I think it would be a mistake strategically to excessively rely on U.S. military force to try and solve this problem.
What Mr. Putin is trying to do is fundamentally alter the post-World War II construct in terms of how the world is organ...
The bottom line is Russia is now attempting to set up again a bi-polar world.
I see no reason to for a second believe that they will be upheld.
Confronting that threat is the number one biggest issue, and it is not easy to confront.
Now we realize that our presence in Europe is more important than it used to be.
I think we can pretty much count on it not being upheld, so we should start planning.
Part of the--you know, reason for the chairman and I, you know, doing the bill that we did to give Ukraine greater posit...
The big concern with Russia is what would they do next.
I worry a great deal about the notion that people are focused on the U.S. military as the solution to this problem.
I think it is the largest national security threat that we face as a country.