WEBVTT - Hour 2: Starvation 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:18.239 This is a Jesse Kelly Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:24.160 another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Thursday. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:29.280 And now we finished things up, shall we? In case, 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.239 I guess there's a chance you're just now joining us 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.120 for the very first time this week. In the second 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.760 hour of every show so far this week, I have 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:44.120 been doing just a little history series on Napoleon's invasion, 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:49.520 disastrous invasion and retreat from Russia. If you're just jumping 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.879 in now, that's fine. I'll give a thirty second recap 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.000 in a second. But you've already missed three days of this. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.760 The good news is the podcast of the show is 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.000 completely free. You don't have to I don't even think 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.840 you have to do anything. You just press download on 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.600 your phone. It'll download right there. You can go listen 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:13.600 to it iHeart Spotify iTunes hour two of the show 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.240 all week long. Then you'll get all the background to 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.520 what we're about to jump off with right now as 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.959 we wrap up this horrible, horrible little tale. I guess 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.800 it's horrible from the French perspective. From the Russians, Wow, 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.600 it was horrible from there too. Anyway, to recap thirty seconds, 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.240 Napoleon raises the biggest army of the world has ever seen, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.080 at least in his mind it probably was. He sends 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.560 them into Russia after Alexander and the Russian army. The 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.839 Russians they do a we'll call it a fighting retreat, 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.840 letting the French come into Russian and into Russia. The 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.160 Russians are burning everything down, denying the French water, denying 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.840 the French food, denying the French shelter. Napoleon gets clear 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.880 to Moscow. The Russians basically just let him have it, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.880 but they leave behind a bunch of arsonists and criminals 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:10.160 who set Moscow on fire while Napoleon and his troops 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.240 are there, and now the snow is starting to fall. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.720 Napoleon can't wait in Moscow anymore. His troops do not 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:22.639 have winter clothes, and it's a long way back home, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.160 and so they have to turn around and they have 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:31.000 to take off. There is a quote from Alexander. Remember 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.960 the Russians are the head of all of Russia. As 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.200 Napoleon is leaving Russia, leaving Moscow, I should say, his 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:44.520 troops starving, depleted, sick, freezing, Remember I told you yesterday 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.520 the Russian troops when they pulled out of Moscow. They 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.240 didn't just pull out and go sun themselves on a 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.840 beach somewhere that'd be tough to find in Russia. Anyway, 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.320 they pulled out of Russia, or they pulled out of 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:01.760 Moscow and they started training and preparing and bringing in 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:07.080 fresh troops. And Alexander says, at this time, as Napoleon 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:12.320 is fleeing, quote, now is the moment my campaign begins 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:18.799 pretty dominous. I mentioned the French they did not want 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.880 to retreat along the exact same line they'd come into 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.760 Russia on, for the simple fact they had already pillaged 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.920 everything along that line. There's no food left, there's no 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.680 water left, there's nothing else to take, there's nothing to 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.840 sustain us. We have to find a different route back home. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.760 They had It's a town. I won't go into the 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.160 details of the whole story. So they marched towards this town, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.280 which will allow them to take a different route back home. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:52.920 But this rested and refitted Russian army gets there first. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.640 They are waiting for them at this town. They fight, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:03.080 they fight hard, and have to back away. The Russians 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.560 threw up the roadblock. Now the French are forced to 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:13.960 retreat along the exact same line. Now pause, So we 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.240 discuss this again, a continuing theme and always will be 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:25.520 in war men especially, I'm definitely this way. I don't 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.440 want to think about politics. I don't want to think 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:33.320 about votes in popularity and these things. In fact, when 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.000 people even bring them up, I'm just this is personal 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.600 about me. When people even bring those things up when 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.520 it comes to war, I get completely annoyed. Oh gosh, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.640 here we go. Oh okay, public opinion. Oh I have 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.680 to worry about this. I have to worry about that. