Ukraine negates rationale for support – Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson released his seventh Twitter episode last night, suggesting Ukraine just negated the common rationale for supporting them. While many American voices call for support for “democracy,” Volodymyr suspends elections while Ukraine’s war with Russia lasts.

Ukraine suspends elections

Ukraine, last week, reminded observers that its Constitution does not even permit elections while martial law remains in force. Recently Volodymyr Zelensky, its president, confirmed that elections would take place after the war ends. National Security Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said the same over a month ago. He was responding to calls by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to hold elections anyway.

According to Pravda, Zelensky extended martial law at least to August 30, 2023, having declared it in February 2022. Martial law has been in effect since Russia began her “Special Military Operation.”

Tucker Carlson made this the subject of his seventh episode.

He listed several American politicians and media personalities, including White House Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Mike McCaul (R-Texas), and Senators Dick Durban (D-Ill.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), actually saying the United States must support Ukraine to protect democracy. Pelosi even said the object of supporting Ukraine was to protect “their” democracy – and ours. The recent declaration by Zelensky that elections would not take place until the war ends, has not seemed to faze American politicians in the least.

Carlson did not mention, though he could have, that Zelensky took an un-democratic measure a month after the war began. He nationalized TV news and suspended 11 opposition parties in March of 2022. Volodymyr Ishchenko, writing in Al-Jazeera, suggested Zelensky acted in furtherance of the 2014 “Maidan Revolution.”

A cynical outlook

Carlson went on to detail other undemocratic actions by Zelensky – including the imprisonment of an American citizen in Ukraine. He then dropped a dark hint of a threat to democratic elections in America itself.

Specifically: a WhatsApp text by Hunter Biden recently surfaced in which he blackmailed a Chinese official. He even said his own father was “standing next to” him. Yet he recently attended a White House social function. Why? According to an ABC News anchor, Hunter is family, and President Biden is being “a loving father.” That, said Tucker, is the language of one with no reason to worry about reelection. And he might not have to worry because his Party can gimmick the electronic voting machines.

Or should he? Tucker Carlson then suggested that Biden is showing his age – and his handlers (Carlson named Susan Rice) might decide to replace him. Carlson even named that replacement: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.).