National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, 45, has become 79-year-old-year-old President Joe Biden’s chief smoke blower, insisting the American public can trust the White House credibility despite all the lies told in the lead up to the Iraq War. Sullivan said what’s different this time around is that the White House was trying to prevent a war not start one. But like so many statements from Biden, Sullivan and 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken they advance the White House agenda, not get to the truth. When it comes to the lead up to the Feb. 24 Ukraine War, Biden, Blinken and Sullivan say nothing about why they ignored Russian President Vladimir Putin’s requests for over three months to develop new security arrangements in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Putin told the White House Dec. 24, 2021 that if the White House didn’t work on new security arrangements, he would take matters into his own hands.
Sullivan said there was a “fundamental distinction” between disclosing intel in the run-up to the Iraq War and today’s Ukraine War. “In the situation in Iraq, intelligence was used and deployed from this very podium to start a war.” “We are trying to stop a war, to prevent a war, to avert a war,” Sullivan said, refusing to acknowledge that months went by without any response to Putin’s requests for new security arrangements. Putin said Dec. 24, 2021 that he would take “military-technical measures” if the White House ignored his requests for new security arrangements. Yet Sullivan tells the Democrat-friendly press say that the White House declassified intel to try to prevent war. What, in fact, happened was the White House antagonized Putin by ignoring his requests for new security that he took desperate measures. Putin invaded Ukraine Feb. 24 when he realized the White House would do nothing.
When it came to Iraq, the George W. Bush White House was cooking the intel at a little known Pentagon office stacked with Neocons, friends of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, to fabricate intel that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein presented a clear-and-present danger to the United States. Sullivan said the White House would operate “in good faith and share everything that we know to the best of our ability while protecting sources and methods,” said Sullivan, refusing to say why the White House ignored Putin’s requests for new security arrangement for over three months. Biden called Putin’s requests “non-starters,” especially with regard to Ukraine’s NATO membership. Biden, Blinke and Sullivan insisted that they could not compromise NATO principles to deny Ukraine, or any country, NATO membership. Sullivan promised to be truthful as long as it advances the White House narrative.
White House talking points spewed by Sullivan say that Putin’s Ukraine invasion was “unprovoked and unjustified.” But to Putin, the White House rebuffed his overtures to work on a new security arrangement. Sullivan mentions nothing about that because he’s committed to blaming Putin for the invasion. White House officials take zero responsibility for the run-up to the Feb. 24 Ukraine war only saying the war was “unprovoked and unjustified.” Sullivan mentions nothing about the U.S. and NATO supplying Ukraine with unlimited lethal weapons over the objections of Putin and the Russian Federation. Sullivan wants to divert attention over the fact that the White House could have engaged with Putin in diplomacy over his requests for new security arrangements. Biden, Blinken and Sullivan don’t see that supplying Ukraine unlimited lethal weapons provoked Putin to invade.
Biden, Blinken and Sullivan take no responsibility for driving U.S.-Russian relations to the point the Russian Foreign Ministry says it may break diplomatic relations with the United States. Kremlin officials have made no such threats on any other country than the United States. When Biden called Putin a “murderous dictator” and “war criminal” March 16, it pushed U.S.-Russian relations to the breaking point. Blinken and Sullivan haven’t been much better, demanding that Russia release dissident Alexi Navalny from prison. Biden called Putin a “soulless killer” March 18, 2021, on the eve of a U.S.-China summit in Anchorage, Alaska. When the meeting started, it didn’t take long for Blinken and Sullivan to accuse Beijing of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Western China. So between Russia and China, Biden has done almost everything to destroy U.S. relations.
Sullivan wants the world to believe that the Ukraine War was “unprovoked and unjustified” when the U.S. and NATO was arming Ukraine with dangerous weapons for the last eight years. Biden was Vice President under former President Barack Obama when Putin invaded the Crimean Penisnula March 1, 2014. Biden, Sullivan and Blinke mention nothing about a Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed, pro-Western coup that toppled the Kremlin-friendly government of Viktor Yanukovch. Putin invaded Crimea March 1 to protect his Sevastopol naval base, leaving Crimea in Kremlin control. So when it comes to the White House being honest about the Ukraine War, there were many antecedents, including a CIA-backed coup. Biden officials are open-and-transparent only when it serves their interests. No one at the White House takes any responsibility for provoking Putin to invade Ukraine.
