Tucker Carlson posted a timely segment Saturday night, called “This Is Insane,” which warns that we are closer to thermonuclear war than we have ever been, thanks to the madness of the Biden administration. Despite glaring flaws in Carlson’s analysis and a few gratuitous swipes at China, he makes the point very effectively.
He opens by pointing out that within weeks of Russia’s SMO, negotiations between Moscow and Kiev were underway which would have resulted in a Russian withdrawal in exchange for a guarantee that Ukraine would never join NATO—an arrangement that would have satisfied both parties, but which unfortunately did not satisfy the Biden administration, which immediately redefined Ukraine’s goal as full regime change war to topple Putin, and dispatched BoJo to deliver the message to Zelenskyy.
Fast forward to Zelenskyy’s recent interview with the Guardian, in which he demands pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Russian nuclear launch sites “if Russia even thinks about” using nukes. Carlson shows a nice little video graphic illustrating what such a nuclear exchange would look like for the world.
Carlson then shows excerpts from the Sept. 22 UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. First, Biden giving an insane and blood-curdling manifesto against Russia, followed by Blinken reading essentially from the same script. Usefully, Carlson points out that although Blinken is an irrelevant jerk, the woman seated behind him is not: Victoria Nuland. He then shows parts of Zelenskyy’s UN presentation (also blood-curdling), in which he insists that the primary Ukrainian goal and the first item in their peace formula is “punishment"—that Russia must be punished for violating Ukraine’s sovereign space.
Carlson then shifts to Washington, quoting an Adam Kinzinger tweet that says “any target within Russia that contributes to the war is fair game, by the law of armed conflict,” and then he shows Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham making a completely inane argument for designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. Carlson usefully explains that this is a big deal because the U.S. deals with what it dubs as terrorism-supporting states by overthrowing them.
We are then subjected to a clip of Hillary Clinton gushing about Zelenskyy going on the offensive, and then a Pentagon spokesman explaining to Fox viewers how providing ATACMS and other advanced weapons would enhance our position.
In closing, Carlson argues that continuing to listen to the people who’ve been responsible for repeated foreign policy and military disasters has put us in the position of immediate threat of nuclear war (once again he shows the nuclear exchange graphic—a useful touch).
Notable is the complete absence of any reference to the 2014 Maidan coup (in which Nuland was a principal player), the step-wise NATO encroachment against Russia since 1991, or the overtly Nazi character of the current Ukrainian regime. Indeed, he goes out of his way not to take any side in this argument. His main point is that everyone must now recognize that the sheer insanity of our own leadership has brought us to the point of igniting global thermonuclear war and that all parties must now say, “STOP!!!” (https://youtu.be/1MJDvr-1Z-A )
