At 46, he is the youngest National Security Adviser to serve since McGeorge Bundy held the position from 1961 through 1966.  Jake Sullivan told The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser in a recent interview:

As a child of the Eighties and “Rocky” and “Red Dawn,” I believe in freedom fighters and I believe in righteous causes, and I believe the Ukrainians have one. There are very few conflicts that I have seen – maybe none – in the post-Cold War era . . . where there’s such a clear good guy and bad guy. And we’re on the side of the good guy, and we have to do a lot for that person.

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