James Clapper: “I think they are a crucial management tool for a commander or a director.”

I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.

He has a grievance eating at him for about 20 years and has made a decision, I think, to try to redraw the national security architecture of Europe.

It shows once again not that we need proof of it, where the President's head really is and all this. And it's not on national security, not on the pandemic, not on the massive Russian cyber espionage.

there's going to be more of the graphic, wanton brutality that they've witnessed.