Vladimir Putin’s ten disinformation during the interview with Tucker Carlson

Russian President Vladimir Putin received an American journalist, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in Moscow in early February.

The two-hour interview was praised in the East, while in the West it was seen as a spread of Putin’s disinformation, a history lesson about an unprecedented empire, restoring Russia’s glory and regaining control of Ukraine.

The interview also illustrates the Kremlin’s attempt to conduct a psychological operation so as not to affect Western public support for Ukraine.

Below are the 10 pieces of disinformation that characterized the interview with Putin:

What Putin said:

1. Russia has reclaimed all its historical territories, including the south and west;

2. Poland went too far by forcing Hitler to start World War II by attacking them; (Although it did not give in to Hitler’s demands, it still participated in the division of Czechoslovakia with Hitler because the Poles did not let Germany have the Danzig corridor) AD.

3. They also posed a threat to Crimea, which we had to take under our protection

4. They started the war in Donbass in 2014

5. We never agreed to NATO enlargement and we never agreed to Ukraine’s membership of NATO;

6 No, we have not yet achieved our goals;

7. If you really want the war to end, you (the West) must stop supplying weapons. So the war will be over in a few weeks;

8. We have no interests in Poland, Latvia or anywhere else;

9. We will not attack anyone;

10. We are ready for dialog;

What Putin really means:

1. We have expanded our colonial empire through conquest and ruthless oppression;

2. I grossly misrepresent the true purpose of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to divide Europe;

3.  I am accusing the fictitious opponents of justifying and illegally and shamelessly seizing the lands;

4. Once again I blame victims for Russian crimes in Donbas;

5. I do not understand that sovereign countries make independent decisions on security and foreign policy;

6. We will continue to kill, rape and oppress Ukrainian territory until someone stops us;

7. Let’s burn Ukraine to the ground;

8. We definitely have colonial interests in Poland and the Baltics;

9. If only we didn’t attack Ukraine in February 2022.

10. We will accept nothing less than unconditional surrender.