this is gps the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program, germany will give leopards as america offers the abrams. they re the most capable tanks in the world. what will the tank deliveries to ukraine mean for the future of its fight? how will russia retaliate for what it sees as a major escala escalation? we ll talk about all of that and more with the new panel. and the new government led by netanyahu is the most far right ever. its first month in office has been marked by provocations and protests and problems. a fight has begun over the power of parliament to overturn the rulings of the nation s highest court. would it be a major step back for the middle east s only liberal democracy? i ll talk to a close observer. and we ll bring you an important update on iran. on the anti-regime protests, and the status of the islamic republic s nuclear program. b
today on the program, germany will give leopards as america offers the abrams. they re the most capable tanks in the world. what will the tank deliveries to ukraine mean for the future of its fight? how will russia retaliate for what it sees as a major escalation? we ll talk about all of that and more with the new panel. israel s new government led by netanyahu is the most far right ever. its first month in office has been marked by provocations and protests and problems. a fight has begun over the power of parliament to overturn the rulings of the nation s highest court. would it be a major step back for the middle east s only liberal democracy? i ll talk to a close observer. and we ll bring you an important update on iran. on the anti-regime protests, and the status of the islamic republic s nuclear program. but first, here is my take. what should we think of the fact that donald trump, joe biden and now mike pence have all turned out to have classified material sitti
ann marie slaughter from the state department and joins us from princeton. she s the president of new america, carl bildt joins us from stock home and kishore mahbubani joins us from singapore. and ann marie, what do you make of this, particularly the german decision? well, the german decision is extraordinary in just historic ol terms because once again german tanks, panthers to most of the russians and europeans, they will be fighting russia, they are not rolling into ush, but we certainly hope not. so the historical significance is enormous. but what is important about this decision is political. it is signaling to putin, no, we are not going to split, we re going to maintainco he cohesion
anne marie slaughter the former director of planning at the state department and joins us 666 from princeton. the former prime minister of sweden joins us from stock hom and top singaporean diplomat and joins us from singapore. what do you make of particularly the german decision? well, the german decision is extraordinary in just historic terms, because once again, german tanks, panthers to most of the russians and the europeans, they will be fighting russia, they will not be rolling into russia or we hope no. so the historical significance really what s most important about this decision is political. it is signaling to putin, no, we are not going to split, we re going to maintain cohesion and we re going to amp up so we re not scared of your threats of escalation.
different possible deals. but, in fact, the ukrainian position has hardened and expanded. i mean, wanting now really total victory. wanting not just the donbas back, but also crimea. and i see no face-saving way for putin to climb down. certainly the stalemate militarily means both sides can stick to their demands. the more doing things like sending tanks helps putin with his domestic audience because his view this is a nato proxy war against russia. so the more nato does, the strong he gets. so i don t see the actual psychological, political conditions or the military ones that make any kind of deal likely for the foreseeable future. carl, where does this go? it does sound like i think kishore is right, that the russians and putin seems to have