Robert Gates: “And sometimes, they send people to spy on us. And they're our close allies.”

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.

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

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