Midterm meltdown, horror in Ukraine, ceasefire breakthrough: RT coverage of the week’s key events

This week we also looked at the power struggle playing out in Poland, and the factional warfare consuming Kiev The midterm wipeout American voters delivered a stunning rebuke to President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s midterm elections, handing Democrats a ten-seat lead advantage in the Senate and their largest House majority since the Clinton years. In its pre-election guide, RT warned that Iran and Israel would play an outsized role on election day, and all but the most rabid Washington neocons now accept that the war on Iran, record fuel prices, and Trump’s obsequious relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu drove voters into the arms of the Democratic Party.Trump paid a heavy price for giving Netanyahu the war he wanted, but it’s not just us making that case. In his own post-mortem, US Vice President J.D. Vance admitted that Republicans failed to give voters what they wanted: “1) End the war; 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation; 3) Put America First; 4) Change our relationship to Israel.”The dust is still settling in Washington, and on Wall Street, where technology stocks have plummeted in anticipation of heavy-handed AI regulation from the incoming Democrats. What is clear, as former...