President Trump Deploys Warships to Venezuelan

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wedding The Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse
Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday. Coming up. We
have Brandon Wiker a half hour from now. Why is
the Navy and Marines?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
What exactly are they planning on doing in Venezuela and why?
We'll talk to him about that about a half hour
from now. I'm actually going to in a way defend
Trump on something he said today that is making a
lot of people on the right angry about bringing in
Chinese students, lots of them.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
But you know what time it is, Oh, that's political.
We don't have time for that. Now. It's the start
of the second hour on Monday. So it's Medal of
Honor Monday time. Same thing every Monday, at this time,
we take a medal of honor, citation, we read it.
We remember the men, we honor them, We honor their deeds.

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We have to tell our children about these men and
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So we're gonna do to tonight. This guy says Jesse.

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I went to Washington with my daughter on her fifth
grade trip. That's so cool. You got to go. I
didn't get to go. I wanted to go when my
kids went. Chris, you're never gonna pay for it when
your daughter gets told enough anyway, we stopped by the
National Vietnam War Memorial and searched for a specific name,
first Lieutenant Douglas B. Fournette. He was from my hometown

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of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Before you get to the two
to ten loop bridge, you will see a dedicated marker
to this warrior. He came from a hard nosed family.
His brother Rocky was such a fierce defensive back of
mcnee's state that the coach made him wear a black
helmet so the offense knew where he was on the
field at all times. Love what you're doing. Every Monday,

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I take my daughter Mollie to a Monday night activity
and we get to bond together listening to medal of
honor Monday. Gosh, that's freaking cool. Love your brother be well.
So without further ado born and as you heard in
Lake Charles, Louisiana, Vietnam veteran Douglas Bernard Fournette. Let's find
out what he.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Did, hey, honoring those he went above and beyond. It's
Medal of Honor Monday.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk
of his life, above and beyond the call of duty.
First Lieutenant Fournette, Infantry distinguished himself in action while serving
as rifle platoon leader of second Platoon, Company B. While
advancing uphill against fortified enemy positions in the a Shaw Valley,

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the platoon encountered intense sniper fire, making movement very difficult.
The right flank man suddenly discovered an enemy Claymore mind
covering the route of advance and shouted a warning to
his comrades. Realizing that the enemy would also be alerted,
First Lieutenant Fournette ordered his men to take cover and

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ran up. He'll toward the mind, drawing a sheath knife
as he approached it. With complete disregard for his safety
and realizing the imminent danger to members of his command.
He used his body as a shield in front of
the mind as he attempted to slash the control wires
leading from the enemy positions to the mind. As he

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reached for the wire, the mind was detonated, killing him instantly.
Five men nearest the mine were slightly wounded, but First
Lieutenant Fournette's heroic and unselfish act spared his men of
serious injury or death. His gallantry and willing self sacrifice
are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service

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and reflect great credit upon him himself, his unit in
the US Army. Just to let you know, in case
you don't, a clay More mind is a terrifying thing.
They are. They're full of ball bearings. I have a

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little bit of experience with them. And look, when we
trained with them, they were intimidating because you know what
they do when they go off, You know what they do.
To throw yourself in front of one that you know
the enemy holds the clacker, you set them off for
the clacker, the enemy holds the controls, and you throw

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yourself in front of one is awesome. Man, It's awesome.
Douglas Bernard Fournette. Now for our second one. This one
also came in. It was a recommendation from a Marine
Master sergeant who I'm not going to read his name.
I don't want to get him. I don't want to
get him in trouble. Jesse. If you've not our to

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use this warrior for Medal of Honor Monday, please do so, PFC.
And you're gonna have to bear with me. On the
name Ca ho Ohannohanno, CA ho Ohannohanno, that's just his
last name, caho ohann Ohanno. I'm assuming that's Hawaiian samowing
something like that. My favorite Medal of Honor recipient. This

