Morning Joe torches Vance for pushing 'Russian talking points' while insulting 'our closest allies'

04 March

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House Oval Office on Friday, February 28, he was angrily berated not only by U.S. President Donald Trump, but also, by U.S. Vice President JD Vance.

Trump and Vance both accused Zelenskyy of being ungrateful for the military aid it has received from the United States, although they avoided criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

During a Tuesday morning, March 4 broadcast, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough railed against Trump and Vance for a foreign policy that, the former GOP congressman argued, encourages Russian aggression against U.S. allies.

Leading a panel that also included the Rev. Al Sharpton (an MSNBC host) and journalists Molly Jong-Fast, Jonathan Lemire, Jacqueline Alemany and Anne Applebaum, Scarborough said of Trump and Vance, "We have two people here talking; they remind me of what Democrats were saying about Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua in the 1980s. I mean, they're saying: We don't get peace through strength, we get peace by undercutting our allies in Europe and by capitulating to Russians."

Scarborough continued, "Well, name one time. Nobody can name one time when capitulating to Vladimir Putin or Russians or the Soviet Union paid any benefits at all?.... Russian invaded Ukraine, Russia invaded Crimea, Russia shot down commercial aircraft. Every time we show weakness, Russia runs over us."

During an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Vance appeared to downplay the importance of U.K. and French peacekeeping troops. And Scarborough slammed Vance for being so dismissive of longtime U.S. allies.

The Never Trump conservative argued, "We're going to undercut our allies who have been beating the Russians back for over two years now. Three years. And we're going to start basically sounding like we work on RT, and we're going to copy Russian talking points. And we're going to insult America's closest and most loyal allies…. The vice president talked about some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years…. And this random country, Great Britain — the country we have a special relationship with — some random country?"

The Never Trump conservative added, "Well, here's a list of wars that random country fought alongside with the United States."

The screen showed a list of wars the U.K. has fought with the U.S. in recent decades, noting the number of British casualties.

Watch the video below or at this link.

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