My hit with @SRuhle this morning on these US-Russia meetings, as hostage negotiations. It's completely backwards. The free world should be making the demands of the terrorist Putin, invader Putin. msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhl…
The White House said they have prepared an “overwhelming response” if Putin further invades Ukraine. Why wait? He’s already there, kick him out. He'll keep doing this whenever he needs a distraction otherwise.
The West still acts like they’re dealing with a normal nation in Russia. But while every country has a mafia, in Russia the mafia has its own country. It’s Godfather Putin and his gang, and their personal interests, not Russia's.
Look at Putin and his propagandists' attempts to frame this as about Ukraine, NATO, or the EU "threatening Russia." It's a joke. He invaded Ukraine in 2014. Putin is escalating now because dictators always need more conflict.
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