All right, Alexander, let's talk about the interview between Tucker Carlson and Russian President

Vladimir Putin.

What are your thoughts on this interview?

Just very quickly, I think that if you have been following the Duran or you've been following

Putin over the last decade, two decades,

and especially if you've been following Putin since the beginning of the special military

operation. I don't think that there was anything that he said during this interview that

would be a surprise to someone that has been

following Russia or Putin.

But that wasn't the target group for this interview.

I think the target group was very much the collective West, specifically the United States,

because Tucker Carlson is a U.S. citizen, and his interest is in the well-being of the United States because Tucker Carlson is a U.S. citizen and his interest is in the well-being of

the United States. That's obvious. He's concerned about the United States. And it was targeting,

I believe it was targeting a person who has not been exposed to Putin and has not heard

the Russian side of things. Perhaps someone that has just been

following CNN or BBC or MSNBC or something like that. And all of a sudden they get to hear

Putin in a two-hour interview, very much a podcast-like format, almost like a live stream,

no interruptions. It wasn't confined to 20 minutes or 30 minutes. And the whole thing just played out from start to finish very much

a conversation between Tucker and Putin. And Tucker did allow Putin to speak at length about

whatever he wanted to talk about, whether it was history,

the conflict in Ukraine, how we got to where we are, all of these things. Putin was allowed to

speak freely and at whatever time he needed to express himself. So anyway, what were your

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