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Still, he expresses cautious optimism about the potential policy of the new Congress.
Former foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin believes that after losing dominance in domestic U.S. politics, President Donald Trump will focus on foreign policy, notably the war in Ukraine. In an interview with NV the speaker said he is confident that the head of the White House will begin to "pressure Kyiv very hard" on the track of peace negotiations, since pressing Moscow is difficult.
One should not rule out another escalation in the Middle East, which would also affect Ukraine — further complicating the situation with missiles for air defense. As for the Democrats, whose victory elicited a positive reaction in both Ukraine and Europe, Klimkin noted that it is still unclear what their policy will be, saying that for Kyiv the “blues” are a rather complicated reality.
“Will the Democrats move forward on our issue in a united way? I do not have a definite answer to that,” he emphasized, and reminded that many of Ukraine’s “advocates” who were among the Republicans also lost their seats in Congress. “... Working with the new ones will not be so straightforward, I would say.”
Klimkin nonetheless suggests that the Democrats may strengthen financial and military support for Ukraine. The politician also has cautious optimism about the potential desire of the “blues” to deepen cooperation with Europe ahead of elections that will be held next year in many major countries, and about the possible acceleration of production of certain types of weapons.
“The American defense industry is now talking very closely with both the Democrats and some Republicans,” the speaker said.
This year’s midterm elections will apparently be remembered as a crushing defeat for the Republicans, although experts had given such a scenario less than 25% probability. Preliminary results indicate that the Democrats won in both chambers of Congress: they received 224 seats in the House of Representatives and at least 51 seat in the Senate. Although votes from many states are still coming in, the leader of the “blues” in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, has already commented on his party’s victory, promising Americans that “better times are coming.”
Whatever the election results, Donald Trump will still remain president, emphasizes former ambassador and head of the NGO “Center for New Decisions” Kostyantyn Yeliseyev. In the piece “Diplomacy without the right to emotion: why Ukraine cannot afford to lose America” he warned that Kyiv must be restrained in its relations with Washington already now, since preserving the U.S. as a strategic partner is not a matter of political sympathy but of Ukraine’s national security and the preservation of the lives of its citizens.
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