Tucker Carlson

Richard, thanks for doing this.

It's a great pleasure and honor to be here.

I think of the claim that we went to war with Iran because of its nuclear program as a kind of IQ test.

Anyone who repeats that claim has failed the test.

As you pointed out many times, all wars are engineered.

And we're just having a discussion at breakfast that I think is worth recounting for others.

So First World War, one of the most momentous events in world history, ended Christian Europe, killed more than 20 million people, wounded another 20 million, just really reordered the globe.

and then led to the Second World War.

So the United States joined that war in 1917.

Toward the end, it had already been going for three years.

But one of the main reasons the US got into that war is because of the sinking of a passenger ship called the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland two years before in 1915, in which 120-odd Americans were killed.

It was sunk by a German U-boat.

And even at the time, there were people who said, I don't think this is, this is not quite on the level.

But now, 112 years later...

We know a lot more about the sinking of Lusitanian, and I wonder if you wouldn't just mind recounting what you said to me this morning at breakfast, because it gives us perspective on the effect of propaganda in wartime.

Right.

permit themselves to believe that could be true.

It is on our target list.

With the German government put ads in American newspapers telling Americans not to board the Lusitania because they might sink it?

Exactly.