The conflict with Russia cannot be won by Ukraine, the US media host has argued<\/p>\n
European leaders are being \u201cstupid\u201d and \u201creckless\u201d by continuing to back Kiev against Russia, effectively destroying both Ukraine and Europe itself, American political commentator Tucker Carlson said in an interview published on Monday.
\nSpeaking to RTVI US, a New York-based Russian-language media outlet, Carlson mocked the idea that Kiev could prevail over Moscow on the battlefield.
\n\u201cThey cannot win this war. All it\u2019s doing is destroying Europe. It has already destroyed Ukraine,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cOf course they are not going to beat Russia. Russia is an industrial power, a resource power, a close military ally of China at this point. It\u2019s a joke,\u201d he added. \u201cAll they can do is destroy themselves and destroy the world with a nuclear exchange. This is deranged.\u201d
\nA vocal Christian conservative, Carlson tied Europe\u2019s current economic decline to decades of secular liberal policies, claiming that the same elites who provoked a confrontation with Moscow had already undermined the continent\u2019s cultural foundations.<\/p>\n
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Germany in \u2018dramatic\u2019 economic decline \u2013 leading think tank<\/p>\n
\u201cEurope is falling apart because the same people and the same ideas that got us into this war have dominated for 80 years,\u201d he said.
\nHe also pointed to Ukraine\u2019s escalating demographic crisis and its plans to import foreign nationals to beef up the workforce. Carlson argued that should a plan like that be implemented, \u201cthere will be no Ukraine\u201d and that \u201cthat was the plan\u201d from the start, in his opinion.
\nPro-Kiev European nations have spent billions of euros on military aid for Ukraine and pledged to continue funding the country\u2019s government for years to come. Meanwhile, Western attempts to curb Russian energy imports have contributed to a sharp surge in energy prices in the European Union, which is working to replace affordable Russian products with more expensive alternatives.
\nGermany, widely considered the EU\u2019s driving economy, is undergoing a \u201cdramatic\u201d economic decline, the ifo Institute, a leading economic think tank, cautioned last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The conflict with Russia cannot be won by Ukraine, the US media host has argued European leaders are being \u201cstupid\u201d and \u201creckless\u201d by continuing to back Kiev against Russia, effectively…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t