US midterms: A blue tsunami has rebuked Trump. Will it end Washington's wars?

The political tsunami that swept across the US on 3 November was extraordinary in both its scale and implications. The electoral flood that overwhelmed the Republicans was not simply another midterm correction.

It was a sweeping rejection of Donald Trump's presidency: his economic policies, his wars, the corruption charges against his administration and his increasingly confrontational use of presidential power.

But the more consequential question is what happens next. Will this upheaval produce a fundamental reassessment of American foreign policy, particularly towards Israel, Palestine, Iran, and the wider Middle East? Or will the Democratic establishment try to restore the familiar bipartisan consensus that helped produce the very crises now confronting Washington? The answer will shape American politics throughout 2027 and beyond.