Robert Gates: “Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate the Russian empire.”

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.

The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re in no position to advise other countries on how to govern themselves.

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

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.