This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler

@DrillPod

Exploring threats to global peace and stability. Presented by @gavinesler, @OzKaterji & @ejbeals. Get early episodes at http://patreon.com/thisisnotadrill

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jul 4

📡 NEW EPISODE 📡 Post-truth and disinformation polluted our politics. Now they’re key tools of authoritarian rulers. 📡 @EliotHiggins of investigative journalism innovators @bellingcat explains the Battle for Truth to @gavinesler 📳 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 📡 NEW EPISODE 📡 Post-truth and disinformation polluted our politics. Now they’re key tools of authoritarian rulers.
📡 @EliotHiggins of investigative journalism innovators @bellingcat explains the Battle for Truth to @gavinesler
📳 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jun 6

Relevant to TINAD listeners’ interests. Gavin moonlights on The Bunker.

TThe Bunker@bunker_pod · Jun 6

🇨🇳 NEW EPISODE 🇨🇳 Will China’s new “super-embassy” in London enable Beijing to interfere with our financial system and worse? 🇨🇳 @gavinesler talks to ex-MI6 asst. director @NigelInkster about the blind eye we’re turning to a growing threat. 📳 Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jun 6

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Ukraine’s Operation #Spiderweb stunned Russia, devastating warplanes deep within Russian territory. @gavinesler is joined from Kyiv by co-host @OzKaterji to talk about an audacious attack and what it means for the war ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Ukraine’s Operation #Spiderweb stunned Russia, devastating warplanes deep within Russian territory. @gavinesler is joined from Kyiv by co-host @OzKaterji to talk about an audacious attack and what it means for the war ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · May 29

📳 If you like This Is Not A Drill you’ll enjoy CRIME SCENE. 📳 Every Thursday ex-Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe and former Mirror editor @alisonp_journo go behind the police tape to explain what really goes on in major investigations. 📳 From Podmasters, home of TINAD

CCrimeScenePodcast@CrimeSceneCast · May 29

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 After rumours triggered the Southport riots, were police right to give details of a suspect in the #Liverpool parade crash? Have they set a dangerous precedent? 🚨 Bernard Hogan-Howe and @alisonp_journo on a policing dilemma 🚨 Listen linktr.ee/crimescenepodc…

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Mar 27

🇩🇪🇪🇺Could the German government’s vote to back a rearmament plan prove a turning point for Europe?🇪🇺🇩🇪 To discuss the German response to European security concerns, @gavinesler is joined by @nvondarza from the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇩🇪🇪🇺Could the German government’s vote to back a rearmament plan prove a turning point for Europe?🇪🇺🇩🇪

To discuss the German response to European security concerns, @gavinesler is joined by @nvondarza from the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Mar 13

⚠️ NEW EPISODE ⚠️ The race for Britain to rearm in the face of the Russian threat is on. Can we win it? Defence specialist Mike Martin MP [@ThreshedThought] explains the scale of the challenge to @gavinesler ⚠️ Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. ⚠️ NEW EPISODE ⚠️ The race for Britain to rearm in the face of the Russian threat is on. Can we win it? Defence specialist Mike Martin MP [@ThreshedThought] explains the scale of the challenge to @gavinesler
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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Mar 10

🇬🇱 EXTRA EPISODE 🇬🇱 Trump’s bizarre designs on Greenland seem to come from a 17th century world of imperial conquest. Is there more to his ideas than just whim and chaos? 🇬🇱 Professor of the poles @klausdodds explains it to @gavinesler 🇬🇱 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇬🇱 EXTRA EPISODE 🇬🇱 Trump’s bizarre designs on Greenland seem to come from a 17th century world of imperial conquest. Is there more to his ideas than just whim and chaos?
🇬🇱 Professor of the poles @klausdodds explains it to @gavinesler
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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Mar 5

🇺🇦 NEW EPISODE 🇺🇦 How can Zelenskyy work with a US President who appears to be serving Putin’s goal of a defeat for Ukraine? @OzKaterji finds out from Kyiv-based journalist @ngumenyuk 📲Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇺🇦 NEW EPISODE 🇺🇦 How can Zelenskyy work with a US President who appears to be serving Putin’s goal of a defeat for Ukraine? @OzKaterji finds out from Kyiv-based journalist @ngumenyuk
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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Feb 20

🇺🇦 NEW EPISODE 🇺🇦 Trump goes over the heads of Ukraine and Europe to “negotiate” directly with Russia. The free world is reeling and Putin is jubilant. @OzKaterji gets the reaction from Kyiv-based security expert @maria_avdv Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇺🇦 NEW EPISODE 🇺🇦 Trump goes over the heads of Ukraine and Europe to “negotiate” directly with Russia. The free world is reeling and Putin is jubilant. @OzKaterji gets the reaction from Kyiv-based security expert @maria_avdv
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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Feb 10

