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united states and around the world. im fareed zakaria. today on the program, an exclusive interview with the chancellor of germany, olaf scholz. on putins war in ukraine, on whether ukraine and russia should start talking about a peace deal, and about the future of europe itself. and, chevron ceo mike wirth on the present and future of oil. which still powers our world. and also just where did covid come from? the so-called lab leak theory just got new life this week. well follow...

schultz. on putins war in ukraine, on whether ukraine and russia should start talking about a peace deal and about the future of europe itself. ♪ ♪ >> and chevron ceo mike worth on the present and future of oil which still powers our world. also, just where did covid come from? the so-called lab leak theory just got new life this week. well follow the facts with dr. lena wynn. >> but first, heres my take. we are often told that america is deeply divided, that polarization makes ...

listening into that press conference was that we also had quite a strong warning about not underestimating president putin. jens stoltenberg said putin has a very high tolerance for casualties, that they have amassed a large missile stockpile ahead of this winter and that they are getting a lot of ammunition from north korea. so it nato members believe that president putin is on the war path and they are not seeing any signs of a possible, imminent peace when it comes to ukraine. becau...

Continue to talk to our friends over there, i think it will be helpful for forming a world that is popular, but better world and not more dangerous. >> xi jinping says vladimir putin is his best friend. he said that many times. is it your sense that theres a personal bond between the two of them? >> i think they know who they are, and that is why they also cooperate. they have a common history and the way their political history goes, they are on completely different paths, but we have to make v...

A threat also to them. and if we continue to talk to our friends over there, i think it will be helpful for forming a world that is multi-polar, but a better world and not more dangerous. >> xi jinping said vladimir putin is his best friend. he said that many times. is it your sense there is a personal bond between the two of them. >> i think that they know who they are. and this is why they also cooperate. they have common history in the way of political leadership, they are now on completely d...

Wonder whether this is the inevitable outcome of the us attitude to the rest of the world. yes, added to your list is putin having observed the disastrous us withdrawal from afghanistan. and concluding that the united states at the moment does not have the stomach that any kind of military pushback. what we should be doing is putting force on the table, support for ukraine, support for our eastern allies so that russia sees that and make clear we have a willingness to use that force if we are fo...

Ukraine. what do you make of that? the russians are saying a lot of things, they did say we have no plans to invade, they did not say they had no intention. but he also said that the security of the west and nato would be threatened if there is no flexibility on the nato side, no agreement. the russians are still threatening, and what they are threatening is violence or aggression if they do not get the west to agree to rewrite the rules of security in europe as the white house set. it is exactl...

Century were living in. almost all of these critics ridicule john kerrys assertion that changing borders by force, as russia did, is 19th century behavior in the 21st century. well, here are the facts. the scholar mark zacker has tallied up changes of borders by force. something that was once quite common. since world war 1, he notes, it has been on a sharp decline, and in recent dedicates that decline has accelerated. before 1950 wars between nations would result in border changes, that is, ann...