Robert Gates: “Each defense budget decision is zero sum.”

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

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

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

There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.