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

We'll be pushing up to probably something approaching two-thirds of US expenditure. voice-verified

All of that relied on the fact that the US could use that. voice-verified

It could almost double the size of its own troops. voice-verified

Not quite, but certainly significantly increasing. voice-verified

Increase its reach, and not just its reach, not just that it was able to use its Western allies for boots on the ground. voice-verified

It could use our bases, which was very important, and we've just seen this with Iran, with the fights over whether or not Spain would allow the US to use bases, whether Britain would allow the US to use bases, could use our bases, could use our intelligence, could use our diplomatic pressure, could use our networks. voice-verified

Now, what's happened is that all of voice-verified

that has been destroyed because the US has gone pennywise, pound foolish. voice-verified

Heggs and Trump appear to see the world in this crazy black and white way where they think, well, what we're gonna do is we're gonna save some money by removing a US brigade. voice-verified

Or we will voice-verified

Insult the Europeans over Greenland, or we won't follow through on our NATO guarantees, and it doesn't matter because we're spending a trillion dollars, we're going to save money in Europe, we'll save money in the Middle East, we'll bring it all home and we'll be stronger. voice-verified

But they're not stronger, they're much weaker. voice-verified

Because what they can't put a price on is everything that they're losing in terms of their alliances, their influence, their bases, their intelligence, things which would cost much more to rebuild. voice-verified

Build now they've lost them. voice-verified

that they're kind of running out. voice-verified

It's really startling. voice-verified

We've covered in the podcast before that the the Patriot systems are these exquisite, very expensive systems, a lot of them designed with a lot of Raytheon components. voice-verified

Which do something very unique that almost nobody else in the world is able to do. voice-verified

And one of them is to intercept these extraordinary ballistic missiles, missiles coming down at hypersonic speeds. voice-verified

And this is really what we were very worried that Ukraine was being deprived of as the US withdrew its support, because although Ukraine is able to do really good stuff with drones, it doesn't have systems that can hit these drones. voice-verified

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