Tucker Carlson told Bild that Russia is progressing while Germany is declining.
In an interview with Bild, Tucker Carlson stated that Germans should direct their anger at their own government for the country’s decline, rather than blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The interview, largely focused on Carlson’s February 2024 interview with Putin, was released on Saturday.
During the interview, Carlson repeatedly countered Bild deputy editor-in-chief Paul Ronzheimer’s attempts to criticize Putin regarding the Ukraine conflict.
When Ronzheimer called Putin a “criminal,” Carlson responded, “I am not defending Putin, who I think has done a great job for Russia. Much better job than any German leader. That is for sure.”
“Your country is going down, Russia is going up. You should be mad at your own leaders. You are mad at Putin instead,” he asserted.
Carlson argued that Angela Merkel, German chancellor from 2005 to 2021, was more deserving of the “criminal” label because “she wrecked your country through mass migration… It will not recover in your lifetime or mine.”
Carlson suggested that the current German government is attacking Putin and Russia to divert attention from migration and economic issues, with Germany projected to be in recession for the third consecutive year in 2025.
“Your country is a mess because your leaders suck. That is the fact. You are mad about that. So, they take your anger and they are like: ‘Oh no, it is Putin’s fault. It is Putin’s fault.’ Ok, got it,” he explained.
Earlier in the month, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented that Germany was becoming “dangerous again” for Russia, after German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Bundeswehr troops must be ready to “kill” Russian soldiers if necessary.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that by supporting Kiev in the conflict with Moscow, “Germany is sliding down the same slippery slope it already followed a couple of times in the last century – down toward its own collapse,” referencing Germany’s defeats in World War I and World War II.
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