Robert Gates: “There's absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without…”

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

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

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.