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Hello, it's 716 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And it's the interview, the whole world has been talking about.

Putin went on for a very long time, probably half an hour, about the history of Russia going back to the 8th century.

And honestly, we thought this was a filibustering technique

and found it annoying and interrupted him several times.

And he responded, he was annoyed by the interruption.

But we concluded in the end, for what it's's worth that it was not a filibustering technique.

There was no time limit on the interview.

We ended it after more than two hours.

Instead, what you're about to see seem to us sincere,

whether you agree with it or not.

Vladimir Putin believes that Russia has a historic claim

to parts of Western Ukraine.

So our opinion would be to view it in that light as a sincere expression of what he thinks.

And with that, here it is.

So that was American TV host Tucker Coulson, setting up his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

I mean I've already got alarm bells ringing in the fact that he says you know we thought

he was sincere well you don't need to say that let the audience

decide but what did he mean by filibustering Vitali? Tucker Carlson got an

incredibly long history lecture at the start of his interview with

Lady Mary Porte and I'm surprised that Mr Carlson was

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