Tucker Carlson goes global: dramatic interview in Hungary.

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 Is Moscow next on his agenda?

Fox News may be regretting its firing of Tucker Carlson several months ago, because the journalist is no longer tethered to the censorship guidelines of corporate paymasters if ever he was. He is very skillfully leveraging his extraordinary audience in the United States, which he largely carried over onto his own Twitter (X) account, into a global presence which serves a focused political agenda: to end U.S. military and financial support for the war in Ukraine and, in the process, to bring down Joe Biden and his corrupt, lying and incompetent administration.

Those who watched Tucker Carlson’s interview with former president Donald Trump last Tuesday, which was intended and largely succeeded in draining audience away from the televised presidential debate of Trump’s fellow Republicans, may, with reason, question my description of Tucker’s on-air achievements of late. The interview was insipid, a bore, filled only with the boastful claims of The Donald to work wonders in bringing America back from the brink of disaster if he wins the 2024 election. But Carlson could extract from Trump no more than the man is willing to give, and that is very little in light of the several legal proceedings that Trump faces.

On the other hand, in Carlson’s European travels his hosts are keen to use their interviews with Carlson to bring their messages directly to a vast American audience that otherwise is inaccessible to them. These messages are deeply critical of leadership in Washington and within the European Union, whom they accuse of wrecking the economy of the Old Continent by their inane sanctions on Russia. At the same time, these hosts allow Carlson to speak to their home audiences and thereby demonstrate to their electorate that not every American has lost his mind or is afraid to speak out against the Biden team.

I direct attention in particular to Carlson’s recently aired interview with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban which has already received 50 million views and is growing by the minute.

In this connection, it is safe to say that Tucker Carlson’s talks and interviews exposing  who is to blame for the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war and over the horrific human and material losses of the Ukrainian side thanks to its prolongation under orders from Washington – all of his media activities by far exceed the achievements of the most watched academics and intellectuals including Professors John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs, not to mention anti-war activists like Scott Ritter and Colonel Macgregor in the military expert category.

The Carlson interview with Viktor Orban covered the waterfront of issues in relations between Hungary and the United States, between Hungary and the European Union. The role of ideological warfare against Orban being pursued by Liberals abroad for his defense of national sovereignty and traditional Christian values centered on the family is explored at length.

I take my hat off to the Hungarian leader for his intellectual strength and courage in going against the prevailing current in the West, all of which is masterfully highlighted by Carlson. Of course, as Orban himself says in the interview “no one is perfect” and his estimation that NATO is far more powerful than Russia in conventional arms appears to be contradicted on the battlefield in Ukraine at the moment. Nonetheless, Orban draws from his observations the compelling argument that the Ukrainians cannot possibly be victorious in this conflict, that it should be ended at once and that a new security architecture for Europe must now be drawn up, one that includes Russia.

Out of the many different points in this interview, today Russian news portals have chosen the following for feature articles: Orban’s assertion that both Serbia and Hungary would consider as a casus belli any attack on the South Stream gas pipeline which supplies Russian gas via the Black Sea and through Turkey to their countries. Orban did not say against whom this warning was made, but in the context of the interview it could be construed to be directed at the United States and/or Ukraine.

See https://life.ru/p/1603956?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium

In general, Tucker Carlson gets a lot of air time on Russian state television. When he was still working at Fox News, excerpts from his daily broadcasts were often put up on the screen in Sixty Minutes, Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, News of the Week and Vesti programs. This past Sunday, on the Solovyov show, editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonyan said that Carlson had approached her asking for assistance in arranging an interview with Vladimir Putin.  I believe it is highly likely that permission will be granted in the near future.  That will be a show well worth watching.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2023

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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7 thoughts on “Tucker Carlson goes global: dramatic interview in Hungary.”

  1. Orban is not alone in thinking NATO is strong, Craig Murray also believes NATO could win against Russia conventionally. They all forget you can’t defeat a Nuclear Superpower.

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  2. Strange that Orban would say that in his estimation NATO is far more powerful than Russia in conventional arms – this is surely less true now than it was 18 months ago and even then it was hardly the case. Unlike Europe, Russia has a very large arms industry and can call on over 3 million men if needed – it has missiles that NATO cannot stop and has itself the best defensive system on earth – it also must have 10,000 plus tanks in reserve. Europe is poorly armed and has small armies; the UK army for example has an army of 70,000, but that is also including their back up staff – their actual fighting force at barely 40,000. The US may spend vastly more than Russia on their military but this has been for the most part money wasted on airplanes that can be shot out of the skies and ships that can be sunk with ease – the US can only claim real parity with Russia in their submarine fleet. The idea that NATO could win a conventional war with Russia is on reflection somewhat absurd.

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  4. David Ignatius:
    “Perhaps the best example in military history of a long bloody fight against a stronger power that ended in eventual victory was the American Revolution. Along the way, there were many periods of demoralization, backbiting, complaints about insufficient foreign support and, occasionally, despair. But the rebels stayed in the field, and the British eventually withdrew.
    Ukraine has entered a season of discontent, with recriminations on all sides, because of the sluggish counteroffensive. But this war is far from over.”
    Carlson paid a price for being honest. Now the Biden party are beginning to be terrified they will pay a price for dishonesty. The American Revolution! Forsooth.

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  5. Hello Dr. Doctorow, your insights are appreciated. Tucker Carlson’s interview with President Orbán was refreshing and sobering. If Tucker Carlson interviews President Putin, it will be another victory for freedom of speech. Shalom, Marc

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  6. The nr. one goal of the Russians, in just 1 minute! ( extracted from the interview)

    About the Russian soul !!!

    The 1 minute video titel is:

    Viktor Orbán at Tucker Carlson: the Surprising Truth about Russian Politics

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