Robert Gates: “The implementation of these policies and regulations is consistent with the standards of military readiness, military…”

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.

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

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