Over the past three years, hundreds, maybe thousands of Western journalists have covered the war in Ukraine from Ukraine and effectively been attached to the Ukrainian government and its military and its many propaganda outlets, taking their talking points from Ukrainian government officials, interviewing President Zelensky, always in the most fawning possible way,

and effectively carrying water for both the Ukrainian government and NATO and above all for the Biden

administration.

On the other side in this war that the United States has effectively paid for, there is one

Western journalist, one American embedded with

Russian troops. His name is Patrick Lancaster. He's from St. Louis, Missouri. He's a U.S. Navy veteran.

And for the past 11 years, he's been reporting from the region. For the past three years,

he's been reporting from the front lines.

He's been interviewed by precisely no other mainstream Western media organizations.

And so it raises the question, how can you understand a war you're expected to take sides in

and then pay for if you're not hearing the other side. So with that in mind,

here's Patrick Lancaster. Patrick Lancaster, thank you so much for joining us. So you're one of the

only, maybe the only American reporter embedded with Russian troops in this war. How long have you been there?

Hi, Tucker. It's really an honor to be on here with you to show a little bit to the world

about what the mainstream media does want a lot of the people around the world to see.

So it's really great, and I appreciate the invitation.

I have been covering this conflict, this war, for a lot longer than many people understand that it's going on.

As you know, this didn't start three years ago. It started in

2014. Some say even before, but for all intensive purposes, we could say 2014 when the war

started following the events in Crimea, where Crimea joins or rejoins Russia because there was a referendum.

I was, that's where I first started reporting on the situation between Russia and Ukraine.

I went to Crimea for the referendum where the Crimean people voted to break away from Ukraine and join Russia,

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