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guy says, so he was Oh yeah, look at that.
Born nineteen thirty accredited to Hawaii is what they think
it was. So without further ado, also, Army, let's do
the second Medal of Honor citation for an Anthony T.
Ca ho Ohannohanno. And I'm sorry if I screwed up
the pronunciation on that. I'm stupid.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I do that, hey, honoring those he went above and beyond.
It's Medal of Honor Monday.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life,
above and beyond the call of duty. Private first Class
Anthony T. CA Hoo Company H seventeenth Infantry Regiment, seventh
Infantry Division, Distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism and action against
the enemy in the vicinity of Trooper Ree, Korea, on

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the first of September nineteenth fifty one. On that date,
Private first class ca Ho was in charge of a
machine gun squad supporting the defensive positioning of Company F
when a numerically superior enemy force launched a fierce attack.
Because of the enemy's overwhelming numbers, friendly troops were forced

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to execute a limited withdrawal. As the men fell back,
Private first class ca Hoo ordered his squad to take
up more defensible positions and provide covering fire for the
withdrawing friendly force. Although having been wounded in the soldier
in the soldier in the shoulder during the initial enemy assault,
Private first class ca Hoo gathered a supply of grenade

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aids and ammunition and returned to his original position to
face the enemy alone. As the hostile troops concentrated their
strength against his emplacement in an effort to overrun it,
Private first Class ca Ho fought fiercely and courageously, delivering
deadly accurate fire into the ranks of the on rushing enemy.

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When his ammunition was depleted, he engaged the enemy in
hand to hand combat until he was killed. Private first
Class caho Ohanohanno's heroic stand so inspired his comrades they
launched a counter attack that completely repulsed the enemy. Upon
reaching Private first Class caho Ohanohanno's emplacement, friendly troops discovered

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eleven enemy soldiers lying dead in front of the emplacement
and two inside it, killed in hand to hand combat.
Private first Class caho Ohano Hanno's extraordinary heroism and selfless
devotion to duty are in keeping with the Finnish traditions
of military service and reflect great credit upon himself the

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seventh Infantry Division in the United States Army and we
will play tabs in honor of both of these gentlemen.
To now, it's amazing how often those Korean War ones

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go that way, of the numerically superior enemy force overrunning
the lines. I've read more Korean books than I can count,
and that's just the Korean War. You take a hilltop,
the Chinese, because they were mostly Chinese, would mass up
more bodies than you could kill, and they would send

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in waves of them and they would just overrun you,
and then you'd have to counterattack and take it back.
And then they would counterattack and take it back. And
there were a lot of very brave men who did
a lot of very brave things in Korea. Like I've
told you before, it is called the Forgotten War, and
it really truly is the Forgotten War. Look into Korea,

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Look into Korea. If this stuff interests you, fascinates you, you
want to learn about the fighting they did over there,
the heroes who fought their way through that place and
then had to fight their way out of it. Go
pick up a book or watch a documentary. I think
there's a good one on Amazon if I remember it
called Chosen. It's on Amazon or Netflix, but it's called
Chosen about the Chosen Reservoir. Highly recommend it. Uh, I

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don't remember if it's a kid friendly or not. Could
it could be? Chris said, probably not, No, it could be.
Just I don't remember. So kids ask mom and dad.
All right, let's talk about Trump saying he's going to
allow six hundred thousand Chinese students in next it is
the Jesse Kelly Show. A wonderful, wonderful Monday. Just did

(10:39):
Medal of Honor Monday. Remember we have Brandon Wiker coming
up ten minutes from now. Gonna get us educated on
what exactly is happening in Venezuela. So Trump said something
earlier today that has the right apoplectic and upset. And
don't get me wrong, I'm I'm upset two. But I understand.

