Tucker Carlson posts first Twitter show episode, suggests Ukraine blew up major dam

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday posted the first episode of his Twitter show, during which he focused on the recent destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine that has flooded the Dnieper River and placed a major nuclear power plant at risk of meltdown.

The dam was part of the water supply system to the Crimean peninsula. The dam breached overnight, sending a torrent of floodwaters pouring downstream and draining the cooling reservoir for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Carlson, pointing to media suggestions that Russia was responsible for the destruction of the dam, contended that it made little sense for Russian President Vladimir Putin to order an attack on infrastructure that provides critical supply to territory Russia controls.

"This morning it looks like somebody blew up the Kahkovka dam in southern Ukraine," he said. "So, if this was intentional, it was not a military tactic. It was an act of terrorism. The question is who did it."

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"Kakhovka dam was effectively Russian. It was built by the Russian government and currently sits in Russian-controlled territory," he continued, noting that it supplies water to Crimea. "Blowing up the dam may be bad for Ukraine, but it hurts Russia more and for precisely that reason the Ukrainian government has considered destroying it."

He went on to note a Washington Post report in December 2022 quoting a Ukrainian general who admitted to using American military equipment to target the dam in what he termed a "test strike."

"So really, once the facts start coming in, it becomes much less a mystery what happened to the dam," he contended. "Any fair person would conclude that the Ukrainians probably blew it up."

Tucker went on to mock war hawks and media advocates for rushing to accuse Putin of ordering attacks on his own infrastructure and seemingly venerating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a "living saint."

Carlson announced earlier this year that he would begin running a program on Twitter after his departure from Fox News.

He went on to compare his program to the short-wave radio programs through which Soviet citizens learned the truth about western society. "We're told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns about to be false, we'll leave," he concluded.

 Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on Twitter.