1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: This is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse 2 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on 3 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful hump day. And I am just so 4 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: exciting about everything going on right now. Freedom is not free. 5 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: And now it's time to pause all the politics in 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 1: the Ukraine and the tariffs and they're tearing down the air, 7 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: the Amazon rainforest and everything else going on, because well, 8 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: now it's time for our third and final installment of 9 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: the Crimean War. If you missed the first two, go 10 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: download yesterday's podcast of the day beforehand iHeart Spotify iTunes, 11 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: where we're just talking about the war that nobody seems 12 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: to know anything about, but we thought it would be 13 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: uniquely beneficial to have some idea of the history of 14 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: that region, the northern part of the Black Sea, the 15 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: Crimean region, Sevastopol, these these resource rich areas, Russia and 16 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: their warm water fleet, the Black Fleet, let's talk about it. 17 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: So again. I'm not going to recap it all for you. 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: I can't possibly do that. But the one minute version 19 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: is Russia. This is the middle of the eighteen hundreds 20 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: eighteen fifties, Russia. Czar decides this Ottoman Empire. They're kind 21 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: of old and brittle. I think I'll take Constantinople. Britain, France. 22 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 1: They don't want Russia to take Constantinople, and the Ottomans, 23 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: of course don't want Russia to take Constantinople. So they 24 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: sail this huge force down up the Dardanelles past Constantinople 25 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: Istanbul and now they are currently laying siege to the 26 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: city that is still very much there, Savasa the poll. 27 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: The French are separate from the British, even though they're 28 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: fighting on the same side. They're entrenched outside of the city. 29 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: We're talking civil war type weapons to give you a 30 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: frame of reference, muskets, bayonets, cannons, things like that, and 31 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: it's ugly fighting. I told you yesterday about the charge 32 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: of the Light Brigade. The Russians kept sallying forth to attack. 33 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 1: During one attack, they attacked in the fog. Then there 34 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: are fascinating accounts you can go read the letters today 35 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: of the Brits were sitting there. They thought they heard something, 36 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: but they couldn't really tell. And from the dense fog 37 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: emerged lines of Russian troops with bayonets attached, and people 38 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: start dying in sword fights and bayonet fights. How dysfunctional 39 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: is it. The French army actually during this attack says hey, 40 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: you want us, come help, and the Brits are all, no, 41 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: we don't want your help. Again. The French and the 42 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: Brits they don't care for each other much, that kind 43 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: of thing. The French actually did jump in anyway without permission. 44 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: But the situation is ugly. It's a siege. It's a 45 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: long siege, and sieges are ugly things. So let's discuss 46 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: the situation on both sides at this point. Hand hint. 47 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: At this point, the Russians are supplied quite well. You know, 48 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: I told you, Remember I told you Tolstoy, the guy 49 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: who wrote the book War and Piece. Everyone's heard of 50 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: the book. I've never read it, so don't feel like 51 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: some kind of dummy if you've never read it. I've 52 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: never read it. Oh, I know, Chris is supposed to 53 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: be way too many words. It's really really long. Anyway. Tolstoi, 54 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: he was the author. He was here fighting for the Russians, 55 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: he was in Sebastopol. The Russians were so well supplied 56 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: with the Brits in the French parked outside that he 57 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: taught at one point in time, about what a wonderful 58 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: time he's having, about how this is just great. The 59 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: whole thing just kind of seemed like a really fun adventure. 60 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: But why are the Russians supplied so well, well, remember 61 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: what we always do to help tell our history story. 