🇺🇦 New episode 🇺🇦 Does Trump really have the leverage to bring Putin and Zelenskyy to the table to sign a peace deal and end Russia’s war on Ukraine? @general_ben talks to @OzKaterji Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇺🇦 New episode 🇺🇦 Does Trump really have the leverage to bring Putin and Zelenskyy to the table to sign a peace deal and end Russia’s war on Ukraine? @general_ben talks to @OzKaterji
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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Feb 8

🇺🇦 New episode 🇺🇦 Trump claimed he was the “peacemaker” who could end the Ukraine War in 24 hours. So where’s his solution? @general_ben tells @OzKaterji what Trump’s simple answers mean for Ukrainian freedom. Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇺🇦 New episode 🇺🇦 Trump claimed he was the “peacemaker” who could end the Ukraine War in 24 hours. So where’s his solution? @general_ben tells @OzKaterji what Trump’s simple answers mean for Ukrainian freedom.
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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Feb 7

🇺🇦 New episode 🇺🇦 Will Trump end the Ukraine War as easily as he promised? And what could it cost Kyiv? @general_ben tells @OzKaterji about the complex realities behind Trump’s simple answers. Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇺🇦 New episode 🇺🇦 Will Trump end the Ukraine War as easily as he promised? And what could it cost Kyiv? @general_ben tells @OzKaterji about the complex realities behind Trump’s simple answers.
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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jan 26

If you want to understand how the world is sliding into fascism, Laurence Rees is the voice to listen to. x.com/bunker_pod/sta…

TThe Bunker@bunker_pod · Jan 24

📳 NEW EPISODE 📳 Why did civilised Germany welcome Hitler’s message of hatred so fervently? @nndroid talks to historian Laurence Rees, writer of acclaimed BBC series The Nazis: A Warning From History, about his new book The #Nazi Mind. Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jan 26

🇮🇷 NEW EPISODE 🇮🇷 Iran used to use Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi to export chaos around the Middle East. Now its power is in disarray. How did that happen and what does it mean? @gavinesler talks to experts @paul_salem and Hagai M. Segal 🇮🇷 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇮🇷 NEW EPISODE 🇮🇷 Iran used to use Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi to export chaos around the Middle East. Now its power is in disarray. How did that happen and what does it mean? @gavinesler talks to experts @paul_salem and Hagai M. Segal

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jan 25

🇮🇷 NEW EPISODE 🇮🇷 How did Iran go from chief exporter of chaos across the Middle East to a state of stunned weakness? @gavinesler talks to experts @paul_salem and Hagai M. Segal 🇮🇷 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇮🇷 NEW EPISODE 🇮🇷 How did Iran go from chief exporter of chaos across the Middle East to a state of stunned weakness? @gavinesler talks to experts @paul_salem and Hagai M. Segal

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jan 24

A fascinating conversation with the author of the definitive primer on how Germany collapsed into the horrors of Nazism. x.com/bunker_pod/sta…

TThe Bunker@bunker_pod · Jan 24

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jan 24

🇮🇷 NEW EPISODE 🇮🇷 Iran’s plans fell apart in 2024, from Assad’s fall in Syria to Israel’s devastation of its proxy groups. With Tehran in a state of unprecedented weakness, what’s next? @gavinesler talks to experts @paul_salem and Hagai M. Segal 🇮🇷 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. 🇮🇷 NEW EPISODE 🇮🇷 Iran’s plans fell apart in 2024, from Assad’s fall in Syria to Israel’s devastation of its proxy groups. With Tehran in a state of unprecedented weakness, what’s next? @gavinesler talks to experts @paul_salem and Hagai M. Segal

🇮🇷 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jan 19

⚠️ NEW EPISODE ⚠️ The Israel/Hamas #Ceasefire deal is ambiguous, with no agreement to end the war yet. Could this conflict reignite? @gavinesler talks to Middle East security expert Dr @hahellyer 📳 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. ⚠️ NEW EPISODE ⚠️ The Israel/Hamas #Ceasefire deal is ambiguous, with no agreement to end the war yet. Could this conflict reignite? @gavinesler talks to Middle East security expert Dr @hahellyer
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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jan 17

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This Is Not A Drill - with Gavin Esler@DrillPod · Jan 16

⚠️ NEW EPISODE ⚠️ While Trump rushes to claim credit for the Israel/Hamas #Ceasefire, some fear the deal is so loose it might collapse. Is the war over? @gavinesler talks to Middle East security expert Dr @hahellyer 📳 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

DrillPod's tweet image. ⚠️ NEW EPISODE ⚠️ While Trump rushes to claim credit for the Israel/Hamas #Ceasefire, some fear the deal is so loose it might collapse. Is the war over? @gavinesler talks to Middle East security expert Dr @hahellyer
📳 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod

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