Putin on the conditions for peace negotiations put forward by Kiev:
“If negotiations are linked to the withdrawal of our troops, then, apparently, this will never happen. Because the Kiev regime does not want to leave power and does not want to hold normal elections in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine. That is, they will forever delay the ceasefire, and they are interested in our troops remaining in these territories because they are not interested in holding elections.”
Absolutely. He spent like an hour with Tucker explaining in detail his whole mental framework and philosophy from beginning to end and most in the west were like “too long; didn’t watch”
Like you can absolutely be opposed to his entire world view, accuse him of many of the crimes that he has most certainly committed, but he is absolutely a rational actor on the world stage.
Come on… That interview was crap. Tucker doesn’t have the journalistic knowledge or integrity to get anything out of Putin. He just let Putin ramble about old history as if it was a significant part of Russia’s reasons for deploying in Ukraine. Denazification also isn’t really a major factor in the decision to invade either, it just happens to be a viable excuse to bolster the initiative because Ukraine does have a nazi problem.
I support Russia over Ukraine, but let’s not pretend Putin is anything but another two faced capitalist.
The interviews he did with Oliver Stone were better