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

I'm Bionna Goldriga filling in for Farid, who's off this week, but he left an interview and more that we will bring you shortly.

Today on the program, it's been three months since the U.S. and Israel began their war against Iran.

I'll dig into what America has lost and what it has gained in that time with the author Robert Kagan.

Then the World Cup is where the great game of geopolitics meets the beautiful game of soccer.

Or is it football?

Even the name is caused for international dispute.

I'll ask an expert about the other global controversies surrounding the upcoming tournament.

And later in the show, Farid left us a beautiful essay about the parts of human intelligence that artificial

intelligence will never be able to replace.

The United States and Iran teeter on the brink of a deal that would cease hostilities between the two

countries for 60 days, while both sides attempt to iron out a more lasting agreement. At stake

are both traffic through the Strait of Ormuse and, therefore, global energy prices, and

Iran's nuclear ambitions. Joining me now is the author and foreign policy analyst Robert Kagan.

Bob, it's good to have you on the program.

You have been quite critical of this war in a number of articles that you've written

for the Atlantic magazine.

The most recent headline, Trump's end game is surrender.

An earlier piece is subtitled, Washington can't reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.

But the main issue, Trump says he went to war over, is Iran's highly enriched uranium?

And that is still to be negotiated, even if this deal or this memorandum of understanding is signed.

So how is that defeat, let alone irreversible when the central question is still at play here? Well, that is not the defeat. I think

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