A Tucker Development

~ Clarissa

There’s a fascinating development in the Tucker Carlson story. It looks like Trump accepted Tucker in the White House on the eve of the war with Iran and appeared persuadable (as Tucker said several times on his show) in order to lure Tucker into transmitting the message to the ayatollah regime. Is that why the Iranian leadership gathered all in one place? Because they were led to believe that the attack wasn’t coming? Was Tucker the human version of a Hezbollah pager?

Tucker recognized openly today that the CIA is investigating him for passing messages to the Iranian regime.

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  1. If anyone wants to see people talking about this, try

    https://x.com/SamsonFoxes/status/2033035427628679249

    There are at least two levels at which this could be done – just via the optics of having antiwar Tucker meet publicly with Trump on the eve of decision; or, having insiders tell Tucker that diplomacy will triumph, relying on him to pass this on to his Iranian contacts.

    Now, either of these could be true, while also not being directly responsible for the Iranian elite deciding to meet in one place. That is, Tucker can be unwittingly used to falsely signal that Trump 2.0 prefers peace, *and* Khamenei and his ministers could become a vulnerable target for entirely different reasons.

    According to this account of Khamenei’s assassination

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/03/01/how-the-us-pulled-off-the-assassination-of-the-century/

    Khamenei’s people thought their bunker was deep enough to be safe, and wouldn’t have expected an attack in broad daylight; and his movements were understood by CIA data collection and analysis.

    Who knows whether that article is correct, though. These are events that are surrounded by mythmaking.

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    1. There must be a direct correlation between this level of subservience to a leader and low IQ. It’s like these people are screaming: “Please do all the thinking for me and write it all at a middle school level so I can understand you”

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      1. Please show me where Democrats dare to criticize Kamala. This is a party that ran a clear loser with zero support and kept gushing about how qualified she was.

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        1. Not again you with whataboutism. Unlike MAGA, Democrats don’t have one dear leader they all worship. As of now they do not even have one clear leader they can all unite around. And no, I’m not a Democrat or a liberal.

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  3. “US has told key European allies that arms supplies that have been bought for Ukraine may be delayed due to prioritization of the war in the Middle East-FT”

    https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/2033135291284754521?s=20

    And the throwing of Ukraine yet again under the bus continues. Two massive gifts that Trump’s Iran war gives Russia:

    1. Huge increase in oil prices, like economy saving prices increases for Russia
    2. Now arms supplies that Europeans bought for Ukraine are not delivered. Critical air defense missiles that Ukraine badly needs are not going to be delivered.

    So Russia gets more money for their war effort and Ukraine gets no weapons to defense itself. Putin could hardly have asked for a better gift from Trump.

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  4. I see this as a positive development for both countries:

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked to hold a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Israeli and Ukrainian officials, as Israel looks to deepen cooperation with Ukraine on countering Iranian-made drones.
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    Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, …”we are strengthening cooperation against the Iranian threat in the region.”

    Ukraine has developed a range of tactics to intercept Iranian-designed Shahed drones, which Russia has used extensively. Ukrainian forces have shared intelligence with Israel and the United States and have developed relatively low-cost interception methods that do not rely on expensive interceptor missiles.

    It’s good for Ukraine since Israel also has weapons it may share, if the cooperation deepens. Read an interpretation that since Russia isn’t in Syria any longer, Israel feels free to take more pro-Ukrainian position. That‘s what one should look at, not on any newly arrived Jewish-Russian oligarchs.

    Israel has entered the world’s top seven arms exporters for the first time, surpassing Britain.

    The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report for 2021–2025 found that Israel has become the world leader in exports of missile defense and air defense systems, with Europe (41%) and the Asia-Pacific region (40%) being the main buyers.

    At the same time, Israel remains a major arms importer, ranking 14th in the world: 68% of purchases come from the United States and 31% from Germany.

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    1. I think that’s a mistake for Ukraine. Helping a country that has clearly and actively been on Russia’s side with zero promise of reciprocal help – why?

      I’d rather not know because it upsets me too much.

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      1. \\ has clearly and actively been on Russia’s side

        Isn’t it a bit of an exaggeration? Has Israel given info to Russia to help them kill Ukrainians, or sold weapons to it? Are we the biggest buyers of Russian oil?

        Israel hasn’t done something for Ukraine, but it didn’t want to do anything for Russia either.

        An interesting study:

        [after 2022] Two-thirds of Israelis overall, and three-quarters of Russian-speaking Jews, blamed Russia’s leadership for starting the war, while the share attributing blame to Kyiv fell within the margin of error.