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.400 Why do I have to worry about that. I'm out 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.760 here fighting and dying. Just let me go. But annoyed 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.160 as you or I may be, there is a political 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.560 side to every war, and always has been. Yes, Napoleon 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.960 is by a country mile, the most powerful man on 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.880 planet Earth at this time, a brilliant commander, a man 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.760 in charge of very large armies. He's won battle after 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.400 battle after battle after battle. That I need to remind 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.960 you of something we discussed earlier this week. Back home, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.760 and when I say back home, remember Napoleon has conquered 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.920 so much of continental Europe at this time, France, Italy, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:35.120 All these places. Back home, things are not good. To 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:40.919 put it mildly, Napoleon is not only gone. Napoleon on 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.719 his way out the door, and then every day since 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:51.080 then has had to legally pillage his own countryside to 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:56.279 get as much material and food and medical supplies and horses. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:01.359 He's yanking as much stuff as he possibly can out 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.400 of Europe and pushing it as far and fast to 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.800 his army as he possibly can. And remember, I told 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.479 you all the way back at the beginning, the armies 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.800 that were marching towards the Russian border, in the very beginning, 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.400 they were already raping and pillaging and getting in trouble 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:25.200 and deserting. Now, how bad is that the situation back 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.960 home has not improved at all? And the natives are restless. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.120 And one thing king's presidents and everyone else in between 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.920 have had to juggle with over and over and over 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:41.040 again throughout history is if the people are going hungry, 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.680 if they are not paying the bills, if you will, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.480 if they're not making ends meet, if their bellies are 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.479 not full, you are going to have rebellion of some 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:56.560 kind on your hands. You are sure enough there's a 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.680 coup attempt back home. It's called the Malay Coup M 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.839 A L e. T. If you want to look it up. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.000 I'm not going to go into it. What's he do? 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.839 What's what's the whole idea behind this whole thing. Well, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.279 we live in the information age, so it can be 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:15.840 hard for us to relate. But word travel slow when 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.840 you think about it, at this point in time, word 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:26.360 travels at the speed of a horse. At the speed 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.200 of a horse. And yes, of course, during this entire 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.920 the speed of a horse. Yes, of course that rhyme quit. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.520 Of course, Napoleon is constantly in his generals and everyone else. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.880 They're constantly sending people back and forth back home to 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.680 France with orders, with requests, with this, and so there's 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:52.080 always horses coming and going from the Russian front back home. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.800 But think about what we discussed. Remember, I'll come back 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.920 to it again. Remember there were troops that had to 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:03.040 march twelve one hundred miles before they got to the 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:09.080 border of Russia. Then they're spread out all over western 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:14.440 Russia and pushing further and further away from France. How 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:19.240 long is it taking for the quote latest word to 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.960 get back from the Russian front clear back to Paris. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.400 It's a long time. Now I want you to think 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:30.560 about this. What are the two most recent kind of 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.520 wars that we've had to that we've experienced in this country. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:40.240 I'll mention three Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and now this 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:47.400 Iran business. How many lies have you seen? How many lies? 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.160 How many times? And maybe you even believe one where 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.319 you saw a video an American ship it's got a 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.480 big hole in it, and somebody told you on Facebook 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.560 or whatever it is the Iranians hit one of our 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.400 destroyers with the cruise missile and then someone below will 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.600 be all, that's Ai you what are you talking about? 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.240 Remember the Ghost of Kiev. At the very beginning of 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.720 the Russia Ukraine War, there were all kinds of headlines 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.880 spread about by United States congressman that there was some 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.760 Ukrainian fighter pilot and he was basically maverick from top gun. