This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around

the world. I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the program, Washington's top diplomat met Moscow's on Friday. Is the situation

as volatile as ever?

If any Russian military forces move across Ukraine's border, that's a renewed invasion.

Also, Mrs. Speaker, I want to apologize.

How long can embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson hold on?

Facts behind site.

I'll talk about all that and more with Richard Haas and Applebaum and David Milobank.

Also, stock sub volatile, inflation is stubborn, oil hits seven year highs, and China's

growth starts to slow. What is going on with the economy?

Now we need to get inflation under control.

I will talk to Rana Fruha of the Financial Times.

The first here's my take. What does Vladimir Putin want? It's a question Washington finds

hard to answer because let's face it, we Americans rarely put ourselves in other people's

shoes. Two important essays by Dmitry Trenen in Foreign Affairs and Eugene Shausovsky in

foreign policy provide some clues. Both suggest that Putin has stayed in power for over 20

years, not by being a reckless gambler, but rather by being careful, even rational.

Trenen points out that Putin has watched four waves of NATO expansionism since he took

power. His military incursions have usually been reactions to events rather than grand

initiatives of his own. In 2008, it followed Georgia's decision to retake the separatist

province of South Ossetia. In 2014, it came on the heels of the Mid-Annaprising in Ukraine

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