'Ukraine’s Future Is in NATO'

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The alliance says Ukraine will be invited to join later, when "conditions are met" but without a specific timeline, drawing the ire of Volodymyr Zelensky. Plus, Turkey says it will no longer object to Sweden's NATO accession, and Joe Biden agrees to send cluster bombs to Ukraine, while noting America's dwindling ammo stockpiles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.8	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,
0:23.6	this is Potomac Watch.
0:26.6	The NATO Alliance opens its annual summit with membership by Sweden
0:31.6	and maybe someday Ukraine on the agenda as President Biden agrees to send cluster munitions to Ukrainian defenders.
0:39.6	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:42.6	We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Kate Batchelder-Odell and columnist Kim Strassel.
0:51.6	NATO members are meeting today and tomorrow in Lithuania.
0:55.6	Let's start with the breaking news from the past 24 hours.
0:59.6	Turkey has said it will agree to withdraw its objections on adding Sweden as a member to the NATO Alliance.
1:07.6	An hours after that, the United States said that it will send F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.
1:13.6	Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, is saying in court of the journal story
1:17.6	that there is no direct linkage between these two events.
1:21.6	He says, quote, President Biden has been clear for months that he supports the transfer of F-16s to Turkey.
1:27.6	This is international interest and the interest of NATO.
1:30.6	Unquote, so perhaps it is an amazing coincidence, a confluence of events or perhaps not.
1:36.6	But Kate, what is your read of this development?
1:38.6	How big of a help would Sweden be in the NATO Alliance?
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