Monday night, the two talked about all things related to the Russia-Ukraine war and other topics.
(NewsNation) — As the war between Russia and Ukraine enters its fourth year, Tucker Carlson acknowledges he is more sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin than he is to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Carlson said he thinks this for one reason.
“I’m not sympathetic to Putin in the sense that I want to move to Russia,” Carlson told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo. “I don’t see Russia as a close friend of mine at all – or as a free country or anything like that. I’m just saying I just think it’s fair to judge leaders on how they do for their country. They have one job: Do a good job for your country. Make it better.”
Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump engaged in a heated argument in the Oval Office last month in which Trump told the Ukrainian president he was not in a good position in the ongoing war.
Carlson maintains that the United States has funded “the worst war since World War II” for three years and that the country’s stance on the war has made it weaker on the world stage.
Cuomo said, however, that since Trump took office in January, the line has shifted, and Ukraine is “now the bad guy” while Putin has garnered more sympathy from U.S. lawmakers.
Yet when it comes to Zelenskyy, whom Carlson refers to as a “complicated person,” the Ukrainian leader has become a “pawn among bigger powers,” he said.
“I feel bad for Zelenskyy, but we were required to pretend that (Zelenskyy) was Jesus and that Vladimir Putin was Satan,” Carlson told Cuomo, adding that he was fired from Fox News for his stance. “My only point is, that’s not true, actually. It’s way more complicated than that. Both of them have good and bad qualities. And moreover, it’s not our fight. What are we doing there?”