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Graham Seibert's avatar

Tucker on why:

First, because it war in Moscow tonight were here interview the president of Russia Vladimir will be going out soon. There are risks to conducting an interview like this, obviously, so we thought about it carefully over many months. Here's what were doing. First, because it's our job were in journalism. Our duty is to inform people. Two years into the war that's reshaping the entire world. Most Americans are not informed. They have no real idea what's happening in this region here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine, but they should now their pain for much of it in ways they might not fully yet perceive the one Ukraine is a human disaster left hundreds of thousands of people dead and entire generation of young Ukrainians and is depopulated, the largest country in Europe, but the long-term effects are even more profound. This war has utterly reshaped the global military and trade alliances and the sanctions that followed have as well and in total they have upended the world economy. The post-World War II economic order system that guaranteed prosperity in the West. More than 80 years is coming apart very fast and along with it. The dominance of the US dollar. These are small changes. They are history altering developments that will define the lives of our grandchildren most of the world understands this portability can see it. Ask anyone in Asia or the Middle East. What the future looks like and get the populations of the English-speaking country seem mostly unaware they think that is nothing has really changed and they think that because no one has told them the truth. Their media outlets are corrupt, they lie to the readers and viewers, and they do not, mostly by omission. For example, since the data worn. Ukraine began American media outlets of spoken discourse of people from Ukraine and they been scores of interviews with Ukrainian Pres. Zielinski we ourselves have put a request for an interview with Lindsay. We hope he accepts, but he's already done in the United States are not traditional interviews. They are fawning pep session specifically designed to amplify Zielinski's demand that the US enter more deeply into war in Eastern Europe and pay for that is not journalism. It is government propaganda propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind it kills people at the same time, our politicians and media outlets have been doing this promoting a foreign leader like he's new consumer brand, not a single Western journalist is bothered interview, the president of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin, most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine what his goals are now never heard his voice. That's wrong. Americans have a right to know all they can about a war there implicated in and we the right to tell them about it because we are Americans to freedom of speech is our birthright. We were born with the right to say what we believe that right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House, but they're trying anyway. Almost 3 years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages and then link the contents of their sermons in the news media. They did this order stop up an interview that we were planning last month were pretty certainly get exactly the same thing once again but this time we came to Moscow anyway. We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin. We are here because we love the United States. We wanted to remain prosperous and free. We pay for this trip ourselves with no money from any government or group, nor are we charging people to see the interview is not behind a pay wall, anyone can watch the entire thing shot live to tape and unedited. On her website, Tucker Carl.com Elon musk. His great credit has promised not to suppress or block this interview. Once a coach on his platform acts and were grateful for that Western governments, by contrast, will certainly do their best to censor this video on other less principal platforms because that's what they do. They are afraid of information they can control what you have no reason to be afraid of it. We are not encouraging you to agree with what Putin may say in this interview, but we are urging you to watch it, you should know as much as you can and then like a free citizen and not a slave. You can decide for yourself. Thanks

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Wanda's avatar

Hello, Graham,

The targeting of civilians that Russia does in Ukraine is an old story. They did the same thing in Afghanistan in the 1980s and when I was there decades later the evidence of the ferocity of their attacks was still evident.

Historian Mohammad Hassan Kakar has written extensively on the horrors the Russians perpetrated in Afghanistan. As an introduction to the chronicle of massacres and senseless destruction in his book, "Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response," published by the University of California Press, he wrote:

"Indiscriminate mass killing of the civilians by the Soviet soldiers dates from the invasion. In none of their operations did they confine themselves to battles with the combatants. Indeed, the Soviet soldiers failed throughout to conduct themselves with proper discipline, showing themselves to be ill trained and unconcerned with observing the laws of war. To kill civilians indiscriminately, deliberately, and as a matter of policy; to destroy their sources of livelihood; to force them to flee abroad; to do so without provocation on the part of the civilians constitutes a crime defined at Nürnberg as “devastation not justified by military necessity.” The laws of war have as their objective that “the ravages of war should be mitigated as far as possible by prohibiting needless cruelties.” The Soviet soldiers did not observe such laws. On the contrary, they carried out the war in Afghanistan by indiscriminately killing civilians, individually and in groups, and devastating their land, visiting on them a terrible variety of unmitigated cruelties."

Reisman and Norchi also extensively documented the ferocity of Russia's war in Afghanistan. See their "Genocide and the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan" which particularly calls out the deliberate program of depopulation by massacre the Russians carried out. A summary is in this short newsletter:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161026182528/http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/afghan/genocide.pdf

The reason I bring this up is to point out that what the Russians are doing to Ukraine in the present war up to today is SOP for them, destroying civilian infrastructure and killing civilians just to do it. Should Ukraine be defeated, the only course is to flee or be massacred. So if they are going to kill you anyway, you might as well stand and face them, and die with your boots on, as the old Indian-fighting cavalrymen said.

