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This Is Not A Drill
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Exploring the threats that are making our world increasingly dangerous. Presented by Gavin Esler.

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🚨ICYMI🚨Can we stop the fall of Europe? @gavinesler.bsky.social and leading economic thinker and political commentator David Marsh discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#politics #podcast #Europe #economy
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨@gavinesler.bsky.social talks to leading economic thinker and political commentator David Marsh to discuss if we can stop the fall of Europe. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#politics #podcast #Europe #economy
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Can we stop the fall of Europe? @gavinesler.bsky.social talks to leading economic thinker and political commentator David Marsh, author of the recent book Can Europe Survive? Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#politics #podcast #Europe #economy
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨 Can Europe's drone wall hold back Russia? @ozkaterji.bsky.social & @justin-br0nk.bsky.social discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#politics #podcast #Russia
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨 @ozkaterji.bsky.social & @justin-br0nk.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology at RUSI discuss Europe's drone wall 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#politics #podcast #Russia
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Europe's drone wall – Could it hold back Russia? In today’s episode, @ozkaterji.bsky.social talks to @justin-br0nk.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology at RUSI. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#politics #podcast #Russia
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨 @schneier.com and @gavinesler.bsky.social discuss big tech, A.I. and dictators. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#AI #artificialintelligence #Putin #Trump
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨 @schneier.com joins @gavinesler.bsky.social to discuss dictators, big tech and the future of authoritarianism. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#AI #artificialintelligence #Putin #Trump
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What will happen when dictators realise just how useful big tech and the data it gathers could be for them? @schneier.com joins @gavinesler.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod
#AI #artificialintelligence #Putin #Trump
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨

@gavinesler.bsky.social joins Dr Catherine Fieschi, senior fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence to discuss the populist playbook and how the right wing connects globally. Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

#politics #podcast
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

The populist playbook - how the right wing connects globally. In today’s episode, @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Dr Catherine Fieschi, senior fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

#politics #podcast
October 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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🚨ICYMI🚨

@gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by @mrjamessullivan.bsky.social to discuss the scale and nature of cyber attacks, and assess how governments can respond. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

#cyber #tech #podcast
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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NEW EPISODE

@gavinesler.bsky.social talks to @mrjamessullivan.bsky.social, Director of Cyber and Tech at RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute to discuss scale and nature of cyber attacks, and assess how governments can respond 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

#cyber #tech #podcast
October 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
The Gaza Peace Plan – What you need to know.

@gavinesler.bsky.social joins Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent for The Economist to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

#gaza #podcast #politics
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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What happens if China wins over Russia and India?
Trump’s foreign policy means United States is leaving a vacuum in world affairs – and China looks increasingly willing to fill it.
@gavinesler.bsky.social joins Elizabeth Wishnick and Tanvi Madan to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

#podcast
October 2, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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In a dramatic shift over the war in Ukraine, Trump took to Truth Social this week to declare his belief that Ukraine can win back its territories.

Will Trump’s change in rhetoric last and is the tide turning on Russia? @ozkaterji.bsky.social & @jimmyrushton.bsky.social discuss➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
September 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Trump took to Truth Social this week to declare his belief that Ukraine can win back its territories. Will Trump’s change in stance last? @ozkaterji.bsky.social is joined in Kyiv by security analyst @jimmyrushton.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

#Trump #Ukraine #podcast
September 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Trump’s economic policies have caused chaos globally and he’s happy to use America’s financial might against his enemies – or help his friends. But, when it comes to security, who is this actually helping? @ejbeals.bsky.social is joined by @adamposen.bsky.social to discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
September 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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How did Nepal’s ‘Discord revolution’ spark so quickly and bring in a new national leader chosen by online poll?

In the latest episode of This Is Not A Drill, @ozkaterji.bsky.social is joined from Kathmandu by journalist and academic Dinesh Kafle to discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/DrillPod
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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After Israel targeted Hamas officials in Qatar and as Netanyahu orders Gaza City evacuations the stakes in the Middle East climb again. @gavinesler.bsky.social talks to @emile-hokayem.bsky.social on what this means for the region and if Arab states can defuse the crisis.

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September 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Tensions have risen between Russia and Poland, after Poland shot down Russian drones in its airspace, but what does this mean for Putin and the rest of Europe?

@gavinesler.bsky.social and @irgarner.bsky.social discuss in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod

#podcasts #podcasting
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
As conflicts and tariff-led trade wars fracture the international order, have we entered an era of great power competition?

@ozkaterji.bsky.social and Stacie Goddard, Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
September 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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🇺🇦SPECIAL BONUS 🇺🇦 In Ukraine’s most crucial week, Kyiv’s former foreign minister @dmytrokuleba.bsky.social discusses the talks, the war and the future with @ozkaterji.bsky.social
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August 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
After a frantic week of international diplomacy, where has the Trump-Putin summit left the prospect of an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine? @ozkaterji.bsky.social and @keirgiles.bsky.social discuss in our latest edition ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
August 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
The highly potent opioid fentanyl is a major cause of death in the US – and the global trade of the drug is also a cause of growing geopolitical division. @ejbeals.bsky.social discusses the issue with Vanda Felbab-Brown ➡️
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August 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM