Robert Gates: “The move is part of President Bush's planned troop increase.”

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

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.

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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