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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Europe Gets (More) Serious About the Threat From Vladimir Putin

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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NATO’s secretary general urges Europe to prepare for "the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured," yet a new report says Ukraine is on track this year to receive the lowest level of military aid allocations since Russia's invasion. Plus, what's the latest on Donald Trump's push for a peace deal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. President Trump says peace in Ukraine is getting closer all the time, but how much progress

0:43.8

is really being made as Russia rejects a proposed Christmas truce. Meantime, are America's

0:50.1

European friends and allies waking up from the end of history, as NATO's Secretary General

0:55.7

warns about the kind of war that our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.

1:01.9

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues

1:06.9

on the editorial page, Jillian Melcher and Joe Sternberg, both based in Europe, asked about prospects

1:14.4

for peace in Ukraine with Russia on Monday in the Oval Office. President Trump said, I think we're

1:20.9

closer now than we have been ever, and we'll see what we can do. He went on to say the problem

1:26.3

is they'll want to get it ended and all of a sudden they won't. is they'll want to get it ended and all of a sudden they won't.

1:29.0

And Ukraine will want to get it ended and all of a sudden they won't.

1:31.9

So we have to get them on the same page, unquote.

1:36.2

Gillian, what's the latest?

1:37.6

I have lost track at this point.

1:39.8

What the deadline now at some point, there was some suggestions that Christmas was the deadline for

1:44.7

President Trump's offer.

1:46.3

How are these negotiations proceeding?

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