Robert Gates: “The rise of China as a regional political, economic, and military power with global ambitions is one of the defining…”

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

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

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.

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.