Fox News Host Says He Must ‘Push Back’ After Guest Rips Putin: ‘We’re Well Past the Moral High Ground’
Fox News host Will Cain felt compelled to “push back” on a journalist who had just ripped into Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Tikhon Dzyadko of TV Rain – an independent Russian TV station based in the Netherlands – joined Monday’s episode of The Will Cain Show, where he laid into Putin. The journalist’s appearance comes as President Donald Trump is attempting to end hostilities in Ukraine, which Russia invaded in February 2022. The U.S. has provided billions in aid to Ukraine since the invasion began, but continued assistance is in doubt after Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a tense Oval Office meeting in front of reporters on Friday. Trump, who has been critical of Zelensky, but not Putin, said the former is ungrateful for U.S. help.
“Looking at Mr. Trump’s actions, it makes me really sorry because I think that, it seems to me that Mr. Trump doesn’t actually understand that Putin is not his friend, and that Putin could not be a friend to the civilized world,” Dzyadko began. “And it’s so important to call the things by their names. And the name of Mr. Putin is ‘dictator.’ He started a terrible war in Ukraine. And I think it’s very important for the United States and for its allies to do anything it could to help Ukraine not become a part of this aggressive regime of Vladimir Putin. And now, when I’m looking at these talks by Mr. Trump and Mr. Zelensky in the White House, it makes me sad because it doesn’t… look like the peace is coming in this terrible war.”
Cain replied:
I want to bring in Congresswoman Sparks in just one moment, who originally hails from Ukraine. But I do have to push back for just one moment, Tikhon. I think that the conversation today moves beyond whether or not Donald Trump thinks Vladimir Putin is a friend or a dictator. It seems to me that what he’s pushing for is peace. And peace isn’t accomplished by getting hung up on who has honestly, the moral high ground. We’re well past the moral high ground. We’re in the strategic reality of the world, and both sides have to be acknowledged to accomplish peace, Tikhon.
Dzyadko responded, “Well, I think that ‘peace’ is not just a word, that peace does not exist in a vacuum. And there could be no peace between Ukraine and Russia now if Ukraine doesn’t have a security guarantee. That’s what Zelensky’s telling everyone now, because we know that Mr. Putin’s a liar and that he lied so many times that he’s now– Ukraine doesn’t have a security guarantees, then Vladimir Putin will attack Ukraine once again. And he definitely will do it like he did it in 2014, like he did it in 2022, or like he did it with Georgia, you know, in 2008.”
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