Robert Gates: “don't ask, don't tell will be in effect until 60 days after the government says the military is ready to implement the…”

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

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

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.