(11:02):
You ever have those situations in your life where you're
mad but you get it, You're mad but you get it.
He said this, It's a very important relationship. We're going
to get along good with China.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
I hear so many stories about we're not going to
allow their students. So we're going to allow their students
to come, and we're going to allow It's very important, six.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hundred thousand students. It's very important.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
But we're going to get.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Along with.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
We're going to allow six hundred thousand Chinese students into
our country. Chinese spies is what they are. It's not
it's not exactly a guess. It's not an unknown thing.
China sends its young people into our country, into the
university system to not just spy steal. They are the

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biggest corporate thieves on the planet. They steal technology, they
steal proper intellectual property, they take it back to China,
they duplicate it and it's really really bad. And everyone's
mad at Trump today about that we're going to allow
six hundred thousand. Then we're going to allow six hundred
thousand in I'm mad too, so let me clarify that's

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that's really bad. It's really bad. However, remember when Trump
was talking with Zelenski on the first meeting where it
blew up in the White House where Zolensky lost his
mind starts freaking out. Remember what Trump told him, you
don't have the cards, you don't have the cards, and

(12:29):
Zolensky had to be like a stupid, angry little troll,
I'm not playing cards. And that everyone knows what Trump
was saying, including Zelensky. What does he mean by that?
You don't have leverage. Ukraine doesn't have any leverage. You
can't militarily defeat the Russians. You're not in possession of
the territory the Russians have taken. You don't have leverage.

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You can want it, you can scream that's wrong, but
you don't have it. All right, so let's have a
frank talk about where we are as a country right now.
China produces ninety percent of the pharmaceuticals that people take
in the United States of America nine zero, not nine,

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not nineteen ninety. That's a tiny, tiny example of how
much we have to have cooperation with China. And so,
don't get me wrong, they have to have cooperation with
us too. But it really comes down to this. If

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I have to make it extremely simple, China makes the stuff,
we buy the stuff. That's the terrible relationship we are in.
You can hate that, and I hate it. You can
say we have to change that, and we do. But
you know, wish in one hand, grap in the other,
and see which one fills up first. As my dad

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used to tell me all the time, you can't wish
way where we currently are. We we don't have all
the cards. We have some cards there. We have cards.
There's no question about it. We have some cards. Look,
I'm gonna talk to Brandon Wykert next. I'm gonna flat

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out ask him how much of the world's rare earth
minerals does China have control over versus how much we
have control over. Imagine, imagine if China owns sixty seventy
percent of the rare earth minerals, and I think it's
at least that high. I'm gonna I'm gonna confirm it
with Brandon Wickert in a moment. What if it's seventy percent. Now,

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keep in mind, when we say rare earth minerals, what
does that even mean? Like everyone loves that term, Now
what does that even mean? We are talking about the
things you have to pull out of the ground to
make the modern things. Your country, your economy, and most
definitely your military need to keep running. You want your

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military to be as modern as the next guy. You
have to have that in the ground. What if China
owns it all and I know they own a big
chunk of it, I'm not happy. I'm not happy that
this is where we are, and I'm certainly not happy
that we're allowing six hundred thousand Chinese spies into the country.
I think that's suicidal and insane. I don't like it either,

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but I understand it. I understand. We don't hold all
the cards here. You know, it's a not a huge story,
but a little bit of a story that Canada, Canada
is backing off. You know, Canada was talking really tough,
we were talking about tariffs, and Canada started flexing. They
have a bunch of commies up there, in charge now,

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poor Canadians to it sucks for them. Canada bends the
need at Trump's will and drops the tariffs on US goods.
That's from today. Why, well, we have all the cards.
If you're Canada, you don't have that leverage. If we
pull the trigger on you when it comes to tariffs,
you're finished. You can hurt us a little. We can

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smash Canada's budget. We can smash their budget, we can
smash their economy into a fine powder. So they had
no choice. It's all about leverage. We are not in
that same situation with China. Yes, China needs us to
buy a lot of stuff, there's no question they need
us too. But we are in We're in a Mexican

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standoff right now. Okay, we can't afford to smash them
because they can smash us back guaranteed, guaranteed. This was
negotiated Jiji and Ping. Okay, you want this, you don't
want that. You're taking six hundred thousand spies students. Sorry,

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I misspoke. Sucks. I hate it. That's the way it is. Now.
We'll be back with Brandon Wiker. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. On a Wonderful Monday, the work week is
just beginning. I can tell how happy Chris is about it. Anyway,
I'm happy because Brandon Wikert's about to educate us on

