Putin won’t take peace with Ukraine without restoring empire, ex-Defense Secretary Gates says

Putin won’t take peace with Ukraine without restoring empire, ex-Defense Secretary Gates says – CBS News

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in George W. Bush’s administration, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that Russian President Vladimir Putin “feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire. And as my old mentor, Zbigniew Brzezinski once said, without Ukraine, there can be no Russian Empire.”

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