Scott Ritter just got back from another month spent in Russia exploring their cultural realities, exploring the Russian soul. And he thinks the value of the interview is that Putin helped create a map into the cultural realities of Russians, what makes them tick. For the first 30 minutes Putin covered the last 1,000 years of history concerning Russia and Ukraine. Helpful, quite.
Someone else said: Whether you disagree or agree with Putin in Tucker Carlson’s interview, it is, at the end of the day, an opportunity. If Russia wasn’t interested in negotiation, Putin would not have made the effort to explain Russia’s position. The opportunity for us to prevent WW3 is there.