62 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: We go to a map, look up the Black Sea. 63 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: The easiest way to do this Black Sea. Okay, you 64 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 1: see it, I know you see Sevastopol. It's that big 65 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 1: piece of land and the northern part of the Black 66 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: Sea it's sticking out. Can't miss it. That's Sevastopol. Well, 67 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: that's Crimea. But the city Sevastopol is there. That's the 68 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: Crimean Peninsula. I might point out now if you're driving, 69 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: don't worry about it. To the northeast of it. You 70 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: see that little thing, the little blue the Sea of 71 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: asof Azov, the Sea of Asov, the Sea of Asov. 72 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: That was the supply route where the Russians were getting 73 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: all their goodies, all the food, all the troop reinforcements 74 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: they needed. That's why guys like toll Story were sitting 75 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: there in the city eating well, drinking wine. Got all 76 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: the bullets you need. A nice winter coat. Life is 77 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: good for the Russians at this time, for the Brits 78 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: not so much. Now we need to talk about this 79 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: because it's one of those things that it's important to 80 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: remember always. Logistics matter. We talked about it last night. 81 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: The French were more ready to fight a fight like 82 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: this because they'd been fighting and they learned the necessity 83 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: of having a field ambulance, having great medical people, making 84 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: sure there's clean sheets, like basic boring things that you 85 00:05:54,440 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: don't think about. The Brits were so lost in this regard, 86 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: and the fighting was extra extra terrible. Have you ever 87 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: seen Have you ever seen a picture I'm not recommending 88 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 1: it to you, depending on how old you are, of 89 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: a hospital, a field hospital during the Civil War, of 90 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: the missing limbs outside. You've seen it. I know Chris 91 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: has seen it. Yeah, you're a sick o. Chris. Look, 92 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: I've seen it as well. There are pictures online. You 93 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: can go look at them. Kids asked mom and dad first, please, 94 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: but you can go look at them. There's just a 95 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: Civil War field hospital and there are just feet and legs, 96 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 1: and you see these guys they're always pictured and they're 97 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: missing legs and they're missing arms. Well, I brought it 98 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: up yesterday. The advancements in technology, the advancements and cannons 99 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: and mortars and exploding shells. What we're encountering here is 100 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: extra horrific for a couple of different reasons. One, these weapons, 101 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: they're better, bigger, more powerful than weapons had ever been 102 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: before in the history of combat. That's one. And two 103 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: because this is really the first major war where there 104 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: are pictures where you can see these things. The young 105 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: brave British boys and French boys and Russians. To be honest, 106 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: but the young brave British boys who went down and 107 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: signed up for glory in adventure, they didn't necessarily understand 108 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: what they were signing up for. And it's not that 109 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: it's fun to get in a sword fight on horseback. 110 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that would be a real good time. 111 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: But when you're a seventeen eighteen year old boy in 112 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: Britain and you want to go do your duty and 113 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: serve your country and make your dad proud, you're not 114 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: marching down to the station thinking you're going to come 115 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: home without legs. But many of them came home without legs. 116 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: The wounds are terrible, the weapons are terrible, and the 117 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: medical situation is something to discuss. Because I brought up 118 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: Florence Nightingale, that famous nurse, last night. Why was she beckoned? Well, 119 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: here's the situation. The real true hospital for these British 120 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: troops was not in Sevastopol. It was back in Turkey. 121 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: It was back in the Ottoman Empire. It was not 122 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: at all unusual for you to get wounded severely and 123 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: not have real medical care for a month or more. 124 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: Imagine marching off to war. This is a true story. 125 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is gonna be a little gross, say 126 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: for kids, but it's still gross. Imagine marching off to war, 127 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: charging the Russian lines, getting shot through the chest. This 128 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: is a true story, getting shot through the chest and 129 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: five weeks later you have not been shipped out for 130 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: real medical care and people can scoop the maggots out 131 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: of your wound because it is so festered and gross. 