Texas, Kansas, South Carolina and Georgia elected Democrats to posts Republicans have held for decades. In Kansas, the last time this happened was during the Great Depression.
For the first time in modern American history, a midterm election has been decided by a war of choice and by the price voters paid for that war at the pump. The Democrats are taking both chambers of Congress, but the most dangerous sixty days are yet to come.
The Polish prime minister accuses Moscow of trying to destabilise the country as Warsaw is rocked by protests over a dispute surrounding the Constitutional Tribunal.
The attack is attributed to the Rapid Support Forces. Drones have become the leading cause of civilian deaths in Sudan this year, and Turkish and Chinese manufacturers are profiting most from the war.
For the first time in several years, the Taiwanese president’s October speech did not trigger a major military exercise around the island. Behind the apparent lull lies a different strategy: snap drills, cyber pressure ahead of elections, criminal proxies and pressure on the Philippines.
Satellite imagery from Yale University shows a city where life has practically stopped, hospitals with pits and a 75-kilometer berm around the city. The drone war is spreading to Khartoum and the power grid, while foreign backers of both sides go unpunished.