What the US midterms result means for the Ukraine war

By Michael Cox, Founding Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science

The US midterm elections have shifted the balance of power in Congress, delivering a massive blow to Donald Trump and his Republican party. This has implications both at home and possibly abroad, including for US policy towards Ukraine; an issue that was hardly mentioned during the campaigns.

But even if Ukraine did not figure much in the election, the question in US politics of what to do about the war has not gone away. Indeed, in the weeks and months before the result was announced, Trump had been busily…

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