Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Freddie Sayers and Konstantin Kisin: What happened to Tucker Carlson?" video.

  1. Basically, it seems the choice is between a Russian-style quasi-feudal oligarchy or a Western style corporatist oligarchy with nothing much else in between. Not really that much of a choice then is it.😬
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  2. A slightly ill-prepared TC was undoubtedly overawed by the occasion and the man but in his defence at least people got to hear Putin speak at length for a change. Yes, he should have been challenged more on his answers, yes he should have been reined in a bit, particularly at the beginning, and yes more probing questions should have been asked, but overall I think Carlson still did the genuinely curious world at large a service here.
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  3. In this instance yes.
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  4. Self-described immigrant Kisin, perhaps understandably, has always had a terrible blind spot when it comes to Russia and Ukraine and their relationship with his now beloved West.
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  5. 'Lobbying' is probably one of the most deliberately misunderstood ill-defined words in the English language.
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  6. Putin's not a nice guy. That's not in question. He couldn't have successfully ruled a vast, disparate, fractious country like Russia for decades if he were. What you, like many others, seem to studiously ignore are the results of Western foreign policy over the decades and what informs it. I'm thinking Vietnam, South America, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel/Gaza, Ukraine...places like that. Only the naive or foolish could claim that it wasn't informed primarily by self-interest or that it was about exporting genuine democracy, peace and freedom to these countries.
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  7. The autocratic Putin doesn't come across as a panacea for the West by any means but, by the same token, it goes to show that much of what ails the West, unsafe dirty streets, poor public services, rampant homelessness, poor healthcare access etc are very deliberate political and economic choices made in the interests of a relative few NOT somehow the direct result of our liberal democratic systems or so-called free market economics.
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  8. Decent interviewer mostly but a pretty cr@p comedian, Kisin has a terrible blindspot here sadly. He's a self-appointed expert on a subject that he's really more of a propagandist on.
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