Robert Gates: “The policymakers who will follow us . . . will not have the same historical, personal and, indeed, emotional ties to…”

I think appearances do matter.

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.

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.