Robert Gates: “At a televised speech in NATO, outgoing U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates criticized their lies, calling it fully…”

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.

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

I think appearances do matter.

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