Rory Stewart

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24,987 appearances 93 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 3d 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

That's quite a tribute, Alice, from you, who we often see as a bit of a tribute act to the analogue world. voice-verified

Welcome to the Restless Politics with me Rory Stewart. voice-verified

And today we will be talking about the development of a new almost NATO type alliance which has emerged between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. voice-verified

We'll be asking what does this mean for the new world which the Trump administration had hoped to bring into being? voice-verified

And then in the second half we'll move on to these hybrid attacks by Russia, particularly a recent drone attack in Leipzig, which are testing Germany and indeed the voice-verified

security of Europe and linking that to the broader question of the war between Russia and Ukraine. voice-verified

So a lot to get into, but all of it fundamentally comes down to the question of global peace and global order. voice-verified

Alastair, over to you. voice-verified

The interesting thing about what's happened over the last few months is that having US bases and having a US presence in the Middle East for sixty, seventy years has been seen as an almost guarantee of protection, almost immunity. voice-verified

Not a hundred percent, but pretty much that was the idea. voice-verified

You had a US base and in return the US would protect you. voice-verified

And that began to crack apart with some Houthi attacks from Yemen. voice-verified

Against some of the Gulf states, which the US didn't initially respond to. voice-verified

Then the Israeli attacks against Qatar, and now of course most dramatically, once Iran found itself under attack, it began lashing out at the Gulf states, and the US has really struggled to protect them. voice-verified

That's one big body blow. voice-verified

The second thing is that these states uh have quite a lot of people. voice-verified

Long history, particularly Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, of already cooperating covertly. voice-verified

For many, many years now, without really discussing it, there have been Pakistani pilots training in Saudi Arabia actually flying Saudi planes. voice-verified

There have been Pakistani munitions on the ground. voice-verified

Pakistan is basically a military government. voice-verified

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