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

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:<a href="https://on.ft.com/4eodboq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Israel and Iran have just delivered the US election’s ‘October surprise’</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3XUsGNJ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘rope-a-dope’ war strategy with White House</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3ZVYjcJ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oil surges after Joe Biden’s comments on Israeli retaliation</a><a href="https://ep.ft.com/newsletters/56a64b704f693a0300dfab7e/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sign up for the FT’s Swamp Notes newsletter here</a> Swamp 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.  <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/933d7aa0-49c1-425a-8681-a7902ce10953" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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