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Conservative journalist Tucker Carlson has warned that the world is on the brink of a global conflict that could end with the use of nuclear weapons, in an interview with Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi broadcast on RT on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Carlson argues that the US is already effectively at war with Russia through Ukraine and warns that further escalation risks a nuclear confrontation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe CIA is running the war. The US intelligence services are running the war out of Ukraine against Russia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he says.\u00a0\u201cThe United States is at war with Russia, and the only kind of conceivable end stage if this continues is a nuclear exchange in which everyone is killed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Ukraine conflict and the US-Israeli war on Iran\u00a0\u201chave merged into a global war,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he argued, warning that the confrontation now risks the very existence of the US.<\/p>\n Carlson also accuses the Trump administration of abandoning the agenda it campaigned on, saying President Donald Trump and his advisers have\u00a0\u201calmost systematically betrayed the people who voted for him in 2024.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He called this\u00a0\u201cthe greatest betrayal that I\u2019m aware of in the history of American politics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The interview also covers political censorship in the US, the rise of BRICS, China\u2019s growing global influence, and the changing balance of power internationally.<\/p>\n