Yesterday, Thursday’s debate was not without the US President Joe Biden And his competitor in the upcoming presidential elections Donald Trump From the reference to the Russian president Vladimir Putin Repeatedly, he was mentioned more than 12 times in an hour and a half, while they were competing to show who was tougher on foreign policy.
“If we had a real president, a president that Putin respects, he would never have invaded Ukraine,” Trump said of Biden at the start of a series of exchanges between the two candidates over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
“Go on,” Biden said of Trump, “let Putin go in and take over Ukraine, then move on to Poland and other places. See what happens next. He has no idea what he’s talking about.”
Ukraine and NATO
Discussions about the conflict in Ukraine have been dominated by how to end the war there, and debate over US support for NATO (NATO) And whether European countries are contributing enough to support Ukraine in the war it is waging against Russia.
Putin had previously expressed his disinterest in the election outcome.
“Basically, we don’t care,” Putin said earlier this month when Reuters asked him whether he thought the outcome of the US elections would make a difference for Moscow.
He added, “For us, we do not believe that the final result carries much importance. We will work with any president elected by the American people.”
There are things that will be on the American voter’s mind when he casts his ballot on November 5, as he will have to balance foreign policy issues such as Ukraine and Israel on the one hand with concerns about domestic issues such as immigration, abortion and the economy.