{"id":1107766,"date":"2023-06-27T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=141469"},"modified":"2023-06-27T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:23:58","slug":"who-is-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivan-and-why-he-should-debate-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/27\/who-is-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivan-and-why-he-should-debate-rfk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and why he should debate RFK Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is one of the key people driving US foreign policy. He was mentored by Hillary Clinton with regime changes in Honduras, Libya and Syria. He was the link between Nuland and Biden during the 2014 coup in Ukraine. As reported<\/a> by Seymour Hersh, Sullivan led the planning of the Nord Stream pipelines destruction in September 2022. Sullivan guides or makes many large and small foreign policy decisions.\u00a0 This article will describe Jake Sullivan\u2019s background, what he says, what he has been doing, where the US is headed and why this should be debated.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jake Sullivan was born in November 1976.\u00a0 He describes his formative years like this:<\/p>\n

I was raised in Minnesota in the 1980s, a child of the later Cold War – of Rocky IV, the Miracle on Ice, and \u2018Tear down this wall\u2019. The 90s were my high school and college years. The Soviet Union collapsed. The Iron Curtain disappeared. Germany was reunified. An American-led alliance ended a genocide in Bosnia and prevented one in Kosovo. I went to graduate school in England and gave fiery speeches on the floor of the Oxford Union about how the United States was a force for good in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sullivan\u2019s education includes Yale (BA), Oxford (MA) and Yale again (JD). He went quickly from academic studies and legal work to political campaigning and government.<\/p>\n

Sullivan made important contacts during his college years at elite institutions. For example, he worked with former Deputy Secretary of State and future Brookings Institution president, Strobe Talbott. After a few years clerking for judges, Sullivan transitioned to a law firm in his hometown of Minneapolis. He soon became chief counsel to Senator Amy Klobuchar who connected him to the rising Senator Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Mentored by Hillary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sullivan became a key adviser to Hillary Clinton in her campaign to be Democratic party nominee in 2008. At age 32, Jake Sullivan became deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning when she became secretary of state. He was her constant companion, travelling with her to 112 countries.<\/p>\n

The Clinton\/Sullivan foreign policy was soon evident. In Honduras, Clinton clashed<\/a> with progressive Honduras President Manuel Zelaya over whether to re-admit Cuba to the OAS. Seven weeks later, on June 28, Honduran soldiers invaded the president\u2019s home and kidnapped him out of the country, stopping en route at the US Air Base. The coup was so outrageous that even the US ambassador to Honduras denounced it. This was quickly over-ruled as the Clinton\/Sullivan team played semantics games to say it was a coup but not a \u201cmilitary coup.\u201d<\/a> Thus the Honduran coup regime continued to receive US support. They quickly held a dubious election to make the restoration of President Zelaya \u201cmoot\u201d. Clinton is proud of this success in her book \u201cHard Choices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years later the target was Libya. With Victoria Nuland as State Department spokesperson, the Clinton\/Sullivan team promoted sensational claims of a pending massacre and urged intervention in Libya under the \u201cresponsibility to protect.\u201d\u00a0 When the UN Security Council passed a resolution authorizing a no-fly zone to protect civilians, the US, Qatar and other NATO members distorted that and started air attacks on Libyan government forces. Today, 12 years later, Libya is still in chaos and war. The sensational claims of 2011 were later found\u00a0 to be false<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the Libyan government was overthrown in Fall 2011, the Clinton\/Sullivan State Department and CIA plotted to seize the Libyan weapons arsenal. Weapons<\/a> were transferred to the Syrian opposition. US Ambassador Stevens and other Americans were killed in an internecine conflict over control of the weapons cache.<\/p>\n

Undeterred, Clinton and Sullivan stepped up their attempts to overthrow the Syrian government. They formed a club of western nations and allies called the \u201cFriends of Syria.\u201d The \u201cFriends\u201d divided tasks who would do what in the campaign to topple the sovereign state.\u00a0 Former policy planner at the Clinton\/Sullivan State Department, Ann Marie Slaughter, called<\/a> for \u201cforeign military intervention.\u201d\u00a0 Sullivan knew they were arming violent sectarian fanatics to overthrow the Syrian government. In an email to Hillary released by Wikileaks, Sullivan noted<\/a> \u201cAQ is on our side in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s adviser during the 2014 Ukraine Coup<\/strong><\/p>\n

