Opinion by David Ignatius: National security adviser Jake Sullivan discusses the war in Ukraine. How to achieve victory when the parameters are uncertain and some of the risks cannot be known?
“two caricatures” about the Russian nuclear threat. The first is “that the Biden administration is paralyzed by the nuclear threat and therefore won’t support Ukraine sufficiently,” Sullivan said. “I think that is nonsense.” He cited the “extraordinary quantity and quality” of U.S. weapons deliveries — the latest being Biden’s decision,, to ship U.S. cluster munitions to sustain Kyiv’s counteroffensive and extend its timetable for success.
The national security adviser said that in weighing nuclear risks, the administration has done “a tremendous amount of consultation … about all of the possible contingencies in this conflict,” which presumably would center on a Russian tactical nuclear attack if Ukraine breaks through and Russian conventional forces are collapsing.
The Prigozhin affair hasn’t yet had a “substantial impact” on Russian forces inside Ukraine, Sullivan said. But he noted that it does seem to have rattled China, Putin’s most important supporter.
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