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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In practical terms, the rest of the world.
We're there, and then we have the Iranians, and there are foreign-flagged and commercial vessels there, but no one else is there in practical terms.
It's just us.
And the rest of the world is really, to a large extent, watching, save for the Gulf Arab states.
The amazing thing is the Gulf Arab states have a much stronger will to fight.
UAE
has left OPEC.
That's kind of big.
And then they said they will participate in projecting force with their own forces.
That's pretty big too.
They are very concerned that we will lose our will to fight by virtue of the fact of whatever economic pain in the interim basis that it generates.
But the concept of
Overcoming the blockade is going to need more magazine depth, more forces in the region.
We're going to need an amphibious force on the shore for sure.
That is a major escalation.
And so that's where Taylor's theory and Eisenhower's theory begin to merge.
Can you describe those two?
It's such an interesting history.
Maxwell Taylor is a four-star general, is Kennedy's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a great military leader, but also could be blamed for the escalation of the Vietnam War.
Eisenhower's warning about the military defense industrial complex really came out of this concern of we now have this new super weapon.
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