October 2026 has become a period of punctuated waiting and diplomatic reprieve before the US congressional elections in November and the APEC summit, amid continued high levels of hostilities and escalation in the Middle East.
Most of the messages in mid-autumn were related in one way or another to the United States, its policies in different regions of the world and processes in the NATO bloc.
Key military-political events and stories in the interview with the expert were evaluated by a military observer, a retired colonel and a frequent guest on television political talk shows - Mikhail Khudranuk.