Watch: Nato chief holds news conference as Putin issues war threat to West

Admiral Rob Bauer, Chair of the NATO Military Committee and Lieutenant General Karel Rehka, the Czech Chief of General Staff, hold a joint press conference.

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[seymourtrac]

These people are insane, completely out of touch

[Son_of_Burebista]

Perfect and to the point!

The problem, as always, the USA politics!

[tonybenn]

These NATO Gangsters should be in jail for endangering all of our lives.

[Ganbarizer]

This is the best audio/video quality they could come up with?

[rossspenser]

Stop the war and don't make things worse .NATO is defense only

[waynethorpe]

Soldier's Forward.
Generals Backward.

[adedayoemmanuel]

Why is NATO preparing for war against Russia and not preparing for peace and progress around the world ? Why don't you practice the peace you preach ? Your book, The bible, , says: ' love your neighbours as yourself ' Why are you practising the politics of domination and division ? Please foster peace around the world and stop the killing in Ukraine/Russia and in Gaza. Stop fuelling the war ! The soldiers have wives and children. Widow and fatherless are too much in Ukraine, Russia, Israel and Gaza. From Lagos Nigeria.

[loislilly]

Where is he sending those 500, 000 NATO troops? To Russia? Good-bye NATO troops.
Russia now has 2.2 million troops and these troops are dedicated to saving Russia. What is the ambition of a NATO serviceman?
I wonder how many NATO countries' citizens are on the side of Russia? Most people like the idea of family and country, strong Russian values, not the values of NATO.
The Ukrainians military is mostly dead or wounded.
The world is on the edge of nuclear war because of NATO.

[renesokker]

Ukraine is NOT a Nato country so why is Nato in war with Russia.?

[Viking]

Politicians should not control military needs to defend themselves! They should take the family and book a hotel in Kiev for a week so they can see it from a different point of view...😖

[AC-lipg]

We don’t care we not fighting Russia full stop

[gregweston]

Perhaps NATO should stop surrounding Russia like they promised Yeltsin. Perhaps the US should stop interfering in other countries and changing their governments to become their lackies like they did to Ukraine in 2014.
Have any of you actually asked why Russia entered Ukraine in the first place?

[shicks]

For some idiot to question why is Nato in support of Ukraine. Has he never heard of Allies & friendly neighbours helping them to defend against a warmongering threatening Russia .

[Thenrein]

Again a brave dutch militaryman... brave in words but never going himself to the front.. just another warmonger over the bodies of others

[romsquadfishing]

Phiu what a load of BS.. Is anybody believing this crap anymore?

[binniparis]

All of NATO needs to be flown to Ukrainian - instead of hidingng in other countries safely while young men and women die. Proxy wars need to be deemed illegal internationally. Please - stop the horror. Enough. May God be with you all. Xx

[jeffreyrobbins-jgrd]

It won't be like Ukraine it'll be a lot worse

[paulclive]

Protect our way of life? 😂😂😂😂😂 oh dear.

[uysalkasim]

shame on nato
stop being american puppet

[nilsmuhlenbruch]

It is not up to Putin to determine how Ukraine prefers to defend itself