Putin would ‘eat you for lunch’ Harris tells Trump in clash over Russia

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****** would ‘eat you for lunch’ Harris tells Trump in clash over Russia

Former US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Kamala Harris are shown on screen during a debate watch party at the Cameo Art House Theatre in Fayetteville, North Carolina, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris enter Tuesday’s debate in search of the same goal, a moment that will help them gain the edge in a race polls show is essentially tied. Photographer: Allison Joyce/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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*********** presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, clashed repeatedly over Russia, Kremlin leader Vladimir ****** and the war in Ukraine in Tuesday night’s closely watched Presidential Debate.

Harris told Trump, who previously served as U.S. president, that ****** “would eat you for lunch” and said that, if the *********** were to become president, “****** would be sitting in Kyiv right now.”

She also accused Trump of being ready to abandon Ukraine after two and a half years of war and an immense military funding effort by the U.S.

“Understand why the ********* allies and our NATO allies are so thankful that you are no longer president and that we understand the importance of the greatest military alliance the world has ever known, which is NATO,” Harris said during the ABC News Presidential Debate,

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“What we have done to preserve the ability of Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians to ****** for their independence. Otherwise, ****** would be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe. Starting with Poland,” she said, before describing ****** as “a dictator who would eat you for lunch.”

Trump rejected Harris’ comments, claiming that the war would not have started if he had been in power in 2022 and telling the audience that ****** “would be sitting in Moscow, and he wouldn’t have lost 300,000 men and women” in the war.

Exact war casualty figures are unknown. Neither Russia nor Ukraine release such sensitive information, but U.S. intelligence estimated last year that around 315,000 Russian soldiers — the vast majority of whom are men —

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up to that time.

Trump has repeatedly insinuated that he could cut military funding for Ukraine and would seek an immediate end to the conflict, with officials in Kyiv concerned that the policy would mean it has to cede occupied territory to Russia as part of a deal.

Then President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir ****** at a ****** press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland.

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Trump was asked several times Tuesday night if he wanted Ukraine to win the war, or whether it was in the U.S.’ best interests for Kyiv to achieve victory. He responded by insisting he wants the war to stop in order to save lives, and that he would look to negotiate a deal with Russia. He has previously said he would end the war within 24 hours if he was president, without stating how he would do so.

On Tuesday, he again did not state how a deal would be reached, or whether it would involve Ukraine ceding occupied territory to Russia — a concession that Kyiv has previously refused to make.

“I think it’s in the U.S.’ best interest to get this war finished and just get it done. All right. Negotiate a deal. Because we have to stop all of these human lives from being destroyed,” he said during the ABC News Presidential Debate,

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“I want the war to stop. I want to save lives that are being uselessly… people being ******* by the millions. It’s the millions. It’s so much worse than the numbers that you’re getting, which are fake numbers,” Trump said, without providing evidence or further detail.

Harris said she believed “the reason that Donald Trump says that this war would be over within 24 hours is because he would just give it up. And that’s not who we are as Americans.”

The presidential nominees clashed over military funding for Ukraine, a high-profile issue between Democrats and Republicans that resulted in months of gridlock over a $60 billion aid package for Ukraine that was finally agreed in spring.

To date, the U.S. has provided more than $55.7 billion in military assistance to Ukraine,

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, since Russia launched what Washington described as a “premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine” on Feb. 2022.

Harris said Tuesday that military funding from the U.S. and Ukraine’s international allies had enabled it to resist Russia’s invasion, stating that “because of our support, because of the air defense, the ammunition, the artillery, the javelins, the Abrams tanks that we have provided, Ukraine stands as an independent and free country.”

People look at U.S. M12A1 Abrams tank captured by Russian forces in Ukraine, displayed at the WWII memorial complex at Poklonnaya Hill western in Moscow, on May 1, 2024. 

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Trump on Tuesday again repeated his much-stated position that the U.S. should not be paying more than its ********* partners to support Ukraine, nor paying more into the NATO alliance, as Europe was “a much ******* beneficiary to getting this thing done than we are.”

“They [Europe] should be forced to equalize. With that being said, I want to get the war settled. I know [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy very well, and I know ****** very well. I have a good relationship [with them],” Trump said.

Early Wednesday, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described Trump and Harris’s debate as a spectacle.

“To be honest, I don’t know why you think that’s big news,” the official told Sputnik Radio when asked to comment on the debate,

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“Is that big news that we could see yet another show performed by people who clearly take no responsibility whatsoever for their words?” she asked rhetorically.

Ukraine has not publicly commented on the Harris-Trump debate and has been careful to avoid taking sides ahead of the election, wary of alienating either political camp and the future president.

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