A handful of voters can determine the fate of the entire United States

A handful of voters can determine the fate of the entire United States

The state of Pennsylvania, where the entire United States began, decides who will be the next president. Äripäev came to the site to guess where the side’s choice will fall.

  • Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have held numerous campaign events in Pennsylvania in recent weeks. Photo: AFP/Scanpix

This week’s briefing comes from the birthplace of the United States, Philadelphia. The election is less than a week away, and it is here in the state of Pennsylvania that it will be decided who will start November 6 as the next president of the United States. In connection with this, the “Global Briefing” will be published on Thursday instead of Tuesday, both today and a week from now.

Before arriving in the Midwest, photographer Andras Kralla and I were in California to understand perhaps the most important contradiction in American society: whether the extraordinary economic success of the United States has come at the cost of the disappearance of the middle class. There is wealth, but still for the few in the big picture. People in San Francisco believe so, but Silicon Valley’s billionaire class sees visible homelessness and drug addiction in the cities not as a symptom, but as a disease – and in their view, it needs to be cured from the west coast with a tougher police hand.

Of course, other life has not stopped in the meantime, which is why a memo about the most important events in the world is in its place this week. However, simplifying somewhat, it can be stated: what the Americans decide next week will very significantly determine what is happening and is about to happen everywhere else.

“Global Briefing” is Indrek Lepik’s newsletter, which you can order for your mailbox free of charge at www.aripaev.ee/uudiskirjad

Natural shock in Spain. Hundreds of people have died in Valencia after a year’s worth of rain fell in one day. The mass of water took with it buildings and bridges, cars and drowning people. In addition to irreparable human suffering, agriculture in the region was also severely affected by the flood. Valencia grows nearly two-thirds of Spain’s citrus, and Spain’s largest farmers’ association has already said the damage is severe.

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