Trump and Harris stick to talking points and personal attacks on foreign policy

• Harris and Trump both stuck to their foreign policy talking points and didn't present any new ideas, plans or campaign promises.

Driving the news: The debate took place one day before the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks and several days after the third anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

• The former president, who raised Afghanistan several times during the debate, called the withdrawal "the most embarrassing moment in the history of the United States" and claimed the projection of U.S. weakness in Afghanistan was the reason Russian president Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine several months later.
• Harris stressed she supported Biden's decision to leave Afghanistan and said the withdrawal was a result of the Trump administration's failed policy.
• "You invited the Taliban to Camp David," Harris told Trump, referring to the former president's plan to meet with the group's leaders in 2019.

Zoom in: Neither candidate presented a plan for ending the war in Gaza or for securing the release of the hostages being held by Hamas.

• Harris repeated her remarks from her DNC speech about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, while Trump recited accusations he voiced before about Harris relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
• "She hates Israel... and she hates the Arabs," Trump said. He claimed Israel would be destroyed within two years if he loses the election and Harris assumes office as president.

The big picture: Harris attacked Trump for his favorable past statements about Putin and claimed that in meetings she had with world leaders they made fun of Trump.

• The former president pushed back by citing his warm relations with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
• "He said the world is blowing up because I am not president," Trump said.
• Harris claimed dictators around the world are rooting for Trump because they know they can manipulate him.

State of play: Trump reiterated his plan to start working on ending the war in Ukraine the moment he is elected and get a ceasefire before he is inaugurated.

• He said he knows both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and claimed both leaders respect him. Trump said he would call Putin and Zelensky during the transition period and get them to meet.
• Harris claimed if Trump was president "Putin would have been sitting in Kyiv" by now.
• "Trump said he will end the war in 24 hour — because he will just give up," she said.