Tucker Carlson Floats Theory That U.S. Government Wanted War in Ukraine Because Covid ‘Emergency Powers’ Ended

Tucker Carlson suggested Friday that American government officials wanted Russia’s war in Ukraine because their emergency Covid powers had expired.

This is because, as Carlson claimed, the war allowed them to shift the focus onto something else while simultaneously grabbing more power.

It has been two weeks since Russia began its unprovoked war against the Ukrainian people. Citizens from across the globe are showing support for the embattled country.

In his monologue, Carlson said that many Americans who are following the developments in Ukraine are being manipulated by power-hungry bureaucrats.

“You wonder if looking backward many years from right now, historians will notice the remarkable coincidence in timing. Have you noticed?” Carlson asked. “Here it is. At exactly the moment when the emergency powers they awarded to themselves to fight Covid started to wane, our leaders began pushing for conflict with Russia.”

The host opined that the war in Europe has given lawmakers a pretext to assume “historic war powers.”

Carlson, who has stood against aiding Ukraine for months, said the U.S. government has violated rights by punishing Russia’s wealthy elite. He also decried the damage done to the Russian economy by severe sanctions.

Without directly naming Russian oligarchs, he accused the U.S. government of “seizing the property of people” without “bothering to explain exactly what crime they had committed.”

“How long before they accuse you of collusion or disloyalty, or some other hard-to-define crime, declare you an enemy of the state and then confiscate your bank account?” Carlson asked. “Something very much like that happened in Canada. We don’t imagine it could happen here. Mostly we just don’t think about it, what we think about is Ukraine.”

Carlson explained he feels that Americans have been consumed by groupthink. He said that has government officials feeling elated.

“The morning that Russia invaded Ukraine, you may have been talking about a lot of different things,” He added. “Covid, or crime, or the southern border. Not anymore. Much to the relief of the white house, all of those topics have been forgotten, maybe forever.”

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