Give Me Any American City over Moscow Any Day

Tucker Carlson’s fulsome praise of Russia’s capital city is so far off the mark, it’s embarrassing.

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Police officers walk along the Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, March 30, 2020.

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‘The city of Moscow,” Tucker Carlson announced this week, from his populist redoubt at the World Government Summit in Dubai, “is so much nicer than any city in my country. I had no idea. It is so much cleaner, and safer and prettier, aesthetically. Its architecture, food, and services than in any city in the United States. And this is not ideological. How did that happen?”

The simplest answer to this inquiry is that it didn’t.

Charles C. W. Cooke

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior editor at National Review and the host of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.

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