Robert Gates: “The study reportedly concludes that lifting the ban will result in only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the…”

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

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

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

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.