Robert Gates: “Prime Minister Hatoyama stated that he intends to resolve the issue by May.”

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.

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

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

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.