Tucker Carlson worked aggressively behind the scenes during the transition to sow discord and undermine confidence in my dad, Keith Kellogg, as the lead envoy to end the war. It is abundantly clear watching his interview with Jacob Rees-Moggs (who crushed Carlson) why he did so.
In this one hour interview Carlson repeatedly pushes one overarching proposition: that defending other sovereign states against aggression is itself irrational, dangerous, and contrary to the national interest.
Carlson argues that resisting Hitler ultimately wasn’t worth Britain’s sacrifice, and if that’s the bar then virtually no contemporary European security threat could ever clear the threshold.
So he isn’t simply lowering the threshold for non-intervention. He’s raising the threshold for resistance beyond reach.
These are his core arguments:
1. America’s allies aren’t worth defending.
2. Ukraine isn’t really sovereign.
3. NATO creates rather than deters wars.
4. Military strength causes escalation.
5. Western governments are a greater threat than hostile foreign powers.
Resistance merely gets ordinary people killed.
6. The wars we thought were morally unambiguous weren’t worth fighting.
Carlson wants the West dumb, defenseless, and deterred. This is death of civilization stuff.