Morning Joe had a stern warning regarding President Donald Trump’s approach to Russia-Ukraine negotiations, stating that letting Vladimir Putin “get away” with his part in the war risks allowing him to take another country: Poland.
Host Joe Scarborough went into a passionate tirade against Ukraine’s absence from the negotiating table. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has postponed a visit to Saudi Arabia after he was excluded from the peace talks between Russia and the U.S. ongoing in the country.
Scarborough said Trump took on a Russian “narrative” when he said in a press conference that Ukraine should have tried to “make a deal” to end the conflict. He’s “trying to blame” the invasion on “the victims,” the MSNBC host raged.
He added that Putin’s ambitions go beyond just Ukraine. “Understand that if you acquiesce to Vladimir Putin invading Russia, Poland is next. It really is Poland’s next. Other countries in eastern Europe are next. If he gets away with this, you know, he got away with invading Georgia. He got away with invading Ukraine, Crimea. I mean, he got the message that he could get away with this,” he said.
“If he gets away with invading Ukraine and, and, and ends up being basically held harmless for all of the horrific things that Russia has done to the Ukrainian people since 2022,” he said. “Then make no mistake about it, Poland is next!”
He also highlighted some GOP senators who realize that Russia “needs to be repelled.”
“Well, and of course, we talked about Mike Waltz, we talked about Marco Rubio. Those have been two well, you know, Cold War warriors. In fact, they have been tough Republicans in the United States Senate, Republicans in the House,” Scarborough said.
“We’ve talked about it all the time. People like [House Foreign Affairs] Chairman [Michael] McCaul and so many others who have gone to Ukraine, who understand that this is a Russian invasion that has to be repelled.”
It comes as Zelensky lamented Trump’s comments, saying the U.S. president lives in a “disinformation bubble.”
Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting its ongoing conflict with Russia and baselessly claimed Zelensky’s approval rating was “down at four percent.”