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.480 He was up in the skies blowing Russian jets out 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.600 of there. Nobody could kill him. He was indestructible. It 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:38.640 was all I it's all fake. That's today in war, 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.520 the first casualty is the truth. It's an ancient proverb. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.439 I don't know who to assign it to, but it's 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.800 an ancient proverb, and it's one hundred percent true. Think 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:53.400 about what people back home are hearing, and think about 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.200 because it's a time where there's some poverty, where there's 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:02.480 some uncertainty, where there's unrest all around. Think about how 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:07.240 susceptible the people were back then to believing the rumors 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:13.240 they were hearing from the front. What happens? Will they say, oh, napoleon'stead? 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.079 How would you know any better if you're Russian citizen? 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.439 But he's not texting you, he's not posted anything on Twitter. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.840 How fast would a rumor like that fly? We'll continue 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.720 with this in just a second. Hang on the Jesse 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:34.480 Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.440 As we wrap up our Napoleon Invasion of Russia's story here, 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.920 Remember though, tomorrow is ask doctor Jesse Friday, and you 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.680 need to get your questions emailed in right now. Ask 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:52.000 me anything Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. There's a 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.240 coup back home. I'll go ahead and give it away 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:56.600 cause I don't want to go through all the things. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.560 In the coup they tell everybody Napoleon's dead in charge. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.160 Now it is discovered, they do put the coup down? 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:11.720 Guy's dead. Life is good. Kind of a coup like 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:18.000 this doesn't necessarily have to be successful to have an 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:23.840 extreme effect on someone like Napoleon. Napoleon was always concerned 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:28.240 about political things back home, the unrest level back home. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:34.640 And pause to reinforce my point. Alexander the Great, even 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.720 the perfect one, Alexander the Great, as he's out there 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:45.960 conquering everything he can touch, constantly sending letters and receiving 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.160 letters back home, and so much of the time it's 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.960 is this a coup? Is this guy going to establish 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.080 in the back? It's just something you have to worry 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:01.360 about when you're off conquering foreign lands. Was already concerned 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.080 about this. He's been concerned about this, and now he 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.680 finds out there's a very legitimate attempt. So he's trying 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.120 to physically survive himself, trying to make sure he comes 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.000 out of Russia with some semblance of an army, and 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.280 trying to make sure by the time he gets back 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.880 to France he even has a throne to go back 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.600 and sit on. The man's probably got some things on 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.080 his mind at the moment, wouldn't you say, Oh, and 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:31.480 how physically in danger is he well. At one point 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:36.280 in time during this whole affair, the Russians got physically, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.520 very very close to killing Napoleon. Took a lot of 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:46.080 heroic frenchmen surrounding fighting, or Napoleon possibly takes a spear 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:51.320 in the face, and Napoleon is starting to hear the rumors. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:57.280 They're not really rumors, they're facts. The Russians as they 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.360 are descending on the stragg on the strata, the French 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:07.120 troops who are forging for food, maybe resting too long, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:11.760 the Russians are grabbing them and they're torturing them terribly 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.680 for information. They want to know where is this unit, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.160 where is that unit, where is this? Where is that? 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:23.000 If you are part of the Grand Army, you very 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.880 much do not want to be taken alive by a 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:30.319 bunch of Cossacks on horseback who surround you. That's one 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.560 of those kind of what do they say, save the 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:37.160 last bullet for yourself kind of situations. It's as bad 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:42.840 as it could possibly get. Napoleon now starts to carry 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:48.880 poison around for himself should he be captured. That's where 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.360 we're at now. Let's talk about the snowfall and the cold. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:00.319 I have been in some serious, serious cold in my life, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.000 told you these stories before growing up in Montana. I mean, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.320 it's gonna hit fifteen below on you. It just is 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.560 when the weather gets that cold, it hurts to breathe. