The story you linked is paywalled, but I think I found another about the same incident. A gem:
Apparently, Carey mistook the trip for a bachelor party. Hindsight, as it usually does on a bender, did provide some clarity for Carey. According to the Washington Post, with respect to his female companions for the night, who were vague about whether they were Russian or British, “Carey later acknowledged to investigators that he was suspicious about their overt friendliness toward a visiting U.S. military commander in charge of nuclear secrets.” Despite the possibility that maybe these women just weren’t that in to him for the right reasons, Carey had another late night with the female clerk at the hotel cigar store. Again, looking back on it: “A tobacco store lady talking about physics in the wee hours of the morning doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” Carey told investigators, according to the Post . “You need to watch out for that because that’s just like our training says, you know, people are trolling for information.” Yes, you need to watch out for that.
You need to watch out for that.
This demonstrates the point I am trying to make, but in reverse. People just really aren’t that competent and frequently make bad decisions. Any successful operation is built on the assumption that people can’t be relied upon to make good decisions all of the time.
Yeah… I don’t. I trust our government less as they have direct influence and control over my life. They do just as shady shit or worse they usually just hide it better. It is getting to where they are not hiding it either.
Being his butler would have been a better life than most people here live.
I have those too. Y’all don’t know about dem corn weapons down in the deep south.
It’s 1933 during the Holodomor , a starry-eyed American communist has just arrived in Moscow and is ecstatic at Stalin’s architectural achievements while venting his anti-American anger.
He can always take the south bound line towards the trad Moscow neighborhood that is Birlyulyovo, known for its frequent race riots and more murders in a year than the entirety of NYC. Not to mention all those drunks and homeless that are conspicuously missing - thanks to Rosgvardiya patrols - from that two square miles in Moscow center where all the rich of Russia mingle and where Tucker had his guided tours.
So, after losing 10,000+ troops and actual tons (hundreds of pieces) of equipment to get a couple of acres, whats next for the great russian army?
How do you think they’re going to do against the fortified line and fresh reinforcements about a kilometer ahead of where they started, just on the other side of Avdiivka?
Russian propagandist Murz claims 16k Russian dead (!) and acknowledges that writing that estimate on Telegram may get him into trouble with the Tsar.
On the other hand, Ryan is a super cool dude from the Chosen Company Recon and recounts his experience in Avdiivka as well as his estimate of Russian losses. I’m more inclined to believe him than Murz.
Again, the sheer scale of casualties is outside of living memory in the West. By Murz’s pro-Russian sources they’ve suffered as many dead as the Japanese did on Iwo Jima, which is insane.
Meth. Tons and tons of meth. They call it “bath salts” in the Russian Army.
First, observations on the comically ignorant points of this video.
Tucker has never been to Aldi. Coin return carts have been at Aldi since before the Soviet Union collapsed.
Tucker has never been to Ikea. Ikea carts all have the auto locking “cart escalator.”
Tucker has never been to a mall. It’s not like you are walking past Macy’s to get to the grocery store. He just is actually walking past the Russian equivalent of Macy’s to get to the grocery store.
Every Walmart in the US has the same loaf of bread that made Tucker Carlson laugh like a drunken Frenchman. Yes, Russian bread is good and relatively well priced. But it’s just marginally better. Not laugh out loud amazing.
Tucker Carlson managing to talk about “Russian” wine from Crimea with a straight face probably deserves an Oscar. The hint of uneasiness in his voice talking about the warm water naval base made me wonder if he is actually being held against his will.
Does Tucker think that the average family doesn’t buys eggs, meat, or cheese? The only way that was groceries for a family of 4 for a week would be if the plan was to eat out twice a day.
Russian Snickers, Mars, and Gillette are all locally produced. The products are different than the ones in the US. Of course they are still available post sanctions because the Russian government just took over the factories.
The razors are all in theft proof containers. Tucker trying to use the razors to cast shade on American shoplifting problems is blatantly ignorant. Having shopped in Russia, the suggestion that Russian grocery stores aren’t implementing loss-prevention measures is comical. Russian grocery stores have armed security guards at every door, they search your personal bags, and will often force you to check any bags above a certain size. They have cameras, scanners, and various other technology in place. Russia is not a low crime utopia.
In regards to the headline $400 for $104, that’s silly clickbait. Russian groceries are on average about the same price as American groceries last time I was there. I haven’t been to Russia since the war, but nobody I have talked to claims that things have gotten better since Feb of 2022. It’s possible that prices have gotten marginally better when justified into American dollars simply because of the dollar strengthening against the ruble somewhat. But the only way that cart of food would be $400 dollars in the US would be if that was a $300 bottle of wine.
Finally, cost of goods is only half of the standard of living equation. Russian GDP per capita is 1/5 of the US GDP per capita. Groceries cost about the same. That isn’t a good bit of data for the average Russian.
Also, I honestly don’t know what he was trying to say with his outro. The exodus of Russian middle class and even many elites over the last few years suggests that it kind of does matter if your country is run by a ruthless, corrupt, kleptomaniac mass-murderer.
To be clear, I like Russia a lot and really wish that it would get better for people there. Putin is not Russia. And there are fair questions to be asked about how much the US should be spending in Ukraine. But watching Carlson pretend that all is well because you can buy a loaf of bread, unicorn cereal, and “Russian” Crimean wine is literally nauseating and the man should be ruthlessly humiliated with this video both for the lack of accurate reporting and, more importantly, the amoral equivocation.
