Tucker Carlson announces interview with Lavrov

The conservative journalist feels the US and Russia are the closest they’ve ever been to a “nuclear holocaust”

Independent American journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson has teased his upcoming talk with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, promising to provide a perspective on how close Washington and Moscow could be to a direct clash.

Despite the growing risks of conflict, Americans are only provided the perspective allowed to them by “NBC News and The New York Times,” Carlson said in a three-minute video on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. With his upcoming interview, he could provide a glimpse of the Russian perspective, the journalist noted.

In just a few weeks of Donald Trump being elected, under the administration of outgoing President Joe Biden, “American military personnel launched missiles into mainland Russia and killed at least a dozen Russian soldiers,” Tucker said. 

“We are, unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war with Russia, an undeclared war, a war you did not vote for and that most Americans don’t want,” he added. The fact that US service members are killing Russians in Russia has brought the two superpowers far closer to a direct clash than ever in history, “far closer than we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Carlson said.