1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: This is the Jesse Kelly Show. Kay, the Jesse Kelly Show. 2 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, 3 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: wonderful Monday. But we're setting aside all politics now because 4 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: it's the start of the second hour on Monday. We're 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: gonna do Medal of Honor Monday. Then we're gonna go 6 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: back into the history of the Rhodesian Bush War. And look, 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: we'll be back to politics next hour. There's all kinds 8 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: of stuff we have to get to Ukraine, stuff, emails, 9 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, what they did with Social Security numbers 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: and more. But you know what now is we find 11 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: an American hero, someone who earned a Medal of Honor, 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: and we remember his name and we remember his deeds. 13 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: And this is something I really want to encourage you 14 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: to do this in your own life life in some way. 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: I didn't do any of these things. Trust me, I'm 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: not that guy. I'm just reading them. You can do 17 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: this yourself. You can do this in your home. You 18 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: can do this in your work, in your Sunday school, 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: in your school. You can talk about these people. You 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: can talk about Archie van Winkle. Archie van Winkle was 21 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: born in Juneo, Alaska, nineteen forty two. He goes and 22 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: signs up for the Marine Corps to go fight in 23 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 1: World War Two, and he does. Goes and fights in 24 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:33,199 Speaker 1: World War two, comes back from World War Two, survives 25 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: and gets out, goes back to regular life. Right then 26 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: Korea kicks off. Archie Van Winkle says, well, I want 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: to get down on that. Goes right back into the 28 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: Marine Corps and off to Korea. He goes, and let's 29 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: find out exactly what he did. 30 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: Hey, honoring those who went above and beyond. It's Medal 31 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 2: of Honor Monday. 32 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life, 33 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: above and beyond the call of duty while serving as 34 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: a platoon sergeant in Company B in action against enemy 35 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: aggressor forces, immediately rallying his men in his area. After 36 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: a fanatical and numerically superior enemy force penetrated the center 37 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: of the line under cover of darkness and pinned down 38 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: the platoon with a devastating barrage of deadly automatic weapons 39 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: in grenade fire, Staff Sergeant Van Winkle boldly spearheaded a 40 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: determined attack through withering fire against hostile frontal positions and 41 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: though he and others who charged with him were wounded, 42 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: succeeded in enabling his platoon to gain the fire superiority 43 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: and the opportunity to reorganize. Realizing that the left flank 44 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: squad was isolated from the rest of the unit, he 45 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: rushed through forty yards of fierce enemy fire to reunite 46 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: his troops, despite an elbow wound which rendered one of 47 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: his arms totally useless. Severely wounded a second time when 48 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: a direct hit in the chest from a hostile hand 49 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: grenade caused serious and painful wounds, he staunchly refused evacuation 50 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: and continued to shout orders and words of encouragement to 51 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: his depleted and battered patoon. Finally carried from his position 52 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: unconscious from shock and loss of blood, Staff Sergeant Van 53 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: Winkle served to inspire all who observed him to heroic 54 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: efforts in successfully repulsing the enemy attack. His superb leadership, 55 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: valiant fighting spirit, and unfaltering devotion to duty in the 56 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: face of heavy odds reflect the highest credit upon himself 57 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: in the US Naval Service. How about that guy moved 58 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: on and lived until nineteen eighty six, And I don't 59 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: know why. I always thought this was cool ashes scattered 60 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: at sea, and it's ashes scattered at sea. Kind of cool. 61 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: I'm not wrong about that, Chris. Kind of cool, right, 62 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 1: kind of cool. All right, So let's do just a 63 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: couple minutes of background in case you're just now hearing it, 64 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: which I doubt you are, so I already told you 65 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in hour two, I've been 66 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: chronologically going through the Rhodesian Bush War all right now. 67 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: To set it up, it was a tribal conflict. Originally, 68 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: the British came in essentially colonized the place, turned it 69 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: into a thriving, wealthy, wealthy country where you had to 70 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: have There were all kinds of restrictions on voting. And 71 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: keep in mind, we're talking about a million two million 72 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: black Africans here, a couple hundred thousand Europeans here. Yet 73 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,679 Speaker 1: nine percent of the people who were eligible to vote 74 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: were white Europeans. This is post World War two. The 75 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: world's chafing on that, Britain's chafing on it so bad 76 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: trying to get them to change it, Rhodesia flat out 77 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: rebelled and just declared independence. They said, we're our own 78 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: country now, We're no longer your colony. And this is 79 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: at a time on the planet where the Communists, especially 80 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union, Cuba and China, they are training rebels 81 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: and insurgents all over the globe to infiltrate, infect and 82 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: bring down any country that is not a communist country. 