Why do Americans hate Putin?
Tucker Carlson thinks he knows. Hereâs what he said:
Why do Americans hate Putin?
Tucker Carlson thinks he knows. Hereâs what he said:
â⌠Democrats in Washington have told you itâs your patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. Itâs not a suggestion. Itâs a mandate. Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason.
Many Americans have obeyed this directive. They now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin. Maybe youâre one of them. Hating Putin has become the central purpose of Americaâs foreign policy. Itâs the main thing that we talk about. Entire cable channels are now devoted to it. Very soon, that hatred of Vladimir Putin could bring the United States into a conflict in Eastern Europe.
Before that happens, it might be worth asking yourself: What is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? Has he shipped every middle-class job in my town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years? Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination? Is he making fentanyl?â (Tucker Carlson,âAmericans have been trained to hate Putin, and will suffer because of itâ, Fox News)
Is Carlson right, do Americans hate Putin because the media and the political class in Washington have told them to do so?
Yes and no. Yes, the media and the politicians have played a big role in the demonization of Putin. But, no, theyâre not the main drivers of this smear campaign. That designation belongs to the plutocrats behind-the-scenes who use the media to attack Putin in order to promote their own globalist agenda. Thatâs whatâs really going on; the news is being shaped to advance the interests of elites.
After all, what do the American people really know about Putin? Have they ever listened his speeches or read his statements following meetings with other world leaders? Have they ever tuned-in to his marathon 4-hour âask-anythingâ Q&A sessions? Have they ever read transcripts of his interviews where he speaks candidly on critical policy issues, culture or religion?
No, of course, not. Everything Americans know about Putin they read in the media. And thatâs the problem, because media despises Putin. And they despise him for the same reason they despise Trump, because the mediaâs wealthy owners see him as a threat to their political agenda. Thatâs the whole deal in a nutshell. Putin is not hated because he is a âKGB thugâ or a ânew Hitlerâ; thatâs just public relations gibberish. Heâs hated because he is an obstacle to the globalists achieving their geopolitical objectives. Thatâs the motive that drives this smear campaign. Putin has blocked them in Chechnya, South Ossetia, Syria and now Ukraine. He has derailed their grand plan to âpivot to Asiaâ and to encircle China with US military bases. He has been a thorn in their side for the better part of two decades and he has thrown a wrench in their loony plan to crush emerging centers of power and rule the world for the next century. Thatâs why they hate him, and thatâs why they use their media to make you hate him, too. Check out this chart from a recent report at Pew Research:
A line graph showing that a record high share of Americans say they have no confidence in Putin
Pew Research: âRussian President Vladimir Putin receives dismal ratings, with only 6% of U.S. adults expressing confidence in him following his decision to invade Ukraine â an all-time low in surveys going back nearly two decades. The vast majority of Americans (92%) have little or no confidence in Putinâs handling of world affairs, including 77% who have none at all.â (âZelenskyy inspires widespread confidence from U.S. public as views of Putin hit new lowâ, Pew Research Center)
Are you surprised?
Probably not, after all, the Pew survey just confirms what we already know, that Putin is widely reviled in the US and across the west. But what the report fails to mention is the extent to which Putin is admired in Russia and the rest of the world. Check it out:
âAccording to Statista Putin holds a very favorable approval rating among Russians averaging between 84% in August, 2022, to 79% approval by Russian citizens and Dual Nationals holding both Russian and United States Passports despite the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.â (Wikipedia)
84% is in the nose-bleed section! No other leader in the world today can claim 84% public approval. And whatâs more incredible, is that â after 20 years in officeâ the overwhelming majority of Russians still support him. How does that happen? How does a modest, self-effacing bureaucrat become the most widely-admired and popular Russian leader of all time?
Hereâs more from the same article:
Observers see Putinâs high approval ratings as a consequence of the significant improvements in living standards and Russiaâs reassertion of itself on the world scene that has occurred during his period of officeâŚ.
