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

around the world. I'm Faris Zakaria coming to you live from London. Today on the program,

Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in part to weaken NATO. Now the leaders of Finland say they

want their nation to join the Western Alliance. And Vladimir Putin is not pleased. I'll

talk to the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair about this big move and much else. Then

I'll talk to Ian Bremer and Zany Minton Betos about the world's other crises, COVID,

the economy, food and more. Finally, I'll take you inside the mind of Vladimir Putin. It's

a preview of my latest special premiering tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. But first,

here's my take. The Biden administration deserves huge credit for the economic measures

that's been able to take against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. As an essay by Gary

Huffbauer and Megan Hogan note, they are the most comprehensive imposed against a major

power since the Second World War. On a punishment scale, they rank them as at least an eight out

of ten. But the unprecedented nature of these measures is producing concerns around the

world that the United States has weaponized its financial power and could lead over time

to the decline of the dollar's dominance, which is what gives America its financial superpowers

in the first place. Let me tell you about three reports from three good sources that I

trust. One comes to me from New Delhi reporting on a conversation that took place at the highest

levels of India's government. The topic, how to make sure that the US could never do to

India what it has just done to Russia. The second from Brussels where staff at the European

Commission have been tasked even while working with Washington on the sanctions to find

ways to reduce the role of the dollar in its energy imports. The third, a shrewd

Asian observer of China speculated that the overly severe lockdowns in Shanghai, which

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