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.880 When you breathe in it's like you're breathing in needles. Okay, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.920 I'm trying to explain this to people who've never experienced 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:26.040 extreme cold. And here's the thing about it. This was 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.200 even me as a kid in good health. You know, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.320 I'm getting three hot meals a day, good sleep, things 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.920 like that. When you find yourself out in extreme cold 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:41.480 like that, it becomes really all you can think about. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:46.800 It becomes all consuming. You are at such a war, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:52.320 trying to survive the cold, thating, nothing else matters, nothing 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.680 else else even enters your head. All there is is 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.600 the cold you're trying to overcome. How cold are we 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:05.880 talking about? They are finding groups of French soldiers. I'm 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.080 gonna keep saying French. Remember there's a bunch of different 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:12.480 countries here, but they are finding groups of French soldiers 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:18.520 sitting around a fire. It's the morning, the sun comes up. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:25.000 They're sitting around the fire and they're all frozen solid. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:33.280 Frozen to death. Blocks of French icemen sitting around a fire. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.760 This is the kind of winter that has descended on Russia, 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:43.479 and most of these troops don't even have winter coats. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:51.440 Whole units are being wiped out, entire units. You'll have 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.520 a thousand men there one day. Two days later they're gone, 0:15:55.560 --> 0:16:01.400 some killed by cossacks, some killed by wool. Russia has 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:06.360 packs of wolves, smart, dangerous, deadly killers. What do you 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.080 think a pack of wolves is gonna do against two 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.000 French soldiers kind of snuck in the snow looking around 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:20.320 for food. Yeah, wolves involved and frostbite. I know it 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.920 may be nearing dinner time for you, depending on where 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.960 you are in the country, but imagine taking off your 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.840 boots and half your foot stays in it in the 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:38.680 boot just breaks off. Your feet are turning black, You're 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.640 losing fingers. You ever seen a documentary with Korean War 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.000 veterans in it, highly recommend you do. Those guys relyons. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.920 They'll be watching them talk and oftentimes there's so much 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:56.360 discoloration on their face, almost like they were burnt or something. Well, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.400 they were by the frost. And then at some point 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.800 in time being interviewed, he'll try to talk with his 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.240 hands and lift up his hands, and you see all 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.840 these nubs where his fingers and sometimes his entire hand 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.320 used to be. If you're a French soldier, you're in 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.440 the snow, you're being attacked by wolves. If you're captured, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.000 you're gonna be tortured to death, and your feet are 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:22.560 breaking off in your boots. At the same time, men 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:27.159 are simply dying in droves like I can't possibly describe. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.520 We'll continue in a moment. The Jesse Kelly Show I 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:37.280 Like It returns next. It is The Jesse Kelly Show 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.200 on a magnificent Thursday. Member. If you miss any part 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.480 of the show, you can download the whole thing. iHeart 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.720 Spotify iTunes. I'm gonna get to some more politics here 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.439 in about a half hour from now. We're wrapping up 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:54.440 our little story about Napoleon's now desperate retreat from Russia. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.600 Things are happening, and it's all bad if you're part 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:02.200 of the Grand Army. There's one night I keep mentioning, 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:08.120 whole units are dying. How many twenty five hundred men 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.520 die in one night trying to cross a river. The 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:19.000 starvation is so severe the men are eating cats, and 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:20.320 this is going to be a little hard to hear 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:21.919 all every bit of it, so just hang with me 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:28.400 for a second. The men are eating horses, and not 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:35.080 just the dead ones. Men are so hungry they are 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:40.480 carving pieces of dead horses, are of alive horses off 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.480 and eating them. I love horses, so that's hard for 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:48.760 me to hear men are eating each other. Don't think 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:54.240 that cannibalism is rare in the case of starvation. Cannibalism 0:18:54.520 --> 0:19:00.320 is the human condition. Human beings, when hungry enough, will 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:05.960 eat other human beings. They just will. Now let's talk 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:11.239 about this part. I am actually so impressed with the 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.439 Grand Army, and I'll get to exactly why in a moment. