Robert Gates: “You could spend $2 trillion, and you will never get to zero threat.”

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.

I think appearances do matter.

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.