News commentator Tucker Carlson, who gave an interview on the Genius Network on Nov. 11, posted the 93 minute-long interview with the lead-in, “Good leaders don’t foment pointless wars. They end them. If you voted for Donald Trump, that’s reason enough to be proud you did.” Carlson concluded with the above, after he discussed Trump’s post-election phone calls with both Zelenskyy and Putin, to tell them each that “we have to end the war.” Carlson hopes, and assumes, that President-elect Trump will follow through on his promise.
Early in the interview, the host asked Carlson what policy advice he would give America’s leaders on restoring the country, whether the changes were political or spiritual? As his second point of advice, Tucker replied: “Restore order to the world. Again, I cannot overstate this—who travels a lot internationally—how close to nuclear conflict the United States has been for the past almost three years come February—like, on the precipice of it! And because our media don’t report this, I think most Americans don’t really have a sense of it. But we are truly on the edge of ending human life, globally. It’s crazy! Nothing this crazy has ever happened, probably ever, in history.”
He continued: “And so, the role of the United States, if the United States is going to be a global leader, not its policeman, but a leader, a force for good, it has to become what it once was, which was a force for order and stability, not endless revolution, which is what we’ve had.” He mocked recent U.S. foreign policy regimes, saying, “‘Let’s knock off the leader of that country and hope for the best.’ Well, that didn’t work. We killed Qaddafi, we killed Saddam, those countries became worse than they were before. There are open slave markets in Tripoli, Libya—we’ll, just ignore that. The same people who did that just moved on: ‘Let’s bump off Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Let’s kill Putin and hope for the best.’ Stop! Stop! No more revolutions…. It takes an awful long time to create something worth having. Progress is incremental. Destruction is instant.”
