Trump-Biden Debate: US Presidential Candidates Talk About the War in Ukraine

A rebroadcast of the debate with Polish translation will be available today at 9 a.m. on TVN24 BiS.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump They faced off in the first debate before the autumn elections. elections presidential. The current and former White House hosts spent 90 minutes answering questions on topics including the economy, abortion and international affairs. One of the most common themes of the debate was America's position in the world and war in Ukraine.

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According to him, leaders like Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin they are not afraid of Biden, and the president Russia he decided to attack Ukraine seeing America's weakness after withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. “If we had a real president, one that Putin respected, he would never have invaded Ukraine. A lot of people died in that war. A lot more than is being reported. Biden did not stop Putin, he encouraged him to attack,” Trump said.

In his opinion, Biden's military policy “is crazy”. – With him, these wars will never end. He will take us to World War III, and we are closer to World War III than anyone imagines – said Trump. He also stated that “Putin took land from Bush, Obama and Biden” – referring to the war in Georgia, the seizure of Crimea and the recent invasion – but did nothing during his term because “he knew he couldn't play games”.

He added that Biden's policy has led to “such a bad position with Ukraine and Russia” because Ukraine is not winning the war and is “running out of soldiers.” Although he assessed that the conditions set by Putin for ending the war were unacceptable, he announced that he would end the conflict before he took power.

He also complained about the cost of supporting Ukraine, calling President Zelensky “the best salesman in history.”

– He (Biden) gave them 200 billion. That's a lot of money (…) I'm just saying that it's money we shouldn't have spent – he said. He also added that America is an ocean away from Europe and that Europe should bear the main burden of supporting Ukraine, wrongly claiming that the US bears a much greater financial burden.

He also recalled once again an anecdote from one of the “secret” meetings of NATO leaders, when asked by one of the leaders whether he would defend allies that were not paying enough for their defense, he replied negatively. “And you know what happened? Millions and billions of dollars started flowing in in the following months,” Trump said.

Joe Biden, in turn, argued that America has a strong position and “the strongest military in the history of the world” and “everyone knows not to mess with us.”

The Democrat described the Russian leader as a “war criminal.” “He killed thousands of people. He wants all of Ukraine. He wants to rebuild the Soviet empire,” he said.

Biden said that if Putin manages to take over Ukraine, he will want to further destabilize Central and Eastern Europe. – If Russia is not stopped, let's think about what will happen to Poland, to Belarus, to NATO countries – he emphasized.

According to Biden, the recipe for World War III is to allow Russia to win in Ukraine. -You want war? Then just let Putin take Kiev and then see what happens in Poland, Hungary and all the other places along the border. Then we will have a war, he noted.