The White House between war and voting.
Bahman Kolbasi, BBC, New York.
On Wednesday, the American media published a collection of reports and analyzes about the war with Iran. The Reuters news agency, citing documents leaked by this media from the US Department of Defense, reported that the military cost of this war exceeded 47 billion dollars.
But the more important question is what the political price of the war will be for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The answer to this question will probably be revealed in the early morning of next Wednesday, at the same time as the announcement of the election results. If the Republicans lose the majority in the House of Representatives and even in the Senate, many will see this result as a direct result of the war with Iran and voter dissatisfaction with rising prices and economic pressures caused by it.
These concerns, according to observers, were one of the reasons why the White House avoided any escalation of the conflict before the election. In fact, the political cost of the war is so high that the Trump administration prefers that the Iran crisis not return to the top of the news until after the vote.
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