In his monologue, Carlson said that many Americans who are following the developments in Ukraine are being manipulated by power-hungry bureaucrats.
“You wonder if looking backward many years from right now, historians will notice the remarkable coincidence in timing. Have you noticed?” Carlson asked. “Here it is. At exactly the moment when the emergency powers they awarded to themselves to fight Covid started to wane, our leaders began pushing for conflict with Russia.”
The host opined that the war in Europe has given lawmakers a pretext to assume “historic war powers.”
Carlson, who has stood against aiding Ukraine for months, said the U.S. government has violated rights by punishing Russia’s wealthy elite. He also decried the damage done to the Russian economy by severe sanctions.
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