I hope you and your family stay safe and that one day the Russians will give up and go home.

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Graham Seibert's avatar

Exactly the way we see it. I'm rolling a piece around in my head. There was a "Pax Romana" and a "Pax Brittanica". The notion of a "Pax Russiana" has never even been proposed.

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streamfortyseven's avatar

I'm sure Putin will deny that Ukraine is a country, recognized as such by other countries, yet I have a copy of the 1925 Survey on International Affairs, put out by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and it has some maps in back, which show a Ukrainian Republic with boundaries that are more expansive than present, including the entire eastern shore of the Sea of Azov, and what is now Belgorod Oblast... If I knew that Carlson would see it, I'd scan it and send it to him...

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Graham Seibert's avatar

You and I both have audiences. Let's collaborate on an analysis of the interview.

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streamfortyseven's avatar

OK, I'm in. We can compare Tucker and Putin to Dugin... BTW, the reason that Putin knows about those bioweapons labs is that they were put in in Soviet times... they're not a Ukrainian development. And Putin was a colonel in the KGB. I wonder where he got his Novichok from? Maybe he wants his bioweapons back, just like he got the nukes handed back to him.

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Masaki Fujii's avatar

There is a word called physiognomy. There is also a word called the expression of the eyes. Putin, Fauci, Gates, Schwab, and Xi Jinping are all bad. In particular, Putin looks just like a fox (sorry, fox).

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Thomas Pierce's avatar

Maybe she just wanted to know that you love her.

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Graham Seibert's avatar

She is hungry for that reassurance, which she gets all the time. This morning I backed up to her upper bunk so she could climb on my shoulders for a ride down to breakfast. We sang all the way to school. She got a kick out of this classic from the 60s.

If you want to be happy for the rest of your life

Never make a pretty woman your wife

So for my personal point of view

Get an ugly girl to marry you

We told Oksana, who insisted that I send her the link. Bottom line - Zoriana does OK in the attention department.

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Thomas Pierce's avatar

Glad to hear it. I remember that song. It was in my Junior year of high school.

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Thomas Pierce's avatar

Gary US Bonds, I believe.

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Graham Seibert's avatar

My parents had it, I think, on a platter from the DePaul Army Chorus of South Africa. Can't find them on the Internet. The lyrics I got are those sung by a guy named Jimmy Soul.

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Thomas Pierce's avatar

I looked too on the Internet and it wasn't a song by Gary US Bonds. It was Jimmy Soul.

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Gary SonofWilliam's avatar

It seems to me that the Swamp’s attempts to stifle this interview will only serve to make people ask themselves what it is that they don’t want us to hear. I’m with you. Let all voices be heard so that discussion can occur.

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Thomas Pierce's avatar

I am curious what horseshit will come out of Putin's mouth. I've been following that prick since he was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, when I lived there. I moved to Kyiv because I didn't like the direction Russia was taking after Putin was elected Czar for Life. As Graham would say, I voted with my feet.

And you're right. It doesn't help that the lefties want to tell us in advance what to think about Putin's interview. Let him speak. If the morons believe him, so be it. I listened to what Carlson said in Canada about Justin Turdo, so I want to hear what he says about Putin. Let's see if he can put some lipstick on that pig.

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Graham Seibert's avatar

Thank you! And for the Trudeau reference. What an impressive piece of work that is!

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Wanda Sobran's avatar

Graham , you are either or both delusional or early dementia. Pls show proof of MacGregor’s & Simplicious misinformation. So blind that you cannot see , you do not want to see .

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Graham Seibert's avatar

Here's the local news account, with video of the destruction. They evidently targeted high-rises across the river in the Holocivskiy area and in our left-bank Dniprosky area. You can see that they were clearly targeting civilians. Four were killed. There was no military purpose whatsoever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhQrNjDaoM

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Graham Seibert's avatar

Russia continues to attack civilians. Here is the account of the attack on Kyiv that I wrote about this morning. It is an inhumane war crime, and ineffective besides. It does nothing to further their war aims. It only stiffens our resistance. We do not want to be ruled again by the Mongol hoard.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27707

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Graham Seibert's avatar

Well, let's start with their counts of equipment losses and casualties. Of course neither side can "prove" anything, but if their calculation of losses had been right Ukraine's army would consist of grandmothers armed with garden tools.

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Wanda Sobran's avatar

I think it’s coming down to this in the most pitiful state that The Ukraine finds itself . Peace Graham

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Graham Seibert's avatar

This war involves 30+ million Ukrainians who see vastly different things. My parochial view from Kyiv is of a functioning society, young men visible on the streets, soldiers looking quite sharp in clean uniforms, no want of consumer goods. I don't see the "pitiful state" that you do.

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