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National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan blames cluster munitions on Trump

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

So Jake Sullivan, who is Biden's national security advisor, went on CNN and he was asked about

0:08.0

the about face of the Biden administration, about totally changing their tune on cluster munitions,

0:14.0

and about Biden admitting to the world were so low on munitions that we have to give them

0:19.3

the super dangerous munitions. And Sullivan said naturally that's all Trump's fault.

0:23.8

President Biden said recently that the US gave cluster bombs to Ukraine in part because the US

0:29.0

is low on other ammunition to give the Ukrainians. That's a pretty shocking admission.

0:34.3

Is it acceptable to the Biden administration that the US is low on ammunition? And what are you

0:39.1

going to do about it? Well, when we came into office, we found that the overall stocks of 155

0:49.5

ammunition, which is the NATO standard ammunition you use for artillery rounds, was relatively low.

0:56.0

But more importantly, Jake, we discovered that the ability to mass produce that ammunition

1:01.7

would take not days or weeks or months, but years to get to the level that we needed. So the

1:06.8

President Biden ordered his Pentagon to work rapidly to scale up the ability of the United States

1:14.0

to produce all the ammunition we could ever need for any conflict at any time in the future.

1:18.4

We are in the middle of doing that. Nobody accepts responsibility of dual.

1:24.0

I mean, you've been around these people for decades now. Why are they so afraid to just say,

1:30.4

you know what, we've made a mistake and we're working to correct it and we will get that

1:36.5

corrected as soon as possible because we recognize there's a national security interest in doing so.

1:40.9

It always has to be someone else's fault and both parties do it. Obviously, we're talking about

1:45.0

the Biden administration, but both sides always just blame the other one. And I,

1:53.0

man, it's so disappointing. Well, like I said, once again, I was always talking politics like,

1:58.2

if we're going to do something, okay, first of all, we're going to beat up the previous administration,

2:02.9

which I always give you a year to beat up on the guys from who we're here last time.

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