Robert Gates: “If you find $100 billion--if you find the cut, if you meet the target that I've given you, and then you show me new…”

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

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

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.