132 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: This is what the British troops on the ground were 133 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: experiencing during the Crimean War. In these stories. Because again 134 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: the modern press, the London Times and these other big papers, 135 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: they were there, they started to report these stories back home. 136 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,839 Speaker 1: And this is why Florence Nightingale, bless her heart, said, ah, 137 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: I need to go down there and help in the 138 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: British government. To their credit, they knew they had a 139 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 1: serious problem and they said go. And then she walks 140 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: down into the big nursing facility in the Ottoman Empire 141 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: and she's mortified by how dirty it is. There aren't 142 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: enough nurses, there's not enough clean sheets, there's not soap, 143 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: there's not water. Guys are dying brutally. One guy I 144 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: saw his picture. He was missing both of his legs 145 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: above his knees. Get this. He had lost his feet 146 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: to frostbite. I'll get to that in a moment. But 147 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: how did he lose the rest of his legs. His 148 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: medical care was so poor they had to go back 149 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: in and amputate both of his legs above the knee 150 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: after his feet were lost. That's how terrible this war was. 151 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: And no one knows about this. We'll continue on. 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This is 159 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: our third and final part tonight of the Crimean War. 160 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: So I just explained the logistical situation for the Brits, 161 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: but if you can imagine it, it actually gets worse 162 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: from here because winter comes. Now maybe you're thinking, well, yeah, 163 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: hopefully they planned for that. It's freaking Russia. Well, yes 164 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: it's Russia, and yes it does get cold in this area, 165 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: but not the kind of cold that of course comes 166 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: this year, the year they happen to be there. Remember this, 167 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: part of the reason this area is so valuable to 168 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: this day to the Russians is it's a warm water port. 169 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: This is not the normal frozen hellscape you think of 170 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: when you think about Russia in the winter. Winter comes 171 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: for the Brits. Remember they're already in trenches and being 172 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,199 Speaker 1: able to supply an army by ship is a wonderful thing. 173 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 1: It's an impressive thing. And the British Navy does rule 174 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: the waves. And after this war spoiler alert, they go 175 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: on to spread their empire and be powerful until World 176 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: War One. They really do. So it's nice. It's nice 177 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: when your army's parked down on the shore and oh, 178 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: we have more troops on this ship, and more food 179 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: on this ship, and oh all of our winter clothes, 180 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: forty thousand thick coats are on this ship. It's nice 181 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: until a winter storm comes along and sends it to 182 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: the bottom of the ocean. Now you are three thousand 183 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 1: miles without a plane, without powered ships, sailing ships, or 184 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: how you get there. Your three thousand miles from home 185 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 1: in one of the nastier winters this area has seen. 186 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: And it sets in as your men are in the 187 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: trenches and when it's not freezing cold, with men dying 188 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: every single night, it's muddy. So your guys go from 189 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: living in the mud to living in the frozen tundra. 190 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: They are now bored, they're dispirited. And this is really 191 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: this is really an ugly down part of British military history, 192 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 1: which British military history is really awesome. A lot of 193 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: it's really awesome. Everyone has their ups and downs. It's war. 194 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: It's ugly. The crimean war is not It's probably not 195 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: one I would imagine that's on. It's not a feather 196 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: you're keeping in your cap. If you're a brit and 197 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: you're talking about military history. Part of the reason why, 198 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: now this really angers me to a great deal. But 199 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 1: they're officers. While the enlisted guys were dying in the trenches, 200 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: getting their feet cut off, losing their hands, ears frostbite, 201 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: the Russians would routinely, because of the Russians were better 202 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 1: prepared for the winter, like they always seem to be, 203 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: the Russians would infiltrate the lines, drop into your trench, 204 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: stab for guys, and go back. It was just a terrible, 205 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: ugly affair. The officers kept going back home. The British 206 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: officers would go on vacation back home to get warm, 207 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: while the enlisted guys stayed there rotting, dying and fighting. Now, 208 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: I can't properly convey to you how quickly that would 209 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: destroy the morale of any unit in any country on 210 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: the planet we I won't go into the details of 211 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: the exact win because I don't need anybody tracking the 212 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: guy down. But at one point in my Marine Corps career, 213 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: our company commander was a complete moron, just an absolute idiot, 214 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: and everybody knew he was an idiot, and we all 215 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: thought the guy was going to get is killed one day. 216 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: That's what we thought of him, as