Rory Stewart

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24,987 appearances 93 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

One of them is why did Egypt not in the end come on? voice-verified

So there's an R four arrangement which would have included Egypt and Egypt didn't in the end join us. voice-verified

Why was there not an attempt to include other countries? voice-verified

It doesn't look, at least from the a distance, as though countries like Kuwait or Qatar were actually invited to join, or Azerbaijan, which might have been pulled into this agreement. voice-verified

Why has Saudi checked out so much recently of the Iran negotiations? voice-verified

negotiations. voice-verified

MBS and the Saudi team have barely been seen in the negotiations which have been being done by Qatar and and Pakistan recently. voice-verified

Let me just come to the thing that I think is the thing that was keeping me awake at night, which is what this means for the world. voice-verified

Um and the big US picture. voice-verified

So you you've just pointed to the NATO shape thing, and I think what you saw when you were in Kosovo and and what I think is we're we're not putting a proper price on. voice-verified

Is that what the United States was able to do from the end of the Second World War until about 2016, and in some ways until 2024, was have something which it's almost impossible to put a price on. voice-verified

The US as the global superpower was able to write the strategy for the world. voice-verified

Almost every component ally played into an American system, and it was only the Americans who had the full global picture. voice-verified

The British, you know, tried to do this before the First World War, but it has been many, many decades since France or Britain or Germany has pretended to be able to do what the United States was able to do, which is sit there thinking, okay, we need air defenses in South Korea, we need patriot missiles for China, we're balancing that with the need for counterinsurgency warfare troops that may have to be deployed in the Middle East. voice-verified

We're having to think about tanks. voice-verified

In Russia, this is where our airlift is, this is where our Seven Fleets are. voice-verified

And they were doing it with in European countries which were increasingly large in terms of their expenditure. voice-verified

Trump often boasts that he's increased NATO expenditure, and what this meant is that the US was able to leverage Europeans who were spending about five hundred billion a year on defense with the US voice-verified

Pushing towards about 900 billion. voice-verified

If we meet our targets heading towards 2035, the amount that Europe and Canada, the non-US NATO members, will be spending will be staggering. voice-verified

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