Putin: With the Belgrade bombing, Americans pulled the jinn out of the bottle

The interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Tucker Carlson, the American commentator who has made a name spreading conspiracy theories and has questioned Washington's support for Kiev in her fight against Russian invading troops, has been sharply criticised for giving the propaganda platform to the Russian leader in his first interview with an American journalist since Russia began its entire invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago.

During the interview, Putin again claimed Ukraine was a threat to Russia because the West was drawing this country towards NATO, which has been completely denied by the military alliance until it has avoided such topics as its brutal struggle with civil society and freedom of expression in Russia.

At one point, Putin also talked about the NATO bombing of Belgrade.

“Jelz came to the U.S., spoke in Congress and spoke good words, said: God bless America. All these were signals, he said: let us be with you. Do you remember developments in Yugoslavia. Boris Jelcin (Russian president) raised his voice in support of Serbs. I understand it was complex processes that happened there. Serbs are for us special and close to Orthodox culture. It is a nation that has suffered so much for generations. Anyway, what's important is that Jelcen gave his support, but what did the United States do? In violation of international law and the United Nations Organisation Charter bombed Belgrade. It was the United States that pulled the genie out of the” bottle, Putin said.

For more, when Russia protested the move and expressed its displeasure, we were told that international law and UN cards are invalid. Now everyone is called to international law. But at that time they began to say that everything is old-fashioned, old-fashioned”, Putin says.

The far right political commentator, Tuchker Carlson, who held the interview on February 6th and published it on his website, asked Putin if he could visualize Russia by sending troops into Poland.

Carlson, former reporter for Fox Nea, made a name spreading conspiracy theories and questioned US support for Ukraine in its fight against Russian invading troops. This was Putin's first interview with a Western media figure since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.

Describing the decision to interview Putin, Carlson said on February 6th on X that the American media focus on Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky, and that Putin's voice is not heard in the United States, because Western journalists “have not grown weary of” interviewing him since he began the invasion of Ukraine.

But many Western journalists have denied this, saying they have repeatedly sought to interview Putin, but have been refused./Periscopi