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 Washington DC.

On the program today, it is day 11 of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The attacks on

that country's people and its cities are escalating. I will ask Ukraine's

foreign minister about his nation's urgent request for no fly zone and NATO's

denial of that plea. Also, Putin and his cronies have quashed almost all that

was left of the free press in Russia. I'll talk to a journalist whose radio was

forced to shut down this week. And our sanctions working, I will ask the

former Secretary of the Treasury, Larry Summers. But first, here's my take. The

battle has been joined. Now all that remains to be seen is who will win. Vladimir

Putin's naked aggression against Ukraine has triggered almost universal

condemnation. Last week's vote in the UN General Assembly to denounce the

invasion was 141 to 5 with 35 countries abstaining. President Biden has rallied

not just the West, but much of the world. He has announced sanctions that are

more far-reaching than any ever inflicted on a major economy. The results are

already evident. Russia's stock market and the rubble are in tatters. But

despite all this, economic sanctions have rarely forced a country to reverse

this path, let alone caused regime change. In the few cases where they do appear

to have had some effect, South Africa with apartheid Iran with its nuclear

enrichment, sanctions were usually widely enforced and comprehensive. Because

key countries like China, India and the Gulf states are unlikely to

boycott Russia, they will lack that long-term bite. There is one path to

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