Robert Gates: “The Russians, the number of their strategic nuclear delivery vehicles is in fact below the treaty limits, but the number…”

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

This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fix.

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

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.