Darren Farber
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722 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 May
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And in that ideology, that form of religious ideology, they're winning.
You're gonna have to bring an enormous quantum of hurt.
And the problem or the challenge with democracies are how much of our moral rectitude will we compromise in order to achieve the political goal if we don't feel the existential threat sitting here today in New York?
So that is tough.
There's the Taylor view of flexible power, of this proportional response to threats.
And then there's the Eisenhower school of massive retaliation.
I love Kotkin because he talks about if you don't know history, everything is unprecedented.
The Japanese had a martyrdom culture that they memorialized into their force structure, right?
Through kamikaze.
They would chain people up in trees in Okinawa.
Why do we draw?
Two bombs on them.
We dropped the first bomb.
Enormous mass destruction.
They refused to surrender.
And they were prepared to fight to the death.
We dropped the second bomb and it was only Emperor Hirohito that broke the tie.
If he didn't break that tie, if he said continue, they would have sacrificed themselves.
It's extremely hard with a martyrdom culture to have regime change.
And then the question is: what are you going to defect to?
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