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“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory… for without victory, there is no survival.”
—Winston Churchill, May 13, 1940
How many times does someone get to make excuses for Hitler before they get labeled "evil," too?
Whatever that number is, I'm reasonably sure that Tucker Carlson just hit it.
On a podcast late last week, Carlson interviewed former British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg to talk about the current sad state of Britain, and among other topics, how the British might be better off today if they'd just had the good sense to let the Nazis win World War II.
[crickets]
This disturbing side of Carlson first came to my attention two years ago when he could be seen nodding along enthusiastically with the Palestinian Authority's favorite Christian, Reverend Munther Isaac.
The Gaza War had been raging for just six months when Carlson chose to interview Isaac to find out how the Jewish State of Israel treats Christians. Isaac is a Palestinian Christian from Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem, where Christian ministers serve at the mercy of the Palestinian Authority. The PA has ethnically cleansed Bethlehem from 80% Christian 30 years ago to 80% Muslim today.
During his interview, Carlson failed to ask Isaac why he applauded the Oct. 7 atrocities — and that little omission was probably the best part of the podcast.
Carlson's new schtick came to my attention again later in 2024 when he happily hosted the musings of pseudo-historian Daryl "Oops!... He Holocausted Again" Cooper. According to Cooper, Nazi war atrocities and that little Holocaust business were just the Germans being merciful.
"We can’t feed these people, we don’t have the food to feed these people," Cooper imagined the Germans thinking after fighting on the Eastern Front accidentally created more prisoners and refugees than Germany could cope with. "And one of them actually says, ‘Rather than wait for them all to slowly starve this winter, wouldn’t it be more humane to just finish them off quickly now?'”
That's an actual quote.
"Oopsies!" is not a valid excuse for the methodical execution (and sometimes torture) of six million Jews and another six million assorted "undesirables" like gays, Gypsies, cripples, and the mentally retarded. The Germans killed roughly 3.3 million Soviet POWs during the war, too, largely through forced labor and malign neglect — not by accident or out of mercy.
Yet Carlson endorsed him as "the best and most honest popular historian in the United States."
This is the lens, finely ground by Carlson himself, through which we must view his Friday interview with Rees-Mogg.
"I just want to get this on tape," Tucker said about Britain having helped defeat the Nazis. "You think the UK is a stronger, better country now than it was?"
Which is an odd way to frame a war ended eight-plus decades ago, and whose last surviving veterans were probably barely out of high school when the Nazis surrendered.
No, really. "I'm just trying to get to the core question here," as Carlson frames things when he wants to plant seeds of doubt rather than ask an honest question. "Is it worth it?" he added. "So Britain lost, I think, just in deaths in the Second World War, 450,000 maybe."
Yes, that was the price Britain paid to remain British.
While Hitler's Operation Sea Lion proved to be a half-assed fantasy for invading Britain in 1940, the price of peace with Hitler would have been eventual domination by Berlin. Germania, actually, but stick a pin in that trivia for now.
This next bit of trivia can't wait, however. Hitler despised Christianity for its "meekness and flabbiness." He frankly admired Islam. Here's Hitler himself, quoted in the Cameron and Stevens translation of Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–1944:
Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers — already, you see, the world had fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing Christianity! — then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so.
For all his pretense, Carlson would have let Britain fall to pagan Nazis, and doesn't seem to care about the fate of Middle Eastern Christians, whose only local protector is Israel. I don't pretend to know what faith, if any, Carlson imperfectly follows. But in practice, he's no friend to Christians.
Here's one of Friday's clips, so judge for yourself.
Hard not to view Tucker as a Nazi supporter when he believes the world would be better today if the Nazis won.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) October 3, 2026
There's plenty more where that came from. I didn't watch the whole interview, but I did read the transcript, which is why I'm certain my old internet acquaintance, RedBloodedAmerica, nailed it when he posted, "No outside context from the clip would change what he had to say. It’s not necessary. I’ve heard enough of Tucker’s recent blabbering to know what he’s selling. That’s why I dropped his podcast."
I was never a fan of Carlson's, but I did enjoy the occasional Fox News monologue when it showed up the next day on Twitter. But as a host and especially as an interviewer, I've written before that I found him incurious and glib on the few occasions I watched past the opening monologue. But when Fox News' ratings flatlined after firing Carlson in 2023, I tried to be honest in my assessment.
Which turned out to be wrong in the long term. Fox News recovered nicely, while Carlson shreds whatever is left of his credibility playing the Hitler Apologist card time and again while "just asking questions" about how the Jews control our foreign policy.
I'm not here to defend Rees-Mogg's analysis of today's Russia, or certainly not all of it, which likely overstates the direct threat posed by Moscow. Putin can certainly cause trouble long distance — and continually does with his "hybrid warfare" campaign against Western targets. But as we've witnessed in Ukraine, the Russian military's ability to seize and hold enemy territory doesn't extend much more than about 100 miles from Russia's starting positions close to the border. And that's after almost five years of hard fighting.