A joint poll by World Public Opinion in the US and Levada Center in Russia around JuneâJuly 2006 stated that âneither the Russian nor the American publics are convinced Russia is headed in an anti-democratic directionâ and âRussians generally support Putinâs concentration of political power and strongly support the re-nationalization of Russiaâs oil and gas industry.â Russians generally support the political course of Putin and his team. A 2005 survey showed that three times as many Russians felt the country was âmore democraticâ under Putin than it was during the Yeltsin or Gorbachev years, and the same proportion thought human rights were better under Putin than Yeltsin.â (Wikipedia)
So, according to the Russian people, Putin is largely responsible for Russiaâs economic prosperity, the higher living standards, the sharing of oil revenues, the better human rights record and the stronger democracy. They also overwhelmingly support Putinâs military operation in Ukraine. (87%) So, how do we explain the huge disparity between the Russian peoplesâ opinion of Putin (over 80% approval) and that of the American people? (92% have little or no confidence in him) Either the Russians are extremely dim-witted and gullible or the Americans are the most weak-minded, brainwashed sheeple on earth? Which is it?
For roughly 17 years, the media has been spewing the same slanderous claptrap (aimed at Putin) they settled on in 2005 and 2006. Did you know that? Did you know thatâ at one timeâ western elites and their lapdog media actually liked Putin and thought he was a leader âthey could work withâ? In other words, they figured Putin would be another compliant stooge like the perennially-inebriated Yeltsin who thrust the country into âshock therapyâ and allowed western economists to raffle-off the nationâs most valuable assets, industries and resources to bloodsucking oligarchs who bought them for pennies-on-the-dollar. Thatâs what they were hoping for, another spineless toady that was willing to sell-out his country to ingratiate himself with Uncle Sam. Instead, they got Putin; a devout Christian, an unwavering conservative and a ferocious Russian patriot.
Can you see why they hated him?
And because they hated him, they ordered their media to make you hate him, too; just like they did with Saddam, and Qaddafi, and Kim Yong Un, and anyone who gets in their way. We all know the drill by now, and it always begins with character assassination; the requisite smear campaign that is designed to persuade the public to hate the enemies of the elites.
But hereâs something you probably didnât know. You probably didnât know that the demonizing of Putin can be traced back to a precise time and place.
Itâs true. Years ago, I looked into it and hereâs what I found.
Former senator John Edwards and Congressman Jack Kemp were appointed to lead a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task force to determine whether a âstrategic partnershipâ with Russia was still possible in light of policies Putin had enacted that conflicted with Washingtonâs broader geopolitical aims. When Kemp and Edwards returned from Moscow they published an article titled âRussiaâs Wrong Directionâ (March 2006)
The authors decided that a âstrategic partnershipâ with Russia was no longer possible because the government under Putin had become increasingly âauthoritarianâ and Russian society was growing less âopen and pluralisticâ. The irony of these observations was not lost on analysts who realized that the US has no problem jumping-into-bed with the most authoritarian countries in the world including Saudi Arabia that conducted the mass execution of 81 men in one weekend alone (in 2022) That is an impressive achievement even by Saudi standards. And we should also note that all 81 men were beheaded which further underscores the barbarity of the leaders that Washington regards as their best friends.
The point we are making is that âPutin hatredâ and character assassination can be traced back to a particular time and place when US foreign policy elites decided that Putin was not going to be the âresponsible stakeholderâ they had hoped for. He was not going to click his heels and fall in line like many of the other allies. In fact, Putin had shown his willingness to commit âwhat the globalists regard as the one unforgivable crimeâ that is, he put his own countryâs national interests above those of the international banking cabal. That, of course, is the biggest âNo-Noâ of all. Hereâs a short clip from âRussiaâs Wrong Directionâ:
Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, âU.S.-Russia relations are clearly headed in the wrong direction,â finds an Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Russia sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. âContention is crowding out consensus. The very idea of a âstrategic partnershipâ no longer seems realistic,â it concludesâŚ
âŚwhen President Bush has made democracy a goal of American foreign policy, Russiaâs political system is becoming steadily more authoritarian, the Task Force charges. âThe political balance sheet of the past five years is extremely negativeâŚâŚ
âU.S.-Russia cooperation can help the United States handle some of the most difficult issues we face,â said Edwards. âYet regrettably, cooperation is becoming the exception, not the norm. This report is a wake-up call that we need to get U.S.-Russia relations back on track to meet the challenges that face both of our countries.â
Consistent with this, the report argues, âAlthough President Putin is presiding over the rollback of Russian democracy, the United States should work with him to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to keep terrorists from attacking either his country or ours.â..
âSince the end of the Cold War, successive American administrations have sought to create a relationship with Russia that they called a âpartnership.â This is the right long-term goal, but it is unfortunately not a realistic prospect for U.S.-Russia relations over the next several years,â says the report.
