The sign of change ?
In line with something I wrote a year ago (link) I think the time is approaching, the situation is ripe enough, for the 'reality mode level' to kick in. The generators of chaos from the West will throw in their last resources to maintain their attrition war against Russia, but it's already a net loss endeavor and rapidly becoming a catastrophic loss one.
Tucker phenomenon was shaping for quite some time, way before he was ousted from Fox (without major repercussions for himself; just noting). Musk developing a very active social conscience was also on the way for some time. Realists are flocking together in discourse and in an increasingly organized manner. Because the stakes are at an existential level.
I think the Putin interview will be the symbolic sign that the other side gets it and is willing to accommodate with normal competitors on the world stage.
No matter how one evaluates the performance of Russia in the war, one thing is clear: if it takes a war to stop a major threat, Russia won't cave in. After 2 years of testing the waters in a direct confrontation with Russia, sane American leaders (including leaders of opinion) should know by now that it is over, no trick works and there's not enough real power left to back a world domination aspiration.
The Grahams can be switched off or over in a second (a good bribe always works) and I'm sure there are enough straitjackets for the Nuland kind of haters.
The deep state power hungry bosses are not suicidal and the apparatus they control is by definition survival prone (a corrupt system cherishes the perks and the comfort and the relative impunity - not exactly Spartans). They have gone too far, they know it and while the observable loudspeakers are left on maximum volume, the mood has to be somber.
There must be true devils here and there, yet I still have faith in the inertia of reality and how difficult it is to oppose it. The swamp doesn't lose much if it reconfigures anyway, wars, logistics are not its forte, scheming works in peacetime and on half full (at least) bellies with all limbs accounted for.
I'm expecting that the swamp, which is not imperial Rome on its decline, but a bloated excrescence on a huge bureaucracy based apparatus, has too many fearful, small actors to allow a Nero maniac emerging to set their den on fire.