Welcome to the belated 130th-week edition of the Chronicles of Putin’s War.
Without a doubt, the big news this week was on the political front where some anonymous figure in the White House — we don’t know who it was, but I’m betting his initials were Jake Sullivan — told Politico why the Biden national security cucks are reluctant to allow Ukraine to use American weapons to strike at Russian military assets that are hitting Ukrainian cities.
At the beginning of August, a coalition of bipartisan senators organized a meeting with Sullivan. Sullivan has at various times held meetings with the senators to discuss Ukraine. But during this encounter, the delegation had one, unified message: The administration needs to change its stance now before it is too late, according to a person who was briefed on the meeting.
Their argument was similar to one they and many others, including…