On Tuesday evening, Dec. 3, U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson released a short promotional video announcing he is in Moscow and just completed an interview with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He began by saying the following:
“In the weeks since we left Russia, Moscow, where we are now, in February, after interviewing Vladimir Putin, we’ve watched from the United States as the Biden administration has driven the U.S. ever closer to a nuclear conflict with Russia—the country that possesses the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.
“It has accelerated ever since, and it’s reached its apogee so far in the weeks after Trump’s election—he’s now the President elect. In that time, just a few weeks ago, the Biden administration—American military personnel—launched missiles into mainland Russia and killed at least a dozen Russian soldiers. So we are, unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war with Russia—an undeclared war, a war you did not vote for and that most Americans don’t want but it is ongoing.
“Because of that war, because of the fact that the U.S. military is killing Russians in Russia right now, we are closer to nuclear war than in any time in history, far closer than we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
Carlson goes on to say that there is no longer anyone working behind the scenes in the U.S. to ensure war doesn’t break out, as Secretary of State Blinken has cut off all diplomatic contact between the two countries. Further, he said that most Americans are clueless, given the lack of media coverage. “They don’t know how close we are,” Carlson said, “They don’t know the Russian perspective.”
Carlson also claimed that he has been trying to get an interview with Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy for over a year, but that the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has “thwarted” those efforts, and the Ukrainian President has turned him down.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reported Dec. 4 that Carlson has interviewed Sergey Lavrov and that it will be released in the near future. “In his interview with American public figure and commentator Tucker Carlson, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov went into detail about what is going on in Ukraine, what the Kyiv regime is doing to civilians and civilian infrastructure outside Ukraine and the terrorist attacks that it is carrying out, as well as about the causes of the Ukraine crisis and the future of our region. The interview will be released in the coming days,” she said.
