ANALYSIS – Come on, man! – It just seems that every day “conservative” commentator Tucker Carlson falls deeper into his embarrassing fawning over Vladimir Putin and Russia.
His exclusive Putin interview last week in Moscow gave the Russian strongman a unique opportunity to spread propaganda in the U.S. and the West about his ongoing war against Ukraine and criticize the United States.
Not content with that two-hour long Putin diatribe and rambling “history” lecture, Carlson is now praising Moscow as nicer than any city in America and the murderous Putin as a capable leader.
As an aside, I've been planning to visit Russia and Moscow for years, along with China and Beijing. But as a former U.S. Marine and intelligence officer, I was always rightfully concerned about being unlawfully detained.
And after Putin brutally invaded Ukraine, visiting the capital of Russia, any time soon became even more unlikely.
Still, anyone who follows Russian affairs knows that Moscow is now a far different city than it was during the Cold War. It has undergone a massive transformation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. But visiting Moscow as the coddled, invited guest of the dictator isn't really seeing or experiencing Moscow.
So, Carlson, like those visiting the fake “Potemkin villages” of earlier Czars, was totally mesmerized by how amazing the city was during his recent “toady tour” of Russia.
Gushing like a naïve schoolboy, Tucker Carlson recently said that Moscow is “so much nicer than any city in my country.”
He also praised Putin's authoritarian rule, calling Putin “capable.”
“And the most radicalizing thing for me in the eight days I spent in Moscow was not just the [murderous – my note] leader of the country,” Carlson said during his interview at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
“What was very shocking, very disturbing was the city of Moscow, where I'd never been … it was so much nicer than any city in my country,” he said, calling the Russian capital “so much cleaner and prettier aesthetically – its architecture, its food, its service – than any city in the United States.”
Carlson also blasted the Joe Biden regime here in the U.S. for rampant crime in many of our cities, out of control inflation and overall failure of government, noting that a similar decline has occurred in major European capitals such as London and Paris, as well.
These latter points I fully agree with.
But, seriously, Tucker, as of 2018, there are nearly 20,000 cities, towns and villages in the United States. Is Moscow really nicer than ANY of them?
As Charles Cooke writes in National Review:
There is a small part of the place that is rather pretty, and, thanks largely to the mafia, a few good restaurants have popped up, but the rest of it remains as bleak and moribund and soulless as it was during the Soviet era. It is a museum, and an ugly one at that…
[But] When you're a guest of the government — especially of a totalitarian government — you're treated to the full girlfriend experience.
Were he pushed, I suspect that Carlson would defend his apologia by pointing to American cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. — all of which are, indeed, extremely badly run. But he would still be wrong. San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., need to get their act together, no doubt, but if I had to choose between living in Moscow or in any of those places, I'd choose any of those places in three seconds flat. Any American who wouldn't is a fool.
So, Tucker, if you really can't find one American city as nice as Moscow, maybe you should have stayed in Moscow.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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