Robert Gates: “I think [the thing] people need to remember is that providing for the common defense is an unambiguous Federal…”

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.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.

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