From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisee, and this is the Daily.

As the wars in Ukraine in 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. world get next. Today my colleague Peter Baker explains. It's Monday, September 30th.

So Peter, we're just weeks away from Election Day, and the United States 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 Nasrala,

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 can not care about what happens across the globe.

But where it's going to go at this point in the Middle East, we don't know.

The fear is that the killing of Nasrallah, who was mourned by nobody in the United States, he has blood

on his hands after decades of leading a terrorist organization, but his killing could

inflame the region in a way that President Biden has been trying to

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