Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 1/11/2025 3:43 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Because that is where Tucker Carlson interviewed him on Feb 6, 2024 last
year.  I highly recommend the two hour plus interview.  It starts off
with a one hour history lesson about Russia by Putin.
    https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview

 I highly recommend it because it says a whole lot about what Putin thinks
and what his original strategy was.  The "history lesson" is especially
interesting.
 Some of the history is correct, some of it is total bunkum (like the
assertation that "Ukraine has always been part of Russia.")  Some of it
is accurate but distorted by being taken badly out of context (such
as the mention of Ukranian Nazis).
 But -all- of it is what Putin wants people to believe the history actually
was, and it's what is being taught in Russian schools today.  (It might
also be what was taught in Soviet schools too and that is something I would
be really curious about finding out.)
 It's interesting to see him lapse into the dielectic too.  Some of that
is just characteristically Soviet.
 I would love to see a serious historian annotate some of that talk.
--scott

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I found the interview interesting because Putin appears to believe it all and justify his actions thereof.  Many of the Russian citizens appear to believe him also and still support him even though they have lost a million soldiers in the Ukranian war.
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Lynn

To give a good speech it helps enormously if you believe in what you say. Also, too many people are too afraid to contradict Putin, so over time, his world view warps since he is disconnected from reality. This is enormously helpful to Ukraine when it comes to fighting effectively!