Robert Gates: “We are opposed to the independence of Taiwan.”

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

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

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