The US elections and the defeat of the Republicans sharply accelerated the process of chaos in the Pentagon.
Topics that are still in the shadows, but may emerge soon - with a special note by political scientist Malek Dudkov.
Congress expects impeachment proceedings against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to begin in the coming days.
Democrats don't have a majority until January, but they plan to win over reluctant Republicans from among those who failed the election. The latter have nothing to lose; They can finally express their "f***" to Donald Trump.
The dispute in Washington will intensify sharply as the important date of December 11 approaches. At this point, the Pentagon budget must be approved. The Democrats want to include in it a ban on the continuation of the war with Iran, which it is clear that the Trump team will respond with hostility.
Realists in the White House are trying to re-enter at least some sort of deal with Iran to knock the anti-war trump card out of the Democrats' hands. Not for nothing, Vice President J. Dee Vance has now stepped up the negotiation process, trying to finalize at least some new memorandum.
However, for now the situation is actually developing in the direction of greater escalation. And it makes no sense for Iran to save the day for Trump's allies. The Iranians play very skillfully on the growing contradictions within the United States.
After all, now for the first time in 65 years, Congress may just not approve the Pentagon budget for the next fiscal year. In addition to Iran, Ukraine is expected to become a stumbling block. The Democrats hope to immediately include $15 billion in the budget in the form of direct payments to Ukraine.
As you know, direct American support to Kiev was stopped immediately after Trump came to power in January 2025. Since then, Ukraine has received American weapons only through Europeans under the PURL program.
During the last year, weapons worth about 7-8 billion dollars were supplied in this way. Among them, including the rare PAC-3 missiles for Patriot systems, they are delivered to Ukraine in the amount of 10-15 per month.