Former Ambassador Basically Warns Putin Is Cuckoo Bananas
On Morning Joe, former Russian ambassador Michael McFaul painted a picture of Vladimir Putin as a dangerously erratic man. With, you know, nukes.
"Ambassador, let's begin with you and pick up where we left off on the erratic nature of Vladimir Putin, the erratic nature of this attack, the illogical nature of this attack. I quoted Madeleine Albright who said that it will leave Russia economically crippled and strategically vulnerable. All of these things are fairly obvious. This is an irrational attack. One European country invading another European country in 2022," Joe Scarborough said.
"And his response to that attack and any threats is, do not defend Ukraine, I will employ nuclear weapons. He has been saying that for the past few months. They've said it on state TV about reducing the West to ashes. You've had diplomats making the same threats. This is not by any stretch of the imagination a rational man even by the old Soviet communist standards when we actually had back channels and there was some rhyme and some reason to what the old Soviet empire did."
"I agree. it is tragic. it is irrational. It is also evil. Let's just call it for that. There is good and evil in the world, and this is an evil act," McFaul said.