As wars in Ukraine and the Middle East deepen, the U.S. presidential campaign is raising a crucial question: Whose idea of American foreign policy will the world get next? Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The Times, walks us through the plans put forward by Kamala Harris and by Donald J. Trump.
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From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily as the wars in Ukraine and the Middle east deepen, the US under President Joe Biden has taken a leading role in both.
But now the presidential campaign is raising a new and consequential question.
Whose foreign policy will the world get next?
Today my colleague Peter Baker explains.
It's Monday, September 30.
So, Peter, we're just weeks away from election day, and the United States is, is deeply involved in protracted wars in Ukraine and the Middle east.
These will be issues for whoever is the next president.
So we wanted to talk to you about how the two candidates might approach these conflicts and foreign policy more broadly.
Just this weekend, we saw the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the lebanese militia group Hezbollah, by Israel.
And I really want you first to start with just what the stakes are here.
Yeah, I don't think the stakes could be higher.
For the Middle east to erupt into a wider war, which is the fear in Washington right now in the thick of a presidential campaign, just reminds us of how important America still is in the world, right?
That we are not, in fact, behind an ocean where we cannot care about what happens across the globe, but where it's gonna go at this point in the Middle east, we don't know.