3 Russian history lessons from the Tucker Putin interview
and what we learned about NATO and Ukraine
The Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin surprised many. Tucker Carlson clearly was not expecting a Russian history lesson. Yet the talk show host and hundreds of millions of people around the world received a history lesson, delivered by a world leader.
Reportedly the interview is the most watched interview in recorded history. There have been over 200 million English-language viewers, and when all languages, including Chinese and Hindi, are counted the audience is estimated at over 1 billion viewers.
Putin challenged Tucker Carlson to have a serious conversation, and not engage in the usual media gotcha journalism, where the journalist-host of the talk show becomes the centre of attention, not the guest, who, in this case, has been a leading participant in major world events for the last 25 years. So the history lessons of such a guest should be of interest, yes?
And the history presented by such a participant in world events should also be questioned, tested and yet also understood. I have tried to do both over the last few days since watching the interview on Friday, and have summarised the three history lessons on Russia and Ukraine that we can learn from the Tucker Putin interview.
I will be writing more on those lessons soon, and if you are a paid subscriber you can watch my 15 minute video setting out my first views, and follow the links to books and free resources with which you can explore and test Putin’s history lessons.
I have deferred my next essay on tides of globalisation (for paid subscribers) to next week, so I can share with you this exclusive discussion of the “interview that broke the internet.”
My next post for free subscribers will come out on Saturday morning.
And if you are interested in reading world history with me, check out my new course, World History Explorers: Season 1 Civilizations that starts 1 March 2024 at courses.jeffrichwriter.com.
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