{"id":252111,"date":"2022-04-12T07:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T07:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252111"},"modified":"2022-04-14T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T05:34:25","slug":"sullivan-us-wants-to-see-an-independent-ukraine-and-a-weakened-and-isolated-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252111","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan: US wants to see an \u2018independent Ukraine\u2019 and \u2018a weakened and isolated Russia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Joseph Choi \u2013 The Hill April 10, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday said the U.S. ultimately wants to see an \u201cindependent Ukraine\u201d and \u201ca weakened and isolated Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Host Chuck Todd asked Sullivan during an appearance on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d if the Biden administration is going to do whatever it takes to ensure that Ukraine wins its war against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur policy is unequivocal that we will do whatever we can to help Ukraine succeed. And it will be \u2026 President Zelensky and the democratically elected government of Ukraine that determines what that success constitutes,\u201d said Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the end of the day, what we want to see is a free and independent Ukraine, a weakened and isolated Russia, and a stronger, more unified, more determined West,\u201d he added. \u201cWe believe that all three of those objectives are in sight, can be accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has recently achieved some progress in its war against Russia, with both Ukrainian and U.S. officials saying that the battle of Kyiv had essentially been won by its defenders.<\/p>\n<p>However, while appearing on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d Sullivan warned of the possibility of more hardships for Ukraine, noting the appointment of a new Russian general, known for carrying out brutal attacks in Syria, to lead the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen scorched-earth warfare already, we\u2019ve seen atrocities and war crimes, and mass killings and horrifying and shocking images from towns like Bucha and the rocket attack at Kramatorsk,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/3263473-sullivan-us-wants-to-see-an-independent-ukraine-and-a-weakened-and-isolated-russia\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan spells out what the US would like to see emerge from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":252112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252113,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252111\/revisions\/252113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}