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National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview Sunday that Russia, China and Iran are “weaker” and that the United States is “more secure” after four years under President Biden.
“Our alliances are stronger than where we found them four years ago,” Sullivan said on CNN’s State of the Union, referring to President-elect Trump’s first term. “They are stronger than they have been in decades. NATO was more powerful, more determined and bigger. Our alliances in the Asia Pacific are at their highest. And our adversaries and competitors are weaker in every way. The Russia’s weaker, Iran’s weaker, China’s weaker, and all along we kept America out of wars.”
“I think the American people are safer, and the country is better than it was four years ago, and we’re handing that over to the next team, as well as having the engines of American power humming,” Sullivan said. “Our economy, our technology, our defense industrial base, our supply chains. So America is in a stronger and more secure position, and our competitors and adversaries are weaker and under pressure “.
Biden’s presidency was hampered by the the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks on Israel, as the Pentagon monitors the growing threat of Islamic extremism worldwide.
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Much of Trump’s promise to voters as he campaigned for a second term in 2024 focused on justice for the families of 13 US service members killed at Abbey Gate and promising peace through strength on the world stage.
Sullivan on Sunday defended Biden’s handling of the recall.
Jake Sullivan during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Monday, March 18, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“If we were still inside Afghanistan todayAmericans would be fighting and dying, Russia would have more influence over us, we would be less able to respond to the great strategic challenges we face,” Sullivan said.
“We have not seen, although the investigation continues, any connection between Afghanistan and the attacker in New Orleans” he added, referring to the New Year’s Eve truck attack on Bourbon Street. “Now the FBI will continue to look for foreign connections, maybe we will find one, but what we have seen is proof of what he said President Biden. It’s that the terrorist threat, he said, has become more diffuse and more metastasized elsewhere, including homegrown extremists here in the United States, not just under President Biden, but under President Trump in his first term. and that’s part of the reason we had to shift our focus from a hot war in Afghanistan to a larger counterterrorism effort around the world.”
In the final weeks of his presidency, Biden has been adding billions of dollars more in US aid to Ukraine before Trump took office.
Israeli protesters take part in weekly anti-government protests calling for a ceasefire and a hostage exchange deal on January 11, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (ORI AVIRAM/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the Republican president-elect has said 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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In a press conference from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, last week, Trump warned Hamas terrorists that “all hell will break loose” in the Middle East if the remaining hostages they are not released before he takes office on January 20.
On the status of the negotiations, Sullivan said, “We are very, very close, and yet being very close still means we are far because until you reach the finish line, we will not be there.”
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 7, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Sullivan stressed how President Biden’s top adviser on the Middle East, Brett McGuirk, had been in Doja for a week “working with mediators on the final details of a text that will be presented to both sides.”
“And we’re still determined to use every day we have in office to do that,” Sullivan said.
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Steve Witcoff, Trump’s special envoy the Middle Easttold reporters last week that he has seen progress in the hostage negotiations, but a deal must be reached by inauguration day. “If these hostages don’t come back, I don’t want to hurt your negotiation, if they don’t come back when I get into office, all hell will break loose in the Middle East,” Trump said from Florida. “And it won’t be good for Hamas. And it won’t be good, frankly, for anybody. All hell will break loose.”
