Robert Gates: “I am not planning for a dual award at this time.”

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

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.

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

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