Pentagon press briefing: 4/18/24

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder briefs the media.
#pentagon #news #unitedstates

[@carlalexanderrocher1002]

“I’m not gonna go into hypotheticals” his favorite line

[@rayjay5836]

Or when he says I will have to refer that to Ronald McDonald.

[@YellowKurt]

he shouldnt be there

[@neil9248]

Well he can’t so…

[@alexcorrea4828]

​@@YellowKurtwhat do you think someone else is going to answer hypothetical questions

[@YellowKurt]

@@alexcorrea4828 It's not hypothetical when there is a live war going on. He just doesn't have the clearance to answer anything, hence he shouldn't be there.

[@ricardosmith5753]

Is there any answer besides “I can’t comment on that” ??

[@SmellyBodega]

not really. thats how it works.

[@RyanHarmon2]

90% of this is "great question, can't answer that"

[@YellowKurt]

That's what happens when you put Uber Drivers in important positions

[@JesseVasconcelos-vn3gg]

We need to do something in the "sound" department. Always terrible

[@txkitkat1307]

That’s not all!

[@chrismr.inspiredduff1438]

why is the audio on AP always so low?

[@Hollymountainhwy16]

They are starving haven't ate the meals before go to the press conference

[@txkitkat1307]

So we can’t clearly hear the lies told

[@cottoncordel8091]

Swallowing the word "Don't".....sucks doesn't it!

[@TheLight_ThatBlinds]

I was waiting for “don’t it”

[@socrates6870]

Ukraine doesn't fight in vain, Ukraine must prevail, to stop a war in Europe

[@chris5483]

I am just trying to understand, no disrespect to the General Officer or US Military, but how is it the Pentagon Press Briefing can clearly say it endorses or does not endorse aid to Ukraine? I feel like it should just be neutral with no opinion. Just something like, “The Pentagon is ready to utilize the robust logistics systems to take action if and when the nation’s elected officials and policymakers send out their final decision.” If the Pentagon cannot disclose the logistics for OPSEC, then what else is there to be said? This seems like the Pentagon is trying to help push the funding through Congress by giving this sort of briefing as it clearly gives an opinion and is not neutral on the issue of Ukraine. The military and its members can have opinions but when it comes to doing the bidding of the politicians and policymakers, the military must only be ready to take action or not. Giving any sort of opinion and saying things like fingers crossed is literally like asking for money or admitting a personal bias when representing the pentagon and military…. Why is this being done like this? I do not understand? I feel like a service-member must simply complete the mission and while entitled to personal opinions cannot make them the message of the US Military as the US Military as an organization should always be neutral. One can advise or have opinions, but this does not seem like the time or place for them? Am I wrong?

[@michaelashby9654]

Can you please stop talking about "national security"? Call it something else like "giving your money to our friends" policy? Or "our policy of fighting wars for a global elite"? But none of this has anything to do with US security. Our borders are wide open and there is no effort to close them.

[@strrgaze]

you obviously have not been paying attention. they are our WARS.

[@MrEddie68000]

Cuz it is national security.

[@richjames5233]

Very well said. I hate hearing the word security anymore. I’m pretty sure something sept 11 caliber could happen from someone illegally entering our country over the border and we still wouldn’t close it.

[@ninemoonplanet]

Well, then every Allie of the US doesn't need to go with the US any place, time or battle if you don't want to help the NATO allies or others. Helping Ukraine is spending roughly 90% of the money INSIDE the US. But if you don't want those jobs, let DoD know.

[@arigoldstein939]

@@richjames5233 Why are white supremacists so concerned with xenophobia?

[@creativecatalyst777]

Pointless as usual.

[@szimultan00]

Slava Ukraini!!!

[@navinsingh72]

America has never been perceived in a worse light than currently, as an African let me say that we find America extremely two faced and the direct cause of much suffering around the world. Many pray for the day that America won't be in a position to continue this destructive role that it has assumed

[@Sinclair_USMC]

China and Russia would be preferred?

[@erikalarson8415]

I guess we better shut down youtube also, seeing it is an Americam based internet platform. Yet here you are.

[@hazey7267]

​@@Sinclair_USMC one is just as bad as the other

[@Hollymountainhwy16]

Russia 🇷🇺 and China are Worsen, American has double standards, picking your own battlefield and still having a coke and cheese burger 🍔 meal

[@sunnysidecarebear]

Or maybe learning US dont work alone. Its not one country to blame for the worlds problems. Every leader allowed in into their own communities. Blame the party, not a country of people who are losing freedom as well. This whole leftist administration is insane!

[@brooklynn52dee38]

Volume stinks!

[@jamescarter8761]

3:52

[@craft-o-matic399]

Geez, do I even want to know...?

