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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5419296" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>" Last week, Carlson called for immediate capitulation to Russia. “Putin is making nuclear threats,” he <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6312722453112" target="_blank">noted</a>. “Whatever the reason he is making them, the fact he is making them . . . is enough for any responsible person to say, ‘Now we stop.’” On this view, any dictator could paralyze America just by issuing a plausible nuclear threat."</p><p></p><p>"This depiction of military conflict—if you resist the aggressor, you’re for “war,” but if you reward him by capitulating, you’re for “peace”—used to be associated with the left. Now it’s spreading on the right, and conservative isolationists are using it to pose as idealists. "</p><p></p><p>"Carlson, casting America as the villain, frames the war as a Democratic plot. “Biden’s advisers wanted a total regime-change war against Russia, apparently to avenge the election of Donald Trump,” he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6312722453112" target="_blank">told</a> viewers last week. He claimed that this was why the Biden administration wanted to label Russia a state sponsor of terror: not because Putin really <a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/vladimir-putin-terrorist/" target="_blank">does</a> commit terrorism, but because we’re looking for an excuse to “topple” him"</p><p></p><p>"Carlson <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6312722453112" target="_blank">asserted</a> last week, the United States “could end this war tonight” by securing a deal to which Putin would readily agree: “Russian troops leave. Ukraine promises not to join NATO. Everything is at it was in January of this year. And everything’s fine.” That’s a preposterous scenario, but it follows logically from Carlson’s comically benign account of Putin’s motives."</p><p></p><p>The Bulwark</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5419296, member: 54375"] " Last week, Carlson called for immediate capitulation to Russia. “Putin is making nuclear threats,” he [URL='https://video.foxnews.com/v/6312722453112']noted[/URL]. “Whatever the reason he is making them, the fact he is making them . . . is enough for any responsible person to say, ‘Now we stop.’” On this view, any dictator could paralyze America just by issuing a plausible nuclear threat." "This depiction of military conflict—if you resist the aggressor, you’re for “war,” but if you reward him by capitulating, you’re for “peace”—used to be associated with the left. Now it’s spreading on the right, and conservative isolationists are using it to pose as idealists. " "Carlson, casting America as the villain, frames the war as a Democratic plot. “Biden’s advisers wanted a total regime-change war against Russia, apparently to avenge the election of Donald Trump,” he [URL='https://www.foxnews.com/video/6312722453112']told[/URL] viewers last week. He claimed that this was why the Biden administration wanted to label Russia a state sponsor of terror: not because Putin really [URL='https://www.thebulwark.com/vladimir-putin-terrorist/']does[/URL] commit terrorism, but because we’re looking for an excuse to “topple” him" "Carlson [URL='https://video.foxnews.com/v/6312722453112']asserted[/URL] last week, the United States “could end this war tonight” by securing a deal to which Putin would readily agree: “Russian troops leave. Ukraine promises not to join NATO. Everything is at it was in January of this year. And everything’s fine.” That’s a preposterous scenario, but it follows logically from Carlson’s comically benign account of Putin’s motives." The Bulwark [/QUOTE]
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