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

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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.

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