When National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his wife, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Maggie Goodlander, arrived in Provence last year, it was their first vacation in a very long time. Since entering the White House, Sullivan and the president’s foreign policy team had been dealing with crisis after crisis after crisis: the bloody and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan; the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and the campaign to surge American weapons and allied support to Kyiv, and later to help train Ukrainian troops for a counteroffensive, all while trying to gauge whether Putin might actually make good on his threat of nuclear retaliation.