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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 90 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 16.

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

We've got the Shadow Fleets out there, why don't we try flying some drones? voice-verified

Let's see whether this telegram mechanism works. voice-verified

What happens if we offer a few thousand euros to someone to do something? voice-verified

You're exercising a muscle. voice-verified

And in the process, you're also doing something else, which is that you're forcing European governments to spend an incredible amount of money trying to work out how to defend against these things. voice-verified

That's the version of your story around how Iran does cheap drones and then gets struck by millions of dollars. voice-verified

So there's a question: how does Europe get the reaction right? voice-verified

Because it might suit the Kremlin if we ended up voice-verified

Spending tens of billions of dollars putting together very, very complex defence mechanisms against a quadcopter that you can buy for eight hundred dollars on Amazon. voice-verified

Getting the right reaction and and and and understanding what the Russian limits are and why they're doing so little as well as so much. voice-verified

I mean I I keep trying to sort of get my head around this because as you say, it's a lot of sightings, but it's definitely not yet at a level where it's panicking European publics, I don't think. voice-verified

It's it's puzzling generals, it's worrying policymakers, but it's not it's not killing people. voice-verified

I mean we're not s we haven't seen, I think, in I'm I think I'm wrong, saying in four years nobody in Europe's been killed by any of these Russian operations. voice-verified

Now part of that must be that they're very aware that they don't want to actually provoke a more aggressive European response. voice-verified

So I think they're taking a certain amount of risk. voice-verified

One of the stupid things if they're flying these drones off the shadow fleet. voice-verified

Is that might lead Europe to do what it should have done a long time ago, which is finally just shut down this shadow fleet, these illegal vehicles smuggling Russian oil out from which these um drones seem to be being flown. voice-verified

Europe hasn't yet followed through on confiscating this $200 billion of Russian assets. voice-verified

It uses the interest from it, but it's still held off taking the full Russian assets. voice-verified

NATO hasn't deployed a headquarters forward into Ukraine. voice-verified

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