Robert Gates: “The United States spent 45 years working very hard to avoid a military confrontation with Russia. I see no reason to…”

There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.

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

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

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.