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

They're able to have the radar to identify them, they're able to have the compute to do these incredible calculations on exactly how they're turning and moving, and then the precision motors to allow them to be able to. voice-verified

allow them to actually intercept, they often strike them straight on in order to detonate them in the air. voice-verified

And that's what Ukraine has not been able to do. voice-verified

Trump was talking about giving Ukraine the technology to manufacture these stuff themselves and and as usual with Trump, he's now backtracked and said he's not sure that's a very good idea. voice-verified

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We haven't got the exact details, I think, released by the German government yet, but it seems to have been a quadcopter, which is not a very, very large thing, depending on whether it's the sort of thing that you buy for your kids or a more commercial thing. voice-verified

You're still probably talking about something that you can hold in your hands, but seems to have had explosives in it. voice-verified

Over to you. voice-verified

And then the other thing which I think is But sorry, sorry, but you w you were just saying that I I and I think this is the connection, isn't it? voice-verified

That the the one that was found in Bulgaria seems to have been a Ukrainian. voice-verified

And and then again the question is, is this a Ukrainian drone that's gone off track? voice-verified

And we've seen a bit of that actually as far away as the Baltic occasionally reports of Ukrainian drones going off track, or whether it's, as you say, the Russians beginning to use Ukrainian drones themselves. voice-verified

Can I just on on this, it's a really weird phenomenon, isn't it? voice-verified

Because you're completely right. voice-verified

It's very worrying, but it's not worrying in the way that you might first think. voice-verified

If you were to say to people Russian drone warfare, hybrid warfare against Europe, they would probably, I guess, imagine something on an enormous scale. voice-verified

Huge coordinated cyber attacks, rail attacks, road attacks, airport attacks, and that's not what we're doing. voice-verified

What we're seeing is every few months something happening. voice-verified

So Leipzig Hal, I think this is the second time this airport, which is the key logistics hub for DHL and does quite a lot of supply into Ukraine, has been targeted. voice-verified

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