soon as we 217 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: figured out he was an idiot. And it didn't take 218 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: us long. It just sucked the life right out of 219 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: our company. It just does it. And I had lions too, 220 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: a couple of lions, a really good platoon commander at 221 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: one point, really good company commander at one point, and 222 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: your whole company kind of puffs up. Yeah, I'll lay 223 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: down in traffic for that guy. Leadership does matter. You 224 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: know what it feels like when you're rotting in the trenches, 225 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: your foot just turned black, and your company commander hops 226 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: on a ship to head back home to hang out 227 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: with his wife and kids for a month. Destroys a unit, 228 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: absolutely destroys it. Now, it's not all bad. Oh, it's funny. 229 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: You brought that up. Chris just brought up a line. 230 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: I don't know who said that line. I think it's old, 231 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: but there's an old line that it's better to have 232 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: an army of donkeys led by a lion than an 233 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: army of lions led by a donkey. You can look 234 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: that up. Someone said it. I don't know whose line 235 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: it was. At one point point in time during this battle, 236 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: the Brits got close enough to the Russians, the Russians 237 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: would essentially use that line on them and said, you're 238 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: led by a bunch of donkeys, making fun of them 239 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: to their faces. Like I said, it's not a shining 240 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: example of British military history by any stretch of the imagination. 241 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: But the Brits, slowly but surely, as controversy mounts back home, 242 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: start to get their act together. They actually did get 243 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: the troops some winter close, right about the time it 244 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: turned hot and winter ended. Yeah, I know it was ugly, 245 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: but they were all this time inching closer and closer 246 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: and closer to the city itself, to the fortifications of Sevastopol, 247 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: so much so they've built a railway from the water 248 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: to the city of Sevastopol. So the Russians are starting 249 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: to feel it, and that, of course brings us to 250 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: that sea of azof these Russians are fat and happy 251 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: now everything they need. How long will that last? We'll 252 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: get to that in a moment. Before we get to that, 253 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: let's get to you and that next employee, the one 254 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 1: you need, that desk sitting empty in your office. You 255 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: look at it and you think, gosh, what I wouldn't 256 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 1: kill for the perfect that or honestly even worse, the 257 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: dude who's there? Who's an idiot? Who screws everything up? 258 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: Who's your Chris? That's why you need zip recruiter. Zip 259 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: recruiter is there. It's the hiring site employers prefer the most. 260 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: They have smart technology that starts showing your job to 261 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: qualified candidates immediately. Immediately. 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Remember if you miss 271 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: any part of the show, you can download the whole thing. Iheardspotify, iTunes, 272 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: trying to finish up part three of our little Crimean 273 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: war history thing we've been doing for the past few nights. 274 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: So just to answer Jewish producer Chris's question from the break, 275 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: he said, refresh my memory, why do they want all this? 276 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: Are they? Why are the French in British here? Because 277 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: the Russians realized the Ottoman Empire was dying and it 278 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: was they decided they wanted Constantinople for themselves. Understandably, they 279 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: marched on it. The Brits and the French who were 280 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 1: highly invented in trade with that place, and you know 281 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 1: they're always competing with each other. You don't ever want 282 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: your enemy to seize really the most strategically important city 283 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,360 Speaker 1: on the planet then and now. So they marched down there. 284 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: And the idea was they wanted to destroy not just 285 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: Russia's fleet in the Black Sea, they wanted to destroy 286 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: Sevastopol itself, so Russia really couldn't even build another one 287 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: for a long time, destroy their fleet that way, they 288 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: can't go down and take Constantinople. And if that's a 289 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: little confusing, I'll give you a nerdy naval detail about 290 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: this that you may or may not care about. But 291 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 1: it might help you understand things. Remember, this is the 292 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 1: time period of sale. Yes, there are steamships just getting 293 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: rolling now that it's something Britain's to getting good at, 294 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: but for the