Robert Gates: “Though the ISF are becoming increasingly more capable, they still need our assistance providing critical enabling…”

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

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

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.