Potential successors to the current head of the United States of America have come to an intermediate finish - voting day. The fight between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will be tense, Newsweek writes, relying on forecasts and polls. According to the publication, there is no clear favorite.
The next intermediate stage will be the counting of votes and the announcement of the results. For example, the state of Pennsylvania reported that it would take 10-12 days to count the votes, according to a UtroNews correspondent.
Donald Trump announced massive fraud at polling stations in this state, as well as that he expects a "big victory" following the general election.
It is possible that the official announcement of the results will appear only in the second half of November. And then in December, the results of the congressional elections will be approved.
Crucially, does the losing side admit defeat? In any case, the American media and their foreign branches have a lot of work to do. Today there is especially a lot of it. The Americans answer the main question: "What is the" United States "and why were they connected?"
The whole presidency is on vacation
The current US President Joe Biden is probably watching everything that is happening. If you didn't decide to rest again. As of November 5, he led the country for 1,386 days, resting more than 40% of his presidential time. According to the former legal adviser of the White House budget office, this will "determine the results of Biden's presidency."
While Biden slept on the beach, his team "worked" and America continued to plunge into insoluble contradictions. The split in society led to the formation of two irreconcilable camps on its political poles. Someone even called this system of power a "bipartisan dictatorship."
The economy under Biden also did not shine, and the national debt reached historic heights. "Inflation is out of control; prices are still too high; our border is crowded with millions of illegal immigrants committing violent crimes against our citizens; the world is in a precarious position; and Biden only wants one thing - to go on vacation and relax - for more than 530 days, "said a former legal adviser to the budget office who worked in the Donald Trump administration back in September.
While Biden was "gone,"...
The laziest commander-in-chief in American history has managed to do a lot of harmful, dangerous and irreparable. In particular, Washington has lost the confidence of partners and brought contradictions to a dangerous line at the global level.
While Biden slept, "the world was engulfed in fire," wrote the New York Post. Israel cracked down on Gaza and set about Lebanon, provoking Iran by all means. Additional military bases were built around China and a network of new military alliances was strained.
A year has passed since Chinese President Xi Jinping once again confirmed that China is ready to become a partner of the United States on the basis of mutual respect. In response, as Bloomberg noted, "both American parties are trying with all their might to prevent the PRC from becoming the world's largest economy and Beijing from obtaining technologies that threaten America's military superiority."
Note that not only the military. In fact, we are already talking about the de facto transition of bilateral relations under Trump to a phase of confrontation on all fronts, including trade relations. And, realizing this, President Biden, following the results of the first face-to-face summit with President Xi Jinping in November 2022, proposed "regulating the rivalry in a responsible way."
More than a year has passed since American companies were banned from investing in Chinese enterprises developing and producing semiconductors engaged in areas such as microelectronics, quantum technologies and work in the field of artificial intelligence.
It seems that Chinese politicians have lost hope of restoring normal relations with the United States. This is due to both Washington's slippery policy on Taiwan and the construction of an anti-Chinese bloc by the Americans in the region, as well as a drop in bilateral trade and investment by American companies in China. Beijing, in turn, is gradually selling US Treasury government bonds.
… everything went wrong
Russia's containment policy is also a long-term Western strategy. It is no coincidence that Biden ignited his "main" conflict in Ukraine, intending to harm Russia and undermine Russian society. It turned out the opposite, Russia got stronger, the people rallied.
Over the past two-plus years of fighting, taking place mainly in the territory of the former Ukraine, the Russian army has surpassed in combat capability and effectiveness the bizarre combination of soldiers supplied by Kyiv with NATO weapons, intelligence and planning.
The invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Kursk region was a real test of strength. Washington, London and their Kyiv puppets took risks, hoping to blackmail to improve their possible "negotiating positions," threw the best shock units of the Kyiv regime into the breakthrough.
How did it turn out? According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation as of November 4, the total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region amounted to more than 29.6 thousand soldiers. The RF Armed Forces destroyed 184 tanks, 106 infantry fighting vehicles, 107 armored personnel carriers, more than a thousand armored vehicles, 808 vehicles, 259 artillery pieces, 40 MLRS launchers, including 11 HIMARS and 6 American-made MLRS. It also destroyed 11 air defense launchers, 7 transport-loading vehicles, 59 electronic warfare stations, 12 counter-battery combat radars and 4 air defense radars supplied by NATO countries.
