Biden leaving China, Russia and Iran “weaker”, America “stronger” before Trump

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview on Sunday that Russia, China and Iran are “weaker” and that the United States is “safer” after four years under the leadership of President Biden.

“Our alliances are stronger than where we found them four years ago,” Sullivan told 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 an all-time high. And our adversaries and competitors are weaker across the board. Weaker Russia, weaker China, and all the time we kept America out of wars.”

“I think the American people are safer, and the country is better than we were four years ago, and we’re going to pass that on to the next team, and still have the engines of American power humming,” 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 has been plagued by the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 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 centered on justice for the families of 13 US service members killed at the Abbey Gate and promising peace through force on the world stage.

Sullivan on Sunday defended Biden’s handling of the withdrawal.

Jake Sullivan during a press 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 we were still in Afghanistan todayAmericans would fight and die, Russia would have more leverage over us, we would be less able to meet the major 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 Day truck attack on Bourbon Street. “Now the FBI will continue to look for foreign connections, maybe we will find one, but what we saw is proof of what President Biden. he said, is that the terrorist threat has become more widespread and more metastasized elsewhere, including extremists at home here in the United States – not only under President Biden, but under President Trump in his first term, and this it’s part of why we must shift our focus from a hot war in Afghanistan to a larger global counterterrorism effort.”

During the final weeks of his presidency, Biden cleared billions of dollars more in US aid for 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 said the war in Ukraine would never have started under his leadership and promised to negotiate an agreement to stop fighting between Moscow and Kiev.

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In a news 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 is in charge. January 20.

On the status of the negotiations, Sullivan said: “We are very, very close, and even being very close still means that we are far because until we actually reach the finish line, we are not 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 pointed out that President Biden’s top adviser on the Middle East, Brett McGuirk, had been in Doja for a week “hammering out with mediators the final details of a text to 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 Easthe told reporters last week that he saw progress in the hostage negotiations, but an agreement must be reached by inauguration day. “If those hostages aren’t back — I don’t want to hurt your negotiation — if they’re not back by the time 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.”