most part, this is still the time 295 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: of sale. If you look at a Crimean wore picture 296 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: of of the naval armadas, they have sails on them. Well, 297 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 1: if you look at the Dardenells, that strip of water 298 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: right before Istanbul that leads up into the Black Sea, 299 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: it takes twice as long because of the winds, currents 300 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: and everything else to sail from the Dardennelles up to 301 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: Sevastopol as it does to sail from Sevastopol down to 302 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: the Dardenells. The Russians, if they have a fleet there, 303 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: can get there overnight quickly, and the others cannot. All Right, 304 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: back to our story. So the Brits finally start to 305 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 1: get their supply act together. They're building a railway. This 306 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 1: is a modern powerful country. At this point, you'd probably 307 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: consider them the most powerful country in the world. They're 308 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 1: not going to screw this whole thing up forever. They're 309 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: getting logistics figured out right at the time, they're figuring 310 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: out how to completely hose the Russian for their logistics. 311 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: Where were the Russians getting all their supplies from the 312 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: Sea of Azov, right there, northeast of Sevastopol, right northeast 313 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: of the Crimean Peninsula. The Brits figured to themselves, well, 314 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: we have this sweet fleet. The Russians don't have a 315 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: fleet anymore. They sunk theirs on purpose. Why don't we 316 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: just sail our fleet into the Sea of Asov, knock 317 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: out some fortifications there and cut them off from supplies. 318 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: And they do. It's pretty sharp military campaign, to be honest. 319 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 1: Not that severing your enemy's supply lines is some act 320 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 1: of brilliance. It's really anything anyone who's ever played risk understands. 321 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: But that's what you do. You find your enemy's supply line, 322 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 1: you cut him off, and you starve him to death. 323 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: The Brits do it. They do it successfully. Now the 324 00:21:54,320 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: British army, from three thousand miles away is better supplied 325 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: than the Russian army, whose headquarters are two to three 326 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: hundred miles away. The Russians start to get weak as 327 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: the Allies grow strong. They're starting to build better facilities 328 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: for the troops. No more tense, no more frostbite in 329 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: the winter. The Brits, the French, they're getting stronger and stronger. 330 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 1: Then they're thinking to themselves. The Russians, they're starving these people, 331 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: they're on their last leg. Guess what anniversaries coming up? Waterloo. 332 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: Now I know you don't know the Waterloo anniversary, nor 333 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: do you need to memorize this date, But it's the 334 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: eighteenth of June. Okay, the eighteenth of June, and this 335 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: is not an important date necessarily for you unless you're 336 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 1: a super duper Napoleon freak. But at this point in 337 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: the eighteen fifties, Waterloo meant everything to the British. It 338 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: was their big victory over Napoleon and still a sore 339 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 1: spot for the French. We had it all, we lost 340 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: it at Waterloo. They decided to collaborate and they were 341 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 1: going to storm the fort on the eighteenth of June. 342 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: The problem for the British and the French was the Russians. 343 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: Russians may be a lot of things, but stupid is 344 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: not generally one of them. The Russians assumed there would 345 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: be a big assault on the anniversary of Waterloo. They 346 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: saw it coming and a lot of people died this 347 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: is you. Remember Lord Raglan did the charge of the 348 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: light brigade, the guy in charge. He dies shortly after this. 349 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 1: Not he didn't get shot, but from disease. He died, 350 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 1: and he said logistically he had screwed so much up 351 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: he thought he would be executed when he went back 352 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: to Britain. This was back during a time period in 353 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: the world where generals got killed if they screwed everything 354 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: up here in America, you get promoted to raytheon for 355 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: a million dollars a year, but we'll set that aside. 356 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: Colera comes back. It's a night. But then the Brits 357 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: they know time is on their side. They sail another 358 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: fleet up into the Baltic and they start to pummel 359 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: the Russian forts in the Baltic. Remember the Baltic is 360 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: north of Europe, and at the end of the Baltic, 361 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: if you're going from west to east, the end of 362 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,360 Speaker 1: the Baltic is Saint Petersburg, the Russian capital. The Brits 363 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: start to pound cities on the way to Saint Petersburg 364 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: until they get almost all the way there. Now the Russians, 365 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,479 Speaker 1: they're looking out from their capital at a gigantic British fleet. 