The former Fox anchor is playing the 'useful idiot' to Russian propagandists who reproduce his comments as justification for their claims, experts say.
"Tucker Carlson is a highly qualified journalist," Kiselyov declared, as he used the now freelance podcaster's remarks to paint American political leadership as inherently anti-Russia and thirsting for a nuclear war.
She said that major Russian news sites run reports citing Western sources"almost every day" as apparent evidence for the claim that support for Ukraine is faltering. This would go some way to explaining why Solovyov predicted Carlson's assassination, and why Kiselyov made a point of casting Democratic and Republican leadership—but not grassroots members or upstart candidates—as expressing anti-Russian sentiments in order to win the next election.
"The contrarian-ness [of Carlson's comments] would have pointed to the American political environment, and that's the bubble in which he works—and so the fact that he's been quoted on Russian state media as an important voice in America, I would assume that's not what he intended to do," the associate professor in politics at the University of Leicester in the U.K. said.
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