Rory Stewart

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24,145 appearances 90 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 5d 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

I think some of these guys, and it I'm not saying as yeah, uniquely British, there are French there, there are Americans there, there are Colombians there. voice-verified

I mean interestingly, Latin American mercenaries are are very common. voice-verified

They're they're relatively affordable, they can be deployed quite easily, just shrug their shoulders. voice-verified

shoulders and say, well everybody does it. voice-verified

Both sides are just as bad as each other. voice-verified

I mean this whole world you of drones technology is spilling out of Ukraine so quickly. voice-verified

The the front line in Sudan voice-verified

Is much more high tech now than people understand. voice-verified

It's not just a ragbag of child soldiers with AK 47s. voice-verified

There are people really there with fancy computers, bits of kit, and fancy drones, which are either Iranian drones or Turkish drones or Ukrainian drones or Russian drones, learning from these systems from drug wars right the way through to genocide in Africa. voice-verified

And and and the line between domestic surveillance and war is becoming smaller and smaller. voice-verified

You talked about the killing of the Hamas leader, and many people will have actually seen the video caught by the Israeli drone. voice-verified

I mean it literally hovers, goes into the building, and you can see him wounded in the building shortly before he's shot. voice-verified

So the experience on the ground in Gaza, and actually for many people on the voice-verified

West Bank now, is these drones very, very close to you, following you around, monitoring you, and making you feel that you could be killed at any moment. voice-verified

Um and let's add the final thing to this, which is AI. voice-verified

Because so much of what's happening at the front line between Russia and Ukraine is about shortening the kill chain, which is this slightly sinister phrase for how do you make voice-verified

Make a decision more quickly to pull the trigger, and how do you make these machines autonomous so that they can't be jammed? voice-verified

That the jamming gets between the operator and the drone in the sky. voice-verified

And if you give these drones independence, they don't have to communicate with the operator and they can't be jammed as easily. voice-verified

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