The Putin Interview seen by Terente Marcel over a beer.

The interview must be digested slowly.

It is true that Tuckson lost control of the interview in the first phase, but journalism is by no means the hysterical parody of the semi-illiterate "big" media barking pekeneeze at the guest in order to force them to respond according to their expectations.

I admit, at first I also had this impression that Putin did not answer any of the relevant questions.

Later I re-watched the Interview and understood that some complicated questions cannot have simple answers.
It takes a lot of intelligence and a complex rational way to understand the answers.

I think Tuckson was very frustrated that the answers he received were diplomatic rather than direct.
But he did not abandon the journalistic approach and "hung on" to the statements of the interlocutor as any professional journalist would do.

At the beginning of the interview he seemed genuinely disturbed by the way Putin chose to treat the issue from a historical point of view, clearly he had not come there for a history lesson and expected something else.

He later proved his intelligence in that he began to understand that there were no simple answers to his questions.

Above all else he showed patience and tact.
You claim that you did not understand what was relevant and probably relatively new after this interview.

If you have the patience to watch it again, possibly in bits and pieces, you will have an answer.

Purely subjectively, for me, there were many relevant elements: the first and most important is that Putin understood the current new economic and political realities, in opposition to the Western political class that seems intellectually anesthetized; the second relevant thing is that he understood that in the USA it is not the political class that leads but someone else (he says the elites), so decisions are not made at the political level; another relevant fact is that in light of this, he uses intelligence channels rather than diplomatic channels; that says a lot about who is running the "collective west" today.

The unasked and implicitly unanswered question is who these services answer to, but this topic has not been touched upon.

I did not have the feeling that Putin invited Poland, Romania or Hungary to the dismemberment of Ukraine, the statements cannot be taken out of context as some try.

However uncomfortable the historical truth may be for some, including Russians, Putin did not shy away from bringing it to the attention of public opinion.

This shows that he is a very different type of politician from the ones we have today.

Some see in this interview another way of making propaganda and others see another point of view unknown in the Western environment, as well as another way of doing politics, if necessary including by force.

In any case, the interview is far from trivial or uninteresting.