{"id":50404,"date":"2024-12-06T07:50:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=50404"},"modified":"2024-12-06T07:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:50:18","slug":"tucker-carlson-interviews-russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/06\/tucker-carlson-interviews-russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson Interviews Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has not spoken with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov since 2021.\u00a0\u00a0 The Secretary of State is supposed to be America&#8217;s top diplomat.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead, Blinken has served as an advocate for war with Russia, refusing to engage diplomatically.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Cold War, US diplomats continued to engage with their Soviet counterparts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But Blinken has abandoned his main responsibilities during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Tucker Carlson has engaged with President Putin and now with Foreign Minister Lavrov.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Friday, Carlson interviewed Lavrov in Moscow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Below is the interview.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nmgDf6QiCps?si=5cdiwMbcUlHNcqGf\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has not spoken with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov since 2021.\u00a0\u00a0 The Secretary of State is supposed to be America&#8217;s top diplomat.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead, Blinken has served as an advocate for war with Russia, refusing to engage diplomatically. Throughout the Cold War, US diplomats continued to engage with their Soviet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[779],"class_list":["post-50404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50408,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50404\/revisions\/50408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50404"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}