John Kirby: ‘Obviously We Don’t Want To See This Conflict [In Ukraine] Escalate’

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KIRBY: “What I would tell you, Mike, is that we’re giving them information and capabilities to defend themselves. And what they do with that information, that’s up to them. Obviously, we don’t want to see this conflict escalate and get any worse than it already is. And we’ve already said that nobody stands to gain from a war between the United States and Russia. That would flat out just support Putin’s narrative, right, that this is the west --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Right."
KIRBY: "-- vs. Russia. And it's not. It's Russia vs. Ukraine. So we don’t want to see it escalate.”