Robert Gates: “Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.”

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

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

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.

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