83 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: And since the sixties, these gorillas have been going into Rhodesia. Now, 84 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: also keep this in mind a couple of things. As 85 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: I mentioned, the world sold this whole thing as white 86 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: versus black, all the liberal college professors and idiots in 87 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: the media and politics. It was not that at all. 88 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: White people and black people were working hand in hand 89 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: in Rowandisia. More than half of the Cellas Scouts, one 90 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: of their special forces type units, more than half of 91 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: them were black. The Rhodesian Light Infantry hugely black. It's 92 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: a complete lie to think it was white versus black. 93 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: That's how the world sold it as this Nazi state apartheid. 94 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: That's not how it was at all. And the economy 95 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: was so good, especially compared to the other African countries 96 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: that other Africans, Black Africans had been pouring into Rhodesia 97 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: for the employment opportunities. We're talking a very very modern, wealthy, 98 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: fantastic country in the military, which is going to matter 99 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: a lot because they're about to need it. The military 100 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: was tiny about twenty thousand and excellent. These are young 101 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: men who grew up in the outdoors that automatically helps hunting, 102 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: familiarity with firearms. They almost all of them had fathers 103 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: who fought in World War II. Rhodesia was well represented 104 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: in World War Two, so much so that the British 105 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: government had to tell them please stop enlisting, No, no more, 106 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: you stay please. These are hardcore fighting men. There aren't 107 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: many of them. There aren't many troops, and this is 108 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: really gonna matter for today. There are not many troops, 109 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: There are not many planes. Half their air force was 110 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: South Africa. There aren't many helicopters. They don't have very 111 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: much stuff and also going to be important for today. 112 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: Rhodesia is enormous. You know, when I was a kid, 113 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: my dad used to take me hunting all the time 114 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: all over Montana. Now, if you're in a big state 115 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: like California or Texas, this won't blow you away. But 116 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: if you're not, this dismay. We would get in the 117 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: cars sometimes and we would drive four five hours on 118 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: the highway, and we wouldn't come close to being out 119 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: of the state yet four or five hour drive at 120 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: eighty miles an hour on the highway still not out 121 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: of the state. Place is enormous. Montana is enormous. Rhodesia 122 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: was actually a little bigger huge. It's a huge place 123 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: now the final recap, because today it matters is our clock, 124 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: draw a circle on a piece of paper or in 125 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: your mind, the clock matters. Remember, from about nine o'clock 126 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: to twelve o'clock you have Zambia, all right. From twelve 127 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: o'clock all the way down to six o'clock you have Mozambique, 128 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: gonna be a problem. Now from six o'clock to about 129 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: eight o'clock you have South Africa. And South Africa is really, 130 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,359 Speaker 1: by this point a huge reason Rhodesia is still thriving. 131 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: South Africa is providing, like I said, troops that have 132 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,599 Speaker 1: been providing other things. And Mozambique, that country that is 133 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: twelve to six. They are currently run by the Portuguese. 134 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: The Portuguese, according to virtually every account I read, their 135 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: military was all but useless, completely useless. That the Rhodesians 136 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: didn't sound like they had any respect for them at all, 137 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: But that wasn't what was important. What was important was 138 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: Mozambique is on the water. Remember Rhodesia is landlocked. Mozambaku 139 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: is on the water, and the Portuguese were friendly with Rhodesia. 140 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: Thus trade oil, Rhodesia is able to sell in trade. 141 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: It's things with South Africa and Mozambique. And remember how 142 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: small that fighting force is. That's a lot of border. 143 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: Can't you can't properly secure a border all the way 144 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: around three hundred and sixty degrees with twenty thousand troops. 145 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: It's just not you don't have enough stuff. But they 146 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: didn't have to. Remember, almost all of this communist guerrilla 147 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: infiltration was coming from Zambia, that country that's up there 148 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: from ten o'clock, nine o'clock to twelve o'clock if just 149 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: the northwest. And Zambia has a big river on the border, 150 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: so it was even easier to secure it. Look at 151 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: the river, kill the terrorists when they're crossing the river, 152 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: and you're good to go. But nineteen seventy four comes 153 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: and really this was the moment Rhodesia was lost. It'll 154 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: take years that we're about to fight our way through 155 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: these years. But what happened in nineteen seventy four really 156 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: screwed them bad. In nineteen seventy four, the Portuguese lose Mozambique, 157 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: and Mozambique becomes a hostile terrorist harboring country. That's a problem. 