While that probably isn't much comfort for, say, Estonia, it's difficult to envision Putin launching a 21st-century Sea Lion.
Yet there's Tucker, telling Rees-Mogg that Britain would be better off today as a meek and flabby appendage of Hitler's Großgermanisches Reich, just because today's British elites chose to destroy the nation's 20th-century legacy. That's the legacy bequeathed to them by Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, then squandered in this century by Labour and Tory governments alike.
Churchill and “our famous Island race," as he described the British people, stood alone against Hitler for more than a year. That courage, and the British bloodshed helping to liberate the Continent from one of the greatest evils ever known, has nothing — NOTHING — to do with Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood opening the floodgates to a new generation of invaders.
Carlson's calculus seems to be that it's better to have your nation plundered and stripped of its heritage and religion by anti-Christian invaders in 1940 than in 2026.
But hey, either way, at least there'd be none of those pesky Jews, amirite?
Look, I'm just asking questions here, based on the company Carlson keeps.
By my count, @LauraLoomer's exposé this past week on Tucker Carlson’s appearance at LIVEX in Abu Dhabi brings the total to at least NINE Gulf government-linked conferences and summits he’s appeared at since February 2024. 🔸️Three World Governments Summits in Dubai. 🔸️Two Saudi Real Estate Future Forums. 🔸️The UAE Government Media Office’s 1 Billion Followers Summit. 🔸️Qatar’s 2025 Doha Forum. 🔸️Tucker's own Dubai summit, held in partnership with WGS. 🔸️And now LIVEX, hosted by an Abu Dhabi government department. Nine in roughly 31 months. Very "America First" of him, isn't it?
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) October 4, 2026
And before I forget, here's a big tip of the hat to Laura Loomer. She went very quickly in my book from "Are we sure she's OK?" to "Excellent reporting, thank you!"
Where Carlson's seeming love for Vladimir Putin works into all this — aside from Putin turning Russia once again away from the West — remains a mystery. Because what Hitler meant to do to Russia... well, it had a name that sadly few people have ever heard, much less could begin to grapple with.
It was called Generalplan Ost, or "the General Plan for the East."
While "General Plan for the East" lacked the grandeur of "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," the latter — yes, the Holocaust — was merely the warm-up act for a genocide on an almost impossibly grander scale.
Hitler didn't launch Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union for kicks and giggles. He spelled out his desire for German lebensraum (living space) in the East in Mein Kampf long before the war. Once he'd conquered the Continent, Hitler and his minister, Albert Speer, planned to rebuild Berlin as Germania, the capital of the Thousand Year Reich.
The nature of that empire is nearly unimaginable.
Generalplan Ost called for the virtual elimination of the Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Baltic peoples, and Russians west of the Ural Mountains. Some would find their fates in the crematoriums like the Jews, others would be starved to death, some would be made slaves (and likely neutered), and the rest would be driven further east into Siberia where millions more would have starved to death.
Over the next 25-30 years, formerly Slavic lands were to be resettled by German soldier-farmers. Something of an agrarian romantic — albeit a twisted one — Hitler saw Germany's future in the rich soils of European Russia, not in the steel mills of the Rhine.
Yet even Hitler's top lieutenants knew it was a fantasy that couldn't be fulfilled.
For all his bluster about racial purity, there simply weren't enough so-called Aryans to repopulate the vast lands between the Vistula River and the Ural Mountains in Hitler's mad timeframe.
Hitler's racial examiners — yes, they were a thing — sorted people in conquered lands as either eindeutschungsfähig (capable of being Germanized) or untermenschen (inferiors to be exterminated).
Those who passed were treated as lost German blood, not as useful Slavs. They were to be dispersed among German settlers, stripped of language and nationality, and absorbed. Children who looked Nordic enough were taken from their families and placed with German ones.
And it was all based on nothing more than looks.
The thing to remember, though, is this: If Hitler's repopulation plan was pure fantasy, his death camps were all too real. Millions upon millions of Jews, gypsies, gays, the handicapped, and other untermenschen were murdered in them — and Generalplan Ost would have kept the fires burning for every Slav or Balt not lucky enough to pass for Aryan.
Whatever our differences were with the Soviets then, or with Putin's Russia today, the entire West can and should be proud of fighting and bleeding and dying in a war the stopped the genocide or ethnic cleansing of another 100 million, maybe 150 million human souls.
Yes, Stalin was a worse mass-murderer than Hitler was, but only because we stopped Hitler in his tracks. Neither the GULAG nor the Holodomor could compare to the Generalplan.
I know too much about the history that almost was — and Britain's proud record of standing alone against it — to draw any other conclusion.
So let me put this out there again, just in case I wasn't clear enough at the start: Anyone arguing it was wrong to stop that evil is themselves evil.
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