[@txkitkat1307]

Pretty sure international audiences could care less at this point what the Industrial Military Complex has to say

[@HopeCarrothers]

So is our country, the USA in a state of emergency? We would like to know!

[@SigHellion]

You have to ask…? 🧐🤔

[@Sundeep_x]

They have to be nice with the reporter so they don’t ask any difficult question so t every time anybody ask question they will say thanks before answering the question

[@user-kw3jw9gh4p]

Bravo, USA!

[@farrider3339]

Always amusing how journalists ask for details with relevance to operational security. Best answer: Yes you can go to our website. There we will release routes and schedules. 😂 Aid package to Ukraine NOW ! P. feels on a wave of triumph and Ukraine is willing, not yet enabled to get him off this trip !

[@ronaldreas]

Notice how quite dish satellite cable and utube and thay are silence no more

[@jameshorton9110]

Same outcome 😮

[@TerriAnnNiemeier-dy3no]

Can we not appeal to Our USÀ Military Service to Stop this funding to foriegn nations and re route it through Our Commanders at the Pentagon, as overseer's of all Foriegn Aid, and cover the DOJ services in Anerica. Everyone from first responders to border patrol ? Washington does not have one White Hoyse Leader educated enough to handle the various homeland conflicts between States much less Lead a Nation and her people through these War effects in all regions

[@rosemarechanging9805]

Can Congress set up weekly briefs with intel on Russian propaganda with specific posts & talking points?

[@user-nu6gl8io8f]

Please Protect our Border!!

[@user-mp2kz5jb5m]

U could throw your papers if you would like

[@Lamin_G]

_"If Israel is attacked, we _*_will defend_*_ Israel,"_ courtesy of Pat Ryder. Isn't this the kind of attitude that *incentivizes* Israel to engage in *provocative* aggression, like bombing an embassy of a sovereign nation and then crying about it when someone retaliates? Knowing that the U.S. "will defend it" no matter what, Israel could well decide that it will have nothing to lose by provoking a "wider regional war." Notwithstanding that the ruling *Nigerien junta* has not indicated transitioning to "constitutional" rule any time soon, it is interesting that the U.S. troops are still there. Reports have surfaced suggesting that the junta demanded the withdrawal of the U.S. troops, but the DOD has since indicated that there "has been no change" in the U.S. posture.

[@Kondasnaker]

🎖️

[@brianp6682]

i can defend our troops without passing the supplemental by bringing the troop;s home!

[@jbud7826]

RFK 2024 🇺🇸

[@rayjay5836]

Useless briefing never says anything tangible.

[@user-ti2kb8ho4z]

