Tucker Carlson Admits He Was ‘Wrong’ About Russia Invading Ukraine, But Blames Biden Admin for His Being Wrong

Tucker Carlson claimed he was wrong about Russia invading Ukraine because President Joe Biden sent Vice President Kamala Harris to Europe as tensions ratcheted up, thus signaling the situation was not particularly serious.

The Fox News host kicked off his show with a report from Benjamin Hall in Kyiv. Hall brought news that the Russians had attacked Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar, causing a fire.

“So, the situation appears to be more chaotic by the day, possibly even spinning out of control,” Carlson said, beginning his opening monologue. “And that, we must be honest, is shocking to us. We’ve been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We’re not the only ones who were, but we’re willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren’t. So why didn’t we see this coming, this total loss of control?”

Carlson explained that Harris’ presence at the Munich Security Conference last month, where she met with several heads of state, led him to believe the situation in eastern Europe was not particularly serious:

Well, because we assumed that if things were dire, serious people would be involved in fixing them. But we looked up and we saw Kamala Harris involved, and that reassured us. Harris had just come back from Europe where she’d been conducting quote, “diplomacy” with our allies, and that appeared to be proof this could not really be a big deal.

If the situation in Ukraine had been legitimately serious, if the future of Europe and the world hung in the balance as now so obviously it does, of course the Biden administration would not have sent Kamala Harris to fix it, because that’s not her job. Kamala Harris’ job is to trot down to the Blue Room periodically to greet delegations of Tiktok influencers or to cut occasional PSAs for Children’s Dental Health Awareness Month, which is in February, so we assumed she’d be working on that right now.

But averting war with Russia, saving the civilized world? Come on, that is absolutely not Kamala Harris’ job. That was our assumption. But, as noted, we were wrong.

The host said he didn’t overestimate Russian President Vladimir Putin, but rather he “overestimated Joe Biden.” Carlson then played a montage of Harris making ham-handed statements.

“This is just not a serious person not surrounded by serious people” reacted Carlson.

“We assumed that once Kamala Harris humiliated the United States in Munich and jeopardized its core interests, that maybe her boss, Joe Biden, would realize maybe borders aren’t her thing,” he said, alluding to Harris’ handling of last year’s crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Carlson then brought up Harris’ past relationship with former TV host Montel Williams.

“So if you’re looking for someone to date Montel Williams, well maybe she’s the person you would choose,” he said. “She could be a solid choice, she’s done it before. Dating Montel Williams – you know – is something that’s within her range of experience. Is she good at it? We can’t say. But she’s done it. But this new gig? De-escalating a world-ending conflict with the nuclear-armed rogue state? No. No, not when nuclear reactors are on fire. But they’re doing it anyway.”

Watch above via Fox News.

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