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Swamp Notes: How the Middle East conflict is shaping the election

Sat, 05 Oct 2024

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The Biden administration has tried and failed to contain fighting in the Middle East over the past year - and now, the conflict is close to spiralling into all-out war. The FT’s US foreign affairs and defence correspondent Felicia Schwartz and US political news editor Derek Brower join this week’s Swamp Notes to explain what Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are telling voters they’ll do to end the conflict. Credit: USA Today  Mentioned in this podcast:Israel and Iran have just delivered the US election’s ‘October surprise’Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘rope-a-dope’ war strategy with White HouseOil surges after Joe Biden’s comments on Israeli retaliationSign up for the FT’s Swamp Notes newsletter hereSwamp Notes is produced by Ethan Plotkin, Sonja Hutson, Lauren Fedor and Marc Filippino. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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