The moderator asks Friedman to discuss 'a couple of very big specific conflicts,' beginning with Ukraine, and notes that Trump 'might inherit a conflict that is in a new phase a much hotter phase.'

Ukraine is experiencing its thousandth day since Moscow's full-scale invasion, and Biden has authorized the use of long-range missiles, which Ukraine has now fired; Russia has described this as an escalation and a change in nuclear doctrine.

Ukraine's firing of long-range missiles authorized by Biden, which Russia characterized as a nuclear doctrine escalation, represents a new phase of the conflict that Trump will inherit at a much 'hotter' stage than in his first term.