dumbasses in the current administration.
Yes!
So Russia's justification in invading Ukraine is that they are one people??? I thought each country had its own ethnicity?
It's interesting that some are more upset with a talk show host arguing for neutrality than the President of the US telling Putin a minor invasion is okay. But these are the same people who demonize the filibuster and then turn around minutes later and use it to protect Putin's pipeline.
I don't agree with the Carlson/Obama position on Russian invasions. We should, like Trump did, send defensive weaponry to Ukraine and do we everything we can short of committing our own troops to help Ukraine. But Biden's signaling about what level of invasion is acceptable makes deterrence hard, if not impossible.
The foreign policy expert Richard Haas was interviewed on tv this morning and he was asked this exact question. Why should we favor Ukraine over Russia? He answered very simply. Ukraine is trying to be more open and democratic and is headed in the right direction. Russia is not.
I agree. The Trump position on defending Ukraine was a major improvement over Obamas for those reasons.
Yeah, I think it maybe doesn’t help. However, if NATO countries are going to keep sending arms to Ukraine, that’s going to make taking over that country a long, expensive, and painful process for Russia.
It would be nice if Germany got the memo on that.
It depends on the weapons they are sending; and if Ukraine has troops that are trained to use them.
It would be even nicer if Putin decided not to invade!
Some people are saying we shouldn't support Ukraines (by sending American troops, inevitably resulting Americans dying or being severely wounded).
But we can effectively support them without doing that-- we should greatly step up our weapons supplies and the training of Ukrainian troops).
If that was so effective...how come Russia may soon invade???
Because perhaps that is what Russian wants to do.
I'm sure Biden has learned to draw a red line after serving as VP. and can attest to the effectiveness of doing so.
Well that’s the root of your problem, right there. They are not both countries that don’t care anything about the United States. Ukraine might be, but Russia clearly cares a great deal about what the United States is up to. They have spent decades trying to fuck with the US and our allies.
What’s more, we’re much closer to being a kind of ideological kindred spirit with Ukraine. The Russian government rules by force and oppression while Ukraine has an elected president and a parliament. They’re not yet a full on western-type democracy, but they are far more democratic than Russia. We tend to make friends with countries like that.
BTW that's why Trump was so pro-Russian-- he loved autocratic rulers!
be sure to not to ever vote for Trump again.
Does that also apply...even if he isn't running?
Sure it does--and also whatever it takes to get him out of your head!
Could that maybe...even possibly..be the same thing it takes to get Biden out of your head?
What makes you think Trump is no longer newsworthy?
Why are you so sure he won't ever be the Republican candidate for President-- or so certain he'll never again run for office...and never again have any sort of following??
Possibly--IF I am weak enough to let Biden live rent-free in my head way after he leaves office.
Which simply won't happen.
Not what I wrote--clearly to anyone bothering to read.
What makes you think Trump is relevant to what Biden does or what Russia does?
I agree but would modify that a bit. Traditionally we did. And even today many Americans feel that way.
But Trump's views (and actions!) were just the opposite-- he preferred to make friends with autocratic (undemocratic countries)! Russia, the Philapines, Hungary, etc.