‘Lack of Leadership’ Is the Greatest Threat to the Nation: Gen. Keith Kellogg

The greatest threat facing the nation at present is not China, Russia, or Iran, but a lack of leadership at top levels, said retired U.S. Army Gen. Keith Kellogg.

Kellogg was named acting national security adviser after the resignation of Gen. Michael Flynn in February 2017. In 2018, then-Vice President Mike Pence chose Kellogg to serve as his national security adviser, while Kellogg continued to serve as an assistant to then-President Donald Trump.

“The greatest threat we have is a lack of leadership at senior levels right now,” Kellogg told NTD’s “Capitol Report” on Aug. 3. “Because that drives everything.”

“Things start to fall through the cracks,” said Kellogg, adding that the threat kept him “up at night.”

“Because of that, you see Russia going into Ukraine, which is a major threat in the European environment. You see China constantly threatening Taiwan, which is a major concern for us in the Far East. And then you see Iran now marching to get a potential nuclear weapon, which will totally destabilize the Middle East. But it all comes back to the level of leadership: Do we want to prevent these nations from doing it? How do we go about doing it?”

Republicans have accused President Joe Biden of being “weak” on the world stage, especially in handling issues relating to Russia, China, Afghanistan, and Iran. Trump has said Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if he were the president.

Biden has denied wrongdoing on any of those issues.

According to Al Jazeera, a media conglomerate of Qatar, two advisers to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in July that Iran has the ability to build nuclear weapons. But they stated that Iran had no plan to do so.

On Aug. 8, the Chinese regime announced a new round of military drills around Taiwan, after

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