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National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan claimed in an interview Sunday that Russia, China and Iran are “weaker” and the United States is “safer” after 4 years underneath President Biden’s management.
“Our alliances are stronger than the place we discovered them 4 years in the past,” Sullivan stated on CNN’s State of the Union, referring to President-elect Trump’s first time period. “They’re stronger than they have been in many years. NATO was extra highly effective, purposeful and greater. Our alliances within the Asia Pacific are at all-time highs. And our adversaries and opponents are weaker throughout the board. Russia’s weaker, Iran’s weaker, China’s weaker, and all of the whereas we stored America out of wars.”
“I believe that the American individuals are safer, and the nation is healthier off than we have been 4 years in the past, and we’re handing off that to the subsequent workforce, in addition to having the engines of American energy buzzing,” Sullivan stated. “Our economic system, our expertise, our protection industrial base, our provide chains. So the United States is in a stronger, safer place, and our opponents and adversaries are weaker and underneath strain.”
Biden’s presidency was mired by the botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist assaults on Israel, because the Pentagon screens the rising risk of Islamic extremism worldwide.
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Sullivan defended Biden’s dealing with of the withdrawal on Sunday.
“If we have been nonetheless in Afghanistan at this time, Americans could be preventing and dying, Russia would have extra leverage over us, we’d be much less ready to answer the foremost strategic challenges we face,” Sullivan stated.
“We haven’t seen, though the investigation continues, any connection between Afghanistan and the attacker in New Orleans,” he added, referring to the New Year’s Day truck-ramming assault on Bourbon Street. “Now the FBI will proceed to search for overseas connections, perhaps we’ll discover one, however what we have seen is proof of what President Biden stated, is that the terrorist risk has gotten extra diffuse and extra metastasized elsewhere, together with homegrown extremists right here within the United States – not just below President Biden, however underneath President Trump in his first time period, and that’s a part of why we needed to transfer our focus from a scorching struggle in Afghanistan to a bigger counterterrorism effort internationally.”
During the ultimate weeks of his presidency, Biden has been speeding billions of {dollars} extra in U.S. help for Ukraine earlier than Trump takes workplace.
Israeli demonstrators take part in weekly anti-government protests calling for a ceasefire and a hostage swap deal on Jan. 11, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (ORI AVIRAM/Middle East Images/AFP by way of Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the Republican president-elect has claimed the struggle in Ukraine would by no means have began underneath his management and vowed to dealer a deal to cease the preventing between Moscow and Kyiv.
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On the standing of the negotiations, Sullivan stated, “We are very, very shut, and but being very shut nonetheless means we’re far as a result of till you really get throughout the end line, we’re not there.”
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media throughout a press convention on the Mar-a-Lago Club on Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Sullivan harassed how President Biden’s high Middle East adviser, Brett McGuirk, had been in Doja for every week “hammering out with the mediators the ultimate particulars of a textual content to be offered to each side.”
“And we’re nonetheless decided to make use of daily we’ve in workplace to get this completed,” Sullivan stated.
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Steve Witcoff, Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, advised reporters final week that he is seen progress within the hostage negotiations, however a deal should be struck by Inauguration Day. “If these hostages aren’t again – I do not wish to harm your negotiation – if they don’t seem to be again by the point I get into workplace, all hell will get away within the Middle East,” Trump stated from Florida. “And it won’t be good for Hamas. And it won’t be good, frankly, for anybody. All hell will get away.”
