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You would have let the South separate and the US fragment. But it would have avoided a war right and that’s all that counts. But when it comes to Ukraine you are all about might makes right and Russia ca take whatever it wants. What a hypocrite.

I guess that would include his buddy Orban, who the other day he seemed to think was the president of Turkey. But Biden is supposed to be the senile one.

He would give Putin an open invitation to attack any NATO member who he didn’t feel was paying enough.

Donbas is part of Ukraine. I guess you would have supported the South in the US Civil war as well.

FFS, that article was from 2019.

How do you attack your own country?

Then why have an interviewer at all, just hand Putin the mic and come back in a couple of hours when he is finished. If an interviewer doesn't question inaccuracies he is validating them himself.

I don't think the interview was a waste of time as it gives some insight to the way Putin thinks and why but basically it was just an opportunity for him vent for 2 hrs without being challenged. All kinds of questions could have been asked but at least Carlson could have challenged him on some of his more outrageous rewrites of history, particularly Poland being at fault for its own invasion in 1939, considering he is using that as an excuse for his invasion of Ukraine. I doubt whether Carlson knows much about European history himself.

He isn't a journalist, he's a performer. He just gives Putin a platform and doesn't really call him on anything. Why do you think the Kremlin turned down all other interview requests. Uncomfortable questions they know Carlson won't ask.

Amanpour is a multiple award winning journalist (dozens) who has been a foreign correspondent for decades with CNN, ABC, CBS and PBS. Tuckers claim to fame is his lies costing his former employer almost $800 million.

They didn't attack Donbas, they were fighting Russian backed separatists. Does that sound like the people of Donbas were treated poorly?

I agree in principle but there are two people involved in an assisted suicide and they both have to consent.

Most occupied countries had people serving in Waffen SS units, including Russians. Ukraine wasn't unique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts You take a little slice of fact and build it into a huge fiction.

Donbas and Crimea are also important to Ukraine. They are part of Ukraine.

But if the West backs down on Ukraine, why wouldn't he think they will do so again?

Joseph Goebbels Even if Putin believes his own lies, they are still lies.

Does it matter? sThe German army was weak when Hitler retook the Rhineland, annexed Austria and bullied the French and British to abandon Czechoslovakia. Every time the Allies backed down, he got a little braver and grabbed for more. It's worth noting that the only major European conflict since WW2 is the result of a non NATO member being invaded.

Putin claims Poland was at fault for Hitler's invasion because they wouldn't secede the Danzig Corridor to Germany. Why wouldn't he try to justify an invasion of the Baltic states to open a corridor to Kaliningrad using the same argument? He knows that Hitler and Stalin signed an agreement to both invade Poland and split it between the two of them and that is what really happened.

Fact Checking Putin's Nonsense History

Considering it was less than 10 years after Holodomor it's not surprising that many Ukrainians wanted to fight against the Soviets. That said, we shouldn't be honouring former Waffen SS members in Parliament. Makes me wonder about our education system when something like this doesn't ring a bell when it comes to vetting guests of Parliament.

Allowing people to choose how they end their lives is creeping authoritarianism? That's some upside down logic. You are the one who wants to control people's lives.

Well then it isn't an empire.

The US hasn’t taken any territory and claimed it as its own since the Mexican War in 1848.

In the case of sabotaging cables and pipes, that would be an act of war against all the NATO countries that use them, not just Ireland.

True, they aren't the same. Pearl Harbour and 9/11 the attacks on America were not made by Americans.