Sec. Blinken: The American Flag Flies Over Our Embassy In Kiev Once Again

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Published on May 19, 2022

In part two of his conversation with Stephen Colbert, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken describes the evacuation of the American embassy in Kiev at the start of Russia’s invasion, and his pride at seeing our flag raised over the building as diplomats returned to their posts in Kiev today. Stick around for more with Sec. Blinken including him rocking out with Stay Human! #Colbert #AntonyBlinken #SecretaryBlinken

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  • Adjunct Prof Colleen B Kelly - Retired 2 years ago

    Surely Zelensky will get the nobel peace prize. SURELY.

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  • Felix Universe 2 years ago

    Good show requires intelligence, so does good humor, even … politics. Both of these guys seam to have it. If only most of the politicians – everywhere, demonstrated some levels of it …

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  • Chris Becker 2 years ago

    We all need to pronounce it Keev, the Kiev pronunciation is Russian. This will upset Putin.

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  • Frank Parker 2 years ago

    To most people on the planet, the last thing they ever see is the American flag.

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  • Kenneth Stone 2 years ago

    I’d imagine that after Benghazi, the state department is probably a lot more quick on the “pull them out” trigger.

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  • LUR21 2 years ago

    How has anybody not made an A.Blinken (Abe Lincoln) joke yet?? It’s right there just waiting.

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  • Leanne Vande Kew 2 years ago

    Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Especially if it was put there by Russians.”

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  • Leanne Vande Kew 2 years ago

    The 29 other members could expel Turkey from NATO.
    Then admit Finland and Sweden.

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  • Monica Aiken 2 years ago

    0:22 listening to some French news analysts talking about Zelinsky the other day it almost sounded like some Russian propaganda or kissing up to Russia the way they made it out to sound like Zelinsky is all about the camera angle and his inage and workibg the screen. A couple eventually chimed in, after like 10 minutes of this kissing up to the Russian slant that actually Zelensky shows true mettle and grit and stayed when his city was being bombed. That he is the voice of democracy and freedom and has earned his people’s and the world’s admiration and trust. But not without first sucking up to Russia, and saying Zelwnsky is a good tv man.

    About the embassy in Kyiv/Kiev reopening and being safe all of a sudden, how can you be so sure? Or is the American embassy’s return a signal to Russia that “you mess with us or shoot down our embassy, you’ll feel the fall-out”? Just wondering because they literally just took Mariupol, so it seems like Russian advances are working, and they are shellibg Odessa. So why all of a sudden is Kyiv/Kiev so safe?

    Also what is there to recapture, after Russia is through with it? They seem ghost towns of rubble and despair. Like Russia’s lesson to Ukraine to not go trying to buddy up with the west. And that they can suddenly redefine what it is to be a war criminal/a nazi etc. They are the ones invading, bombing territory that is nit theirs. They are the clear aggressors.

    I’m really tired of hearing France talk about how to leave the door open for Russia to become European again. Russia takes advantage over any weakness.

    Also, reading Anne Frank for my daughter last night we got talking about how Germany was defested twice in both wars but didn’t learn from the first world war. So when America says it wants to weaken Russia’s ability to wage wars like this against their neighbors, it reminds me of WWI. And France shouldn’t twist that to sound like America wants to weaken Russia and it’s just some proxy wsr between the US and Russia. France is also a part of the war and they are filming their war analysts and debates and whatever. They take afvantage of freedom of speech and press etc. They should also try and stop playing bith sides.

    If I had been Zelensky I probably would have tried to flee or save my own skin. I think he has proven himself to be a true war hero among the likes of Churchill. And not justcto be some film star or man of the moment but to help motivate his country to defend itself and stand up for its own borders its own cities. I’m not sure I’d have been so gutsy under the same fire. But the way the French put it, you’d think it was some promo shoot.

    Meanwhile rigt wing extremists in America spread the Russian propaganda as well that the ones defending Mariupol were nazis. It’s just nuts. It is a wsr in truth and our own observations. It is a gaslighting. Telling pregnant women who were bombed in their mstrrnity wards thatvthey had staged her own pregnancy or the photos or that they didn’t know whether it was Ukraine bombing itself. I mean it is just nuts nuts nuts. We can believe our own eyes, too. And journalists do have a form of integrity we can trust as well. Right? Or should we all fsll for Russia’s interpretation that Zelensky is some ouppet of the west? I think Zelensky teaches the west more about its values and its integrity than the other way around.

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  • fifilafiloche 2 years ago

    Americans, whose courage is now famous all around the world after the Iraki, Syrian and Afghan retreats, not only fear to fight their wars on the front line, but when the rival goes to war, their diplomats flee the field of battle. Kudoes for the global heroes!

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  • No Comment 2 years ago

    Great interview 🙂

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  • Umberto Verbita 2 years ago

    Mr. Colbert, please go visit Ukraine, visit the Ukrainian people, and please visit Mr. President Zelensky. Please do !!!

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  • William Cortelyou 2 years ago

    I was worried Russia was ganna roll over Ukraine. The fact they are pushing them back is incredible. Good luck guys!

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  • 3331CUR4ntSaturnVI E. Javier 2 years ago

    Oliver Stone is right.

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  • LKNANML 2 years ago

    Whenever I read that guys name a scene from Robin hood men in tights pops into my head.
    Blinken is on the toilet as the castel is rolled away. There he sits and opens his Playboy for the blind and feels up the centerfold……..

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  • Nathan Croucher 2 years ago

    The US taking ZERO responsibility for this war.

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  • Leo durand 2 years ago

    Full of lies

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  • John Harrison 2 years ago

    Sort of like the last King of England that died in battle

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