Darren Farber
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722 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 May
Darren Farber’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When you have power and you ascend power in a fundamentally illegitimate structure, who do you trust?
The answer is no one.
You're constantly worried that someone's going to put a bullet in the back of your head.
And then that form of illegitimacy cascades down through the immediate organs of that government to include its military.
We've talked about their lack of jointness, the corruption internally within the force, the corruption.
And the missile ear crew, they have turned over their senior military leadership three or four times in the last three years.
That is not a high trust environment.
High trust comes through esprit de corps and believing in the mission and legitimacy of what you're doing.
That is one of our enormous strengths.
But their magazine depth industrially is so enormous.
So the calculus becomes.
Can the magazine depth overcome their institutional weakness?
It's a good question.
And that's why we as a country are embarking on this enormous effort to industrialize in order to add magazine depth to the capabilities we have.
You wouldn't add magazine depth if you had the maximalist view of nuclear deterrent.
You have magazine depth when you believe in the concept of flexible power.
a democracy.
In a dictatorship, if you don't build magazine depth and that's your job, you're dead.
That mechanism of enforcement is pretty compelling.
Here we balance things like, Will it be profitable?
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