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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Germany elects a new center-right leader who promptly says his goal is independence from the United States.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Zelenskyy of Ukraine and Donald Trump and various Trump officials continue their war of words as Trump

tilts towards Russia in the Ukraine conflict. What does all this mean for American alliances on

the U.S. national interest as the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, continues

to shake up the world order a month since Election Day. That's our subject for today

in Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages. I'm Paul Giego,

editor of those pages, and I'm here with Joe Sternberg, our man in London and Bill McGern,

who is our man in New York, but sometimes spotted in New Jersey.

So let's talk, Joe, about this big German election and why it matters to the United States.

So what happened?

Who is this fellow Friedrich Mertz, who's going to be the next chancellor, center-right

party, Christian Democratic Union leader?

Tell us about it.

He represents a shift to the right in German politics.

Let's start with why anyone should care about this election. I mean, certainly Germany, largest

economy in Europe, an economic engine for Europe. And also, over the past few decades, an important

ally of the U.S. and a real anchor of the North

Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance. And so what happens there matters a lot to America,

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