🤲🇵🇸🤲اللهم احفظ فلسطين وأهلها ومقدساتنا الإسلامية في فلسطين والقدس والاقصى المبارك اعاده الله لي المسلمين قريبا يارب اللهم احفظ فلسطين وأهلها واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم على الاحتلال ❤اللهم احفظ سوريا وأهلها يارب اللهم ارنا في روسيا وامريكا والغرب وفرنسا والصين والهند وبريطانيا عجائب قدرتك يارب اللهم انصر اخواننا المسلمين في كل مكان في العالم يارب اللهم احفظ كل بلادنا العربية والإسلامية والشعوب العربية والإسلامية يارب اللهم احقن دماء المسلمين اللهم وحد صفوف المسلمين والعرب يارب اللهم احفظ مسلمين الهند وبارك فيهم واحفظهم واحفظ أعراضهم وبارك فيهم وانصرهم يارب اللهم اعز الاسلام والمسلمين اجمعين يارب اللهم احفظ مسلمين فرنسا وبارك فيهم واحفظهم واحفظ أعراضهم وبارك فيهم وانصرهم يارب اللهم اعز الاسلام والمسلمين اجمعين يارب اللهم احفظ مسلمين تركستان الشرقية والصين واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم على الصين والشيوعيين اللهم طهر أفريقيا من فرنسا ولغتها وعملائها يارب اللهم احفظ مسلمين الهند وبارك فيهم واحفظهم واحفظ أعراضهم وبارك فيهم وانصرهم يارب اللهم اعز الاسلام والمسلمين اجمعين يارب اللهم احفظ باكستان والشعب الباكستاني والجيش الباكستاني وبارك فيهم واحفظهم واحفظ أعراضهم وبارك فيهم وانصرهم على الهند ومودي والهند....وس....والغرب وامريكا والروس والصين اللهم قوي باكستان لنصرة الإسلام والمسلمين اجمعين يارب اللهم اعد جامو وكشمير لباكتسان والمسلمين اللهم اعد شبه القارة الهندية والهند لحكم الاسلام والمسلمين اللهم عجل في تحرير فلسطين وسوريا اللهم عجل في فتح الهند و روما والغرب يارب اللهم وحد صفوف المسلمين والعرب يارب اللهم احفظ كل بلادنا العربية والإسلامية والشعوب العربية والإسلامية يارب اللهم احقن دماء المسلمين اللهم وحد صفوف المسلمين والعرب يارب اللهم احفظ مصر واهلها واعد تيران وصنافير الى مصر واعد سيناء إلى مصر واعد آثار مصر المسروقة وارزق مصر اتفاقية بحرية مع تركيا تفيد تركيا ومصر اللهم احفظ حقوق مصر والسودان والمسلمين في النيل وماء النيل يارب اللهم احفظ مصر واهلها وارزقهم قائد مثل الشهيد محمد مرسي يارب اللهم احفظ السودان وأهلها واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم وارزقهم حكم مدني اللهم وحد السودان وجنوب السودان تحت حكم واحد اللهم ارزق شعب جنوب السودان وكل أفريقيا نعمة الإسلام يارب اللهم انصر مالي ودول الساحل على فرنسا والغرب اللهم ابعد الشعوب العربية والإسلامية عن حرب روسيا واوكرانيا التي لا ناقة لنا فيها ولا جمل اللهم احفظ مسلمين روسيا والشيشان واوكرانيا من كل شر يارب اللهم اعد روسيا وسيبيريا إلى الحكم الإسلامي والمسلمين اللهم احفظ تركيا وشعبها وقائدها أردوغان اللهم قوي تركيا ونفوذ تركيا في اسيا الوسطى والبلقان والقوقاز واوربا الشرقية وفلسطين وسيبيريا ارض العرق التركي والتتار والترك والشعوب التركية والطاي وياقوتيا التركية اللهم قوي نفوذهم في أفريقيا وشمال أفريقيا والشرق الأوسط وآسيا والعالم العربي والإسلامي واجمع وقوي تفوذها في قبرص واعد اليونان وقبرص إلى الحكم التركي الإسلامي اللهم احفظ افغانستان الإسلامية وشعبها العزيز واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم على الاحتلال اللهم احفظ سوريا وأهلها واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم على الاحتلال الروسي الأمريكي الغربي اللهم اشفي كل الجرحى والمصابين وارفع عنهم البلاء اللهم احفظ اليمن وأهلها واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم وارزقهم الوحدة والأمان والاستقرار والخير والبركات يارب اللهم احفظ الجزائر والمغرب وارزقهن الوحدة فهم إخوة في الدين واللغة والدم وجيران اللهم وحد صفوف المسلمين والعرب يارب اللهم احفظ فلسطين وأهلها ومقدساتنا الإسلامية في فلسطين والقدس والاقصى المبارك اعاده الله لي المسلمين قريبا يارب اللهم احفظ فلسطين وأهلها واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم على الاحتلال حفظ الله غزة العزة وأهلها وجنين واهلها والضفة وأهلها يارب اللهم احفظ غزة العزة وأهلها وفك الحصار عنها اللهم احفظ فلسطين والشعب الفلسطيني في الداخل والخارج واحفظ القدس عاصمة فلسطين الابدية والاقصى أولى القبلتين وثالث الحرمين اللهم احفظ مسلمين البوسنة والبلقان والقوقاز ومسلمين كوسوفو وانصرهم على الصرب والروس والغرب اللهم اعد البلقان لحكم الاتراك والمسلمين اللهم احفظ دول اسيا الوسطى التركية الإسلامية واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم وقوي نفوذ تركيا هناك وطهر بلادهم من روسيا والصين والغرب اللهم احفظ مسلمين الايغور وانصرهم واعد تركستان الشرقية حكم ذاتي او حكم لهم وانصرهم على الحكم الشيوعي يارب اللهم احفظ إندونيسيا وماليزيا وشعوبهم ومسلمين جنوب شرق آسيا وجنوب اسيا اللهم احفظ أوزبكستان وشعبها الشقيق وحدهم اللهم احفظ بلاد الحرمين ومكة والمدينة وكل بلادنا العربية والإسلامية والشعوب العربية والإسلامية يارب اللهم ارنا في روسيا وامريكا والغرب وفرنسا والصين والهند وبريطانيا عجائب قدرتك يارب اللهم انصر مسلمين كشمير وتركستان الشرقية وفلسطين وغزة يارب العالمين اللهم انصر اخواننا المسلمين في كل مكان في العالم اللهم احفظ كل بلادنا العربية والإسلامية والشعوب العربية والإسلامية يارب اللهم احقن دماء المسلمين اللهم وحد صفوف المسلمين والعرب اللهم احفظ مسلمين اوربا وثبتهم واعدهم إلى دينهم وبلادهم واحقن دمائهم واحفظهم واحفظ بلادهم واعراضهم اللهم بارك فيهم واحفظهم واشفي مريضهم وجريحهم وانصرهم اللهم زوج بنات وشباب المسلمين وارزقهم الحلال والذرية الصالحة اللهم إرفع البلاء والوباء عن المسلمين

[@ryanOGab]

Was his uncle ate

[@JohnJohnson-bh4di]

Every weapon we can spare is already there, the money has nothing to do with it.

