Putin doing better job than any German leader – Tucker Carlson
The German people should be angry at their own government which ruined their country rather than Russian President Vladimir Putin, US journalist Tucker Carlson has told the Berlin-based newspaper Bild.
A large portion of the two‑hour interview released on Saturday was devoted to Carlson’s interview with Putin from February 2024.
During the exchange, the US journalist pushed back against Bild deputy editor-in-chief Paul Ronzheimer’s attempts to condemn the Russian leader over the Ukraine conflict.
After Ronzheimer referred to Putin as a “criminal,” Carlson replied: “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 argued.
According to Carlson, Angela Merkel – the German chancellor from 2005 to 2021 – is far more deserving of being branded a “criminal” because “she wrecked your country through mass migration... It will not recover in your lifetime or mine.”
Carlson suggested that the current government is attacking Putin and Russia to distract the public from migration and economic problems in Germany, which is expected to end 2025 in recession for the third year in a row.
“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 said.
Earlier this month, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Germany is “becoming dangerous again,” after Defense Minister Boris Pistorius stated that German troops must be prepared to “kill” Russian soldiers if necessary.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier 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,” referring to the First and Second World Wars.
