Sunday Talks, Nat Sec Advisor Jake Sullivan Discusses China, North Korea, Ukraine and Steering Biden Policy from DC
July 16, 2023 | Sundance |
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan represents the UniParty outlook from Washington DC.
From the position of influence and affluence, both Republican and Democrat policy makers are aligned in a unified outlook toward foreign policy and geopolitical affairs. Washington DC does not have two competing political parties on these issues; there is complete alignment and unidirectional focus. Never forget that.
Before getting to the Sullivan points, I’m going to shift the discussion slightly, back to the core and explain something that might help provide context for issues from China to Russia and beyond.
Everyone in Washington DC agrees with the agencies and institutions that create the national security state. The intelligence apparatus and the national security agencies frame the “interests of the U.S. government.” The politicians never push back against those agencies and the strategic policies they present as a solution. This is important to accept as you contemplate the continued push only in one interventionist direction, regardless of American public opinion.
The only countervailing force that has ever entered the modern system against this dynamic was President Donald Trump. That is why the “system”, consisting of both Republicans and Democrats, together with every institution the system controls, was/is/are unified to repel Trump.
This hive mindset is critical to understand, because the central conflict, the perspective that Trump represents a threat, originates from whether the combined institutional administrative state is correct in their assessments or not.
The “system,” an assembly of career ideologues who define themselves by their sense of self-importance… Every threat then becomes a target.
EXAMPLE (not accidentally selected) – If the DC HIVE believes that China may launch a biological weapon against the world. Every agency within the system then begins to process themselves in defense of that perceived possibility.…
The CIA, NSA, DoD, DHS and State Dept, then begin constructing internal mechanisms that can evaluate, respond and react to the perceived possibility. From that viewpoint, defeating Russia is viewed as a way to show China what will happen if the perceived possibility is real…
Into this weird system of perception, theory and possibility driving policy, comes an entity like Donald Trump.
President Trump does the complete opposite of what every institutional action has been created to support.
President Trump cuts to the bottom line, asking China directly, openly and publicly, “Hey, Chairman Xi, are you planning to create a deadly biological weapon – based on your desire to rule the world?”
OMG, the entire DC system goes into apoplectic fits. Every institution, now centered around a mission which was based on this perceived threat – generating billions in funding and thousands of jobs and careers, now proclaims President Trump is putting the U.S. at risk.
If you think this is an overly simplistic intellectual example, you’re wrong. This is exactly how the DC process unfolds, and there are dozens of examples of this in the tenure of President Trump in office.
Trump’s foreign policy doctrine, a brutally honest and pragmatic approach, was essentially this. Direct questions, direct expectations and direct outlines.
President Trump did it in Saudi Arabia with ISIS. He did it in Egypt and Jordan to support Israel. He did it in Europe with NATO. He did it in Asia with North Korea. He did it with Turkey about Syria. He did it with Pakistan about the Taliban. He did it in Afghanistan about Iran. Trump did it in India, China, Canada, Mexico, the U.K, Russia and everywhere he went.
The President Trump message, the Doctrine per se’, was simple; don’t do stupid shit, and we’re good! If you have been doing stupid shit, then stop! If you don’t stop, I’ll destroy you economically.
The absolute pinnacle of this was Trump talking directly to Chairman Kim Jong-un, because he knew Beijing was the voice in the background controlling the activity of North Korea. Chairman Xi was gob-smacked in his noodles, not knowing what Kim and Trump were talking about.
People can argue about the effectiveness of the Trump doctrine, but the outcomes speak for themselves. Everyone stopped doing their stupid shit, and things were better.
Here’s the DC HIVE:
https://youtu.be/F1ptpGUw2Ng
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/16/sunday-talks-nat-sec-advisor-jake-sullivan-discusses-china-north-korea-ukraine-and-steering-biden-policy-from-dc/