        Israeli civil society — particularly its organized and informal Russian-speaking segment — enthusiastically mobilized material aid for Ukrainians and engaged in pro-Ukrainian public diplomacy. Pro-Kremlin groups, meanwhile, remained largely invisible, especially after Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, when Russia adopted an anti-Israel stance, at least at the declarative level.
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        According to a 2024 study, … roughly one-third of surveyed former Soviet immigrants — half as many as seven years earlier — supported neither side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and believed Israel should not intervene. A similar share expressed passive support for Ukraine (and very few for Russia). Only a quarter believed Israel should openly support Ukraine, while just 1−3% favored Russia. This time, differences between “veteran” immigrants and members of “Putin’s Aliyah” were minimal.

        In other words, the Soviet and post-Soviet heritage of immigrants — including those from the most recent “war aliyah” from Russia — once again proved less significant than their Israeli experience, contrary to stereotypes. While they were not lobbyists for unconditional Israeli-Russian cooperation, they were, at certain points (especially during the Russian-Israeli rapprochement of the 2010s), quite willing to serve as a key bridge for rationally structured cooperation. However, they hardly saw themselves as a local branch of the “Russian world.” Over the three decades since the start of the “Great Aliya”, Russian-speaking immigrants have largely integrated into Israeli society and adopted its dominant system of values and political beliefs.

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  5. Read an explanation re cooperation with Ukraine from an Israeli army expert and reporter:

    Спросили о репортажах, что Нетаниягу якобы хочет поговорить с Зеленским о противодействии дронам. Вынесу отдельно из интервью, чтобы не терялось.

    – Тема возможного сотрудничества Израиля с Украиной в области противодействия дронам делится на три части.

    – Во-первых, конкретно сейчас для нас этот вопрос остро не стоит, в отличие от арабских стран. Дроны из Ирана неэффективны из-за большого расстояния, почти всё сбивается по дороге нашей авиацией либо союзниками, после того как в прошлый раз из запущенной тысячи реально попал один и практически без ущерба, сейчас из нескольких сот тоже результатов нет. Дроны Хизбаллы опаснее из-за близких расстояний и сложного рельефа местности, но мы в прошлой операции проредили их возможности настолько, что они сейчас не могут осуществлять массовых запусков и пока у них в ходе текущих боевых действий не было никаких эффективных попаданий.

    – Во-вторых, у Украины и Израиля разные географические и военные условия, и помимо того, у Украины нет в этом деле какой-то панацеи, которой никогда не бывает, часть даже имеющихся и работающих там решений нам просто менее релевантны. Но некоторые решения, особенно последнего времени, могут быть полезны, прежде всего массовые дешевые дроны-перехватчики, эффективные по соотношению цена-качество – именно поэтому ими заинтересовались арабские страны, по которым из-за меньшей дальности иранские дроны попадают гораздо лучше.

    – В-третьих, еще в 2022 некоторые товарищи, не будем показывать пальцем, провели подготовительные мероприятия для такого сотрудничества на уровне высшего военного и политического руководства Украины, и оттуда был получен полный зеленый свет. Но в соответствующих военных и правительственных структурах Израиля интереса к этому не проявили: частью “мы и так всё знаем и сами с усами”, частью “не разозлить бы Путина”, частью “тебе что, больше всех надо?” Аналогично с дальнейшими попытками в последующие годы. На низовом уровне были личные контакты разработчиков, операторов и энтузиастов, с 2024 это постепенно поднялось выше в организационном плане МО и ВПК, но постоянного контакта и сотрудничества на высшем военно-политическом уровне с полным доступом и изучением не было.

    – Такое сотрудничество и систематическое, а не отрывочное, изучение большого, ежедневного и разнообразного практического опыта ВСУ принесло бы пользу даже при том, что панацеи не бывает, и не все решения годятся из-за разных условий, в этом плане много времени потеряно. Не факт, что это сотрудничество реально начнется даже сейчас, но если начнется, то уже хорошо, хотя как я уже сказал, конкретно сейчас у нас эта проблема не такая острая. Сегодня не острая, завтра острая, подключатся новые противники типа Сирии, есть группировки на Синае, в Иордании, в Ираке, хуситы и т.д.: из Йемена и Ирака одиночные удачные попадания уже были, помимо самолетных дронов важна и тема коптеров всех видов, вырастут количества, будут новые технические и тактические решения и т.п. Всегда лучше изучать тему настоящим образом, комплексно и систематически.

    – Это не приглашение к обсуждению, это информационное сообщение.

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    2. The man that humiliated every US ally that ever fought alongside the US, the man that ridiculed the European soldiers that died in Iraq and Afghanistan claiming they “stayed a little back”, the cretin that kept claiming the US doesn’t need allies, now begs for allies to help.

      Europe can never be free until it frees itself of zogamerica.

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    3. He hasn’t asked israel’s navy’s help, of course. And I guess israel just couldn’t spare 5000 troops to send to the Strait of Hormuz. Has to be our marines.

      Goyim blood, goyim treasure.

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