Tucker Carlson is not “pro-Putin”, he is just “anti-anti-Putin,” according to this op-ed:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/23/tucker-carlson-goes-it-alone-putin-00011141
Putin, Carlson explained, has never done him — and by extension — the viewer, any wrong. Putin’s never called Carlson racist. Threatened to have him sacked. Never manufactured a lockdown-inducing pandemic. Never taught his children critical race theory or made fentanyl or attacked Christianity. So why does the Washington, D.C. establishment hate him so much?