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.

Today on the program, President Biden says Vladimir Putin's mind is made up. He's decided

to invade Ukraine. But is there an exit ramp? If not, what can we expect and when? I'll

talk to reporters on the ground in Kiev and Moscow about what they're seeing in

hearing as well as top former foreign policy officials joining us from Munich and

back here, stateside. Plus, I talk to Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state.

She dealt with Putin in the first decade of his rule. She'll tell us what she learned.

Let's get started.

I'll bring you might take later in the show, but first let me set the scene for you.

Russia has now believed to have well north of 150,000 troops arrayed around Ukraine,

surrounding it on three sides. Belarus to the north, Russia to the east, and Crimea and

Moldova to the south. Meanwhile, yesterday Putin and his Belarusian counterpart

oversaw nuclear drills, tests of ballistic and cruise missiles. Also, yesterday Ukraine's President

gave a speech criticizing the West for not doing enough to help his nation. So I want to understand

what is happening in the Ukrainian and Russian capitals. CNN's chief international correspondent,

Clewersel Ward, joins us from Kiev and CNN International Diplomatic Editor,

Nick Robertson, is here with us from Moscow, my apologies. Nick, let me ask you,

what does the state of play look like? We all understand that there is a military escalation,

but in diplomatic terms, what are the flurry of proposals and counter-proposals telling us?

Is there a growing diplomatic gap? Does it seem that people are worried that gap is unbridgeable?

It does feel as if it's growing. The flurry of deployments, you're also quite intense. We've

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