'Horrific!' Ex-Russia ambassador melts down on live TV over Trump's 'catastrophic moment'
Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michale McFaul went on a torrid rant on Wednesday morning to Donald Trump's comments about the Ukraine war, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio seemingly changing direction and allying himself with Russia.
Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McFaul went so far as to say what he witnessed on Tuesday was "horrific."
"You have Donald Trump blaming Ukraine," for the illegitimate Russian invasion, co-host Joe Scarborough prompted his guest. "Nobody in Europe, nobody in Europe, nobody outside of Russia has blamed Ukraine for this. So how far back does that set us at the negotiation table that [aims to] not only have a just peace, but get a lasting peace?"
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After complimenting Scarborough for making the case for "peace through strength," McFaul, who served as ambassador from 2012 to 2014, said, "Senator, now, Secretary Rubio, he used to agree with you — I know that for a fact, and I am shocked that people are not thinking in those terms, because you're absolutely right."
"Right now we look weak," he warned. "We are acting weak and weakness has consequences for our national security first and foremost in Europe. I was at that Munich security conference, our European allies were in absolute shock about what the vice president [J.D. Vance] said, or lecturing them about democracy when we're having struggles with our own."
"Just to your point, we are just giving Putin everything without even starting to negotiate," he exclaimed. "We're telling him he gets territory, he gets Ukraine; not to be neutral, not in NATO. We're going to pull our troops out of Europe. Oh, and we're going to force [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to have an election before there's going to be a negotiated, a set of negotiations."
"We're giving him everything and I've negotiated with the Russians, they're tough negotiators. We need to negotiate with them but it is a horrific negotiating strategy to give them everything and demand nothing in return. It's just a catastrophic moment for American power," he told the host.
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