The primary reason is that the Russian president puts his country\u2019s interests first, according to the US journalist<\/p>\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most popular leader in the world, American journalist Tucker Carlson has claimed, in an interview with RTVI US.
\nOutside of Western Europe, Canada, and the \u201cAnglo-sphere,\u201d it is almost impossible to meet someone who doesn\u2019t like Putin, Carlson told the network.
\n\u201dHe is the most popular leader in the world, by far,\u201d Carlson said, noting that the primary reason for Putin\u2019s global popularity is the fact that he has \u201cput his own country\u2019s interests above his own in a lot of ways. In ways that Western leaders don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tucker Carlson: “Putin is the most popular leader in the world. Whether you’re in Western Europe, Canada, the English-speaking world, outside the English-speaking world, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, you won’t meet anyone who doesn’t like Putin; Putin is like a global\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/MJeOihAjF0\u2014 Russian Market (@runews) October 27, 2025 <\/p>\n
Asked if his perspective on Putin\u2019s worldview had changed after an interview with him in February 2024, Carlson said that he was surprised to realize that the Russian president \u201cactually likes the West.\u201d And that he probably likes it \u201cway more than anyone who would potentially replace Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In his interview with RTVI US, Carlson also suggested that the US, Western Europe, and most of the industrialized world, are \u201cin a decline phase\u201d while Russia is experiencing a \u201cspiritual revival\u201d and is proving to be a prosperous country with \u201ca sense of self-worth and a sense of purpose.\u201d He further proposed that this was one of the reasons the West \u201chates it so much\u201d and wants to destroy it.
\nRTVI US is a subsidiary of RTVI (Russian Television International), a privately-funded Russian-language television network with headquarters in Moscow and New York.
\nCarlson told Germany\u2019s Bild, in July, that while Putin had been doing a \u201cgreat job for Russia,\u201d Western leaders were failing their people.
\n\u201cYour country is going down, Russia is going up. You should be mad at your own leaders. You are mad at Putin instead,\u201d he told the outlet. Carlson went on to suggest that German officials were attacking Putin and Russia to distract the public from domestic economic and migration issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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