Opinion | Why calling Tucker Carlson a 'traitor' could backfire

.ZeeshanAleem: After Tucker Carlson downplayed Russian's invasion of Ukraine, critics called him a traitor. That's missing the point.

, Carlson’s decision to minimize Russia's imminent invasion and push back against critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin meant he was siding with Russia against the U.S. But that’s a misread. Carlson isn’t in favor of Russia over America or angling to aid Russia in dominating or controlling the U.S. — he wants the U.S. toAnd in accordance with paleoconservative and white nationalist principles, he has an aversion to foreign interventionism so American militarism can grow at home.

Carlson and his ideological allies, like Steve Bannon and Donald Trump, see in Putin someone with a shared worldview — authoritarian, fiercely nationalistic, happily bigoted. In the run-up to the invasion, Carlson persistently downplayed the severity of what Russia could be doing and pushed back against the prospect of American involvement. He characterized the situation as a “border dispute,” distracting from the reality of Russia’s yearslong meddling in eastern Ukraine and the illegality of Putin’s recognizing and ordering troops into Ukraine’s eastern separatist-held regions.

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