John Kerry: Putin Is More In A Corner Than Anyone Would Like Him To Be - Morning Joe - MSNBC

[TexasTowelie]

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, joins Morning Joe to discuss the Biden White House's climate policies, the Inflation Reduction Act, the latest in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China pushing the EU on climate change despite producing the most carbon emissions.

[karynnj]

1. Great interview with lots of information. THANKS

[BeyondGeography]

2. Interesting on climate, awful on Ukraine

“People” need to come to their senses? Which people would that be?

Reminds me of the terrible habit Obama fell into and never quite got out of; “Congress” needed to come to its senses when one party was insane.

[karynnj]

3. Umm the context seems to imply Russia

The question framed the issue of whether a cornered Putin would resort to nuclear weapons. His answer was very somber and he doesn't rule it out. In that context, the rest of his answer is essentially that they need diplomacy and Blinken and Jake Sullivan are on it. Remember as someone on Biden's national security team, an answer like this which should not make news is what is needed. Even the SoS will not step beyond the official position. I have no idea what things you would want him to say.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Stating Putin is much more cornered than we'd like him to be

without either qualifying that Putin is to blame for his own misery or adding a statement of support for Ukraine’s right to its own territory—which Blinken always does—was, frankly, fuzzy and inept.

In fairness, he wasn’t there to talk about Ukraine but as a former SecState it shouldn’t have been that hard.