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some things, as he often does. Joining me now, wonderful
author National security man Brandon Wikert, Hey, Brandon, why is
the Navy going down to Venezuela.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Well, thanks for having me. As always, the Navy has
decided to flex some muscles in the face of Nicholas Maduro.
Ostensibly it's to help the Trump administration conduct its anti
drug cartel operations, but I suspect that it is much

(17:41):
more than that. I believe that the Trump administration is
attempting to conduct some form of regime change in Caracas
by ousting Nicholas Maduro.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Oh well, that always goes well, Okay, let's rewind quite
a bit, because I everybody comes at the news from
different levels of understanding Venezuela. How did they get to
where they got? Now, Maduro, what's the deal with them?
Pretend like I don't know squat what's going on there?

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, you know, forty years ago, Venezuela was one of
the wealthiest countries in the world. It is one of
the great oil producers and then in the nineties and
early two thousands, they went through a political revolution led
by Hugo Chaves, who was a colonel in the Venezuelan army.

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He was a socialist and he overthrew the government and
installed a radical socialist regime with himself as the leader.
And ever since the two thousands it has been run
by either Hugo Chaves, who died in twenty thirteen, and
then after that it was his right hand man, Nicholas Maduro,

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who took over. They have funded drug cartel operations. They
are a narco terrorist regime. They have funded human trafficking.
They have sent Trende Aragua, which is a paramilitary force,
into the United States through our broken border. And there
may or may not be some evidence that their company,

(19:17):
run by Venezuelan national Smart Maattic, may be involved in
the Philippines and other countries in manipulating the votes. It's
an election counting machine software and in fact the CEO
is currently indicted, I believe in the Miami Court. So
there's a lot of problems with Venezuela. We've had going

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back several decades. Every president has talked about how much
of a problem it is but because it's an oil producer,
we are in a bind. We need to have business
relations with Venezuela, but the regime as it stands, hates
the United States.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, so we are currently purchasing oil from Venezuela.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
So there was a special carve out that was allowed
after Shavas took over. The only US company that was
allowed to directly drove for oil consistently in Venezuela was Chevron.
This became a fight about three or four months ago
in the Trump administration. You had people like rich Crenell,
you know, Rick Cornell, You had people like him versus

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Marco Rubio. Rick Cornell was saying, hey, President Trump, renew
the licenses. It's easy, quick access to oil. All we
have to do is pay the Venezuelan's off and they'll
look the other way while we mine for it, drove
for it. And Marco Rubio was saying, hey, that money
is directly feeding these organizations in Venezuela that are sending drugs,

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human traffickers, illicit arms, trendy iragua into the United States
through are broken southwestern border. We got to cut him off.
So there was a temporary cutoff about two months ago.
It was a big fight. Trump sided with Rubio and
many people, myself concluded, believe this was part of a
larger move to slowly build up a regime change operation.

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Don't forget also Venezuela's regime has allowed the Chinese, the Russians,
and even Iran into our hemisphere for the last twenty years.
And also Venezuela. If you deal with Venezuela, you take
care of that regime, then Trump has a clearer shot
at taking the Panama Canal zone, which is something that

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he has wanted to do. Venezuela is a complicating factor
in that mission as it's currently run. So that's the logic. Now.
I don't know if that's what we should be doing,
but that is the logic behind I think what Trump
is doing.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, Actually, we'll get to the Panama Canal thing in
a few moments. Can you elaborate more on Venezuela and
being a narco terrorist stake because they're never brought up
when it comes to cartels. People obviously not about Colombia
and they dang sure know about Mexico. What's Venezuela's vested
interest in in the YEO.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
So Venezuela has a state owned cartel. Members of the
Venezuelan Parliament, the current head of the Venezuelan Parliament, the
Vice President, probably Maduro himself, several key Venezuelan generals and
intelligence operator, leaders of the Venezuelan intelligence operation. They all

