Robert Gates: “Our ability to protect other countries is going to be focused on countries like Iran and North Korea.”

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.

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

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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