Under President Joe Biden’s leadership, the U.S. and other NATO allies have presented a united front against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and have imposed crippling sanctions that are threatening to bring the Putin regime to its knees. But Putin would have gotten away with it if Donald Trump was still in the White House.
As noted by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Trump spent his four years in the White House undermining the alliance and threatening to withdraw, which would have given Putin the ability to invade any country in Europe and bring the old soviet union back.
Now, President Biden can use this moment in history to eradicate the threat against democracy from both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
“Western liberalism, western democracy has been under attack over the past five, six, seven years,” Scarborough said. “You saw it with Donald Trump attacking NATO, attacking Madisonian democracy, attacking the rule of law, attacking the free press. You saw that in Poland with the Law and Justice party. You saw that in Hungary. Of course, their north star was always Vladimir Putin who was the most tyrannical. That’s all changed in the past week. My God, Poland, what extraordinary allies they are right now. You look at Hungary, even Viktor Orbán came out, who would have believed it, came out criticizing Vladimir Putin.”
“The world has changed,” the ‘Morning Joe’ host said. “It is a crisis in Ukraine, but the western world that was under attack from Vladimir Putin, from Donald Trump, from Viktor Orbán, from Trumpists in America, it is no longer under attack. The EU is stronger than ever. NATO is stronger than ever. Western democracies, institutions stronger than ever, and it all happened this week.”
Scarborough then urged Biden to use Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address to break the fever that’s gripped the Republican Party since Trump’s emergence as a political candidate and to go “full Churchill” on Vladimir Putin.
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