In a March 11 opinion piece, Fox News host Tucker Carlson stated that the economic and financial war that has been declared against Russia is actually a war against the United States. “Our global financial systems benefit us. That may not be fair, but it’s true.… So, if you destroy them in an effort to get Putin, who are you really destroying? You’re destroying the United States, and that’s exactly what they’ve done. When you attack and destabilize the global financial systems, to restate, you are attacking and destabilizing the United States, not Putin.”
That statement, as well as the rest of Carlson’s article and his earlier reporting, have earned him the following raft of headlines in today’s media: “How Russia Is Using Tucker Carlson in Its Propaganda” (Newsweek); “Leaked Kremlin war memo instructs Russian state media to feature Fox News host Tucker Carlson ‘as much as possible’” (Business Insider); “Fox’s Tucker Carlson caught amplifying Kremlin claims” (MSNBC); and so on.
Carlson explained: “Without even pausing, the Biden administration declared total economic war on a sovereign country. No American had been killed. The United States had not been invaded or attacked and yet, with no meaningful public debate or congressional authorization, the Biden administration destroyed that country’s currency, then removed it from the international banking system that impoverished its population.
