Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414

Tucker Carlson tells Lex Fridman that US sanctions are accelerating dollar collapse, Russia outproduces NATO 7:1 in artillery, and the Biden administration killed a Ukraine peace deal in 2022.

• Russia produces artillery shells at a 7:1 ratio versus all NATO countries combined, which Tucker calls the decisive fact of the ground war.
• Tucker says the Biden administration sent Boris Johnson to Kyiv in 2022 to kill a near-complete peace deal, calling it a moral crime.
• US sanctions have not visibly degraded Russia’s supply chains or living standards two years in, while accelerating BRICS de-dollarization.
• Boris Johnson demanded $1 million from Tucker to give an interview — Tucker notes Putin did his for free.
• Tucker is skeptical Russia killed Navalny: timing during Munich security conference and the $60B Ukraine funding debate made it strategically senseless; floats Ukrainian or CIA involvement as plausible.
• Tucker found Moscow cleaner, safer, and architecturally nicer than any major US city, and says it made him angrier at American leaders, not more sympathetic to Putin.
• Tucker’s lawyers warned he could be arrested by the US government on sanctions violations for conducting the Putin interview.
• Mohamed bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi is Tucker’s pick for greatest living leader — world leaders privately seek his counsel; Tucker attributes it entirely to his self-aware humility.

Guests: Tucker Carlson, political commentator and founder of Tucker Carlson Network · 2024-02-27 · Watch on YouTube