366 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: The Brits know they still have to take a huge fort. 367 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: But think what that would look like. What if you 368 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: woke up tomorrow morning and there was a Chinese fleet 369 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: as far as the eye could see. Little disconcerting, no, Well, 370 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: combine that with the final attack that is mounted on Sevastopol. 371 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: The Russians know it's coming. They had built a They 372 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 1: tried to shuttle as many of their people out as 373 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: humanly possible, but their people are starving. The bombardment comes 374 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: and the Russians now were too hungry, too short of supplies. 375 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: They can't seem to rebuild. They can't rebuild like they 376 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:19,360 Speaker 1: used to. After every bombardment. The French and the British 377 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: both attack. The French pour through the lines. Remember the 378 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: French were ace Land troops at this point in time, 379 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: ace Land troops. We all like to make fun of 380 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: the French. They actually have an amazing military history. It 381 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 1: was just World War Two where they embarrassed themselves. They 382 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: were dominant here. Soon there were French flags flying, but 383 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: no British flags. Why they had look, it depends on 384 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: who you read. I read three or four different things. 385 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: In preparation for this. They had good officers or bad officers, 386 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 1: depending on who you read. Good troops or young troops, 387 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: depending on who you read. But the British attack fail. 388 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 1: The Brits don't make it, and the French do think 389 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: how badly that must hurt. There weren't British flags flying, 390 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: there were French flags flying in what was supposed to 391 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: be a joint assault. They try again the next morning, 392 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: but the Russians had basically slipped out. Finally the Brits 393 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,719 Speaker 1: go limping into the place. They then proceed both of 394 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: them to begin to flatten the dockyards, blow everything up. 395 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: They essentially reduced Sevastopol to rubble to rubble. The French 396 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,880 Speaker 1: go home. The French are done with this whole thing. 397 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: The Brits are not thrilled with their performance. They decide 398 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: they need a little a little more to get some 399 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: glory out of this war, and they're going to make 400 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: a serious run at Saint Petersburg. The Russians, though, were 401 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: fresh out of money and fresh out of hope. That 402 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 1: large Russian empire where they were just done, and they 403 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: submitted before the Brits could use that navy and pound 404 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg to dust that is the story of the 405 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,439 Speaker 1: Crimean War and the beginning of the end for the 406 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 1: Ottomans and the Czars. And you know what, we'll talk 407 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: about that very briefly when we get back, and then 408 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: we'll get back to some politics here on the world 409 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 1: famous Jesse Kelly Show. There's the Crimean War for you. Now. 410 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure all this war talk probably has you ready 411 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 1: to grill meats. It most definitely has me ready. But 412 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: I didn't know what's going to come out perfect. See 413 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: me in experienced idiot, Jesse. My meat comes out perfect 414 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: every time because I use the IQ sense. What is 415 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: it. It's from Chefman. It's a wireless cooking thermometer. But it's 416 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: the most modern, amazing thing you've ever seen. You see 417 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: Do you have eh, probably four or five meat thermometers 418 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: in my house. I do the same one as you do. 419 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 1: Pull it out, stick it in. Could you look at 420 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: the temperature? Put it back. I think it needs ten 421 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 1: more minutes. I'm maybe five. I'm not. I do the 422 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: same thing. Well, I should say I used to do 423 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: the same thing. Now. It doesn't matter what I'm making, steaks, chicken, 424 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: pull pork, brisket. I put in an IQ CeNSE or two. 425 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: I generally use two. I bought the two pack. They 426 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: have singles or twos or threes. I use the two pack, 427 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: and I just look at my phone. Hey, looks like 428 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: the meat's done. It connects to an app on my phone. 429 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: If I don't feel like checking my phone, I just 430 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: tell my phone the temperature I'm looking for, and my 431 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: phone lets me know when the meat's done and perfect 432 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: every time you want perfect meat every time, chefq dot 433 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: com promo code Jesse saves you fifteen percent, So make 434 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: sure you save some money chefiq dot com code Jesse. 