Robert Gates: “I think we still have quite a bit of time, Chuck. I think there's still broad bipartisan support in the Congress for…”

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

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

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

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.