Conservative expert Tucker Carlson announced from Moscow the upcoming publication of an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
In a video posted to X from Moscow’s Red Square, the former Fox News anchor explained why he returned to Russia, nine months after an interview with President Vladimir Putin that was widely criticized for its lack of tough questions.
“We came back to Moscow yesterday to interview the foreign minister of Russia,” Carlson said, while condemning the Biden administration’s handling of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“We are, unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war with Russia,” Carlson said, taking aim at Biden for his decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS weapons to strike the Russian territory.
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He said the Biden administration’s policies had “brought the United States closer to nuclear conflict with Russia,” in a comment in which social media users noted the Kremlin’s repeated war rhetoric that she triggered.
Alongside the three-minute clip, the account closer to nuclear war than at any time in history.'”
Kyle Orton posted on to convey his message to the Americans, this time from the foreign side, Minister Sergei Lavrov.
News week contacted the Tucker Carlson Network for comment on the interview. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday that the meeting lasted about an hour and a half, was wide-ranging and would be made public within a few days.
A still image from the interview was posted on the Russian Embassy’s X account in Kenya.
“The focus was on the modern and current history of our difficult relations with the United States, the impact of all this on global geopolitics, the possibilities of the future,” she said, according to Tass. “Ukraine and other issues were raised.”
After Carlson’s latest trip to Russia, Putin told state television that he had expected a tougher journey from the American presenter and had hoped he would be asked “self-questions”. -called pointed”.
A video of Carlson visiting a Moscow supermarket, in which he touted relatively low food prices and concluded that life in Russia was more affordable than in the United States, sparked ridicule online.
