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National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview Sunday that Russia, China and Iran are “weaker” and the United States is “more secure” after four years under President Biden.
“Our alliances are stronger than where we found ourselves four years ago,” Sullivan said on CNN’s State of the Union, referring to President-elect Trump’s first term in office. “They are stronger than they have been in decades. NATO was stronger, more purposeful and bigger. Our alliances in the Asia Pacific are at an all-time high. And our adversaries and competitors are weaker. Russia is weaker, Iran is weaker, China is weaker, and all the while we kept America out of the war. ».
“I think the American people are safer, and the country is better than it was four years ago, and we’re leaving that to the next group, as well as revving the engines of American power,” Sullivan said. “Our economy, our technology, our defense industrial base, our supply chains. So the United States is in a stronger and more secure position, and our competitors and adversaries are weaker and under pressure.”
Biden’s presidency was in turmoil The 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan failedRussia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, while the Pentagon monitors the rise of the Islamic extremist threat worldwide.
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Sullivan defended Biden’s handling of the withdrawal on Sunday.
Jake Sullivan during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, Monday, March 18, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“If only we were still in Afghanistan todayAmericans would be fighting and dying, Russia would have more leverage over us, we would be less able to respond to the major strategic challenges we face,” Sullivan said.
“We have not seen, although the investigation continues, a link between Afghanistan and Afghanistan attacker in New Orleans” he added, referring to the mistaken New Year’s Day truck attack on Bourbon Street. “Now the FBI will continue to look for foreign connections, maybe we’ll find one, but what we’ve seen is evidence of President Biden. he said, the terrorist threat has become more widespread and metastatic elsewhere, including domestic extremism here in the United States, not only under President Biden, but also during President Trump’s first term. And that’s why we had to shift our focus from a hot war in Afghanistan to a larger global counterterrorism effort.”
In the final weeks of his presidency, Biden has demanded millions of dollars more in US aid to Ukraine before Trump takes office.
Israeli protesters take part in weekly anti-government protests demanding a cease-fire and hostage exchange deal on January 11, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (ORI AVIRAM/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the president-elect of the Republic has said that the war in Ukraine would never have started under his leadership, and has vowed to broker a deal to end the fighting between Moscow and Kiev.
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On the state of the negotiations, Sullivan said, “We’re very, very close, and yet being very close means we’re still a long way off, until we actually cross the finish line, because we’re not.”
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 7, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Sullivan highlighted how President Biden’s top Middle East adviser, Brett McGuirk, had been at the Doja for a week “hammering out the final details of a text to be presented to both sides with mediators.”
“And we’re still determined to use every day we have in the office to do this,” Sullivan said.
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Steve Witcoff, Trump’s special envoy Middle Easttold reporters last week that he saw progress in the guerrilla negotiations, but a deal must be reached by Inauguration Day. “If those hostages don’t come back, I don’t want to hurt your negotiation, if they don’t come back by the time I get into office, all hell will break loose in the Middle East,” Trump said from Florida. “And it’s not going to be good for Hamas. And it’s not going to be good, frankly, for anybody. All hell is going to break loose.”
