Robert Gates: “Secretary Gates stated, '[t]o ensure that the department is prepared should the law be changed...'”

Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate the Russian empire.

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

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.

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.