Robert Gates: “I would strongly recommend a presidential veto of legislation that sustains the unnecessary continuation of the C-17.”

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.

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