Robert Gates: “The only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months--not…”

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

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

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.