Eliot Engel actually said...

Putin seems to be engaged in some kind of reestablishment of Russian hegemony in some kind of delusional czarist longing for some glorious p...

I worry about that. History, in the last 200 years of this republic, is strewn with people who made that miscalculation, pushed us too far.

Boy, it would come as news to the Baltic republics that the Russians are peace-loving people who are just buzzing our ships in the Black Sea...

The world, unfortunately, to a considerable degree, has accepted this as a fait accompli.