Tucker Carlson On Boris Johnson
And I tried to ask Boris Johnson about it because why wouldn't I, after he denounced me as a tool of the Kremlin or something, and he demanded a million dollars to talk to me.
Tucker Carlson:
I'm american in every sense, and my only interest is in America.
I'm not leaving ever.
And so I'm looking at this purely from our perspective, what's good for us.
But I also, as a human being, as a christian, I mean, I hate war.
And anybody who doesn't hate war shouldn't have power, in my opinion.
So I agree with that definition vehemently of victory is like not killing an entire generation of your population.
It's not being completely destroyed to be eaten up
by Blackrock or whatever comes next for them.
So, yeah, we were close to that a year and a half ago, and the Biden administration dispatched Boris Johnson, the briefly prime minister of the UK, to stop it and to say to Zelensky, who I feel sorry for, by the way, because he's caught between these forces that are bigger than he is, to say, no, you cannot come to any terms with Russia.
And the result of that has not been a ukrainian victory.
It's just been more dead Ukrainians and a lot of profit for the west.
It's a moral crime, in my opinion.
And I tried to ask Boris Johnson about it because why wouldn't I, after he denounced me as a tool of the Kremlin or something, and he demanded a million dollars to talk to me.
Lex Fridman: Wow.
Tucker Carlson: And this just happened last week.
And by the way, in writing, too.
I'm not making this just for the record.
Lex Fridman: You demanded a million dollars from me to talk to you today, and you paid.
Tucker Carlson: No, I'm, of course, kidding.
And I said to his guy, I said, I just interviewed Putin, who was widely recognized as a bad guy, and he did it for free.
He didn't demand a million dollars.
He wasn't in this for profit.
Like, are you telling me that Boris Johnson is sleazier than Vladimir Putin?
And of course, that is the message.
And so I guess these are really.
It's not just about Boris Johnson being a know, rapacious fraud, which he is, obviously, but it's about the future of the west and the future of Ukraine, this country that purportedly we care so much about.
All these people are dying and, like, what is the end game?
It's also deranged that I didn't imagine, and don't
imagine that I could add anything very meaningful to
the conversation because I'm not a genius, okay?
But I felt like I could, at the very least, puncture some of the lies.
And that's an inherent good.