INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
There's nothing like a good history lesson
Unless, that is, President Vladimir Putin is the person giving the lesson, and he's using it to justify why he launched a war against
Ukraine.But Putin, eager as always to don his historian cap and Kremlinsplain away the invasion, gave U.S
conservative pundit Tucker Carlson the kind of history lesson he might not have expected when he decided to travel thousands of miles to
grievance-filled historical narrative that he has regularly invoked since the start of the war nearly two years ago
dictator Josef Stalin allegedly "artificially" created the Ukrainian state and then the break-up of the U.S.S.R
in the early 1990s.There was a lot to take in
And of course, not everyone has the time or patience to watch the full interview
But you'll probably have a minute to spare for some memes about the interview, right?Here's a look at some of our favorite memes about the
audiences were able to watch the premiere of Carlson's interview with Putin at the reasonable hour of 6:00 p.m
Eastern Standard Time, people living in Moscow were forced to stay up until 2:00 a.m
with Putin by posting this still frame on Instagram
writes here: "Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin be like...""Mister Putin, why did you attack Ukraine?""Carlson, my dear boy, did you
this instead:"Russia has only two allies: Twix the cat and Tucker Carlson."In case you're not in the loop, the pet cat named Twix was thrown
from a train car by a railroad employee last month and ultimately froze to death, which caused an uproar on social media
We wrote about the hapless feline here:British comedian Philomena Cunk (pictured below) once asked a historian: "What is the Soviet
Tucker Carlson.And so a history lesson he gives."Uh, okay, I got it," Carlson replies.And the lesson continues."Help me."Indeed, one has to
wonder why Putin chose to trace history back only to the Middle Ages when explaining why he invaded Ukraine in 2022
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