435 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: We'll be back truth Attitude, Jesse Kelly. It is the 436 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Wednesday. Remember tomorrow's 437 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: and ask doctor Jesse Thursday. So you can get your 438 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: questions emailed in now to Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. 439 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: How going to get to some of those emails in 440 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: a moment. We'll still give a little update on the 441 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: Russia Ukraine stuff. The lips are tearing down the rainforest 442 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: now and so much more. Just wanted to put a couplet, 443 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: a couple of little bows on this crimean war thing 444 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: about what happened afterwards for the Brits not their finest war, right. 445 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: The Navy certainly had nothing to be ashamed of at all. 446 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: The Brits really knew how to feel the Navy, and 447 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: the Brits went on to really dominate the world. They 448 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: were the global superpower until World War One. So you 449 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: can't really complain in the end of how it worked 450 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: out for the Britz French. The French did very well 451 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: for themselves too. By the time World War One rolled around, 452 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: they were a very very powerful country. Had done very 453 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: well the Ottomans. It's kind of funny the Brits and 454 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: the French sailed down there to I won't say, save 455 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: the Ottoman Empire. That's not what they did. That's a 456 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: real rosy that's a real rosy view on the motivations 457 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: for the Brits and the French. That's right, Chris. It's 458 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: about money, it was about trade, it was about denying 459 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: the Russians. Constantinople was about all those things. But in 460 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: part at least, they were trying to keep the Ottoman 461 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: Empire intact. Remember, the Ottoman Empire doesn't get a lot 462 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: of love in America because it's a Muslim Empire, and 463 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: Islam is not our natural religion here in the country, 464 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: so we kind of gloss over it. Everyone knows about 465 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: Rome and places like that. The Ottoman Empire was a 466 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 1: juggernaut for a very very, very long time. By this 467 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: point in time, they're on the back nine. Forget that, 468 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: they're on the last hole. They were a fading, crumbling empire. 469 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: You know, Constantinople Istanbul today a wonderful, wonderful city. The 470 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,239 Speaker 1: Brits couldn't stop talking about how filthy it was and 471 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: how full of beggars it was. When they got there. 472 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: They didn't know that. Again, this is before pictures. They 473 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,719 Speaker 1: showed up and you have this Constantinople picture in your 474 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: mind and they're all, gosh, this place is a dump. 475 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: The Ottoman Empire was fading. This war didn't help them much. 476 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: They essentially broke off a lot after this. In fact, 477 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: you can argue very easily that the Ottoman Empire kind 478 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: of cracking up, creating places like Serbia after this created 479 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: all the conditions for World War One, that horrible, horrible 480 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: thing that came what seventy years or so, give or 481 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: take after this, The Ottoman Empire didn't end up faring 482 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 1: that well in the end, But really all that pales 483 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 1: in comparison to what happened to the poor freakin Russians. 484 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: The Russians had been ruled by Tsars for a long time, 485 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: about three hundred years by this point in time, they'd 486 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: been ruled kings. Okay, we call them zars, but they're kings. 487 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: It's a monarchy, it's an autocracy, that's it. One person's 488 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: in charge, and they always had a secret police in 489 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: charge of repressing things. And this war did kind of 490 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: wake the Russians up to the fact that they needed 491 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: to be a lot more industrial than they were. They 492 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 1: really had to ramp up their industrial base. So they 493 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: did get that much. But this war was so wounding 494 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: to the Tsars. We don't think about that in America 495 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: that much because we haven't really lost many wars. In fact, 496 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: have we ever lost one. Even if you say Vietnam, 497 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: we didn't militarily lose Vietnam. I'm the more on politicians 498 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: may have screwed the whole thing up, but our military 499 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: certainly didn't lose Vietnam. Our guys did very very well. 500 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 1: Korea the same thing. You'd call it a tie Navia yeah, 501 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: it took five hundred thousand Chinese storming across the border. 