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:19.119 But here's why. Men when they are this hungry and 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:24.280 cold and desperate, even some of the toughest, most trained men, 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:28.000 when they get pushed to a certain point, will oftentimes 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:33.920 descend into violence and anarchy. It's a your mind almost breaks, 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.680 it goes into human survival mode. And there's a lot 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.240 of that here, don't get me wrong. Some of the 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.280 most desperate, horrible acts you can imagine as men are dying. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:47.600 There's a lot of that here. But they're racing now, 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.720 and now it's a race. Now the French are racing 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.440 to try to get out of Russia, and the Russians 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.199 are racing to try to wipe them out in a 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.960 big battle. Member, how it's amazing how times have changed. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.120 The French had spent this entire time trying to surround 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.040 and wipe out the Russians, and now it is the 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.480 exact opposite, as the French are booking it back home, 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.359 the Russians are trying to surround and wipe them out. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.720 Napoleon gets to a river, tries to get to a 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.439 crossing in the river, and the freaking Russians succeed in 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:27.240 getting around him and cutting him off. Blocking it off. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:34.880 They surround him, but Napoleon finds a way. The French 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.760 fight like lions. Imagine the physical condition they are in. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:44.240 They fight like lions and hold off the Russians in 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:48.600 a big battle. They do not get wiped out. Napoleon 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.679 goes to it himself, goes to a different part of 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.879 the river and finds a way across. Don't think that 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.200 this is some rousing success story, because at this point 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.880 in time, an entire corps of the Grand Army annihilated, 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.560 completely wiped off the face of the planet. They're dying 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:13.240 by the thousand. We're talking twenty below zero here. After 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:17.480 this the Russians, honestly, this might be the coldest part 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:22.840 of it. After this, the Russians, the Russian army leads 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:28.600 them to the wolves and the peasants. Oh, I probably 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:32.359 didn't touch on this point. On the retreat. Remember what 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:37.520 the French were doing the whole way they were invading Russia. 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.280 Remember how they were treating the peasants in the countryside, 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:43.359 even if they weren't mean about it. Is there a 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:45.399 nice way to walk into your home and steal all 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.040 the food out of your cupboard, so you and your 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:52.159 wife starved to death. Now the peasants are being encouraged 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.879 by Russian leadership. Hey, grab a pitch fork, grab a spear, 0:21:55.960 --> 0:22:00.040 grab a sword, steal someone's musket, kill a Frenchman on 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:04.520 the way out. The peasants are randomly shooting the Russians. 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.800 So you and five of your buddies may have started 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:11.040 a fire and you're trying to warm your frost bitten 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:14.760 feet and gear up for another hike towards the river, 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:18.480 and a shot may ring out and your buddy's brains 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:20.920 get blown out in the middle of the night by 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.640 a random peasant who then SLINKs back into the forest. 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:30.240 This is now all the time. I already mentioned the wolves, 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:34.760 and of course the main force of the Russian Army 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:39.800 may have stopped, but the Cossacks have not stopped. The 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:45.760 horseback warriors of Russia slash poland are still butchering the 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:51.040 Grand Army every single chance they get horse raids with 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:57.280 experienced horsemen, and it's just the worst thing in the world. Now, 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.359 I wanted to finish this story with this. There's a 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:05.399 man you should look up worth remembering. Nay Is. His 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:10.359 last name Marshall Ney. Napoleon had some marshals he thought 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:15.399 very highly of his top top man. Nay May is 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:19.840 one of those commanders troops fall in love with. He 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:22.720 wants to be there mixing it up with his men. 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:27.280 He wants to be shooting and be shot. May has 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.720 refused multiple promotions in the past. No, I don't want 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:33.320 a promotion. I'm good right here fighting with my men. 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:35.040 This is the kind of man we're talking about here, 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:41.040 nay Is. He is so brave that he is. I 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:44.840 heard him described multiple times as dumb, brave, stupid, brave. 