“I don’t think anyone expected such carnage … Trump proved once again that his potential victory is bad news for NATO, Ukraine, and by extension — Poland,” Onet’s analysis added.
France’s Le Monde called Biden’s stumbling over his words a “shipwreck,” adding that Trump “was able to roll out lies without contradiction,” while Britain’s Economist said Biden’s “horrific debate performance casts his entire candidacy into doubt.”
The war in Ukraine was briefly discussed during the debate, with Trump claiming Moscow never would have launched its 2022 full-scale invasion if he had been in the Oval Office. The Kyiv Independent said Biden had unnerved his party with his “shaky” performance.
Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik summed up the overall consensus with a headline quoting a CNN commentator: “Oh my God, we’ve got a big problem!” and called the debate a “painful loss for the president.”
