Robert Gates: “We are committed to the long-term success of Afghanistan and Iraq as stable states that can govern and secure…”

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

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.

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

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