Peter King | Former Congressman Talks NYS Gubernatorial Debate & Starlink Controversy in Ukraine

Yeah, I think Ter- uh, uh, Donald Trump is making a terrible mistake here.

Listen, it's not U- just Ukraine.

The thing is Ukraine is right now in the forefront.

They are the ones being attacked by Russia.

And e- but we can agree or disagree with NATO over the years.

The fact is, for 80 years, led by America, NATO and the United States stopped Russian aggression.

And as a result of that, we've had the longest period of peace in Europe in centuries.

We had two world wars, and, and the US, after World War II, said, "Enough.

We're gonna set up NATO.

We're gonna, uh, be the leader," and we stopped Russian aggression.

The only wars you had in Europe over the last 80 years were in the, uh, Balkans and in Northern Ireland, and Bill Clinton ended both of those.

Other than that, NATO stood strong.

I have problems with NATO, I have problems with Europe, but I never thought I'd see the day when Europe was doing more to resist Russian aggression.

I don't know what, uh, what it is, why President Trump has this.

I think somehow he thinks in terms of power politics, that the United States, Russia, and China, and countries like Ukraine are just getting in the way.

The fact is, to me, I compare Ukraine to Czechoslovakia.

I compare them, those countries before World War II, that Hitler took over.

I'm not saying history is the same, but it does repeat itself in many ways.

Oh, yeah.

And Putin, why, why President Trump gives into Putin, I mean, Putin has not complied with one request made by President Trump.

Zelenskyy has complied with all of them, and yet he gets somehow denounced.

So I think president's making a mistake.

I think part of it is he believes if you deal in big power politics, you can control it.

You can't control Putin.

He will keep going until someone stops him.