'We have been consistently concerned about NATO's eastern flank': John Kirby | ABC News



Martha Raddatz interviews Pentagon press secretary John Kirby on “This Week.”

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50 comments

  1. USA is not the police of the world.. keep our noses out of this.. WHAT YOU TELL ZELINSKY TO SHUT HIS FACE .

  2. so-called journalists talking bullshit .. how about peace talks about diplomacy.. u can blame this mess on Obama's policies.. peace talks understand that peace peace peace

  3. STAY THE F*** OUT NO MATTER WHAT.. WHY DO YOU WAR DOGS KEEP BEATING THE WAR DRUMS. YOU REALLY WANT END OF LIFE.. F**** UNBELIEVABLE..

  4. Russian soldiers are dieying, while the whole population of UA are losing everything and even their lives.
    UN is meaningless, >80% of people disagree with the assault, nevertheless cannot stop ONE agressor.
    The integrity of RUSSIAN lives aren't more important then the integrity of Ukrainian Lives.

  5. Quickly Obama/Trump/Biden we need to restock and build more nazis..https://youtu.be/fy910FG46C4

  6. HIPOCRATS OF ABC NEWS – YOU ATTACKED TRUMP 24/7 FOR THINGS THAT HE NEVER DID AND INTERFERED WITH THE GREAT THINGS HE WAS DOING FOR ALL OF US. YOU INSTEAD SUPPORTED, ENDORSED AND PROTECTED FOR MONEY THE WORST BADGE OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS EVER SEEN AND OUR MORON PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN WHO DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO HANDLE ANYTHING AS HE HAS NO PLANS FOR ANYTHING. NOW TAKE A LOOK AT OUR COUNTRY…. CRIME UP, GAS PRICES ROARING, ILLEGALS POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY WITHOUT CONTROL, INFLATION UP, BUILDING MATERIALS UP, JUDGES NOT WANTING TO JAIL CRIMINALS UP… AND SO ON… NOW YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT WAR AND OTHER PROBLEMS HAPPENING IN AMERICA THANKS TO THE PARTY THAT YOU SUPPORTED AND PROTECTED?????? HIPOCRATS, MORONS, DUMBHEADS… THIS IS WHAT YOU SUPPORTED AND YOU ARE NOW IN HEAVEN SEEING AND ENJOYING THE DESTRUCTION AND DEATH OF MANY IN UKRAINE. YOU ARE TRYING NOW TO MAKE US BELIEVE THAT YOU CARE FOR THESE PEOPLE AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT YOU ATTACKED??? HIPOCRATS!!!!!……………………………………………… YOU ARE A DISGRACE FOR THIS COUNTRY FOR ALL YOUR DIVISION NEWS TOWARDS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND FOR HELPING APPOINT HATERS WHO DO NOT LIKE OUR BELOVED COUNTRY. GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

  7. 200 million more of our tax payer dollars 😂😂😂

  8. If we bow to Putin every time he threatens nuclear, he will own the world.

  9. So tell me why white on white military actions start Ww3 but attacks on the browns not so much.

  10. This guy said it’s just not that serious 🧐 enough for us yet basically

  11. Whatever 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  12. This president and secretary of states are chicken.

  13. But it's a Chicky s*** b** and it's whole administration it's just as bad as he is we should have done gave them planes we should have done gave him everything they needed to kill the roaches

  14. Thank you & God Bless you all…🙏♥️

  15. God forbid you live in the zone of interests of the Anglo-Saxons. So we got to Ukraine …

  16. US only helps if got OIL DOWN THERE.. UKRAINE U GOT NOTHING.. SO US WILL WAIT.. LOOK.. SEE FROM FAR… LOOK AGAIN….MEETING…UKRAINE FALL FOR TRAP OF NATO N US.. WE PITY THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OF UKRAINE..

  17. US is a damn joke.. U fight UKRAINE FIGHT…I WILL HELP U… wait I was just joking.. WAIT OK HANG ON THERE UKRAINE.. OK WE SUPPLY HELMETS.. FIGHT UKRAINE… FIGHT

  18. We need to get rid of Biden his administration shows weakness on every possible level !!!!

  19. If you want to know about 30 countries that the member of nato. Check my channel

  20. We couldn't stand your spineless ass when we were in the military and now we really can't stand your weak ass.

  21. Biden is very clear that he won't get involved in a war with Russia directory. Does it still true when Russia attacks Poland or some other Nato members?

  22. News anchors are so stupid. It has been said over and over again; you can't put a 'No Fly Zone' rule, because that would start WW3. This theme has been talked about repeatedly every single day for 19 days; since the Russian/Ukraine war started. How did these news anchors get to even be qualified to be on the news? I guess mentally retarded isn't a factor when it comes to be employed by ABC News.

