11/29/2017
https://www.congress.gov...
"the Ukrainians have to be very careful to not get trapped obviously."
"One of Putin's strategic goals is a land bridge, from Russia along the Black Sea to Crimea."
"the danger is that Putin returns to his normal modus operandi of just hammering civilians and cities like he did in Aleppo with Assad and Graziani and Chechnya."
"it's really dangerous, and I think it's clearly the case, either he got bad intelligence and has been getting bad intelligence all the way along or he got good intelligence and didn't listen to it."