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Durham, North Carolina. I’m in the US following the campaign trail in connection with the midterm elections in a week, and I’ll be posting my weird grassroots observations here at regular intervals.

Midterm elections are the actual legislative elections in the United States where representatives from both houses of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate, are chosen. This is certainly important, but little understood in Europe where the emphasis is on the presidential election.

A first observation is to see closely the weight of the influence of American domestic policy on American foreign policy.

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The Biden administration’s foreign policy has been criticized by foreign policy sluggers such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brezinski.

They believe that the irreconcilable line between Russia and China is reckless and dangerous because the war in Ukraine has great potential for escalation with the risk of using nuclear weapons, because the escalation of the conflict with China amplifies the problems of the American economy and because the United States is now waging a war on two fronts which pushes the two opposing camps into the arms of each other.

Neither Kissinger nor Brezinski point this out, but the Biden administration’s hard line on Russia is obviously tied to the Democrats’ false policy. “Collusion with Russia” narrative to neutralize Donald Trump. In order to preserve the credibility of his own constituents, Biden was more or less ‘forced’ to keep running.”hard ball‘ against Russia in the war in Ukraine.

Hunter Biden’s ‘laptop’ and Republicans’ claims of Hunter’s close ties to the CCP and therefore that Joe Biden was compromised as well, likely explain the administration’s need to neutralize critics and prove the opposite by intensifying the conflict with China. At the same time, it drove Russia and China into each other’s arms.

Republicans are now on the verge of winning a majority in one house of the House of Representatives, possibly in both. In this case, we should not complain about it in Europe.

If Trump or another Republican candidate wins the presidential election in 2024, the new administration will seek a negotiated solution in Ukraine, but will keep the pressure on China, albeit for completely different reasons than the Biden administration. We shouldn’t be sorry for that either.

It is important here to distinguish between a snot and a mustache, between real politics and an orange mane.

Election deniers and other ravings about the United States in Norway

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