Robert Gates: “This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to…”

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

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

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.