After being Clinton\u2019s policy planner, Sullivan\u00a0 became President Obama\u2019s director of policy planning (Feb 2011 to Feb 2013) then national security adviser to Vice President Biden (Feb 2013 to August 2014).<\/p>\n

In his position with Biden, Sullivan had a close-up view of the February 2014 Ukraine coup. He was a key contact between Victoria Nuland, overseeing the coup, and Biden. In the secretly recorded conversation<\/a> where Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine discuss how to manage the coup, Nuland remarks that Jake Sullivan told her \u201cyou need Biden.\u201d Biden gave the \u201cattaboy\u201d and the coup was \u201cmidwifed\u201d following a massacre<\/a> of\u00a0 police AND protesters on the Maidan plaza.<\/p>\n

Sullivan must have observed Biden\u2019s use of the vice president\u2019s position for personal family gain. He would have been aware of\u00a0 Hunter Biden\u2019s appointment to the board of the Burisima Ukrainian energy company, and the reason Joe Biden demanded that the Ukrainian special prosecutor who was investigating Burisima to be fired. Biden later bragged<\/a> and joked about this.<\/p>\n

In December 2013, at a conference hosted by Chevron Corporation, Victoria Nuland<\/a> said the US has spent five BILLION dollars to bring \u201cdemocracy\u201d to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Sullivan helped create Russiagate <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Jake Sullivan was a leading member of the 2016 Hillary Clinton team which\u00a0 promoted Russiagate.\u00a0 The false claim that Trump was secretly contacting Russia was promoted initially to distract from negative news about Hillary Clinton and to smear Trump as a puppet of\u00a0 Putin.\u00a0 Both the Mueller and Durham investigations officially discredited the main claims of Russiagate. There was no collusion. The accusations were untrue, and the FBI gave them unjustified credence for political reasons.<\/p>\n

Sullivan played a major role in the deception as shown by his \u201cStatement from Jake Sullivan on New Report Exposing Trump\u2019s Secret Line of Communication to Russia.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Sullivan\u2019s misinformation <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Jake Sullivan is a good speaker, persuasive and with a dry sense of humor. At the same time, he can be disingenuous. Some of his statements are false. For example, in June 2017 Jake Sullivan was interviewed by Frontline television program about US foreign policy and especially US-Russia relations. Regarding NATO\u2019s overthrow of the Libyan government, Sullivan says, \u201cPutin came to believe that the United States had taken Russia for a ride in the UN Security Council that authorized the use of force in Libya\u2026. He thought he was authorizing a purely defensive mission\u2026. Now on the actual language of the resolution, it\u2019s plain as day that Putin was wrong about that.\u201d\u00a0 Contrary to what Sullivan claims, the UN Security Council resolution<\/a> clearly authorizes a no-fly zone for the protection of civilians, no more. It\u2019s plain as day there was NOT authorization for NATO\u2019s offensive attacks and \u201cregime change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Planning the Nord Stream Pipeline destruction <\/strong><\/p>\n

The bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, filled with 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas, was a monstrous environmental disaster. The destruction also caused huge economic damage to Germany and other European countries. It has been a boon for US liquefied natural gas exports which have surged to fill the gap, but at a high price. Many European factories dependent on cheap gas have closed down.\u00a0 Tens of thousands of workers lost their jobs.<\/p>\n

Seymour Hersh reported details of\u00a0 How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline<\/a>. He says, \u201cBiden authorized Jake Sullivan to bring together an interagency group to come up with a plan.\u201d A sabotage plan was prepared and officials in Norway and Denmark included in the plot. The day after the sabotage, Jake Sullivan tweeted<\/a><\/p>\n

I spoke to my counterpart Jean-Charles Ellermann-Kingombe of Denmark about the apparent sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines. The U.S. is supporting efforts to investigate and we will continue our work to safeguard Europe\u2019s energy security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ellerman-Kingombe may have been one of the Danes informed in advance of the bombing. He is close<\/a> to the US military and NATO command.<\/p>\n

Since then, the Swedish investigation of Nord Stream bombing has made little progress<\/a>. Contrary to Sullivan\u2019s promise in the tweet, the US has not<\/u> supported other efforts to investigate. When Russia proposed an independent international investigation of the Nord Stream sabotage at the UN Security Council, the resolution<\/a> failed due to lack of support from the US and US allies. Hungary\u2019s foreign minister recently asked,<\/a><\/p>\n

