Ashton Carter actually said...

The United States will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, as U.S. Forces do all over the world.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of that because that is mostly a matter for the European Union (EU) rather than the United States.

We have serious concerns with Iranian malign activities outside of the nuclear issue.

Vladimir Putin's conduct there has had the opposite of whatever effect he thought it might have in terms of attracting Ukraine in the direct...