Robert Gates: “I know you will join me in doing everything to ensure they have all they need to accomplish their mission and come home…”

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.

the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months--not years--was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.

I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And…

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