Scarborough: If War in Ukraine Ends on Putin’s terms that Will Be Another Humiliation for Another American President

SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah. You know, Mika, Vladimir Putin, the person we’re looking at right there, has a long, long history of playing American presidents, American secretaries of state. Putin played Bush and then invaded Georgia in 2008. Putin played Obama and then invaded Crimea and Ukraine in 2014. We’ve already talked about the 2018 press conference with Putin and Donald Trump that went extremely poorly for President Trump. And the question is, in 2025, what will Donald Trump have learned from all the mistakes of American presidents over the previous 20 years of being fooled by Vladimir Putin and then made to look like a fool in the years that are coming? Yeah, this is very important. He’s — you know, remember, he was talking about 60 days that Putin had 60 days to move toward a ceasefire or else there would be consequences. He shortened that to 10 days. Vladimir Putin, who was not interested in talking about a ceasefire, suddenly became interested in talking about a ceasefire. We’re going to have that meeting. If, in fact, the reporting from ‘The Wall Street Journal’ ends up being correct that Donald Trump agrees to the red lines that Europe and Ukraine laid laid out there, then I suspect that will that will stop anybody from thinking that he was played. And yes, an end to this war is badly needed, but not an end to this war on Vladimir Putin’s terms, or that, again, will be another humiliation for another American president.”
BRZEZINSKI: “No, I mean, this this issue, this long running war could be the end of it could be really so key to President Trump’s legacy. He could be the president who saved Ukraine and the safety of the world, or he could be the president who got played by Putin. One of many.”
SCARBOROUGH: “ And, you know, Mika, what’s so important here is we’ve talked about the president saying that he understood the the red lines that Ukraine and Europe had laid out there. Also, there was a talk not specifically about NATO, but there was a talk about some sort of American security guarantee. I mean, that could even come in the form of the president saying at that press conference. the United States of America is going in and is going to help clean up what Vladimir Putin did to Ukraine. We’re going to help rebuild Ukraine. Our American companies are going to be there. Our American contractors are going to be there and then turn to Putin and say, you’re not going to want to strike Ukraine because an attack against American workers rebuilding what you did in Ukraine is an attack on America and you’re not going to like what you see. Even that is a short-term, a short gap guarantee of security for Ukraine. If the United States is in there actively rebuilding the country.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Absolutely.”