In recent weeks, President Joe Biden’s campaign has faltered as his physical decline has become too obvious for Democrats and the media to ignore. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by the narrowest of margins, emerging bloodied yet defiant.
Americans aren’t the only ones transfixed by this unique political drama. Spies from all over the world are watching the campaign closely too. Everybody wants to know who the next president will be and what that means for them. Almost 180 countries maintain an embassy in Washington, D.C., and most of them contain spies, usually masquerading as diplomats. Sometimes, there are a lot of spies. In Russia’s case, at least one-third of their diplomats are really intelligence officers, and their oversized embassy is perched on a hill overlooking the White House, three miles away.
