Full Kirby: ‘We absolutely are concerned about escalation’ in the Ukraine war



Adm. John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator for the National Security Council, joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s renewed push for his country to join NATO, and America’s response to the ongoing conflict.

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39 comments

  1. We should be in there defending democracy… not standing by watching Genocide…. All the unjust wars we have fought, then we have one that we have a moral duty to fight and we Cowardly stand by, our WW1 and 2 dead will be turning in their graves !

  2. If you could call it that once a pon a time it was Ukraine but now a pile of rubble so sad 😢

  3. Middle east. Always fight. When europe fights. It usually ends in world war. Every 100 years. Not good. It is a system. Yo reform and put people in check.
    It is a working system. It has been in place for centuries.

  4. Government can't pass a debt ceiling bill but will pass yet another package to Ukraine. Tsk tsk tsk

  5. Re China, Xi, like Putin, doesn’t understand anything but force. Biden needs to start organizing the whole West to economically sanction China. We don’t need China, China needs us.

  6. Ukraine have been pulled into this war innocently, they are passed the stage of being afraid and fearful of russia and pootens threats. The war has escalated alright for pooten. The russian foreign legion are gonna clean pooten and the kremlin out they want freedom from pooten for all the good russians. SLAVA UKRAINA 🇺🇦🇺🇦♥️♥️🙏🙏😁😃.

  7. Give Ukraine the weapons it needs to do the job and win quickly so that RuZZia cannot later escalate the war to other countries!

  8. Eisenhower was right, military industry is the biggest enemy.
    They're controlling media and politicians.

  9. Putin played a bluff right from the very start of this and US with NATO folded like the bunch of cowards they are proving themselves to be .

  10. Stop pointing your pen at the audience….. it’s rude!!

  11. Propaganda…double standard

  12. Then why not declare war on Russia? Ha ha ha

  13. Google, what is an example of cognitive dissonance and activist journalism? Answer: @5:44 "If they want to be attacked, maybe they shouldn't attack another country"

  14. Listen to those clowns…

  15. If he's not lying then why does he pucker his lips everytime he speaks.

  16. Biden’s globalist elite handlers want a world war because then they will have no problem bringing in their new world order scam! Covid was part of it and it backfired

  17. Maybe you fools shouldn't have pushed the ukraine towards NATO and instead let the ukraine negotiate with their neighbor and former ally, Russia.
    There would be no war in the ukraine if Trump was president.

  18. Of course he's concerned he's part of the causation

  19. You are not too concerned or the US would not be giving those nuts in Ukraine long range weapons and targeting information to allow Ukraine to target Putin’s residence. This is a stupid thing to do.
    Quick. cover that hole in that guys neck before he suffocates.

  20. Escalation? To what? War? Are you stupid?

  21. Putin is just an old fashion bully. Full of sound and fury, signifing nothing. Like all bullies, you just need to walk up and break his nose without a word to see him whine, cry, and then run away. Nothing but a schoolyard bully…and they always lose end the end while everyone loses all respect for them…FOREVER.

  22. Back in march west said Ukrainian counter offensive 98% ready, now its June.

  23. Kirby is a warmonger 😂

  24. Take each day at a time. Don’t worry about tomorrow… it doesn’t exist. Russia must be defeated now!

  25. WAGNER BOSS MESSAGE …
    CNN and Americans GET READY FOR AFGHANISTAN style looooong and bloody WAR with UKRAINIAN SEPARATISTS ATT THE HHHH LLLL ……

  26. NEOCON PNAC PROXY PUPPETS
    NEOCON PNAC PROXY WAR
    $LAVE UKRAINE

  27. Haha why is the us so scared to admit it was them ? What are they so scared about ? 😂😂 cowards

  28. Yes i wanted to give money and aide you a helpless dead animal,

  29. This American 🇺🇲 proudly stands with Russia 🇷🇺🐻 for they're on the right side of history 📚👍⚖️

  30. If you're concerned about escalation than stop making decisions you know will cause escalation, Ukraine is not worth risking WW3, not to mention the fact that the US and NATO pre-planned this proxy war against Russia well in advance of it occurring, so you Mr. Kirby are not being truthful…!!!

  31. At least 3 missiles hit Ukraine last just from the big explosions I saw on twitter from yesterday

  32. vote Trump, he said he will end this war in 24hr

  33. John Kirby standing next to Josh Hawley 🤣 and his manly book

  34. At the top in China, the authoritarian Xi seems to be attempting to build a military he believes a super power should have to truly be *super*, while attempting to avoid overt inflammation with US, Australia, Japan and the rest of the collective West. He isnt entirely succeeding there. The rope does in fact seem to be reaching its end. We see the Spratley Islands dispute as a power move to assert influence in their own back yard, indeed deflating US power in the region. For Xi to be successful however, it would take some highly deft maneuvering on the part of not only Xi, but successive administrations. I'm not sure Xi has ever imagined such a concept as what comes after him, or even has that kind of patience, and the nature of strongmen seems to push against such a narrative. Do we really think Xi can be conciliatory to a politically unstable US and achieve such a lofty gain? A very loud extremist minority in the US seem to want wars on multiple fronts(China, Iran, *and Mexico*), while the rest of us haven't really sorted it all out. Too many forks in the trail ahead.

  35. What you need to be concerned about is how a stinger missile that the United States it to the Ukraine Roundup in Mexico
    It's obvious that ukrainians aren't using all those weapons on the battlefield they are being sold on the black market but creepy Joe does it give a f*** as long as he keeps getting his 10%

  36. When a war is going Kirby is selling bullets… It's good business!!! 😉 All the death is covered over by the Corporate media just to keep selling the commercial segments to Wall Street… The power players stay in power and we stay the sheep!!! That has been life on earth since the beginning of history… America, Russia and China have a hidden relationship that they all use to keep the people in fear of their power…

  37. Air raid sirens "blare". Explosions "ring out". How trite and amateurish.

  38. When Russia gets destroyed by Ukraine, can USA extend Alaska West? Ruskies won't be able to do anything. We could be much closer to Moskow. And we could move a border down to China. Hey neighbor, we are now a few minutes from dropping a nuke on a population center. Mongolia wants to join another country, so they may be a willing partner in getting even closer to China. Lol