The Tucker-Putin interview is only a day in the past and devolves already in an absolute failure for Putin and his lesser minions in the West. I have already made my initial statement that the distorted history lesson of Eastern Europe was an absolute blunder. The attention span of the regular social media screamer from the right (and left) cannot exceed the length of a 3-minute tik tok video. Neither can their average meme-IQ last a text longer than 280 characters.
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But it is not only that. As you can see in the reposted text, it is even in Russian social media space where people are rather dismayed about the trajectory of this interview. Some even correctly assess that Putin's obsession of history - or better his distortion of thereof - is rather contrary to the intended goals. Putin is very much trapped in in his deluded world and then makes decisions as before February 24 for a full scale invasion which even many in his circle call ludacris.
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Nothing good for Putin and his followers. Putin incessant behaviour in distorting history and reality devolved into an own goal. Claiming that it was Poland and not Hitler who forced WW2 to happen is even for the hardcore follower a tough pill to swallow. Everyone understands that this is only the notion of a madman, and if this kind of argument is used on nowadays Ukraine as Putin did, then anyone can do the math how "sound" Putin's arguments are when it comes to Ukraine.
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However, Tucker and Putin achieved something. They created a new meme template which is flooding the social media channels, in other words, the exact opposite what both wanted to achieve. They and especially Tucker in hindsight will realize that his followers react to this far better. But I'm sure that they did not expect to be at the receiving end of this after the interview.
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@Tendar unfortunately there are still hundreds of thousands who will swallow it whole, as it’s echoed by other idiot ultra trump right wing local talk radio hosts & small Internet personalities.
I’m seeing it already.
The cult of Trump is strong, and unfortunately it pretty much walks in lock step with Putin.
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Doesn't look that way to me — even US conservatives make fun of this interview, not of Putin or Tucker Carlson, or the lies in it — the interview itself, they aren't impressed. Kovalchuk is spot-on here — this isn't what the right wing crowd in the US has been expecting to hear.
But that's the beauty of it — authoritarian incompetence, he doesn't trust a good advice even if it comes from his inner circle, he's wallowing in his own paranoia at this point.
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@voron
I won't count on it to stop the war — I think it will happen sooner or later and it would be a collapse indeed, I also think it would be triggered by a seemingly insignificant event.
So Ukraine's allies still have to step up and make sure Ukraine holds and can defend itself until that happens.
@Tendar
@m0xee @Tendar U.S. conservatives made fun of trump, made fun of MAGA, still do.
Now they own the congress and trump has the nomination locked up. I wouldn’t put much stock in what conservative pundits say.
I pay attention to the swaths of people and the propaganda, which keeps stunning people, and that’s even more frightening.
@voron
And this incompetence in what will finish Russia off eventually — his underlings either tell him exactly what he wants to hear or their words don't reach him — those who could tell him that something is wrong are simply not heard anymore. This didn't start yesterday, but it got much worse and became much more obvious now.
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