Robert Gates: “The American people are going to become increasingly skeptical about this alliance if the United States has to bear…”

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

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.

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 appearances do matter.