502 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: We don't know what it's like. How does it look 503 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: for leadership to outright lose, as in you're signing a 504 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: peace agreement and you're the loser. Well, the Tsars were 505 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 1: already starting to fade with their power and yest they 506 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: went on for another sixty seventy years. It's not like 507 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 1: they finished. But this really hurt the Czars. By the 508 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: end of this war, it was Czar Alexander, it wasn't 509 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,719 Speaker 1: Zar Nicholas the first anymore, and they just really it 510 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: was the beginning, in my opinion, of the end for them. 511 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: By the time World War One started, the Tsars were 512 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 1: in really shaky ground in Russia. And obviously you already 513 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: know the story. During World War One, that's when the 514 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: Russian Revolution happened. They lost their power and somehow, as 515 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: is often the case, things got worse for the Russians 516 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: after the revolution. Just seems to work out that way 517 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: a lot. So that's the crimean war not insignificant, and 518 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: it goes into exactly what's in the news right now. 519 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 1: This Ukraine's today. 520 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,839 Speaker 2: We've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which 521 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 2: is to enter into a ceasefire, into immediate negotiations to 522 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 2: end this conflict in a way that's enduring and sustainable 523 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 2: and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability to 524 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,359 Speaker 2: prosper as a nation. Now, hopefully we'll take this offer 525 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 2: and out of the Russians, and we hope that they'll 526 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,360 Speaker 2: say yes, that they'll say yes to peace. The balls 527 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 2: now in their court. But again, the president's objective here 528 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 2: is number one above everything else. He wants the war 529 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,520 Speaker 2: to end. And I think today Ukraine has taken a 530 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,879 Speaker 2: concrete step in that regard. We hope the Russians will reciprocate. 531 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 1: That was Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier today, the 532 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: Russians got the message. Maybe you're wondering why they haven't 533 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: signed on the dotted line yet to a ceasefire. The 534 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: Russians have said, now we're waiting on the details of 535 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: that ceasefire. Remember we've talked about this a lot. Just 536 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,319 Speaker 1: to remind you again, stopping a war is much more 537 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,800 Speaker 1: difficult than starting one. It sounds really easy. It sounds 538 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: easy if you don't really think about all the diplomacy involved, 539 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: the different motivations, the political situation at the home front 540 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,919 Speaker 1: of all the different countries involved, right, I mean, there's 541 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: political consequences here for Trump, for Zelenski, for putin that 542 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: there's just a lot of moving parts. It's harder to 543 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: stop a war than start one. It's not like you 544 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 1: wake up and just say, okay, stop, we're done. Russia 545 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: has said, show me the details. We can talk about 546 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 1: that ceasefire. Show me the details. And like I told you, 547 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 1: was going to be an issue Russia, they pretty much 548 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 1: have a huge, huge chunk of the Ukrainian forces surrounded 549 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: and off. Now, well you now you're really gonna have 550 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 1: to sweeten the pot because Russia has the ability to 551 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,799 Speaker 1: annihilate these people if they keep this thing going. So 552 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: it could very well be rocky from here or by 553 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: the time we go down the air tomorrow, this thing 554 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,240 Speaker 1: could be stopped, you know, and they could be hammering 555 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,319 Speaker 1: something out. I don't know. It might be a day, 556 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 1: it might be a month, it might be ten years. 557 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,360 Speaker 1: We just don't know yet. Well know when we know, 558 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,919 Speaker 1: all right, I know what I know. That didn't make 559 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,800 Speaker 1: sense either way. You should definitely go to Hillsdale College 560 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: and learn some more things. We all need to learn things. 561 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: But I can't get into Hillsdale College. 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You want to learn about the 570 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: rise and fall of the Roman Republic, they'll teach you 571 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 1: at no cost, no cost. Hillsdale dot edu slash jesse 572 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: is where you go to enroll for no cost Hillsdale 573 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:31,919 Speaker 1: dot edu slash jesse. All right, all right, one more 574 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,200 Speaker 1: quick word on the Ukraine thing, and then we have 575 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 1: to get to other stuff. Emails and the Libs are 576 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,800 Speaker 1: tearing up the rainforest. Next