Propaganda low hanging fruit like this is too easy to pass up.
Russia goal is to stir enough bullshit so that the west is too busy in fighting to oppose to whatever shit that Russia is up to.
The right wing shit heads play right into it. Russia gets to tell it’s people “look the west agrees with us” and at the same time, it gets westerners to accuse each other of being traitors. Propaganda win with almost no effort. They are actually helping Russia just by making it too easy to troll us.
It’d be funny if this is real, and they plan to just lift his videos off of Twitter and then broadcast them as rebranded content without even involving or paying him.
During the Russia-friendly presidency of Donald Trump, Carlson emerged as a favourite voice on Kremlin-run television, which regularly rebroadcast his comments dismissing allegations that Moscow had intervened in the US presidential election.
More recently, Carlson has echoed some Kremlin talking points on president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which he has described as “a regime-change war” led by the US against Russia.
He has also given credence to evidence-free Russian justifications for the invasion, such as claims that the US set up biological weapons research labs in Ukraine. Carlson has also accused the White House of involvement in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipeline last year.
Those statements have found a welcome audience on Russian television, which has enthusiastically replayed them on its news programmes and the bellicose political talk shows that fill the country’s airwaves.
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