Richard N. Haass: “opponents of a larger NATO predict that NATO's easterly expansion will provoke a hostile Russian reaction.”

I think it would be criminal as a society--or negligent, I will use a better word--for us not to do certain sorts of things to put us on a safer trajectory.

I think it's diminished respect for us. You see that most strongly in Europe, say, when the U.S. walked away from the Paris Climate Pact or they see things going on in this country that to them doesn't represent the America they thought…

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…

I hope he's right, but I'm profoundly skeptical.