158 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 2: Next, this is a Jesse Kelly Show. 159 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Show on Monday. Member you 160 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: can email us Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Continuing 161 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: our history of the Rhodesian Bush War. Previously it had 162 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: just been Zambia with these different gorilla groups. And always 163 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: remember there are two different gorilla groups, two different Zapu 164 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: and Zanu. One group is backed by the Soviets. The 165 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,559 Speaker 1: other group is backed by the Chinese. And remember they 166 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: do not like each other because each group essentially comes 167 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: from one of the two tribes that had originally been 168 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: on Rhodesia, killing each other and slaving each other, slaughtering 169 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: each other. These two different Kami groups do not get along. 170 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: But no big deal, it's just Zambia, right, We've got 171 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: Zambia covered. Then Mozambique falls in nineteen seventy four, the 172 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: Portuguese pull out of it. Apparently they were quite salty 173 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: about it as well. They did things like fill up 174 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: the toilets with concrete. It was essentially exactly what it 175 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: sounds like. Hey, I guess you don't like civilization. I 176 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: guess we'll destroy the civilization we created for you. I'm 177 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 1: sure you'll be able to recreate it, right, see you guys. 178 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: And yeah, Mozambique didn't do very well. Mozambique, like I said, 179 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: though it essentially is sixty seventy percent of Rhodesia's border. 180 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: Their small force previously could handle a tiny border, essentially 181 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:39,439 Speaker 1: running border patrol. Now what do you do? The terrorists 182 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: immediately began setting up big camps in Mozambique, and so 183 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: the Rhodesians, and they'd been doing this before. To the 184 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: Rhodesians start figuring out they have to play offense, not 185 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: just defense. You see. They had camps set up all 186 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: over the country, military camps set up all over Rhodesia 187 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: so they could do these quick reaction forces, which we 188 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: will get into, but that's just trying to you know, 189 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: stop the leaks when you find them coming in. You've 190 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: got to go find these people in their countries and 191 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: they begin they will launch obviously unauthorized massive military actions 192 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: into Zambia, into Mozambique, trying to blow up these training camps, 193 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: trying to blow up the supply lines, trying to do 194 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: whatever they can do to kill the gorillas before they 195 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: come into Rhodesia, to deprive them of arms, to do 196 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: whatever they have to do. For instance, here's a great 197 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: example of it. And we're about to go over some 198 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: operations here, which I'll get to in a moment. But 199 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: for instance, I mentioned there's a port in Mozambique, and 200 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: I also mentioned the Russians, the Chinese. They were involved 201 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: in this, deeply involved because they wanted to control Rhodija 202 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: after it fell. So how are these weapons getting there 203 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: into Africa? Lots of them are coming by ship. The 204 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: Rhodesians identified the port where the weapons were coming in 205 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 1: through Mozambique, the Mozambique Port. It is freaking brilliant. In 206 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: this port, they had a problem. You see the port 207 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: it was it was a where the river met the ocean. 208 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: And I don't want to get too technical with this 209 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: kind of stuff, but essentially, dirt, I'll just call it. 210 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: Dirt starts to pile up at the bottom of the 211 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: river at the bottom of the port, and the port 212 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: isn't deep enough if that happens to allow a huge 213 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: ship to come in. So what they had was a 214 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: boat that would dredge the bottom, It would clean out 215 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: the dirt. It would clean out the dirt, and this 216 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: is something you had to do often. The Rhodesians were 217 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: just unbelievably good at these kind of super secret Ninja 218 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: special forces type missions. They got scuba divers into the port, 219 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: They nuked the boat that dredged the river. The boat 220 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: dead in the water. Now the river cannot be dredged. 221 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: The bottom of it raises up so much. The port 222 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: is dead. They can't get any more Chinese munitions into 223 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: the port. But wait, there's more. They figure out that 224 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: they're going to take their guns along this train. You 225 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: know what we will do will wait until the train 226 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: is about to cross a massive train bridge. I mean 227 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: picture it, you can picture it in your mind, over 228 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: a canyon. They wait until the train is basically entering 229 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: the bridge, and they nuke the bridge so the train 230 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: doesn't have time to stop. The train, yes, it does 231 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: have some civilians on there, but it also has tons 232 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: of munitions that we're going to be used to kill Rhodesians. 