i m fareed zakaria. today we devote the program to that sobering anniversary. one year since russia s full-scale invasion of ukraine. i ll bring you my interview with the national security adviser jake sullivan and u.s. aid administrator samantha power about where the war and america s assistance go from here. also, who should foot the bill for the hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to ukraine? former treasury secretary larry summers said the answer is easy. listen to him explain his plan. then, why putin s war on ukraine might not be proceeding as he hoped. the russian president may be getting exactly what he always wanted back home in russia. the new york times valerie hopkins will explain. but first, here is my take. one year into russia s naked aggression against ukraine it is become clear that neither side is strong enough to win the war, nor weak enough to sue for peace. the conflict has settled into a stalemate. after making impressive gains, ukraine s arm
Missiles that could stop tanks in their tracks so they couldn t roll over kyiv and anti-air stingers to shoot down the helicopters that were bringing in paratroopers to try to take over city from the air. in the second phase of the war, ukraine really needed artillery, in the east, to stop the more traditional advances of the russian military. as we head into the spring, what ukraine really needs is armor. infantly fighting vehicles, and yes, tanks. and we re providing those. when it comes to f-16s. this is important for the current phase of the war, at this point it is important for the current phase of the war which is they are about to mount a significant counter offensive. from our perspective, f-16s are not the key capability for that offensive. this is stuff that we re moving rapidly to the front lines now. f-16s are not a question for the short-term fight. f-16s are a question for the long-term defense of ukraine and that is a conversation that president biden and president
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Security guarantees from nato. though they would not apply to those disputes territories. that tradeoff, to put is simply, crimea and parts of the donbas is one that could be sold to ukrainians because they would achieve their long cherished goal of becoming part of the west. it could be acceptable to russia because it could claim to have protected some russian speaking parts of ukraine. there are many who believe the war can end with a total ukrainian victory. i hope so. but i doubt it. in 2021, russia was more than three times bigger than ukraine in population. almost 15 times bigger in gdp and spent 10 times more on its defense budget. russians have a high capacity tor pain in war time. the soviet union lost 24 million
That people sit around their kitchen tables and think about. while at the same time, mobilizing a coalition of free nations to support the values that americans hold so dear. so what i would say to those senators is, yes, let s do these things at home, but are you saying that america is incapable of also helping to serve a powerful force for good in the world? i don t think that the american people believe that. i think the american people think we are capable of doing both and at our best that is exactly what we have done and i believe that a lot of the moments that i ve seen in this last year in ukraine, from those flags waving in small towns to the people in the u.s. government who are trying to support folks like igor on the front lines, that has been america at its best. and so i think that there is a pessimism in this argument that these senators are making. president biden has an optimistic view, which is we can do it and we should do it and we are doing it.