Richard N. Haass: “They want to nation-build in America.”

It's clear that the center of foreign policy decision making is the White House. It's the president. It's Jared Kushner.

Well, increasingly this is not a war fought between two militaries. It’s a war that the Russians are targeting Ukraine’s urban and civilian population. And seems to me their goals are to break the spirit of Ukraine and probably even more…

We shouldn't kid ourselves. Diplomacy is not going to solve this problem.

Whatever it is we do in this part of the world, multilateralism will prove essential. We simply cannot deal adequately with China's power and China's reach unilaterally.