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, what would it take for Ukraine to win this war?

I'll put that question to two of America's top former military officials,

General David Patreyes and Admiral James Stavridas.

Also, did the commander-in-chief do an about face on Saudi Arabia?

Do gas prices trump human rights? I'll ask an expert.

And the Federal Reserve acts boldly to try to get inflation under control.

Will it work? I will ask Rana Faruha.

But first, here's my take.

In 1942, Winston Churchill tried to ready the British people for a long conflict,

referring to the Allied victory in Egypt, he said,

this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end.

But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.

When we think of it in those terms, what phase are we witnessing in the war in Ukraine?

We are likely in the middle, explains Gideon Rose, a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations,

and the author of an excellent book, How War Is End.

He points out that every war begins like a chess game,

with a dramatic attack and a defense.

If those opening salvos do not produce a decisive victory,

the war enters a middle phase, in which both sides try to slog it out to gain advantage on the battlefield.

He told me, during the middle phase, neither side is interested in negotiating

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