[@igotcha1345]

🙄

[@AntonioLopez-zf3eh]

very brave for associated press to ban an individual exercising their freedom of speech!

[@user-kf5kq3bx2c]

🇺🇸😇🙏🕊️👍🦅💪

[@daamour]

How about all money for our readiness not everyone else.

[@rbyham]

such a waste of ftime... why bother

[@hazel8king]

✍

[@KundaliniKing42]

The Second Seal was opened. Come and See, Come and See.

[@jeffbell8362]

When was the first seal open just curious

[@KundaliniKing42]

@@jeffbell8362 2020, The Crowning of Apollo Pharmakiea. The First Beast, The Lion. REVELATIONS is Greek. Olympian Calander Every 4 yrs a seal will be opened. With a great sword (Dagger) peace shall be taken from the earth.

[@darnneljones6954]

*US would beat China in a war - intel official* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 With what!? Your Boeing planes? I'm sure The PLA is scared of those EV Tesla's. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 17

[@ravenaswitchcraftnest]

how about protecting your own....or are you?

[@ninemoonplanet]

They're doing both. It's not hard.

[@benbradley5923]

Anyone who puts their hope in anything or anyone other than Jesus Christ will be let down.

[@jibraani10]

Snakes in the grass

[@KaiwalyaWolf]

❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇮🇱❤️❤️❤️

[@Thisonesforyou-bu3yw]

im sick of paying for these forever wars it needs to stop that money could be much better spent on things oh i dont know............. WE ACTUALLY NEED!!!

[@ninemoonplanet]

I think the Government can actually do both, it's not either but both.

[@drcarlsberg3658]

Tell your kids or grandkids to move. In 50 years there will be nothing to see here. It’s been a nice ride- but I believe this American Empire is coming to an end Roman Style!

[@kenyonchugg7570]

Move to where?

[@drcarlsberg3658]

@@kenyonchugg7570 anywhere outside continental USA

[@LAkadian]

No more foreign aid!

[@EsmoTheLegend]

“Don’t do the Don’t Don’t” The End

[@ruthcaster3615]

We need better school systems

[@ninemoonplanet]

Then call your STATE representative, and the local council. Federal funds go to the States then councils.

[@ruthcaster3615]

@@ninemoonplanet no

[@ruthcaster3615]

@@ninemoonplanet how about we just take back the funding??

[@yeub23]

Hola chibis

[@YellowKurt]

General "MR.I DON'T KNOW" General "MR.THAT'S-ABOVE-MY-PAY-GRADE"

[@user-nu6gl8io8f]

Why not put a singh over the Border saying " Don't"

[@shannonjames8998]

This guy never answers anything. 🙄

[@YellowKurt]

If only he wish he could. That's why he cry's himself to sleep every night.

[@usernamedp123]

I'm very confused when you say allies and partners and you use Ukraine in the same sentence. Neither are they a partner nor are they an ally. Where are you people getting your info from you're trying to speak into existence something that does not exist

[@YellowKurt]

Ukraine is a democracy, the government was democratically handpicked by USA to carry out USA Interests. Of course they are partners, until they're no longer useful that is

[@user-nu6gl8io8f]

America Frist

[@kima6875]

America first!!

[@szimultan00]

Peace and freedom and love first

[@Sulutan]

Сучата

[@user-mp2kz5jb5m]

Take there meals or the booklet of demolition it's self where am I pressed

[@Sulutan]

И Маями заберём

[@blakebland6482]

Dislike the video... To show them it was a waste of time watching

[@Buster842842]

Ukraine first - Safety for American citizens last. Will this General spokesperson please call Laken Riley’s family and let them know they are last? Very sad state for American citizens safety.

[@user-we2yd4ec3y]

Is Trump in prison yet?

[@rayjay5836]

He should be

[@shannonjames8998]

​@@rayjay5836Everyone in government should be, at this point.

[@Thisonesforyou-bu3yw]

THIS WAS A DISGUSTING VIDEO

[@Jamzzz-dx4iz]

Liar!!!

[@user-nm6eq6cu3v]

These fools they are devoid of any common sense 😅😅😅

[@LawrenceKing83]

3:55