Asking for permission to interview and getting it is not something "funny afoot". It's not like Tucker will be roaming the streets interviewing any dissents.

Putin has never really had the opportunity to speak to people in the West. The reason is because Western media refuses to because it's heavily censored and works hand in hand with authoritarian Western governments.

Whether Putin "tells the truth" in the interview is irrelevant. Putin says X, Biden & Zelensky says Y and both are lies with a sprinkling of truth, why limit yourself to one set of lies?

I see nothing weird or out of place with being granted an interview, but do with the mainstream narrative-following "no, don't listen to the other side!" undercurrent in your comment. 

 I’m all for the interview but tucker is full of shit. MSM has tried to interview him several times - it would be gold for their m channels https://i.nostr.build/6vAP.png  

 There are many people far less "problematic" than Putin who wouldn't dare get interviewed by Western MSM. Why would Putin, or why would he care until someone controversially unapologetically neutral comes along and says he'll post the interview unedited and unmanipulated?

For this interview, what part of Tucker is full of shit? Or any of the other interviews?

Again, Putin's version of the truth (likely a fog of half truths) hasn't been aired in the West without opinion and commentary given over the top. You don't have to be pro Putin or pro Authoritarian to admit that.
 
Where is this same energy for every single interview of a Western leader in environments where there is no journalism just narrative pushing?  

 Tucker is full of shit. He lies all the time. See him lying about Trump and the votes. 

Putin’s truths are lies - plenty of examples where he tells the truth and we learn later that it’s a lie. 

Idk what Putin’s goals are but it sure as hell isn’t a tell all interview with Tucker. 

Idk what you mean by the last statement. 

 US elections were fraudulent. Putin is defacto dictator of Russia, albeit an oddly popular one due to the Russian mindset. Ukraine had Nazis and US biolabs. Donbas is full of Russians. Russia is corrupt. BBC is operated by the British establishment as a formulaic and systematic brainwashing and propaganda tool. Epstein didn't kill himself.

Stepping outside the matrix can be bewildering.