233 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: The train cannot stop. The bridge blows up, oh all 234 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: the way down to the bottom of the canyon, and 235 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: train goes and then to pour salt in the wounds. 236 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: The Rhodesians go down to the bottom of the canyon 237 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: and steal all the guns and munitions. So they have that. 238 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: And remember in case you're wondering why, with the fall 239 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: of Mozambique, Rhodesia now has one friend. It's South Africa 240 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: that friend that's down there. But you know, from six 241 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: o'clock to eight o'clock South Africa, remember that the UN 242 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,359 Speaker 1: because of Britain, they have these crippling sanctions on Rhodesia. 243 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: Now they're having a hard time economically because Mozambique's gone. 244 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: They're having a hard time getting stuff in munitions, things 245 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: like that. They can't get stuff. They are landlocked. They 246 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: are completely dependent on South Africa. Without them, they have 247 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: nobody in South Africa is helping. Don't get me wrong, 248 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: but they can't do that much. So we'll talk about 249 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: a couple other operations. One it was a revenge operation, 250 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: revenge for what. Well, you know how communists can't control themselves. 251 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: They have never been able to control their demonic impulses. 252 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: Probably not a good idea to hand them anti aircraft 253 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: missiles where civilian airliners fly. 254 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 3: Hang on, Jesse Kelly, it is the Jesse Kelly Show 255 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 3: on a fantastic, fantastic Monday. 256 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,360 Speaker 1: Back to our Rhodesian bush war. So I don't want 257 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: to get two in the weeds on the details, but 258 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: there is something that kind of matters for our purposes here. 259 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: Remember I said that Zambia is that country to the 260 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: northwest of Rhodesia. Mozambique is the country that it's essentially 261 00:17:54,359 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: their entire eastern border. The Soviet backed gorilla grew were 262 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: really Zambia right in Mozambique. Those gorilla groups, that gorilla group, 263 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: they were backed by the Chinese, and they had two 264 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 1: different types of war. They were trying to fight the Chinese. 265 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: It's almost it's almost two on the nose. The Chinese 266 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: were more focused on being subversive, being quieter about it, 267 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: less technologically, but more spy spy stuff. Does that make sense. 268 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 1: The Soviets they had tanks that that they wanted their 269 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: gorillas to be outfitted with heavy equipment, and one of 270 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: the things they gave them was surface to air missiles. Remember, 271 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: the gorilla groups neither of them had air power at all. 272 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 1: A huge advantage the Rhodesians had was they had excellent 273 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: helicopter pilots, excellent fighter pilots. That they had air power. 274 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: The gorillas did not. It seems like an easy problem 275 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: to solve. The Selviets said to their gorillas up in Zambia, Hey, 276 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: how about some weapons that can shoot down a plane? 277 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: But communists cannot control themselves. There is a passenger airline. 278 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: A passenger airline flies in the wrong place, and the 279 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: Kami gorillas shoot it down. Now it doesn't get blown 280 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: up completely in the sky. Yes, of course, the explosion 281 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: hurts and kills people. The crash landing hurts and kills people. 282 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: But there are several survivors on the ground. Okay, sounds good, right, Well, 283 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: some of those survivors manage to crawl away from the wreckage, 284 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: get somewhere where there's essentially some place to hide. Others 285 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: are too tired, sick, or injured to do so. The 286 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: ones who crawl their way in the bush and find 287 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: a place to hide, they were the living witnesses of 288 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: what happened next. The Cammie Monster gorilla groups that shot 289 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: down the passenger airliner, drove up to the crashed plane 290 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: and promptly executed all of the survivors. The word would 291 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 1: have never gotten out had there not been living survivors. 292 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 1: Word got out, obviously, word got to Rhodesia. In Rhodesia 293 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: is furious. Now. Up to this point, they had not 294 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 1: really done cross border things. Right now they're going in 295 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: cross border things like the ship thing and the bridge thing. 296 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: They hadn't really done that yet. Now they go in 297 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 1: and it's called Operation Gatling, where they attack three different 298 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: gorilla camps in Zambia over the course of three days. 299 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: It's almost a simultaneous attack. Helicopters, planes, troops. Now, to 300 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: clarify something about the troops, because it's such a large 301 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: country and there were so few troops, the Rhodesian troops 302 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: were basically all of them airborne troops in some way. 303 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: They were always parachuting into a place or getting out 304 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: of a helicopter. It was the norm. You could hardly drive. 