Conservative Newsmax TV host Eric Bolling issued an impassioned six-minute plea to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday regarding his stance on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Bolling has shown solidarity with the people of Ukraine during his recent daily monologues. He asked Carlson to take back old comments and to stop making new ones the Kremlin can use to justify its atrocities.
Carlson has long been a skeptic of intervening in Europe’s affairs. In the lead-up to Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion, the Fox News host was apathetic toward the conflict and antagonistic toward Ukraine’s government.
In February, after Russian tanks and troops entered Ukraine’s sovereign territory, Carlson dismissed the conflict as a mere “border dispute.” He had previously referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator.”
After showing his audience images of dead civilians, Bolling challenged Carlson to use his platform to highlight the horrors of war. He also asked Carlson to cease letting Russia’s state media pimp out his monologues.
Bolling noted that like Carlson, he is against sending American soldiers to fight and potentially die on foreign battlefields. But he said the scale of Russia’s “war crimes” warrants full support from conservatives for Ukraine.
The host highlighted a 2019 comment, wherein Carlson said: “Why do I care what’s going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? And I’m serious. And why shouldn’t I root for Russia? Which I am.”
“I think it’s time for Tucker to walk back comments like this one,” Bolling said. He continued:
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