Robert Gates: “At a certain point, it will become impossible to keep extending the life of our arsenal, especially in light of our…”

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

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.

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

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.