Robert Gates: “At his farewell speech in NATO, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized the alliance, calling it poorly…”

I think appearances do matter.

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.

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

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.