Robert Gates: “Failing to commit troops and money to the war would be in his view a mark of shame.”

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

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

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