305 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: I mean there was driving, don't get me wrong, but 306 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: when they launched operations, they were always from the air. 307 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 1: Air operations. So they do a huge cross border attack 308 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: into Zambia. Now what do communists do? What do communists 309 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: do today? And always when they get attacked, when they 310 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 1: do something terrible and they get attacked, they play the 311 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: victim the communists. After this three day affair, the communists 312 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: came out and said, hey, you killed a bunch of 313 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 1: innocent civilians. Rhodesia killed a bunch of innocent civilians. Now, 314 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: I know you're probably rolling your eyes and saying that's ridiculous, 315 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 1: and of course it is, except who's the media today, communists? 316 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: Who do you think was running it back in the seventies, communists. 317 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 1: You know that communist governments around the globe, including in 318 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: Western civilization, they hated Rhodesia hated it. They were trying 319 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 1: to get the place to stop. What I'm saying is 320 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: the media, the governments, they were all too willing to 321 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: believe the communist propaganda that civilians were killed in mass 322 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: in the Rhodesians looked terrible. Now, I need to explain 323 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 1: something before we get into other things like torture and 324 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 1: other operations and stuff like that. Fire force really cool name, 325 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: I know, but fire force is something the Rhodesians did 326 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: and here's what it was. Because of the size of 327 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: the country, has already mentioned because of how many troops 328 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: they had. How do you get everywhere when you find 329 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: out there's been an infiltration of gorillas, When they find 330 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: fifty gorillas, a hundred gerrillas, they set up I'll call 331 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,919 Speaker 1: them army camps all over the country, all over the country. 332 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: There would be I'll just pick a number. It's going 333 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: to vary, but one hundred troops in one camp. Helicopters 334 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: are there, planes are there? Now? I mentioned before the 335 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: group known as the Cellas Scouts. It's really Sellou Scouts. 336 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: It's a French term, but I'm just going to call 337 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: them the Sellus Scouts because that's what most people know 338 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: them as. The Sellas Scouts were this elite unit where 339 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: they tracked people. It's what they did. They hunted down 340 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: guerrillas and tracked them. Also, kind of a cool little tidbit. 341 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: Did you know that more than half of the Sellas 342 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:47,400 Speaker 1: Scouts were Black Africans who were communists before and they 343 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: recruited them and turned them and now they fought for 344 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: the cell with Scouts. How about that? Really cool? Anyway 345 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: they would do, they did all kinds of things. They 346 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: would pose as war lords and things like that. They 347 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: would do all kinds of things, but their job essentially 348 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: was to go find these gorilla in incursions into the country. 349 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: And let's say they're out and they find one get 350 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: they find a large group of tracks, they find trash, 351 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: they find something, they track it, and they find fifty gorillas, 352 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: fifty gorillas who are having lunch in a riverbedepepep. They 353 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: get on the radio. This is what Fireforce was. They 354 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: get on the radio and the closest camp of the 355 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: Rhodesian military, the closest camp, would mobilize, boom troops. Everybody, 356 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: get in the gilos, get in the planes. And the 357 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: idea of it was this get to where the gorillas 358 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: are quickly. And more importantly, they were trying to envelop 359 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,239 Speaker 1: the gorillas. Why envelop the gorillas, Well, the gorillas had 360 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: a strategy they used. Remember it's easy to think about 361 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: these guys as unsophisticated. They had all kinds of training 362 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: from the Soviets in the Chinese advanced military training. What 363 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: the gorillas would do when they were they would disperse. 364 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: Everybody would kind of go in a different direction, and 365 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 1: then they would know, I need to get back across 366 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: the border. Once I get back across the border. We'll 367 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: reconvene and we'll be fine. The Rhodesians know this is 368 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: what they do too, So the idea of fire force 369 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: is mobilize the helos, mobilize the planes, mobilize at all, 370 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 1: mobilize the troops so fast that you envelop them so 371 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: they can't get out. You try to trap them and 372 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: kill them all, trap them and kill them all. By 373 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: the end of the war, which we're not going to 374 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: get to yet, but by the end of the war, 375 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: the Rhodesian troops were basically worn down to the nubs 376 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: because they would go on two, three, four fire force 377 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 1: missions a day. Don't think you would get on the 378 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: helo and go out and kill fifty gorillas and then 379 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: it's time for a beer at the local officer club. 380 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no. You went right back to base. 381 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 1: Maybe went back to base. Maybe you went right from 382 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,959 Speaker 1: one fire force mission to another fire force mission, all 383 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: over the country, flying killing, dying all day long, flying killing, 384 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,239 Speaker 1: dying all day long. That was fire force, essentially a 385 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: quick reaction force that allowed this admittedly wonderful Rhodesian infantry 386 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 1: or military in general, to quickly get to where the 387 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: gorillas are and kill them. And that's a good thing 388 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: because the Kamis are now getting in more and more 389 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: and more, because that friggin border with Mozambique is now 390 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: open for them. The Rhodesians have to start taking other measures, 391 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: if you will. Before we get to the other measures, 392 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: one of them is actually, I'm about to give you 393 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: the coolest, one of the coolest frigging things I've ever 394 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: heard in my life, speaking of the cellat SUTs. Before 395 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 1: we get to that cool thing they do, I want 396 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: to talk to you about this. I want to talk 397 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: to you about switching your cell phone service saving some money. 398 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: Why don't you give yourself a gift for twenty twenty 399 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: six And that gift is you spend half on your 400 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: cell phone service next year that you're paying now. Would 401 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: what would that mean? Average family saves over a grand 402 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: a year. What are you doing with a grand? Be 403 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: nice to have a little extra pocket change. Right when 404 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: you switch to Pure Talk, you switch to the patriotic 405 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: cell phone company, you'll get to speak to a friendly 406 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: American on the phone, a friendly American because Pure Talk 407 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: hires Americans. They have these incredible phone phones and phone plans. 408 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: Or you can keep your phone, keep your phone number. 409 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 1: They make it easy and it's easy to switch. We're 410 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: talking switching during the break. Here's ten minutes on the 411 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: phone with an American dial, pound two five zero and 412 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: say Jesse Kelly Pound two five zero, Say Jesse Kelly. 413 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 2: We'll be back truth attitude, Jesse Kelly. 414 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 1: It a is the Jesse Kelly Show trying to get 415 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: through part four of the Rhodesian bush War. I'm not 416 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: gonna be able to wrap it up tonight. I will 417 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: wrap it up tomorrow. I don't even think it'll take 418 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: me an hour. I could look, I could continue to 419 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 1: go on and on and on. I know it's a 420 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: fascinating thing. But we'll get back to politics here in 421 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: ten minutes. Remember you can email the show Jesse at 422 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: Jesse kellyshow dot com. So it really is so impressive 423 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: to me as I read through it. How advanced in 424 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: the thinking the Rhodesian military and they're essentially their spy agency. 425 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: Was I told you they now realized they had to 426 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: cross borders and attack the gorillas in their camps in 427 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: other countries before they got into Rhodesia. You had to 428 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: do something to kill them in their countries, and so 429 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: they come up with something called Operation Dingo. Now it 430 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 1: would have been quite an ugly affair to watch it, 431 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: still so impressive. Here was Operation Dingo, here was the 432 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: idea behind it. Two gigantic terrorist bases. That's what they 433 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: called them terrorists and essentially that's what they were. And 434 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: remember these terrorists are setting land mines on Rhodesian roads, 435 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: butchering farmers whenever they find them. They really they used 436 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: terror tactics, bombing things. They're just they were terrorists. Operation 437 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: Dingo identifies two large gorilla bases. Here's what they start doing. 438 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: They start taking Rhodesian planes jets they're military planes, and 439 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: flying overhead of the bases, over over top of the bases. 440 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: Why they wanted the terrorists, They wanted them to get 441 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: used to the sound of Rhodesian jets flying overhead. You know, 442 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: at first, when you first fly overhead, the terrorists think 443 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: they're about to be bombed or something like that said, 444 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: they run and they hide nayket into bunkers. But then 445 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: you do it enough times, the terrorists start to figure out, 446 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: wait a minute, nothing bad's going to happen. I don't 447 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: need to pay attention to the Rhodesian jets. Flying overhead. 448 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. Operation Dingo was this. 449 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:19,479 Speaker 1: They loaded up all these troops onto planes with parachutes. Then, 450 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: as per usual, they flew some of their jets over 451 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: the bases. The gorillas, you know they're gonna look up, 452 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 1: but by now they realize they'll be fine. The Rhodesians 453 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: knew when the troops would gather for formation on their base. 454 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: They waited until the troops were at formation. Essentially you're 455 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: standing out in the open, and then they start dropping 456 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: huge bombs on them, in incinerating them, napalm, you name it. 457 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: Apparently there were body parts all over the place of 458 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: these communists tearsts because the Rhodesians caught them in formation. 