(22:25):
run excuse me, they all run Cartel of the Suns.
It's one of the largest cartels in the world and
it is completely state owned and backed, so it is
a state owned cartel. This is very different from Colombian cartels.
It's even different from how Mexico's cartels operate. In Venezuela,

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the regime and the cartel is one. And then of
course there's also trend de Aragua, which, as I said,
it's described as a prison gang in Venezuela that has
these sort of transnational ties. In fact, TREND is a
paramilitary force. I live in Florida. I deal a lot
with Venezuelan expats. All of them tell me TDA Trendy

(23:08):
Arragua is a paramilitary force that Maduro deploys to go
after things like Venezuelan political dissidents in America. So that's
what Venezuela is doing, and a lot of the Cartel
of the Sons actually does business and supports the Colombian cartels.
They do business and help out with certain Mexican cartels,

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all as part of this feeder program to get their
product and the human traffic up into the broken southwestern
border with the United States.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, now you mentioned China, you mentioned Russia. In what
way do they invite them into our hemisphere?

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Well, the Russians through the Wagner Group, which is their
big supposedly private military contracting group. It's it's actually an
arm of the Russian government though, and the Russian military
staffs it and Russian intelligence supports it. They have massive
contracts with Krakas. They provide a lot of the protection
for Venezuela's leaders. I suspect they provide protection and conduct

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operations on behalf of both the Venezuelan government and the
Cartel of the Suns. The Russians are allowed to base
nuclear capable Blackjack bombers in Venezuela. They have repeatedly landed
them there over the last decade. They're in fact talking
about sending these Shahad one thirty six Iranian made drones

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that the Russians use in Ukraine. The Russians are talking
about sending them over to Venezuela to fight the Americans.
The Chinese they have these massive contracts for access to
Venezuela's oil and rare earth minerals, and obviously they like
to destabilize America's leading role in the Western hemisphere. It's
also part of China's control of the Panama Canal as

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well as their major presence in the Caribbean Sea, which
is basically now a Chinese lake, and so Venezuela is
in the middle of all as the epicenter of all
of this, inviting the American enemies into our hemisphere to
undermine us that regime.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Is Brandon, do you have I didn't even get to
the frigging Panama Canal or Venezuela's military capability, And do
you have time for one more segment with me?

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Okay, we are going to come right back with Brandon
Wiker schooling us on Venezuela. Hang up, it is the
Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Monday. It's been a
medal of Honor Monday. Maybe you can email the show
Jesse at Jesse Kellyshow dot com. We still have Brandon
Wikert educating us on some things. When it comes to Venezuela,

(25:42):
apparently the Navy is heading down there, the Marines are
heading down there. Before we get to what's heading down there?
How are they militarily at some point in time, as
you said, they were one of the wealthiest countries in
the world. What kind of military are we dealing with here.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Well, it's pretty much a you know, conventional force wise,
it's not that impressive. I would argue even the hoofy
rebels of Yemen are probably more impressive with their anti
access area denial capabilities. The Venezuelans are late to the
party in terms of building up their own A two

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AB capacity. The Russians, like I said, are helping them
do that, but again it's late in the game. They
do have these maoist like militias that are you know,
the Bolivar and the you know militias which are like
the people's militias, and Maduro is claiming he's mobilizing four
point five million of these these militia men to fight

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Los Gringos. I'm very skeptical that he can mobilize that many.
And even if he can you know this, This kind
of reminds me of the fed Eyen in Iraq. They
really weren't that impressive at the end of the day.
Obviously a rock itself was a disaster, but actually knocking
out Saddam was pretty straightforward. I think the same thing

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is true of Maduro. I would just pose it. If
the Trump administration is playing its cards right, it needs
to remember it's not dealing with a jihadi type leadership
that wants to go meet their maker by fighting to
the death. They're dealing with basically a narco criminal gang
that just wants the biggest slice of the pie they

(27:26):
can get. If the Trump administration flexes its muscle with
these military maneuvers off of Venezuela's coast and signals to
some element of Maduro's government, we will leave you in
place as long as you hand over Maduro and let
us get the oil. I think that's the deal that

