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this is "gops." the global public square. welcome to you around the united states and the world. i'm fareed zakaria live from new york. today on the program, what would it take for ukraine to win this war? i'll put that question to two of america's top military officials. general david petraeus and james. do gas prices trump human rights? i'll ask an expert. and the federal reserve acts boldly to get inflation under control. will it work? i'll ask rana. first, here's my take. in 1942, winston churchill tried to ready the british people for a long conflict. referring to the allied vi...

Economic war against russia is not working nearly as well as people thought it would. vladimir putin cares less about what these sanctions due to the russian people than he does about what they do to the russian state. and thanks to rising energy prices, bloomberg projects that the russian government will make considerably more revenue from oil and gas that it did before but the war, around $285 billion and 88 two compared to 236 billion in 2021. meanwhile europe is facing its worst energy crisis in 50 years. the basic problem with the economic war against russia as i have argued before, is th...

Opposites. the west needs to take these lessons to heart and its struggle with russia and adjust its strategy, which is currently in danger of failing. the core of the west strategy has been to prompt, to provide ukraine with on straining -- arms training and money. that basic idea still makes sense, but the balance needs to change. it is now clear that the economic war against russia is not working nearly as well, as people thought it would. vladimir putin cares less about what these sanctions due to the russian people, then he does about what they do to the russian state. thanks to rising en...

Washington and allies must redouble efforts and help ukraine break the russian blockade around odesa. people focused on the collapse of the russian economy which will probably shrink by 11% this year, but ukraine's economy is likely to contract by a staggering 45% in 2022, unless the country can export its grain out of its black sea ports, it could face economic calamities for years to come. most likely, this middle phase of the war will last for a while. neither russia or ukraine has the capacity to win decisively or surrender easily. in the short-term, this favors russia. it has taken contro...

Respond. >> let's talk basic numbers. $285 billion is what we spent to enforce border security last year. $285 billion is a lot of money. $5.6 billion is a drop in that bucket, to add more of that border barrier we are talking about. whether it is slats and steel or a hard wall in some places. it's a tiny amount of money. the president said last may to the nation, "i want to another continuing resolution. i'm going to do border security, and we are going to set a budget." the democrats haven't gone along with it, but he's keeping his promise. >> it's a president keeping his campaign promise ab...