Robert Gates: “There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our…”

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

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

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

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.