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To account. earlier, i spoke with an f c coordinator john kirby. welcome back to the sunday show, john kirby. thank you so much for having, me. jonathan president biden has to pull into tomorrow, letting they re just three days before the air when your anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. this will be a second trip to poland. what s on the itinerary? there are few things you really want to make sure she. does one is to thank the polish people for their incredible support that they have provided ukraine over the course of the last year. not only is it we ll let the support they provided thousands of american troops that are now on rotational deployments in poland s, supporting that effort. poulin is really stepped up as a nato ally, and a good friend, to host as as well as to support ukraine s military in the field, four billion dollars worth of security systems in ....
That that gets cut off. yeah, the russians are not exactly turning to some of the finest members of the international community when they are engaged in this sort of thing. what do you make of this open dispute between the u.s. and germany over providing tanks to ukraine? i think that it is somewhat disappointing. i think that germany right now is proving that they might not be quite the reliable ally that we would expect from someone that has a large economy, and is a nato member like that. i think in the long run, it is going to continue to grow as a fracture. germany said that they wanted to step up and spend more, meet their 2% gdp commitment to the nato alliance, and then they have found reason, after reason, after reason in the last couple of weeks to begin to back off of that. when it comes to tanks, it is a specious argument. they are one country away from being at the front of that war with poulin does a buffer, and yet they will not allow frontline military equipment to g ....
Inside of a place like poland. that would certainly raise the specter of a direct russian attack against a nato ally. you mentioned you re more worried of that than him potentially using any nuclear weapons. several biden officials, saying that they haven t seen evidence that poulin will imminently use a nuclear weapon. as the top republican on the intelligence committee, is that what you re seeing as well? well, i wouldn t comment on what they re seeing or not seeing. i m not saying the risk of him detonating a nuclear device as a demonstration is zero. i think the risk is higher today than it was a month ago. if you walk down the escalation path, before he gets to that point, there s probably something he would do intermediate which would probably be, for example what s the purpose of a tactical nuclear weapon detonated for demonstration purposes? it s to send a message. ....