Joe Scarborough: Trump would take us back into the cycle of Russian appeasement [View all]

If there’s one lesson to be learned from the United States’ relationship with Russia over the last almost two decades, it’s that appeasement does not work.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Georgia in 2008, a Republican president did nothing. When Putin invaded Crimea and Ukraine in 2014, a Democratic president did nothing. In 2018 in Helsinki, after Donald Trump was asked if he believed U.S. intelligence agencies or Putin when it came to the allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the then-president took Moscow’s side and effectively pledged his fealty to Putin.

In the face of Russian aggression, one president after another has shown weakness. And what has that led to? Another invasion.

But now, under the leadership of the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S. is finally pushing back. During a news conference on Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vice President Harris slammed Trump’s suggestion Ukraine cede territory to Russia to end the war.

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