{"id":1599655,"date":"2022-08-10T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1599655"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:49:14","slug":"lack-of-leadership-is-the-greatest-threat-to-the-nation-gen-keith-kellogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lack-of-leadership-is-the-greatest-threat-to-the-nation-gen-keith-kellogg\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lack of Leadership\u2019 Is the Greatest Threat to the Nation: Gen. Keith Kellogg"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flack-of-leadership-is-the-greatest-threat-to-the-nation-gen-keith-kellogg%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1599655&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg was named acting national security adviser after the resignation of Gen. Michael Flynn in February 2017. In 2018, then-Vice President Mike Pence <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/briefings-statements\/vice-president-mike-pence-announces-lieutenant-general-ret-keith-kellogg-national-security-advisor\/\">chose<\/a> Kellogg to serve as his national security adviser, while Kellogg continued to serve as an assistant to then-President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe greatest threat we have is a lack of leadership at senior levels right now,\u201d Kellogg told NTD\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/kellogg-us-facing-lack-of-leadership_819198.html\">Capitol Report<\/a>\u201d on Aug. 3. \u201cBecause that drives everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings start to fall through the cracks,\u201d said Kellogg, adding that the threat kept him \u201cup at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have accused President Joe Biden of being \u201cweak\u201d on the world stage, especially in handling issues relating to Russia, China, Afghanistan, and Iran. Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-surprised-putin-would-order-ukraine-invasion_4344656.html\">said<\/a> Russia wouldn\u2019t have invaded Ukraine if he were the president.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has denied wrongdoing on any of those issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/8\/1\/iran-deploys-more-centrifuges-as-it-proposes-new-round-of-talks\">Al Jazeera<\/a>, a\u00a0media conglomerate of Qatar, two advisers to Iran\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 8, the Chinese regime\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china-launches-new-military-drills-vows-to-continue-crossing-median-line-of-taiwan-strait_4650110.html\">announced a new round of military drills<\/a> around Taiwan, after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}