Darryl Cooper

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5,155 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Darryl Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Provoked with Darryl Cooper and Scott Horton · EP:62 - Special Guest: Bill Buppert, on Iran · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

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And um podcast-host

You know, Saudi, I mean, the very fact you you sort of alluded to this at the beginning, the very fact that I mean I'm pretty sure it's the only yeah, it's the only country in the world that's named after its ruling family, right? podcast-host

I mean that that by itself is uh it kind of tells you that, you know, this is still right, you know, you get right beneath the surface, you know, and you go past the photographs taken at fancy conferences in in in Riyadh. podcast-host

And this is podcast-host

still a deeply tribal society. podcast-host

And you have a lot of people who, um, you know, uh well, have written about how in societies like this, you know, there's podcast-host

It's not always easy to get people to uh mil military forces, combat forces, to trust one another enough to think that they're gonna have my back if things go bad. podcast-host

And so, um, you know, th it there's also, you know, in in a society like that, just um something that, you know, we've got maybe is becoming kind of endemic in the United States, but uh we're I guess we're falling from a from podcast-host

From a greater height, so you know it still looks better here. podcast-host

But um just this inability, like a system constructed where there's absolutely no incentive at all to report bad news up the chain of command. podcast-host

And every incentive to just put it off, bury it, don't be the one who takes the heat for it, et cetera, until things just pile up and we think we've got an effective Afghan national army, and it turns out we don't. podcast-host

No. podcast-host

What do you think that I mean I've seen some people who are commentators on the region. podcast-host

I mean, they're speculating that if like if this goes on, this could be a legitimate threat to the Saudi regime stability in general. podcast-host

I mean, you think it could go that far? podcast-host

I podcast-host

Oh, goodbye. podcast-host

Did you hear Scott right there? podcast-host

I did. podcast-host

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