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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Is the West Giving Ukraine Enough Aid to Win the War with Russia?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The stakes are rising as the Ukraine war nears its first anniversary, and the West faces crucial decisions about how much military aid to provide and whether to let Ukraine expand its target to Russian territory. 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.

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An important moment in the Ukraine War comes Friday as 50 donor nations meet in Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany to discuss the next steps in aid to Kiev as the war approaches its first anniversary on February 24.

0:42.0

Will the US and Europe increase their aid, including battle tanks?

0:46.0

And how will that affect the war that has become a brutal stalemate in Ukraine's east and south?

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Welcome. I'm Paul Gigo here with my Wall Street Journal colleagues Kate Bachelor O'Dell and Jillian Melcher who have been covering the debate over military aid and the war from the US and London. Welcome to you both.

1:07.0

This meeting in Germany, a very big event, the debate going on, a lot of preparation for what further military aid will be provided.

1:16.0

Let's listen to Ukraine President Vladimir Zelinsky this week. Talk about the need for battle tanks.

1:22.0

The organization of the war must outpace and next military mobilization of our joint enemy.

1:30.0

The supply of Ukraine with air defense systems must outpace Russia's next missile attacks.

1:37.0

The supplies of Western tanks must outpace another invasion of Russian tanks.

1:43.0

There is a duration of security and peace in Ukraine must outpace Russia's attacks on security and peace in other countries.

1:54.0

All right, Kate. What are the stakes here as the donor nations meet in Germany?

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Well, Paul, I think what we're going to see is what is going to be the US's strategy for the next six months in the war?

2:04.0

Are we going to provide them the tools that they need to not merely hang on, but when and are we going to seize a limited opening that we have that Russia is still regrouping,

2:16.0

still trying to generate some more forces in both manpower and weapons, but they are trying to launch a new offensive in the east.

2:24.0

This is Russia.

2:25.0

Russia is trying to launch a new offensive in the east.

2:28.0

And so there is this sort of narrow window of opportunity for the Ukrainians to sort of seize the initiative of the war before it grinds into a complete stalemate.

2:38.0

So the question I think for Ramstein is what are we going to do about that?

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