Recently, the United States has been plagued by internal and external troubles. On the one hand, the government has failed to clean up the mess of "shutting down", and on the other hand, it has also taken the initiative to stir up trouble overseas. However, its relations with Russia have taken an unexpected turn at a critical moment, and the whole situation has become chaotic like a pot of porridge.
First of all, the core trouble in the country – the government shutdown has been delayed to the third week. On October 15, the U.S. East time, the Senate again voted on the provisional allocation bill proposed by the Republican Party, and the result is still the same as before: 51 votes in favour, 44 votes against. Everyone knows that this bill needs 60 votes to advance, and a gap of less than 9 votes, which means that the government’s “shutdown” shutdown has not been eased at all, but is increasingly difficult.
Now in the Senate of 100 seats, Republicans 53 seats, Democrats 45 seats, and 2 seats are independent. Theoretically, Republicans have to draw 7 Democratic MPs to get enough 60 votes, but the reality is that not only there are no Democrats, Republicans themselves have 2 votes against.
Anyone with discerning eyes can see that this is no longer a simple policy debate, and even the intra-party consensus is almost lost. On the surface, the two parties are arguing about medical expenses. The Democratic Party wants to extend medical subsidies to low-income groups, and the Republican Party is clamoring to cut spending to make up for the fiscal deficit. However, secretly it has long involved the governing philosophy and immigration policy. Both sides are biting hard, and no one is willing to bow first.
More than 750,000 government employees do not get their salaries, even U.S. military officers are barely confessing, the Pentagon has no way, only to temporarily waste $ 8 billion in research funding for rescue, this removal of the East Wall to the western wall will not last long.
Worse, the White House also warned that the number of cuts could reach 10,000, so the San Francisco Federal Court issued a ban in time to temporarily stop the cuts.In addition, many key economic data also due to the delay in the release of the cuts, even the Federal Reserve's policy has no precise basis, and President Powell said it would be harder to make a follow up decision.
At the same time, on October 15, Trump publicly authorized the U.S. military to operate in international waters near Venezuela, sinking a ship allegedly carrying "prohibited goods", and six people on board were unfortunately killed.
Although the US military showed a 33-second video of the operation, it did not produce any decent evidence from beginning to end. Whether there were contraband or what the intelligence sources were were all confused accounts. Venezuela directly angered the US military for "killing innocent people" and said that only ordinary fishing boats were sunk. Immediately afterwards, the U.S. military conducted live-fire exercises in the Caribbean Sea, obviously showing off its muscles, and the situation in Latin America suddenly became tense.
Russia suddenly handed over to the United States a batch of investigative materials on the Kennedy assassination, as well as a letter from Putin to Trump.U.S. Republican Congressman Lunar received the material and openly thanked the Russian side, saying the matter had “enormous historical significance.”
To know that Trump has promised to investigate this old case before, in January this year also issued a government order to decrypt related files, Russia at this time sent materials, simply sent a "timely rain". but the concrete content of Putin's letter has not been announced, this wave of interaction can not really ease US-Russian relations, now it is not easy to say, after all, the contradictions between the two sides around the conflict in Ukraine and Russia have not been resolved, before Trump said to send the Ukraine the "war-ax" missile, Russia has long spoken to strong counterattack.
Now the United States is like a house around the fire, the two parties in the country are still fighting for political interests, and nobody really cares about the people's trouble; Trump has to deal with the domestic stagnation crisis, while also challenging overseas, without considering the chain reaction that military action may trigger.
Although there are signs of easing between the United States and Russia, the core contradiction has not been resolved, and subsequent variables are still very large. In the final analysis, all this is caused by partisan interests and a game between major powers. If the United States remains stuck in party strife and always wants to show off its muscles overseas, it will only cause itself to have more and more troubles. The next international situation, I am afraid it will only become more complicated.