MOSCOW, November 9. /TASS/. Washington’s anti-Russian policy to wage a hybrid war with Moscow will not change if the Republicans win the US congressional midterm elections, Dmitry Suslov, Deputy Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies and an expert of the Valdai discussion club told TASS on Wednesday.
"The fundamentally anti-Russian course of hybrid war against Russia will continue," the expert said, noting that anti-Russian, anti-Chinese and pro-Ukrainian rhetoric will continue to prevail in the US.
He explained that Republicans in the US Senate already currently support the preservation of American hegemony and urge an increase in US support to Ukraine. "And in the House of Representatives, even after it comes under Republican control, there won’t be the sufficient critical mass of Republicans to support a more isolationist and less globalist US policy," the expert noted.
That said, the analyst stressed that with a Republican victory, the Biden administration will encounter difficulties in terms of practically implementing its foreign policy. "The House of Representatives will hinder new financing for Ukraine, the process of budget approval will be connected with much more serious difficulties due to the intensity of internal political battle," he pointed out.
Prospects of dialogue with Russia
According to the expert, in the US, nobody is interested in improving relations with Russia and this issue is non-existent in US politics at this time. "The issue of improving relations won’t even rear its head since Republicans will demand increasing US efforts to contain China and greater emphasis on domestic affairs," he noted.
Suslov also thinks that Republican control of the House of Representatives may complicate discussions on issues in Russia-US relations remaining on the agenda, such as the dialogue on extending the New START Treaty. "The Republicans are skeptical of arms control, they support increasing military spending and the arms race much more than the Democrats. So, more likely, it will become even more difficult for us to hold this dialogue," the analyst explained.
Voting at the US midterms has come to an end. Americans cast their ballots for all 435 members of the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. In addition, governors of 36 states and three US overseas territories were elected. Local experts do not exclude the possibility that the ruling Democratic Party may lose control of the House and Senate after the elections, giving way to the opposition, the Republicans.