Incoming National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on @CNN once again dings DOD for dragging its feet on transition activities - refusing to meeting with key transition members or respond to requests for information. @FareedZakaria
DOD is now “finally” starting to schedule meetings, but the delay hurts national security, he says. Background: politico.com/news/2020/12/2…
Sullivan says he sees potential areas of cooperation with Russia, particularly in nonproliferation and arms control.
The Trump team tried and failed to renegotiate the landmark New START arms control treaty that expires soon after @JoeBiden takes office. politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
The Trump team tried and failed to renegotiate the landmark New START arms control treaty that expires soon after @JoeBiden takes office. politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
On the one-year anniversary of Qasem Soleimani’s death, Sullivan says that action has not made America safer. Iran continues to provoke - it is closer to a nuclear weapon today than it was a year ago, and has continued attacks on shipping and troops in Iraq
On re-entering the Iran deal, Sullivan says Iran’s ballistic missile program “has to be on the table.”
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