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:47.800 May at one point in his life in a battle, 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.879 has not one, not two, not three, but four horses 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.280 shot out from under him in a single battle. He 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:56.359 just keeps getting back on the horse and charging. That's 0:23:56.400 --> 0:24:01.080 what he does. He's Nay. His men worship him. He look, 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:03.480 he drives them hard, but they know he's going to 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:08.800 be right there, suffering with them, fighting with them. Nagets 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:10.919 himself and all of his men. It's not that he 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:13.880 got himself. It wasn't up to him. He is cut 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:18.960 off from retreat. He is thought to be completely lost. 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:23.280 Everyone thinks that Nay and all his men this is 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:26.600 another one of those units. We're never seeing them again. 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:32.720 Rest in peace, Marshall May, Except it's Marshall May. He 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:38.200 fights like a demon, and so do his men. And yes, 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:42.119 he loses most of them, but they fight their way 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:48.800 through the Russian blocking action, and Nay comes home as 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:56.080 a hero. I'll finish with this. I wanted to finish 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:58.760 with the positive story because it is such a tragic story. 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:04.000 Nay at the end of his life, after Napoleon escapes 0:25:04.480 --> 0:25:09.960 whatever Napoleon has met his end, there is a crackdown 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:12.960 on all of Napoleon's top men. This is years later, 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:16.160 by the way, there is a crackdown on Napoleon's top 0:25:16.240 --> 0:25:21.439 men where they're being arrested, tried, and executed. Nay, of course, 0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:27.160 is convicted and time to go get executed, executed by 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:33.119 firing squad. Nay stands in front of his own firing 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:37.640 squad and he says to them, when I give the order, 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:42.639 fire at the heart. Nay takes command of his own 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:47.240 firing squad and has them shoot him in the chest 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:50.919 in Lie's death. It's kind of cool, right, Chris, that 0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:55.760 there were so many heroes and so much tragedy in 0:25:55.880 --> 0:26:03.000 Napoleon's invasion and retreat from Russia. Look, wars are not 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:08.120 always about having the superior army. Commander after commander, general 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:12.160 after general throughout history has marched off with a far 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:16.240 superior army, and they have had to run into things 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.520 like logistical problems and weather and all kinds of things, 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:23.920 and the army just dies. Hitler's army was far better 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:27.320 than the Russians, at least in the beginning of his invasion. 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:31.120 At the end the Russians were better. But still it's 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:35.720 just too far, it's too cold, not enough food. Many 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:40.280 many conquerors have looked out over the horizon and thought 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:43.560 to themselves, I have a great army. Maybe I should 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:46.760 cross that horizon. See what I can do with it. 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:51.359 Some have found glory and many have found nothing but 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:54.959 complete devastation. That's the whole history of the world. I 0:26:54.960 --> 0:27:00.320 hope you enjoyed it. We'll be back the Jesse Kelly Show, Daz, 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:04.600 the Jesse Kelly Show, and a magnificent Thursday. I asked 0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:07.720 doctor Jesse. Friday is tomorrow, and you can email the 0:27:07.720 --> 0:27:13.400 show Jesse at Jesse Kellyshow dot com. Jesse at Jesse 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:17.919 kellyshow dot com. Send in your questions now. So remember 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:21.800 that little story about Napoleon constantly having to fight off 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:26.359 subversives back home. Memory how many times we've talked about 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:31.080 how difficult it would be for the United States of 0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:36.160 America to ever fight a long drawn out war overseas 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:40.520 because Democrats hate the country and they'll try to subvert it. 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:45.080 How far will they go to try to subvert it? Well, 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:49.240 PROMI La Jaya Powell, you remember this, lady. 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:52.879 We might call this getting strike ready. I think of 0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:56.520 it as getting us strike ready or street ready. And 0:27:56.720 --> 0:27:59.200 part of that is understanding our own strength and as 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:03.440 we develop that strength being able to assess our risk tolerance, 0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:07.320 because we know that risk tolerance increases as the severity 0:28:07.359 --> 0:28:11.040 of the situation increases and as our own understanding of 0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:16.080 what's happening increases. So overall, the more we understand what's effective, 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:18.919 what the risks are, and who's ready to participate, the 0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:20.480 more impact we can have. 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:25.720 Yeah, that one. So Trump has mentioned multiple times that 0:28:25.800 --> 0:28:29.760