meanwhile, russia also reported being struck by drones this morning. moscow s mayor said on social media, a drone attack caused, quote, insignificant damage to several buildings. the associated press reports it s the second attack after moscow said ukraine earlier this month. richard haass, good morning. if this is accurate, and we have to take big grains of salt when moscow reports something, if there were attacks inside the borders of russia from ukraine or a ukrainian-backed entity, that would mean what? that would mean it s a really bad idea to do it. it s not going to help ukraine militarily. doesn t change anything on the battlefield. it seems to justify, almost tit for tat, the unwarranted russian attacks on ukrainian and civilian areas. it feeds vladimir putin s narrative, that russia is the victim. russia is facing all of nato and, somehow, everything it s
if you will? this tells us where the center of turkey is. it s not a liberal western country, quite cultural and politically, nationalistic, quite resentful. look, there s no silver lining to this, willie. he is a, like it or not, this is a liberal democracy. you don t want to be a journalist or kurdish in erdogan s turkey. i think you ll have continued turkey will go its own way, forge its own relationships with russia, and it will be very difficult. they ll be willing to use the pressure of immigrants to get from europe what it wants. turkey is technically an ally but it is not a partner. that s what we have to understand. so long as erdogan is in charge, we ve got this problem within nato. by the way, nato s treaty has no mechanism for expelling a country. we have to live with this. it s a real problem given turkey s strategic importance in the middle east, in europe,
both paries as leaders try to secure their votes. plus, president biden and former president trump mark memorial day with very different messages. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis makes a pitch to voters ahead of the first event of his presidential campaign. we ll show you what he said. also ahead, we are following a developing story out of moscow this morning. drones attacking residential areas for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 30th. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, johnson lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay is with us. and pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. joe, on the debt ceiling, you said they d get there, but how d they finally do it? they had no choice. they got there. you know, we live in this world that s designed this
war, given the human loss and the rest. i just don t see where there s anywhere for it to go. politically, it seems to me, putin is in pretty safe position. there could be a tipping effect one day, that when it changes, it changes. if i were advising our side, i would simply say, do not assume there s going to be any break on the russian side. assume putin is in control, has the narrative going his way. most russians buy into it, that it is russia against nato. lots of russians are sympathetic to the claims in crimea and so fort. i just wouldn t depend on any real weakening in russian resolve. would love to be wrong there, but i d be really surprised. richard, let s talk about the gesturing that keeps going on in china toward the united states now. they re saying they don t want to meet with secretary of defense austin. xi was going to meet with blinken before the spy balloon was shot down. the gesturing, it seems, just
there s no doubt there s going to be he will sit and wait and see there. let me ask you, richard, about the new york times article i saw over the weekend that talked about the use of a.i. and, basically, scraping up all the data they could from the russian public. telegram messages, chat rooms, online traffic. the times says there s reporting that, actually, russians are starting to turn against the war, not dramatically, but a growing frustration, especially with the amount of russians who have been killed. two reactions to that. one is the use of a.i. obviously, this will be something that will help authoritarian regimes, joe, in terms of greater visibility into their own population, just something to think about. in terms of russians turning against the war, i wouldn t be surprised if there were a smoldering resentment about the