  23. Quick question, since NATO has no interest in fighting Russia head-on in a destructive war, can NATO countries use private military soldiers like how Russia uses the Wagner group to devastating effect in Libya and Central Africa? The US can arm the private soldiers, train them, and insert them into Ukraine. Technically it's not NATO getting involved, but it may help prevent Ukraine from becoming a new Russian Oblast.

  24. True Democrat..this guy is afraid of his own shadow

  25. Mr. Kirby, in the first few days of the attack, indicated in a group interview, tiring others describing how Ukraine was fighting back, that we were to understand that worse than the fighting then, would be the "Occupation." That told me that the US was reacting to this long-anticipated invasion, as an occupation, and a quick one, and we should all become used to it too. So, Mr. Kirby was incorrect. He floats ideas for the Administration, and that is what we should understand that he does. With video we can think it through, evidently more quickly than he can expound. I like Mr. Kirby; I am not sure he can take us forward from what we see on delayed tape.

  26. Release the power, just clear russia from existence.

  27. 100 YEARS OF TERROR 1922 – 2022…The Russian Soviet Union Nazi Terrorist…Crimes against humanity..Russia stands in defiance of God and man…Ezekiel 7 : 27…According to your ways so shall be done to you…with your own judgments you will be judged…The Soviet Terrorist are on trial in World Court …Putin has confessed to war crimes of past…Putin has exposed himself a liar a murderer a criminal…Putin has proven he is not a leader a president a Czar…Putin has proven acts of confession he is a criminal murderer he must be arrested and sign a confession of crimes against humanity and a full surrender…Putin must pay Ukraine for destruction of nation…Russia will be in debt for 100 years…2014 Russia stole 100 billion dollars Ukraine treasury…

  28. Dosta su amerikanci sejali smrt po svetu po raznim izgovorima da prosto su postali omrzen narod

  29. Meaning let Putin do this thing…

  30. Not to mention Iran targeted American consulate in Iraq but Biden won't do anything. The world knows that.

  31. Bla bla bla…they should have given Ulraine anti missile defense. Even if Russia strike a NATO countey, there is no guarantee that NATO will defend its countries. So sad.

  32. This was a very informative interview. The take-home message seems to be that U.S. can help Ukraine to a certain limited extent, but not so much that we cross a red-line that leads to Russia escalating to nuclear weapons. I guess we also want to avoid Russia escalating to chemical or biological weapons, but it is really nuclear weapons that are fundamentally part of this calculation.

    So we can supply Ukraine with certain types of assistance, but we cannot directly supply them with fighter aircraft or direct involvement of U.S.military as in maintaining a no-fly zone.

    The red-line is presumably defined by Russia. We can do A, B, C . . . without crossing that red-line. But if we did something else that helped Ukraine to the point that it really threatened Russia's perception of their chance of success, then that "something else" would cross the red-line. So, by definition, we are constrained to do nothing that would "really" help Ukraine. We are allowed to help them limp along to their ultimate doom, but not to prevent them from ultimately being defeated.

    If the war is prolonged, then after a couple years one of the currently (ie, in 2022) "acceptable" A, B, C might become viewed as unacceptable, and Russia might deem that as crossing the red-line. If we offer help that just allows Ukraine to hang on, but not enough to actually defeat Russia, "hanging on" might be viewed as an escalating threat for a war that already has exceeded Putin's expectations by say several years.

  33. Im a rx nato soldier and this is fucking stupid

  34. Its fucking stupid get him to surrender the usa has blood on there hands im a ex soldier and i even know that there is no winners in ukraine just more blood shed why is the usa just get zelensky to surrender ukraine is gone and the usa and bato shpuld never had expanded this is what happens fucking morons nato could have asked for dialogue and stopped this is that stupid nato chairmam failt all he had to do was take nomore members infact why did they still exist before russia was no threat until now and russoa is no threat to is apart from what you done to ukraine apsalute nightmare

  35. You should be telling them to surrender ffs

  36. These administration officials just talk in circles… weak ass Dems

  37. RUSSIA is no Iraq or afghanistan, USA knows not to mess with RUSSIA

  38. Man your going to let them and Syrian people die because why we spend all taxpayers money on military then refuse to help you have drones come on we have that technology use it he is gonna drop a nuke and kill everyone he wont stop at 🇺🇦

  39. At this point I'm hoping Putin puts down the Meth pipe..
    He's a direct world threat and needs to be treated as such.

  40. May be your nukes(US) don't work at all because every time putin says nukes you back down like a dog. Why don't you remind him that you too have them? Biden is a coward.

  41. Kirby sounds like a politician bureaucrat rather than a firm military man. Pentagon and US interests would be server better if someone more firm and sharp would take the roll of Press Sec for DOD.  Russia and China need to be scared of the west not the opposite and having a nice guy like Kirby do the talking is not very convincing.

  42. Nato is a disease .. like hunter

  43. Putin won't stop to destroy Ukraina and Nato. putin will win the war if nato only defend.

  44. What about Donbass war (East Ukraine) for 8 years ( 13000 victims including 130 children ? Why were you all silent???