By Neenah Payne
Tucker Carlson’s Explosive Interview With Vladimir Putin explains that when Carlson’s interview of Premier Vladimir Putin of Russia aired on February 8, Putin pointed out that Russia and the Ukraine had been ready to sign the Minsk Accords of 2022, but Boris Johnson (then Prime Minister of Britain) torpedoed the agreement. The articles and videos below show that the West wants to use the war to weaken Russia and to get Ukraine to join NATO.
The Biden administration has spent $113 billion spent on Ukraine war and Biden wants to bring that up to $200 billion. During the war in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been killed or displaced and the Biden administration has sent billions of dollars of tax payers’ money to fund the war. Biden has suggested sending US troops. There is no discussion in the administration on how to end this escalating conflict which threatens all of humanity.
Western allies led by UK’s Johnson sabotaged tentative Ukraine-Russia peace deal 9/1/22
US accuses Boris Johnson of sabotaging Ukraine-Russia peace deal 12/13/22
As the scrutiny on the US’ role in fueling the Ukraine war grows in Europe, the US has already found its scapegoat. Now, US officials have started pinning the blame on European leaders
Ukraine Russia peace deal: In July, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that peace negotiations were going on between Russia and Kyiv in March. Putin, after meeting with the presidents of Turkey and Iran in Tehran, told reporters, “There were well-known negotiations in Istanbul, when we actually reached an agreement, the only thing left to do was to sign it.” He, further, said that Russia even made concessions on the ground, militarily, for the deal. He added, “In order to create these conditions, our troops withdrew from central Ukraine, from Kyiv, but the Kyiv authorities refused to implement these agreements and have no desire to do so even now.”
DID THE UK TORPEDO PEACE TALKS ON UKRAINE? explained in late 2022:
THE WEST IS HELL-BENT ON PROLONGING ITS PROXY WAR ENDLESSLY. IAN SINCLAIR PROVIDES THE EVIDENCE….Why did the British government try to torpedo the peace talks? The answer likely lies in the references above to the “collective West” and the opportunity to “press” Putin. As Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA under president Barack Obama, explained in March: the conflict is “a proxy war with Russia whether we say so or not.”
The US is interested in inviting the Ukraine into NATO – which poses a threat to Russia. Interestingly, in his talk with Carlson, Putin said Russia expressed interest in joining NATO because it is no longer a communist country. However, the US under President Bill Clinton refused. Putin Says He Discussed Russia’s Possible NATO Membership With Bill Clinton reports:
Putin delivered this account in a series of interviews with U.S. film director Oliver Stone set to air later this month on the U.S. television network Showtime. Excerpts of the four-part series have been released online in recent days, including one obtained by Politico in which Putin discusses NATO, whose eastward expansion following the collapse of the Soviet Union has long angered Moscow.
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The US corporate media widely criticized Carlson for interviewing Putin. However, Tucker Carlson’s Explosive Interview With Vladimir Putin explains that many journalists have interviewed Putin earlier without any accusations of “treason” or threats on their ability to return to the US. So, why was Carlson criticized for the interview? Possibly because it threatens the propaganda of the endless war machine. If more Americans understand more of this complex story, they may be less likely to see Ukraine as all good and Russia as all bad. They will be more informed and may have a deeper understanding of the real issues.
After The Vladimir Putin Interview (video – subscription required) 2/8/24
Five key moments from Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin 2/9/24
From a rambling ‘history lesson’, to ‘arrogant’ Boris Johnson and threats of World War Three — here are the top five moments of the sit down.
Putin threatens World War Three if US puts troops in Ukraine
Putin accused the US of “cheap provocation” over its continued military aid to Kyiv, and warned Washington against extending that support to deploying troops to Ukraine. “If somebody has the desire to send regular troops, that would certainly bring humanity to the brink of a very serious global conflict,” he told Carlson.
He continued that America should focus on its domestic issues. He said: “Don’t you have anything better to do? You have issues on the border. Issues with migration, issues with the national debt. More than $33 trillion. “Wouldn’t it be better to negotiate with Russia? Make an agreement. Already understanding the situation that is developing today, realising that Russia will fight for its interests to the end.”
‘Arrogant’ Boris Johnson is why Ukraine is still fighting, says Putin
Putin repeated claims that Boris Johnson sabotaged a peace deal with Ukraine that was being brokered with the assistance of Turkey in the spring of 2022. Carlson asked Putin about reports that Ukraine was “prevented from negotiating a peace settlement by the former British Prime Minister acting on behalf of the Biden administration”. The former prime minister has previously vehemently denied the claims as “total nonsense” and said he merely “expressed concerns” about the nature of the potential agreement during a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
When Carlson raised the issue, Putin said: “Prime Minister Johnson came to talk us out of it and we missed that chance. Well, you missed it.” He added: “The fact that they obey the demand or persuasion of Mr Johnson, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, seems ridiculous. “Where is Mr Johnson now? And the war continues.” Carlson replied: “That’s a good question. Where do you think he is, and why did he do that?” Putin said he “did not understand it”. “Because of arrogance, because of a pure heart, but not because of a great mind,” he said.
The former top US national security official overseeing Russia policy wrote:
According to multiple former senior U.S. officials we spoke with, in April 2022, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement: Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries. But as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in a July interview with his country’s state media, this compromise is no longer an option.
These terms had apparently been ironed out in face-to-face peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey on March 29.
Hill did not reveal what killed the peace process, but the Ukrainska Pravda report from May made it clear that it was Western pressure on Ukraine that sabotaged the negotiated settlement.
As US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated publicly on April 25, Washington’s goal was to use the proxy war in Ukraine to “weaken” Russia.
Boris Johnson accused of sabotaging Ukraine peace talks (video) 2/9/24