A spokesperson for the Russian government clarified that it has rejected requests to interview Vladimir Putin from reputable media outlets
The Kremlin’s first public response to Tucker Carlson’s announcement that he’s landed an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin was to fact-check the former Fox News host.
On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Carlson had indeed interviewed Putin, but took issue with Carlson’s claim that “not a single Western journalist has bothered” to interview Russia’s president throughout the nation’s war with Ukraine, which has raged for more than two years.
You are promoting a success fallacy. “Icons and leaders must be intelligent to have made it into positions of power and popularity” the fact is that a combination of chaos, charisma, privilege, and ignorance are actually more likely to permit a rise to power than intelligence. Don’t make assumptions about intelligence where there is no objective evidence. The words he speaks and the decisions he makes demonstrate emperic stupidity. Ascrbing a sense of evil calculating genius is unwarranted and empowers the stooges that follow him to presume that there is some sort of master plan with hidden potential for greatness.