On Tuesday (February 6) local time, Tucker Carlson, a well-known American political news host and reporter, conducted a face-to-face interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. The Kremlin released the interview content on Friday, which mainly covered the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russian foreign policy and other aspects. This is also the first time Putin has been interviewed by an American reporter in the past two years since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Carlson claimed in the video released that most Americans have no idea why Putin is in conflict with Ukraine or what his purpose is now, and they have never heard his voice. This is wrong. Americans have a right to know everything about the war they are involved in, and we have a right to tell them because we are Americans too.
Putin first spent a long time introducing the history of Russia and Ukraine, and then explained the reasons for the war between the two countries. Putin said that Russia did not launch a war in 2022. In fact, the conflict began as early as 2014.
He pointed out that this war could have ended long ago. When the Russian troops withdrew from the area near the Ukrainian capital in the spring of 2022, the Ukrainian government gave up all diplomatic means, succumbed to Western pressure, and has been fighting Russia until now. Putin said Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine has not yet achieved its goal, which is denazification.
Putin stressed that he still hopes to resolve the Ukrainian issue through negotiations. He said that Russia has repeatedly proposed a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian issue, has never refused to negotiate, and is willing to cooperate with any Ukrainian leader. However, after the talks in Istanbul in March 2022, there was no progress in the negotiations between the two parties.
Putin said that Russia has repeatedly called on the United States and European leaders to stop sending weapons to Ukraine in order to implement the Minsk Agreement. If the United States “really wants to prevent fighting, it will have to stop supplying weapons, and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine will be over within a few weeks.”
However, Putin believes that sooner or later, Russia and Ukraine will reach an agreement to end the conflict in a peaceful way, and the relations between the two countries and even the two peoples will be restored. “It’s going to take a long time, but it will recover.”
Regarding the issue of NATO’s eastward expansion, Putin pointed out that NATO had promised never to expand eastward, but the reality is that it has already reached Ukraine.
He said that Western countries have been hyping up war with Russia recently, but Western officials are just trying to scare their own people with the so-called “Russian threat”, and smart people know clearly that this is false.
Putin emphasized that there is only one scenario for a war between Russia and NATO, and that is if NATO countries attack Russia. “We don’t have any interest in Poland, not in Latvia, not anywhere. Why would we do this? We just have no interest.”
When talking about the explosion of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, Putin made it clear that it was of course the United States and its allies that sabotaged it. Asked if he had any evidence that the CIA or NATO were involved, the Russian leader said that in such a case, one should first look for those who would benefit from the attack and who would be capable of carrying it out. people.
Putin mentioned that today’s German leadership does not act in national interests but in the interests of the collective West, otherwise it is difficult to explain the logic of their actions or inactions. “It is normal for Nord Stream to have a pipeline through which it can transport natural gas to Europe, but Germany did not open it and would rather buy LNG in Europe at three times the price. Germany provides weapons and money to Ukraine. Germany is the third country after the United States. The two largest countries providing financial assistance to Ukraine.”
The two sides also discussed the issue of the U.S. dollar. Putin pointed out that the U.S. dollar is the basis of U.S. strength, but the U.S. uses the U.S. dollar as a tool in foreign policy struggles. This is one of the most serious strategic mistakes of the U.S. political leadership.
Even among U.S. allies, dollar reserves are now shrinking, he said. If the United States takes restrictive measures against certain countries, such as restricting payments, freezing assets, etc., this will be a huge alarm and signal to the world. Born of American arrogance, you yourselves are killing the dollar.
(Source of article: Financial Associated Press)
Source of article: Financial Associated Press
Original title: Exclusive interview with Putin by a well-known American reporter: Involving the Russia-Ukraine conflict, de-dollarization, and NATO expansion
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2024-02-09 22:31:38
