What Did Putin Gain From Sitting Down With Tucker Carlson?

[CousinIT]

NOTE: I'm damn sure not promoting or agreeing with any of this and frankly WSJ and all American media would do well to block any news about this Tuckums' ring-kissing session with Putin but as we know they lack any care about our Democratic Republic and are too saturated with corporate self-interest to do that. It's important (IMO) to see how much MAGA and Putin's attitudes and assertions match up - there is no space, hardly a hair, between them. I don't think it's just Trump running MAGA. Putin is as well - by way of Trump and his cult members and mouthpieces.

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/what-did-putin-gain-from-sitting-down-with-tucker-carlson-895a2bfb

It was a missed opportunity for Carlson, who now heads his own startup. But analysts say Putin missed a rare chance to wade convincingly into foreign-policy debates in the U.S., just as the Senate considers additional aid crucial for Ukraine to maintain its defense against the Russian onslaught.

“The Kremlin had got what it wanted: a two-hour platform for Putin to communicate his ideas to the West,” said Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “But the propaganda effect was not as strong as the Kremlin intended, because most people will stop listening.”

Key elements from the interview are surfacing in abbreviated form, including Putin’s suggestion that the U.S. should end its support for Ukraine and whether he would consider a prisoner exchange for the freedom of the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich.

But Putin allotted large chunks of the two-hour interview, aired on Thursday evening on Carlson’s new website, to justify Russia’s historical claim to Ukraine, meandering back to the ninth century at times. Only briefly did he address the partisan fights in the U.S., where Republicans are blocking further aid over border policy disputes.

“Do the United States need this? What for? Thousands of miles away from your national territory! Don’t you have anything better to do?” Putin said about the billions of dollars in military and financial aid the U.S. has given, urging negotiations with Moscow over Ukraine’s fate. “You have issues on the border, issues with migration, issues with the national debt.”

[TwilightZone]

1. "because most people will stop listening"

I think that's just wishful thinking on the author's part. I'm sure that Tucker's audience, the target audience, hung on every word.

What did Putin get? Two hours of propaganda spoon-fed to the right wing.

[tinrobot]

5. I doubt his audience was willing to listen to monologues about Russian history

When all they can do intellectually is repeat catchy sound bites.

[Johonny]

2. I assumed it was done for the pro-Trump narrative

Putin wants Trump and his GOP to win knowing that's the end of US help in Europe.

I'm sure it played as intended with MAGAts

[dutch777]

3. Also probably had value to Putin for his domestic politics....he's getting the West to listen. Ha!

[usonian]

4. Putin wanted to know how he compared with Trump.

Tucker gave him the intel.

[Turbineguy]

6. Tucker is the "go-to guy" for the truth for many RWNJ's