Because interviewer Tucker Carlson pushed back only slightly last week against the lies and the murderous record of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a reminder of Putin’s massive evil is in order.

Against a weird strain of thought, nominally on the political Right, which insists Putin is little threat to the West, the reality remains that Putin’s current Russian state is a menace and a plague.

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