Robert Gates: “I admire President Calderon's government for the brave stand taken against TCOs that seek to operate with impunity…”

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.

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

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

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