The conflict with Russia cannot be won by Ukraine, the US media host has argued

European leaders are being "stupid" and "reckless" by continuing to back Kiev against Russia, effectively destroying both Ukraine and Europe itself, American political commentator Tucker Carlson said in an interview published on Monday.

Speaking to RTVI US, a New York-based Russian-language media outlet, Carlson mocked the idea that Kiev could prevail over Moscow on the battlefield.

"They cannot win this war. All it's doing is destroying Europe. It has already destroyed Ukraine," he said.

"Of course they are not going to beat Russia. Russia is an industrial power, a resource power, a close military ally of China at this point. It's a joke," he added. "All they can do is destroy themselves and destroy the world with a nuclear exchange. This is deranged."

A vocal Christian conservative, Carlson tied Europe's current economic decline to decades of secular liberal policies, claiming that the same elites who provoked a confrontation with Moscow had already undermined the continent's cultural foundations.

"Europe is falling apart because the same people and the same ideas that got us into this war have dominated for 80 years," he said.

He also pointed to Ukraine's escalating demographic crisis and its plans to import foreign nationals to beef up the workforce. Carlson argued that should a plan like that be implemented, "there will be no Ukraine" and that "that was the plan" from the start, in his opinion.

Pro-Kiev European nations have spent billions of euros on military aid for Ukraine and pledged to continue funding the country's government for years to come. Meanwhile, Western attempts to curb Russian energy imports have contributed to a sharp surge in energy prices in the European Union, which is working to replace affordable Russian products with more expensive alternatives.

Germany, widely considered the EU's driving economy, is undergoing a "dramatic" economic decline, the ifo Institute, a leading economic think tank, cautioned last week.

(RT.com)