Washington's 2022 Hits and Misses

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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From the war in Ukraine to an historic Supreme Court term, soaring inflation and record spending by Congress, Potomac Watch looks at the biggest stories of 2022, and what they mean for 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Three, two, one.
0:03.0	What will the world look like 10 or 20 years from now?
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0:15.5	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:25.3	A land war in Europe, the worst inflation in 40 years, the stock market plunge and a
0:30.9	wipeout in cryptocurrency, a historic year for the Supreme Court and a change in political
0:37.0	control, narrowly in the House of Representatives, but not in the United States Senate.
0:43.4	Those are some of the major stories this year as 2022 comes to a close and we look ahead
0:48.5	to 2023.
0:50.5	I'm Paul Gigo, editor of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, and I'm here with my
0:55.0	colleagues, Kim Strassel and Kate Bacheldur, Odell, and today we're going to look back at
1:01.1	some of the major stories of the past year and tease out some of their implications for
1:06.7	the future.
1:07.7	I think we have to start with the Ukraine War, Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February
1:13.4	24th, continuing now as we almost approach the first year anniversary, change the international
1:19.9	landscape enormously, first real land war in Europe since World War II, and Kate, as
1:26.6	you look at the implications of what this means, how has that war changed the world in
1:32.5	the last year?
1:33.5	Well, Paul, I know counterfactuals are only so useful, but I do think you have to think
1:36.9	about what would have happened if Russia had rolled right into Ukraine with success.
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