“I will prevent World War III,” Donald Trump promised in a recent speech. The Republican candidate’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, insists Trump is “the candidate of peace”.

In a campaign full of outlandish claims, it would be easy to dismiss this as meaningless bombast. But that would be a mistake. Beneath the slogans and the insults, the Trump and Harris camps have fundamentally different views of how to prevent the world from sliding into conflict.

Financial Times