I agree, the interview is a perfect mirror of the miserable, naive, infantile and quite moronic state of affairs, most especially in the "collective west". And Tucker basically represented that sorry state of affairs, being totally outclassed and educated by the adult in the room. Nevertheless, given the level of programming that Tucker is infected with, what he managed to do was "quite good", for programmed western standards.
I think Tucker still has a long way to go in terms of deprogramming, and he might not be able to ever fully "go there" at the end. But if there is any famous American semi mainstream journalist who could be smart enough to at least improve significantly, I think Tucker is that person.
In terms of the "China, China" problem. I think Putin basically nailed "the problem" on the head by saying that is just another boogeyman story. I'm still amazed how obsessed many westerners (and in particular Americans) are with China, and the internal affairs of that and other foreign countries in general. Why? The typical distraction that was always used throughout history is at work: point the finger at someone else so that your own population doesn't concentrate on the real problems at home with their own leaders. And it's also amazing how many westerners still can't understand the simple distinction between an aggressor and the aggressed, and the resulting distinction between an action and a reaction. One of the
latest interviews with Weinstein and Tucker is another good example of that. Weinstein discovered a camp apparently composed of "only Chinese man" that "seemed rather hostile towards Americans", near the Darien Gap who "were mostly not willing to talk at all" and possibly "funded by the communist party of China" in order to probably "invade the US" through the southern border in order to possibly be used as something like "sleeper cells" in the US that can be "activated later" by "the Chinese" for "nefarious reasons". Even if we assume that those assumptions are correct, it apparently never occurred to Weinstein nor to Tucker that what the US has done and is continuing to do aggressively in and around China for decades (bioweapon laps close to the borders, the South China Sea aggressions, Taiwan, the work of the CIA within the country, the Covid leak into China, to name just a few issues) might have resulted in a REACTION from the Chinese toward an AGGRESSION from the US and that what they can see in the Darien Gap might be one result of that. And that the VERY BLOODY and DESTRUCTIVE US
HISTORY over the last decades causes great and very WELL FOUNDED and JUSTIFIED concerns in other countries. Is that so hard to understand? Apparently so, for many Westerners/Americans.
Edit (20.02.2024): Spelling