Robert Gates: “I think that once you have committed, that success of the mission should override everything else because the most…”

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

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.

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

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