Devoted to "weaker" Russia, exiting Biden team finds "strength" in Ukraine

While Jake Sullivan claims that the Biden team is playing a "strong hand" in Ukraine, proxy war reality says otherwise.

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With just weeks left in office, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is making the rounds to tout his administration’s self-perceived success on the global stage.

“I think what we’re handing off is a very strong hand from the United States in terms of our national power,” Sullivan told CNN on Sunday. “...America’s competitors and adversaries are weaker and under greater pressure than they have been.” On the latter front, Sullivan is particularly enthused about the state of affairs in Moscow.

The Russians “are not doing great,” Sullivan bragged last week. “They set out on a strategic objective of taking the capital Kyiv, wiping Ukraine as we know it off the map...and they have failed in that. And they will fail in that.”

Anyone willing to read Kremlin statements since Feb. 2022 can easily recognize that Sullivan’s rendering of Russia’s “strategic objective” is fictional.