Tucker Carlson announces interview with Lavrov
American journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson has promoted an upcoming conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, promising to provide a perspective on how close Washington and Moscow could be to a direct clash.
Despite the growing risks of conflict, Americans are only provided the perspective allowed to them by “NBC News and The New York Times,” Carlson claimed in a three-minute video on X on Wednesday, adding that viewers should get the chance to hear the Russian point of view.
Carlson claimed his attempts to get a Ukrainian view on the conflict have been stonewalled by Washington. The US Embassy in Kiev has told the administration of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky that it “can talk to CNN,” but not to him, the journalist said.
In the month since Donald Trump was elected, under the administration of outgoing President Joe Biden, “American military personnel launched missiles into mainland Russia and killed at least a dozen Russian soldiers,” Carlson noted.
“We are, unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war with Russia, an undeclared war, a war you did not vote for and that most Americans don’t want,” he added. The journalist claimed that US service members are killing Russians in Russia, bringing the two superpowers far closer to a direct clash than ever in history, “far closer than we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
Late last month, Russia struck a Ukrainian military industrial site in Dnepropetrovsk with its new Oreshnik ballistic missile as a response to Biden’s authorization of the use of US armaments in strikes on internationally recognized Russian territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the hostilities have taken on the aspects of a “global conflict.” High-tech missile systems such as US-supplied ATACMS cannot be used by Ukraine without the direct involvement by US troops, he added.
Putin has also moved to adjust its nuclear doctrine to allow for retaliation in case of a “joint attack” on Russia by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear one.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also promoted the upcoming interview, posting a photo of Carlson and Lavrov sitting opposite each other. “Be patient,” she added.
