If, on the other hand, Hillary Clinton wins the electoral college vote, she will face the opposite dilemma: how to distinguish her foreign policy from Barack Obama’s. More weeks would go by while a new Clinton administration dives into an inevitable policy review. That may well not succeed, leaving a Clinton administration with the choice of agreeing to a resumption of dialogue with Pyongyang and accepting its nuclear weapons status, as long as it restricts missile development. Ultimately, a Trump administration would have to face the direct threat of a North Korean long-range missile. A Trump administration is unlikely to contest Russian enforcement of its influence in eastern Ukraine.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2016 15:33 UTC