Day: November 5, 2026

The Democrats’ victory in both chambers of the US Congress gives Ukraine and its European supporters reason for cautious optimism. It does not, however, reverse Donald Trump’s approach to the war or restore the transatlantic relationship to its pre-2025 footing. Washington’s Russia policy is now contested from within the American

The midterms have changed the political arithmetic surrounding Donald Trump’s war with Iran, but not the military reality. Democrats’ victory in both chambers is a serious rebuke to the White House and gives opponents of the war new tools to challenge it. Yet the result does not automatically bring the