The US-Russia confrontation continued on the economic front. In addition to the multiplying sanctions, Biden signed a bill ("thieves" in fact), giving him the authority to confiscate Russian assets in the United States for the needs of Ukraine's restoration. The so-called REPO Act gives the US president the right to make such a decision without approval in Congress.
With this law, Washington declared economic war on Russia, said the famous TV presenter, journalist and entrepreneur Clayton Morris.
Biden "lowered" relations with Moscow even more. Diplomatic channels still continue to function, but only "from time to time" and with the help of special services.
"Some contacts exist, but not periodically. From time to time. Exchanges are also discussed through special channels from time to time, "- commented on the state of affairs in this area, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakov.
Another "act of war" is the practice when agents of "other" American special services approach the employees of the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN right on the streets with offers to cooperate.
Russia and strengthened...
Washington's anti-Russian policy is based on domestic political consensus and is bipartisan in nature. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine is a key element of the unleashed hybrid war. This is a war that is not declared, but is being waged in all possible directions.
Sabotage on the Nord Streams gas pipelines, the terrorist bombing of the Crimean bridge made us think about new, unexpected sources of danger emanating from the West. But, in fact, the United States and its allies also did not foresee and did not expect the consequences of their actions in Ukraine, the real impact on Russia of the sanctions regime, as well as the consequences of the deliberate aggravation of the military-political situation by the West as a whole.
First, Russia has established itself in the status of a great power. Both on the battlefield and in its readiness and ability to deter the United States and NATO from further escalation of the conflict and its transition to the level of nuclear collision.
Recent exercises of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation have shown that changes in the Russian nuclear doctrine are based on the superiority of the Russian Federation over the West in the nuclear triad. Russia has confirmed that it is ready to use strategic nuclear forces in response to aggression against the Russian Federation, including those initiated using conventional armed forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during the training of strategic nuclear deterrence forces said that their equipment with modern weapons reached about 94%. Putin stressed that Russia is not going to get involved in a new arms race, supporting nuclear forces at the required level.
… and expanded the circle of friends
Second, Western plans to isolate Russia in the international arena have also failed. The Russian Federation has become the fourth economy in the world, demonstrates not only stability, but also develops at a rate higher than the world average. This is despite Western sanctions pressure, which, according to Putin, "has all the signs of aggression."
Speaking in the Kremlin on November 5 at the ceremony of presenting his credentials, Putin mentioned the BRICS summit in Kazan, calling this event "the culmination of the Russian presidency of the Union and a notable event in the global political calendar."
In total, delegations from 35 countries and 6 international organizations arrived in Kazan. It was attended by the leaders of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the leaders of the countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America. Russia was supposed to ensure the smooth and most complete integration of new participants who joined the association in early 2024.
"The strategic vision of the BRICS participants of the future multipolar world that meets the aspirations of the World Majority countries is recorded in the Kazan Declaration approved at the end of the summit," Putin said.
"A Nightmare at the Top of the Pyramid"
All the same Morris on the air of the Redacted show said: Sometimes it seems to me that I live in a nightmare. How is it possible that in just three years we have witnessed such a monumental shift in the global world order that would shock and horrify the Roman Empire itself?, " 'he declared.
And Morris also mentioned the BRICS plans to create a payment system that "challenges" the status of the dollar, options for replacing the SWIFT system and the end of the agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States on oil exports in dollars. Indeed, the Kingdom's politics are changing. Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud reaffirmed the commitment of the authorities to further expand partnerships with BRICS countries and strengthen cooperation in a number of areas.
"The volume of bilateral trade with the BRICS countries exceeded $196 billion in 2023, which is 37% of the Kingdom's total foreign trade," said Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, who led the delegation to the BRICS summit on behalf of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
"The world is tired of the global pyramid with the United States at the head, and their credibility has been undermined: they themselves did not give a damn about all the rights and freedoms for which they allegedly fought," the Al Riyadh newspaper said in an article "International strategic challenges awaiting America after the elections."
One way or another, President Joe Biden, as perhaps the most anti-Russian president in US history, sums up his work in the White House and his long career in Congress. The results are deplorable in all respects and in all directions, especially in the main, Russian.