459 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: And as soon as or basically as the planes are 460 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: dropping bombs on the Kami terrorists, the Rhodesian troops are 461 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: jumping out of planes with their parachutes and parachuting down. 462 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: As the Kami gorillas are firing up at them with 463 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: AK forty sevens, putting holes in their parachutes. The Rhodesian 464 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: troops land, and this is where I'll get very frank 465 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 1: with you. This war was fought in a way that 466 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: may make you squeamish, uncomfortable both sides, and it was 467 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: a war that was barbaric because it had to be. 468 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: The Rhodesian troops couldn't afford to take prisoners, aid the wounded. No, no, no, 469 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: They walked around killing all of them. And they had 470 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 1: identified the likely escape routes the gorillas would use use 471 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: and they set up a hidden blocking force. So as 472 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 1: the gorillas are fleeing the base, they get mowed down 473 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: as they run right into the Rhodesian guns. The Rhodesians 474 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: are walking around shooting gorillas in the head as they're 475 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: burning to death. It is a horrible, horrible, ugly affair 476 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: that was awesome, an incredible military campaign and a huge success. 477 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: But this is where I'll leave you for today, because 478 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: tomorrow I set Operation Dingo's one of the coolest operations ever. 479 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: It's probably the one we will go into tomorrow, to 480 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: be honest with you, But I'll leave you with this 481 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: now and forever. What I'm about to say has been 482 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: the case. Wars are not just military things. There is 483 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: always a political aspect to every single war. Always. Alexander 484 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: the Great, as he's out there conquering the Persian Empire, 485 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: is constantly having to deal with politics and political intrigue 486 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: back home. Julius sees you name it. There's always a 487 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: political aspect to every war. We like to imagine there 488 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: was a time when it was just two armies squaring 489 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: off like men, and we didn't have these pesky politicians. 490 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: It's never been that way. Rhodesia was always doomed because 491 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 1: the world was against them politically, and by doing the 492 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: military things they had to do to win, they were 493 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: actually increasing the public opposition to them. I find Operation 494 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: Dingo to be an insanely impressive military campaign. The public 495 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 1: did not now it was in Rhodesia, Don't get me wrong, 496 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: they were quite happy about it in Rhodesia, but globally America, 497 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: the UK, it was essentially sold as a mass slaughter 498 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 1: of civilians. They claimed there were all kinds of refugees 499 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:12,759 Speaker 1: in the camp who had been killed and executed. Internationally, 500 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 1: this huge military success didn't land well. And now we're 501 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,240 Speaker 1: at the place in Rhodesia. Now we're in the seventies, 502 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: the late seventies. They can't hold back the tide anymore. 503 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:35,760 Speaker 1: Of gorillas. They've even put land mines along the Mozambique border. 504 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: All kinds of land mines the Rhodesians have, but it 505 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,120 Speaker 1: was such mountainous, rough terrain you couldn't possibly mind all 506 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: of it. They're finding a way to get through. They 507 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: are now regularly setting up camps. They are the Rhodesians 508 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: are having to take steps I just mentioned politically. That's 509 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: why I brought this up. Steps like remember those African 510 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,880 Speaker 1: tribal peoples who are still there. The Rhodesians are pulling that. 511 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 1: I'm out of the reservations, the villages they'd put them 512 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: in and said no, you can't stay there anymore. Now 513 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 1: you have to come into the city because they can't 514 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 1: have them being recruited by the communist terrorists who are 515 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: coming in. It's a nightmare, a total nightmare. We will 516 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 1: finish the Rhodesian bush war tomorrow. Before we finished that, 517 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: I want you to be finished with dog food. I 518 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: take that back. Keep your dog's food. I get it, 519 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: that's the food Muffy likes. But please add rough greens 520 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: to your dog's food. Dogs do not get vitamins and 521 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: minerals and antioxidants and omega oils. They don't get that 522 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,959 Speaker 1: stuff from dog food. Fred used to have a digestive 523 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: issue every single time he would have a meal. Do 524 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: you have any idea what that it's like? It's freaking awful. 525 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 1: He has not had one since we started him on 526 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,040 Speaker 1: rough Greens. His stomach actually works the way it's supposed 527 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 1: to work. 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