Robert Gates: “There is no way to ignore efforts by rogue states such as North Korea and Iran to develop and deploy nuclear weapons or…”

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

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.

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.