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
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Israel and Iran have just delivered the US election’s ‘October surprise’
Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘rope-a-dope’ war strategy with White House
Oil surges after Joe Biden’s comments on Israeli retaliation
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