Foreign Policy

President Biden flip-flopped during his Thursday press conference in Brussels when he declared that sanctions were never meant to deter Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine despite constant proclamations from the administration to the contrary. On The Lead, CNN chief political analyst Susan Glasser reacted to Biden’s dishonesty by talking about former President Trump.

As Ukrainians fight to preserve their democracy, PBS’s Christiane Amanpour declared it necessary on her Friday show to likewise preserve democracy at home against those would rather seek to install some sort of autocracy.

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers used his Thursday show (airing early Friday) to mock the idea that Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if Donald Trump was still president because, according to him, Trump’s Russia policy could be analogized to the guy who lets the dog pee on the rug. Supposedly, that was supposed to be comical.

Math and logic were in short supply on the Friday edition of PBS NewsHour as Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart accused 31 Republican senators “playing games” with aid for Ukraine because they voted against a spending bill in which less than one percent of the money was for Ukrainian aid.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and former impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch’s book tour took her to PBS on Tuesday, where NewsHour host Judy Woodruff and Amanpour and Company’s Christiane Amanpour wondered how former President Trump played into Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.

Tuesday brought the sad news Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova were killed covering the war in Ukraine. As part of Deadline: White House’s coverage of the news on MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace and journalist Sebastian Junger covered what they considered an important angle to the story: Donald Trump.

On Monday’s installment of Late Night on NBC, left-wing host Seth Meyers freaked out over Fox ’s Maria Bartiromo accurately pointing out that despite all the rhetoric coming from President Biden, he is still partnering with Vladimir Putin on significant issues. Of course, Meyers never actually refuted the claim.

Oh, for the good old days of the Soviet Union. America’s foreign policy and goals were clear then: containment and opposition to communist expansion. Nuclear weapons were a deterrent, but neither side believed the other would use them. Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed the game by threatening to use nukes should the U.S. directly confront his forces now raping Ukraine and committing…

According to MSNBC’s The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle and Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, President Biden took a huge risk on Tuesday when he announced that the U.S. would ban the importation of Russian oil. The risk being that Republicans will say they support the move while also blaming him for high gas prices.

Before President Biden gave a speech on Tuesday announcing the ban of Russian oil imports, the cast of At This Hour on CNN warned that gas prices will go up and that Biden has no good options to fix that problem -- as if his own policies have no impact on the situation.

Tiffany Cross, the namesake host of The Cross Connection, became the latest MSNBC personality to compare Ukraine’s literal war of survival to the alleged “rampant voter suppression” in America on her Saturday show during an interview with Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton prepared for the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, by joining MTP Daily host Chuck Todd on Friday where both he and Todd lamented that President Biden did not use his Tuesday State of the Union address to tie the fight for “voting rights” to Ukrainians’ fight for freedom.

After the end of the Cold War, foreign policy experts across the spectrum assured us that things had changed. Wars of pure border conquest were over. Wars over oil would soon be a thing of the past. Instead, the increasingly intertwined world would move toward peace. Thomas Friedman suggested in his massive 1999 bestseller “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” that no two countries with McDonald's…

After Wednesday’s installment of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, host Trevor Noah should wonder if he has good job security because an appearance by Stacey Abrams was more hilarious than anything Noah has ever done. Abrams unintentional joke: that she and her “voting rights” movement are comparable to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and ordinary Ukrainians fighting for their freedom…