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| Tucker Carlson visits Moscow Metro station (short video) |
| 2024-02-16 |
| [Carlson Network] In 2022, NATO and other allied governments, led by the United States, imposed a myriad of economic sanctions on Russia. The goal was obvious: punish Vladimir Putin by turning his country into a pariah state, isolated from the post-war West and forced to fend for itself as long as the war in Ukraine continued. During his trip to Moscow to interview Putin, Tucker explored how the city has fared since those sanctions took effect. Has it been reduced to poverty and anarchy as some had hoped? Or has it turned out that Russia doesn't need the West as much as everyone thought? Today's episode of TC Shorts, part one of a three-part series, offers a glimpse into everyday life in Moscow. It may shock you. Click the image below to watch. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 When you allow anything, anything becomes the rule. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-16 14:51 |
| #3 #2 Yes, One thing people notice when getting older you have time to compare before and after. Retired police or Fema each say what is this country becoming. It didn't take long for our infrastructure to crumble. |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-02-16 12:38 |
| #2 I see this more as an indictment of America and American politicians than an endorsement of Russian dictators. I was watching Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest the other day on TCM. The movie showed Cary Grant in New York's Grand Central Station and on board a train bound for Chicago. Everything was clean. There was no graffiti, no hobos, no rats, no trash. Of course that's just a movie from 1959 but what would today's movies show? Oh, I know. They'd show low-life barbarians getting into brawls at the airport. Now it's not just the trains that are dirty, crowded and unreliable, it's the airplanes. To me that's an indication of a society in decline. I saw the same thing for myself in Japan. Their trains are clean and always on time. They run like clockwork. I compare that with the San Diego Trolley and it makes me depressed. I'm confronted with the fact that they are more civilized than we are and the Japanese manage it without resorting to dictatorship. I get another hint from Tucker's video: economic sanctions are not only chickenshit but they are totally ineffective. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-02-16 11:54 |
| #1 Wasn't it Mussolini that made the trains run on time? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2024-02-16 10:51 |