Rory Stewart

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24,145 appearances 90 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 4d ago

Rory Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Politics · 561. How Trump’s Chaos Keeps Splintering the World Order · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

Then we've seen this phenomenon of sabotage attacks. voice-verified

So you talked about the firebombing attack on Kirstam's house, you've seen attacks on warehouses, there was an assassination attempt against the head of Ryan Metal. voice-verified

But again voice-verified

These have tended to be, it seems, people recruited on telegram, paid a few thousand euro, and pretty incompetently voice-verified

Delivered. voice-verified

So what's going on? voice-verified

Well what this isn't is a phase zero pre-campaign for the invasion of Lithuania. voice-verified

This is not the Russian intelligence services releasing, you know, like SOE during the Second World War, setting Europe ablaze before an invasion. voice-verified

It seems to be something else. voice-verified

And what exactly is it? voice-verified

Well, one theory is that what they're doing is that they're testing European defenses and response times. voice-verified

So they found out, for example, voice-verified

In Denmark, that these drones are not spotted by the military, they're spotted by civilians walking their docks. voice-verified

They found out that Friedrich Metz takes about two months before he's able to identify a Russian is behind something. voice-verified

They find out they can get this stuff into Leipzig, they can fly stuff from shadow fleets. voice-verified

But I'm not sure that that's the key, because my sense is if you were the Russian intelligence services, you probably would have guessed already that drones are pretty ambiguous. voice-verified

And that uh European government's gonna struggle to identify them and struggle to identify who's sent them around. voice-verified

Here's my my theory. voice-verified

One of the things I think possibly going on is that these are training exercises. voice-verified

That the GRU is keeping a capacity, a GRU, the military intelligence, keeping a capacity going, thinking, well, why don't we try? voice-verified

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