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Russian state media personalities are lauding Russian President Vladimir Putin and his order to send troops to two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and using commentary from Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to further support his actions.
On Monday, Putin signed a decree recognizing two breakaway regions, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, as independent, and said he would send troops there on a "peacekeeping" mission. The regions are in an area known as the Donbas, and Moscow claims the troops will protect people being oppressed by the Ukrainian government. Russia has supported rebels in the Donbas since 2014, and it's estimated that about 14,000 people have been killed in the fighting.
The Associated Press reports that on Russian state television and radio, Putin's move on Monday was, unsurprisingly, immediately met with lavish praise by anchors and pundits. On Russia 1, political talk show host Olga Skabeyeva delivered a message on Tuesday to residents of the separatist regions, saying, "You paid with your blood for these eight years of torment and anticipation. Russia will now be defending Donbas."
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To further bolster Putin, Russian state media is sharing supportive commentary from his fans on the American right. Julia Davis, a columnist at The Daily Beast and a Russian media analyst, tweeted several clips on Tuesday and Wednesday of Carlson and Pompeo now making the rounds on Russia state media RT published Carlson's latest defense of Putin with Russian subtitles, as well as an article titled, "Tucker Carlson wonders why U.S. elites hate Putin," while Channel One aired an interview with Pompeo where he praised Putin as "very shrewd" and "very capable," adding, "I have enormous respect for him."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-state-media-using-tucker-004133119.html
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)is there anything they can do to get arrested ?
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)invasion. Bet Carlson will start easing back on his Putin worship soon as he's already being looked at questionably. Pompeo, without a nightly platform, will just keep his mouth shut.