Under Pressure, Germany Finally Sends Tanks to Ukraine

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Germany is joining other European nations, as well as the United States, in sending more tanks to Ukraine to fight off a possible new offensive by Russia. So what took them so long to commit, and was the U.S. pledge for more aid the tipping point for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz? Plus, Mike Pence hands over classified documents found in his home, and a listener asks about the U.N.'s role in the Ukraine/Russia conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Business, finance, politics.
0:03.4	There's a lot going on out there, and the Wall Street Journal's What's News podcast
0:06.8	covers it all, twice a day in less than 15 minutes.
0:10.1	Navigate your world with What's News, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:19.2	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:26.0	The company in the United States finally decided to send you crane battle tanks as key
0:31.1	prepares for what could be a new Russian offensive in the coming months.
0:35.6	What has changed and how much will these tanks matter?
0:39.2	Plus, Mike Pence, former Vice President, discloses the classified documents were found at his
0:44.4	Indiana home.
0:45.4	He's cooperating with the National Archives in Congress, but does anybody take care of secrets
0:50.3	in Washington DC anymore?
0:52.3	Or are we simply maybe keeping too many things secret?
0:56.2	Welcome.
0:57.2	I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, and I'm here with Joe Sternberg
1:01.5	and Kate Bacheldur O'Dell to talk about these two pressing subjects.
1:06.1	Let's start with Joe in London.
1:07.8	You follow German politics closely.
1:09.8	What finally turned German Chancellor Olaf Schultz around on sending what I guess is going
1:14.8	to be 14 leopard tanks to Ukraine after so many months of resisting?
1:20.2	It turned it was pressure and awful lot of pressure both within Germany and from outside.
1:26.4	First off, what was going on outside of Germany is that there was a lot of pressure from
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