Kamala Harris: The current vice president said at the Democratic convention in August that she "will stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies." She has accused Russia of committing crimes against humanity. On Harris's campaign website, it states that she has "helped mobilize a global response of more than 50 countries to help Ukraine defend itself against Vladimir Putin's brutal aggression."

Donald Trump: The former Republican president said that he would "encourage" Russia to attack any NATO member that didn't meet its financial obligations to the bloc instead of defending "delinquent" member nations. He later softened that stance slightly but has also spoken of pulling out of NATO if members don't increase defense spending. Trump has said that were he to be elected on November 5, he would end the war in Ukraine before his inauguration in January 2025. He has not supplied specifics about how he would achieve this goal. "I can't give you those plans because if I give you those plans, I'm not going to be able to use them," he said in a podcast interview in September. "They'll be unsuccessful. Part of it's surprise."

Harris, just like current President Joe Biden, supports Israel in its ongoing war against the Islamist militant group Hamas and says that the US will continue to help Israel defend its right to exist if she becomes president. But she has been more open than Biden in calling out the suffering in Gaza and emphasizing that it must stop. She is advocating for a cease-fire, the release of the hostages by Hamas and a two-state solution. In July 2024, she skipped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to US Congress but later met with him in private while he was in Washington.

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