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 show, Russia's brutal war shifts focus to the east. We will bring you the

latest from CNN's team on the ground. Then the case for war crimes. Western

governments have vowed to hold Vladimir Putin accountable. But what can the

world do? I will speak to the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is

calling for a Neuronberg style war crimes tribunal. And one billion euros a day.

That is how much energy Europe is still buying from Russia. How will sanctions

ever work if the oil and the oil money keep flowing? Finally on a lighter note, I

will bring you a clip from my new CNN plus interview with the extraordinary

Billie Joe. But first here's my take. When Russia launched its attack on Ukraine,

a wide variety of commentators believed that there was at least one silver

lining in this catastrophic cloud. Putin's assault on the liberal order they

hoped would expose and delegitimize the illiberal populist forces that have

been surging for years. One commentator speculated that the Ukraine war could end

the age of populism. Another, the scholar Francis Fukuyama, saw it as an

opportunity for people to finally reject right-wing nationalism. To last, six

weeks into this conflict, such speculation looks like wishful thinking. In

Europe, two pivotal elections in Hungary and France tell the tale. As recently as

a week ago, it was possible to suggest, as an essay in the Atlantic, did, that the

Ukraine war was upending European politics by highlighting the illiberal and

pro-Putin records of the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and the Hungarian

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