How will the next US president handle events in the Middle East?

The World

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News, Lethaldissent

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Whoever wins the November election will be inheriting an enormous foreign policy challenge in the Middle East. The most important US ally in the region — Israel — is fighting a multifront war with no end in sight. So, how would Kamala Harris and Donald Trump differ in the ways that they approach the region? Today, we speak with two foreign policy advisers on the Middle East, including one who's worked with Trump and the other with Harris. Also, Cuba just suffered its second blackout in less than 24 hours. There are numerous reasons for the crisis, but an aging power grid has been a problem for years. And, Jonquel Jones won the MVP for helping the New York Liberty capture its first-ever WNBA finals Sunday night in overtime. People in the Bahamas are celebrating, too. Jones left her home country as a teenager to pursue her basketball dreams in the US.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive
0:03.4	It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.
0:09.6	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:14.4	It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.
0:18.6	Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change. This could be the warmest year on record.
0:25.0	Climate changes here.
0:26.0	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
0:29.0	And while the threat seems new,
0:31.0	the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.
0:35.9	I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.
0:44.7	This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis
0:47.4	to see how the military is preparing for the threat.
0:51.0	Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:54.0	The two presidential candidates have different ideas about conflict in the Middle East.
1:05.0	The past few years have proven that weakness only begets violence and war.
1:10.0	We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent.
1:16.0	I'm Marker Werman.
1:17.1	And I'm Carolyn Beeler, how the next U.S. administration could shift Middle East policy, and small earthquakes in Mexico City trigger
1:25.9	concern. People are worried because they're under their house practically.
1:29.9	Also today Cuba goes dark. So this has been a real sort of hand-to-mouth struggle to keep the lights on in Cuba over the last year or so.
1:39.0	And the W-NBA finals MVP left the Bahamas as a team to play in the U.S.
1:45.0	Now she wants to help younger players grow without leaving home.
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