VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV-AMERICAN | ALL IS FOR THE BEST IN THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS!

RUSSIAN RECORDS AND A SIDE EFFECT OF THE U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS

To begin with, the Russians are breaking their own records. I am referring to battlefield personnel losses, which continue to climb relentlessly: 26,090 in February 2026, 46,230 in September, and 49,040 in October. The highest monthly figure in the entire history of this idiotic war, dating back to its very beginning.

And now for the daily record: 2,980 casualties on November 8, 2026. To put that into perspective, Russia is losing, on average, one soldier every 29 seconds — nearly two soldiers a minute.

President Zelensky says that our military is strengthening Ukraine’s negotiating position. He is referring not only to the two-day meeting in Abu Dhabi. It is the Trump principle: peace through strength. And strength is on Ukraine’s side. Ukraine is liberating more of its territory than Russia is conquering new territory. Not to mention Ukrainian strikes against military targets throughout Russia, including deep inside the country, thousands of miles from Ukraine.

As for these record Russian losses, their strategic implications are even more important. At such a high rate, casualties exceed the aggressor’s capacity to replenish its forces. This is true even as Russia resorts to extreme measures, sending teenagers into the meat grinder, including Ukrainian teenagers from occupied territories.

For comparison — although there is really no comparison with the catastrophe unfolding today — the Soviet Union lost 15,000 people during its ten-year war in Afghanistan. That war was, essentially, the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Not the only reason, of course, but certainly one of the principal ones.

There is no question that Russia’s present disastrous war will have geopolitical consequences as well. The Kremlin fool conceived it to bring about Ukraine’s destruction, but instead is leading Russia to its own destruction.

What began as an anti-Ukrainian war has turned into an anti-European and anti-American one. Appeasing an overreaching aggressor is impossible by definition, no matter how much effort anyone may expend trying to do so. We know where good intentions lead.

A bromance with Putin is impossible not only because of his psychopathic condition, but also because Russia understands only the language of force. And force is now on Ukraine’s side, backed by an alliance of some fifty countries, including the United States, which shares intelligence with Ukraine and sells it weapons, albeit through European intermediaries.

In my Kyiv-based seven-book series, beginning with the first volume, Russia’s Suicide, I predicted the inevitability of Russia’s historic defeat. This was five years ago, and the process is still unfolding. I considered that defeat more consequential than Ukraine’s victory, although the two are, of course, closely intertwined.

Now, however, we are witnessing Russia’s actual defeat in plain sight — both externally, on the battlefield, and internally, as a consequence of its own inherent contradictions.

Which brings me to the side effect of our midterm elections. I see them not merely as a victory for the Democratic Party, but as a victory for American democracy itself. Just as, two years ago, I regarded Trump’s victory as a victory for American democracy.

That is a separate conversation. For now, let us consider the undeniable beneficiary of these elections: Ukraine.

Ukraine can now count on bipartisan (I emphasize: bipartisan) support from the United States, including from its current president. One might even venture to say that this amounts to a corrective to the wavering and inconsistent course of U.S. policy toward Ukraine.

At the same time — and precisely for that reason — these elections undoubtedly represent yet another defeat for Russia. I say another because Russia is losing one ally after another, from Venezuela to Syria.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.