In the short run, the United States needs to see Russia for what it is now. âThe real question that the United States faces in this period is not how to make a partnership with Russia work, it is how to make selective cooperationâand in some cases selective oppositionâserve important international goals,â concludes the report.â (âRussiaâs Wrong Directionâ, Council on Foreign Relations)
The report indicates the precise time that western elites gave up on Putin and, (basically) threw him under the bus. And the reason they gave up on him, is because they could see that he was a true Russian patriot. Patriotism is the mortal enemy of globalism, because patriots canât be âflippedâ and the elites know it. They know that you cannot fundamentally change a man who loves his country. These men are not âfor saleâ and they are incorruptible. Anyone who puts country above the globalist agendaâ including MAGA Americansâ is the mortal enemy of the globalists. And that is why elites always enlist foppish girlie-men like Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron to do their bidding, because the job requires weak, unprincipled men who are willing to debase themselves in order to serve their masters.
But what was it in particular that convinced the elites that Putin was a lost cause who would always be a threat to their agenda?
Fortunately, we know the answer to that question because the authors listed their objections under four main headings. Hereâs they are:
- De-democratization: The report finds that Russian political institutions are becoming âcorrupt and brittle.â As a result, âRussiaâs capacity to address security concerns of fundamental importance to the United States and its allies is reduced. And many kinds of cooperationâfrom securing nuclear materials to intelligence sharingâare undermined.â (My commentâ In other words, Putin was unwilling to impose additional sanctions on Iran, would not support Kosovo independence (which never gained UN approval) and refused to support the Iraq War. Bottom line: He refused to go along with Washingtonâs genocidal wars and arbitrary redivision of the Middle East. Thatâs why he was he was dubbed an âunreliable ally.â)
- Energy supplies:Â âRussia has used energy exports as a foreign policy weapon: intervening in Ukraineâs politics, putting pressure on its foreign policy choices, and curtailing supplies to the rest of Europe. The reassertion of government control over the Russian energy sector increases the risk this weapon will be used again.â (My commentâ This is true, Putin seized control of Russiaâs greatest public asset âoilâ and used it to raise standards of living across the board. Privatization is the Holy Grail of western capitalism so, naturally, Putin was condemned for errant behavior. He was also blasted for âcurtailing supplies to the rest of Europeâ which is also true. He cut off Ukraineâs gas supplies after Ukraine repeatedly siphoned gas from the pipelines and refused to pay for the gas it had already consumed. The authors seem to think that Russia should give away its gas for free but thatâs not how capitalist economies work.)
- The war on terror: The Task Force finds âa seeming Russian effort to curtail U.S. and NATO military access to Central Asian bases,â a sign that Russia is retreating from the idea that âsuccess in Afghanistan serves a common interest.â (My commentâ Putin was extremely accommodating in allowing US troops and weaponry to pass through Russia on their way to Afghanistan. What he opposed was the CIA-backed color revolutions that Washington supported across Central Asia in order to install their own puppet governments that were openly hostile towards Russia. He also opposed Washingtonâs covert support for Chechen terrorists. Was that unreasonable?
- Russia hosting the G8: âA country that has in the space of a single year supported massive fraud in the elections of its largest European neighbor and then punished it for voting wrong by turning off its gas supply has to be at least on informal probation at a meeting of the worldâs industrial democracies.â (My commentâ Russia follows a strict policy of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other countries. None of the allegations of electoral interference have ever been proven. Quite the contrary, in the 3 year-long investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Robert Mueller was unable to find a scintilla of evidence to support the bogus claims. In contrast, Washingtonâs clandestine interventions, coup dâetats, targeted assassinations and full-scale military invasions have been widely documented and substantiated. No country in the world has ever interfered in the affairs of other sovereign governments more than the United States.
These are largely the issues upon which the authors decided that Putin was headed in âthe wrong direction.â He wouldnât support their reckless military interventions, he wouldnât hand Russiaâs oil over to rapacious oligarchs, he wouldnât look the other way while governments in his neighborhood were toppled by Washington one-by-one, and he wouldnât snap a salute and click his heels when he got his marching orders from Washington. These are the reasons he is viciously attacked in the media and regarded as Washingtonâs blood enemy. He simply refused to be their lackey, which is why theyâve spent the last 17 years trying to destroy him.
Vladimir Putin; Washingtonâs Blood Enemy