Robert Gates: “We cannot afford to do everything and buy everything, but at the same time, we cannot afford defeat.”

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

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 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.