Robert Gates: “The cost in treasure and in the blood of our young men and women is always far higher than if we had remained strong and…”

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.