this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, from the czars in czarrinas to soviet air come issars, to president putin. we delve into the nature of power in russia. looking at the past to help us understand the present. i ll talk to the new yorker s david remnick and professor nina khrushcheva. and also the prime minister of barbados on getting the west to pay for damage from climate change rising seas and wild weather. two degrees is a death sentence. and the president of kenya on why many nations in the global south are not taking a side on the war in ukraine. but first, here is my take. in his important book the third wave, samuel huntington pointed out the division among the ruling elite is a key sign of weakness in authoritarian regimes. when members of the establishment break with the system, it triggers a larger set of changes. conversely, when you do not se
us to build a coalition. regrettably, i think what is happening is that domestic politics and geopolitics are getting in the way of doing right thing. we know what has to be done. unless we can overcome the domestic politics, we re not going to get there without significant losses of lives and a significant impairing of livelihoods. you ve been sounding the alarm on this for a while. do you come at this fundamentally as an optimist? do you think we re going to get there? i have to be. i genuinely believe that we could get there. we are human beings. we have the capacity to reason. we have the capacity engage. and i think one of our disappointments in the developing world on the pandemic and on the climate crisis is the absence of global leadership, absence of global moral strategic leadership that brings people to the table and said, hey, we need to leave something
https://youtu.be/HN2t1WeJrQA Over the last 5 years, Greta Thunberg has emerged as more than just a media flash in the pan, but as an internationally recognized Global Moral leader. Predictably, she has drawn the anger of insecure, middle aged men, she has continued to speak, and grow right in front of our eyes, maintaining the same…