Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
Phew. While most people watched Chinese variety shows during Chinese New Year, I watched the Putin/Tucker interview AND a podcast by Konstantin Kisin analysing it. Hope tonsee reactions from the Russian Youtubers I follow too.
Here's my thoughts:
- The Russian history was needed. While i know the basic facts about how the Russian warncame about, most US folks probably don't
- I didnt find his reasoning for the invasion convincing tho - esp denazification
1/3
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
I surprisingly liked Tucker's questioning. I found most US-style interview styles annoying as they always insert their opinions and agenda in them, are leading and confrontational. I like that he let Putin speak and didn't interrupt. Too often journos liked the soujd of their voices too much. 🙄 However, as Tucker did not seem to be prepared with the Russian history bits he can't rebut/clarify Putin's points well.
Context: I was trained by a Canadian interview expert when i was in journalism.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
Putin is very intelligent - I am surprised people are surprised by this. 😅 How did you think he stayed in power??
A lot of geopolitical analysts would agree that the war was the result of geopolitical incompetence & about US hegemony.
Nordstream lol it is also true most of the world, esp non-Western countries, suspect the US did it. Again surprised people are surprised by this.
All in all a fascinating interview & one the historians will always analyze in the future.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@anderspuck i hear that most Russians are. I don't enough about Russian history to know but according to Konstantin Kisin who was from Russia, he was right for most of it but they were skewed to fit his narrative.
Anders Puck Nielsen
@liztai Anyone who knows Russian will have heard Putin say the same things on countless occasions. His understanding of history is not particularly good, but he is definitely passionate about it.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver Tucker was prob chosen cos of the audience he has access to. And yes, cos he's not an expert on Russian history.
Sir Osis of Liver
This was just a platform for Putin to repeat his propaganda to a sympathetic lightweight interviewer like Carlson.
It would have been a lot more instructive if he had been interviewed by Stephen Sakur from BBC's Hardtalk.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@anderspuck yes, this, which was why i found the justification for his invasion weak.
Anders Puck Nielsen
@liztai Many of the facts are true, albeit somewhat skewed. The biggest problem is his assumption that we can look centuries back in history and say something meaningful about how borders and nations should be divided today. Most of today's countries did not exist in the 1700s, but that does not mean that they shouldn't exist today.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver i mean its only fair he has this platform since most of the world endures US propaganda onba daily basis and their narrative is all we hear. It is good to have the other side for once.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@edupont_clearly @anderspuck it is a flimsy argument. I view the Taiwan issue in the same way 🤣
Eva-clearly
@anderspuck @liztai Precisely! Imagine if Denmark demanded Norway, Southern Sweden, Gotland, Estonia, and Schleswig-Holstein back? No one demands that. No one.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
Eva-clearly
@liztai @anderspuck Sikorsky posted this on the bird site, and I appreciate his sense of humour:
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