January 15, 2026 Tucker Carlson 5

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Tucker Carlson explained that the war between Ukraine and Russia is a proxy war between Europe and the US versus Russia. Russia changed its law and has now permitted itself to blow up Germany even though Germany does not have nuclear weapons, if it continues its provocations. The UK presumably has nuclear weapons. 

Sergey Karaganov is a Russian political scientist who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy. He is also the dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics and is a top advisor to Putin. He said that if Europe continues to provoke Russia, Russia will begin bombing Germany and the UK within 1-2 years, and could use nuclear weapons. He described Europe as being”anti-human” and criticized Europe for its loss of respect for the family, love between men and women, seniors, patriotism and more. He said that European leaders have lost their minds and called them idiots.

Karaganov said that Russia is really fighting Europe in Ukraine and that Europe spreads hatred against Russians because Europe is really trying to take Russia’s resources.

Non Ukrainians, like George Soros, have been calling the shots in Ukraine for 35 years. The Maidan massacre was perpetrated under the Obama administration in 2014. But it was not about Ukraine. There is no tally on how many Ukrainians have been killed because US leaders don’t care about them, only the resources that can be plundered.

Carlson said that the current state of Ukraine was clearly the point of the war: its destruction, mass depopulation and changing the laws that prevent foreigners from buying its natural resources and rich farmland. 

Carlson said that the real goal of the Ukraine v. Russian war is to control  Russia’s resources: oil, gas. uranium, gold, silver, bauxite for aluminum, timber, farmland and agricultural products like fertilizer and wheat.

He said that a small group of people denuded the country, looted it. And, unfortunately, it always plays out in exactly the same way: it’s not enough to loot. They took everything and drive everyone else into despair, hopelessness, and poverty.

In 2001, Putin asked George W Bush to join NATO and the West, but he was rejected. NATO provoked war with Russia. There have been multiple assassination attempts on Putin. 

In 2022, the Biden administration kicked Russia out of SWIFT and devalued our own currency. Russian assets in the West were stolen from Russian individuals/ ‘oligarchs’. The action sabotaged the US dollar by failing to maintain the US ‘petrodollar’ that was used for energy transactions. 

Sanctions also damaged the US because it has an opposite effect.

Gold increased in price due to belief that the US dollar is unsafe because it was weaponized against a great power. The second thing that happened was that Russia formed a durable alliance with China. Russia is the biggest country in the world, with the largest resource density in the world that has now combined with China, which has the largest economy in the world. 

Sanctions are not only ineffective but also immoral because it punishes the innocent civilians. 

Sergey Karaganov said that Russia is really fighting Europe in Ukraine and that Europe spreads hatred against Russians because Europe is really trying to take Russia’s resources