How on earth is it possible that someone blows up critical infrastructure on the territory of Europe and no one has a say, no one condemns, no one carries out an investigation?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Economic Plans devoid of reality <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Ten weeks ago Jake Sullivan delivered a major speech on \u201cRenewing American Economic Leadership\u201d<\/a> at the Brookings Institution. He explains how the Biden administration is pursuing a \u201cmodern industrial and innovation strategy.\u201d They are trying to implement a \u201cforeign policy for the middle class\u201d which better integrates domestic and foreign policies. The substance of their plan is to increase investments in semiconductors, clean energy minerals and manufacturing. However the new strategy is very unlikely to achieve the stated goal to \u201clift up all of America\u2019s people, communities, and industries.\u201d\u00a0 Sullivan\u2019s speech completely ignores the elephant in the room: the costly US Empire including wars and 800 foreign military bases which consume about 60% of the total discretionary budget. Under Biden and Sullivan\u2019s foreign policy, there is no intention to rein in the extremely costly military industrial complex. It is not even mentioned.<\/p>\n

US exceptionalism 2.0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In December 2018 Jake Sullivan wrote an essay titled \u201cAmerican Exceptionalism, Reclaimed.\u201d<\/a> It shows his foundational beliefs and philosophy. He separates himself from the \u201carrogant brand of exceptionalism\u201d demonstrated by Dick Cheney.\u00a0 He also criticizes the \u201cAmerican first\u201d policies of Donald Trump.\u00a0 Sullivan advocates for \u201ca new American exceptionalism\u201d and \u201cAmerican leadership in the 21st<\/sup> Century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan has a shallow Hollywood understanding of history: \u201cThe United States stopped Hitler\u2019s Germany, saved Western Europe from economic ruin, stood firm against the Soviet Union, and supported the spread of democracy worldwide.\u201d\u00a0 He believes \u201cThe fact that the major powers have not returned to war with one another since 1945 is a remarkable achievement of American statecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jake Sullivan is young in age but his ideas are old. The United States is no longer dominant economically or politically. It is certainly not \u201cindispensable.\u201d More and more countries are objecting to US bullying and defying Washington\u2019s demands. Even key allies such as Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates<\/a> are ignoring US requests. \u00a0The trend\u00a0 toward a multipolar world is escalating. Jake Sullivan is trying to reverse the trend but reality and history are working against him.\u00a0 Over the past four or five decades, the US has gone from being an investment, engineering and manufacturing powerhouse to a deficit spending consumer economy waging perpetual war with a bloated military industrial complex.<\/p>\n

Instead of reforming and rebuilding the US, the national security state expends much of its energy and resources trying to destabilize countries deemed to be \u201cadversaries\u201d.<\/p>\n

Conclusion <\/strong><\/p>\n

Previous national security advisers Henry Kissinger and Zbignew Brzezinski were very\u00a0 influential.<\/p>\n

Kissinger is famous for wooing China and dividing the communist bloc.\u00a0 Jake Sullivan is now wooing India in hopes of dividing that country from China and the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).<\/p>\n

Brzezinski is famous for plotting the Afghanistan trap. By destabilizing Afghanistan with foreign terrorists beginning 1978, the US induced the Soviet Union to send troops to Afghanistan at the Afghan government\u2019s request. The result was the collapse of the progressive Afghan government<\/a>, the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and 40 years of war and chaos.<\/p>\n

On 28 February 2022, just four days after Russian troops entered Ukraine, Jake Sullivan\u2019s mentor, Hillary Clinton, was explicit: \u201cAfghanistan is the model.\u201d<\/a> It appears the US intentionally escalated the provocations in Ukraine to induce Russia to intervene. The goal is to \u201cweaken Russia.\u201d This explains why the US has spent over $100 billion sending weapons and other support to Ukraine. This explains why the US and UK undermined negotiations which could have ended the conflict early on.<\/p>\n

The Americans who oversaw the 2014 coup in Kiev, are the same ones running US foreign policy today:\u00a0 Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland and Jake Sullivan.\u00a0 Prospects for ending the Ukraine war are very poor as long as they are in power.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party constantly emphasizes \u201cdemocracy\u201d yet there is no debate or discussion over US foreign policy. What kind of \u201cdemocracy\u201d is this where crucial matters of life and death are not discussed?<\/p>\n

Robert F Kennedy Jr is now running in the Democratic Party primary. He has a well informed and critical perspective on US foreign policy including the never ending wars, the intelligence agencies and the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Jake Sullivan is a skilled debater. Why doesn\u2019t he debate Democratic Party candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr over US foreign policy and national security?<\/p>\n

This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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