I'm not sure that's for propaganda purposes, tbh, so much as Putin genuinely deeply disrespects Carlson even while making him a useful tool. On one hand you ha

I'm not sure that's for propaganda purposes, tbh, so much as Putin genuinely deeply disrespects Carlson even while making him a useful tool. On one hand you have a KGB guy, who has for decades promoted himself as loyal-to-the-end, burning documents in East Germany while the wall was falling and Moscow wasn't picking up the phones with his colleagues nowhere to be found. And who has gone to great lengths (like using chemical weapons on UK soil) to punish people he sees as traitors. And on the other hand you have Tucker, a CIA reject who is now running interference against his own nation's interests, who presents himself as a journalist while knowing less about Putin than Putin knows about him, and who was as intrepid as a wet noodle in that interview. Putin made him wait for 2 hours before it even started. I think he just enjoys dunking on people.