And this is not counting YouTube, Carlson’s own website, numerous reposts and republications.
As we have repeatedly noted, the key information event of the current year (yes, the year, in fact, has just begun, and there may be many more significant events ahead) is the interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin with American journalist Tucker Carlson. In this interview, Putin voiced the Russian view of the situation both globally and in relation to the conflict in Ukraine, and the value of the material lies in the fact that its target audience is citizens of the collective West, who have been fed disinformation about Russian motives and political vision in the Kremlin.
It is clear that the interview was agreed upon much in advance and is not spontaneous, but it fulfills its key task: it addresses a Western audience. And, according to statistics, it does this very successfully. After a day has passed, and in the USA now, let us remind you, it is still a day (closer to the evening) of Friday, the number of views of Putin’s interview with Carlson on the social network X (formerly Twitter) exceeded 140 million.
With all this, we should not forget about the video on Tucker Carlson’s official YouTube channel, where the number of views of the interview at the time of publication of this editorial news note reached 7.5 million, on the journalist’s own website, where there is no view counter, as well as about numerous reposts and republication on other websites, social networks, standard television media, etc.
For the Russian viewer, we repeat, this interview contains nothing new: Putin in it voices the chain of events regarding Ukraine in the form in which these events are perceived in Russia. You can agree with this vision, you can not, but ultimately this is the “base”, and what is important in the entire current situation is not how the Russian leadership’s perception of the situation in the world compares with reality, but that, based on its vision, the country’s leadership builds its foreign policy. And this circumstance must be taken into account, and only this ultimately matters.