shorts On 5/31/2023, a reporter asked Biden Spox John Kirby, “the colloquy you and I had was about whether China and Russia, or either one, should be considered an evil regime. President Reagan described the Soviet Union as the “locus of evil” in the modern world. George W. Bush referred to an “axis of evil” after 9/11. If you have governments that are running concentration camps or launching unprovoked wars where hundreds of thousands of people are being killed, and the President of the United States calls the leader of that regime a war criminal, I don’t see what it is that prohibits you from calling a spade a spade and saying these are evil regimes, which you refused to do in our earlier colloquy.

MR. KIRBY: Well, I appreciate your advice on policy, and I’ll take that back, James. But the President’s never been one —

Reporter: It’s a simple question. Why —
MR. KIRBY: The President — no, no, no, it’s not —
Reporter: Why don’t you consider these evil regimes?

MR. KIRBY: It’s not — it’s not a simple question, James. It’s a criticism that you’re posing as a question. You’d like to see us put a label on these two countries, and President Biden just doesn’t conduct foreign policy that way. I think — go look at the National Security Strategy.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/jboffz_bqGw
Biden NSC Spox John Kirby Spars With Reporter Over Refusal To Call Russia, China “Evil Regimes”