Rory Stewart

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

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

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Quite a lot of things, quite a lot of pain Russia would experience if you were able to point to smoking gun and say, oi, you've actually literally here is a Russian connection to doing something that's genuinely big, and particular, I suppose they'd be worried about alienating Washington. voice-verified

I'm also interested in whether there isn't and this is something we we never quite know, what's the boundary between the Russians being very, very smart and controlled voice-verified

compared to the possibility that GIU Russian military intelligence is actually quite incompetent. voice-verified

Are there limits to its capacity? voice-verified

Has there been a real impact on its capacity from shutting down many of the formal intelligence diplomats that were in the Russian consulates and embassies across Europe? voice-verified

Does that make it more difficult for them to coordinate? voice-verified

I wouldn't over push that, because my sense is Russia is a big place and if it wants to do more, it can do much more. voice-verified

We're just getting a glimpse of a capacity that could be a hundred times greater. voice-verified

Just on that one, sorry, I mean y y you're completely right. voice-verified

That is one of the figures out there. voice-verified

What we do know is there are hundreds of thousands of casualties, pinning down exactly how many are killed and how many wounded is is quite tough. voice-verified

I didn't understand this until I sat down with somebody who's a a former British intelligence guy and then a former British Special Forces guy talking about something which I think is really shocking and maybe we should dig into more and expose more, which is the number of former British intelligence and special forces people and Americans and Europeans in general who are operating as mercenaries on the front lines in Yemen and voice-verified

across the Horn of Africa and in Sudan coordinating exactly these kinds of drone attacks and are being drawn into some of the most horrendous human rights abuses in the world. voice-verified

I mean we talk about UAE supporting um the actions of Hemeti in Sudan and this genocide that happened in an attack on a on a town last year. voice-verified

But there are foreign, including UK, mercenaries right up there at the front line, operating these drones, operating the kill systems, coordinating, controlling, not always on the ground with the guns, and some very interesting moral question. voice-verified

I was trying to push this guy. voice-verified

You know, what do you think? voice-verified

When the people you're allied with just go and massacre thousands of women and children in a town. voice-verified

And I was very, very troubled by the response, which is I think there's a real moral blindness. voice-verified

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