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, I'll talk to New York Times columnist Tom Fletman who points out

that not only is the United States involved in the largest war in Europe since World War

II. But America has also entered a sort of tech war with China and an energy struggle

with Saudi Arabia. What in the world is going on? And China's leaders, more than 2,000

of them, are gathering this week to make major decisions about the country's direction

for the next five years and beyond. On the agenda, an unprecedented third-term in

office for Xi Jinping. What else will be decided? I will talk to former Australian Prime

Minister Kevin Rudd. Then stop the steel maybe headed south of the border. As Latin America's

largest democracy seems to be taking cues from its neighbor up north. You don't

can see when this next thing goes. We will tell you about the controversy over Brazil's

presidential election. But first, here's my take. Fiona Hill, a distinguished Russia expert,

has recently argued that the West's confrontation with Russia over Ukraine has already brought

us into World War III. That is dangerous hyperbole. What made the first two world wars so

devastating was that the major powers of the day got into direct and protracted military

conflict with one another. We are not in that kind of battle today and with nuclear weapons

one shudders to even think about the trajectory of a great power war. But she's right in one

sense. The West is collectively waging economic war on Russia on a scale that would have

been unimaginable just a year ago. The consequences of that are likely to be with us for decades.

This new Cold War marks the end of the era of globalization and integration that has

shaped the international system since 1989. We're now living in a new world of great power

...