Navigating Global Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities
6/7/202643 min
From the Iran nuclear deal to the shifting dynamics in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, dive into the week's global issues with Fareed Zakaria. Special guests include Ben Rhodes and top experts on geopolitical tensions.
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[intro music] This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria, coming to you from New York. [upbeat music] Today on the program, a look at the successes and failures of recent American administrations on Iran with President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes. Ben, could the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo spread to other countries? Could it come to America? I ask a former COVID coordinator of the United States. Finally, almost six months ago, Donald Trump declared that he would run Venezuela. How's that going? Actually, better than expected. I'll tell you why. But first, here's my take. Donald Trump faces plunging public approval at home and a messy war he initiated abroad. But he has an opportunity to change that narrative, not in the Middle East, but more than 1,000 miles away in Europe, where a bloody war rages on between Russia and Ukraine. In recent months, the tide has turned in that conflict in ways that make peace finally possible. [gunshot] Ukraine is now in the fifth year of a war against an adversary with roughly 12 times its economy and more than