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some ambitious person or group working under Maduro might go for,
and it could be relatively bloodless, because you know, it
is a jungle war, even though I don't think they're
militarily on par with even say the WHO. These in
certain ways a jungle ground war. Could get very dicey,

(28:08):
especially because I mean numbers matter. Four point five million guys.
If they can get anywhere near that, that's going to
be a problem for us. But I think there's a
way we might be able to do this relatively bloodlessly.
I just hope the Trump administration is, you know, reaching
out to certain people in the in the regime who
might be willing to part ways with Maduro in exchange

(28:29):
for remaining in them remaining in power.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, jungle warfare freaking sucks. Okay, all right, let's go
to the Panama Canal, because you brought that up, and
I know Trump's been hot on that for a while.
What do we What do we have now as far
as that situation goes, and what do we want?

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Well, what we have now is basically the Chinese manage it.
They have the two largest ports, one on the mouth
of the Pacific side, one on the mouth of the
Atlantic side, and then they're building these My friend Michael Jahan,
who's an independent war reporter, he's been in Panama on
and off for the last two years. He's actually taken

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pictures and posted an on a sub stack of these
bridges the Chinese are building across the Panama Canal. So
the Chinese own major infrastructure. They have a huge footprint
in the Panama Canal zone. Now in peacetime, that's it
seems relatively you know, insignificant because ships are still going

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through and whatnot. But with the Chinese managing the two
sides of the Panama Canal and the locks of the
Panama Canal, the Chinese could easily sabotage them in the
event that a war between the United States and China
broke out, and that could seriously cripple our ability to
move naval forces and other assets from one side of

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the North the North America the Americas, you know, the
Atlantic side to the Pacific side, and vice versa, which
would complicate our ability to deploy forces, say to help
protect Taiwan from a possible Chinese invasion.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
So how do we handle that. We're not going to
go down and bomb Chinese ports, how do we get
to how do we handle that?

Speaker 4 (30:12):
So this was this, you know, this was what Trump
was talking about. He tried to leverage the trade war
with China to get them to basically sell off the
two properties, the big properties they have to Blackrock. I'm
setting you know, aside my distaste for black rock, it

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didn't go anywhere because ultimately China has figured out that
they have ninety percent of the world's rare earth mineral
supply under their control, and all they have to do
is whisper to Trump that we're going to cut you
off like they did in April, and Trump will give
them whatever they want, which is one of the reasons
why he's dropped his calls to reclaim the Panama Canal Zone.
Now I don't think he's abandoned this mission. I think

(30:56):
he's actually finding ways to basically completely so around the
Panama Canal Zone and then choke it off from Chinese control.
One of those ways would possibly be by taking Venezuela.
He possibly has Colombians now on his side, and we
could basically create a sort of encirclement of those two
Chinese ports in Panama and maybe squeeze them and if necessary,

(31:21):
take them. But I mean, we'll see, this is very dicey,
and as long as China has those rare earth minerals
under their belt, we're not going to do much to them.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Okay, finally, last question before I let you go, What
exactly do we have around Venezuela. Right now, as far
as our military goes, what do we have? What are
we sending?

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Okay, So the Ewajima Amphibious Assault Group, which is marines,
I believe they're underway. They'll be there shortly. I think
elements of that assault group are already there. That's about
forty five hundred marines and sailors. You've got three or
Hourly class Burke destroyer Arly bur Rather class destroyers. They've

(32:02):
got ninety six vertical launch system cells that can pop
off Tomahawk cruise missiles each Then I suspect I might
get you know this, this is a theory. I suspect
that we probably have a Virginia class nuclear powered attack
submarine operating off the coast that brings additional Tomahawk land

(32:23):
attack cruise missile capability and probably the ability to launch
special forces elements from that submarine. So we've got a
small flutilla there. And that's to say nothing of what
the Trump administration is talking about doing with the Mexican
drug cartels. So we are rapidly ramping up our force
presence in our hemisphere for the first time in decades.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
How about that? He is Brandon Wikert. I told you
to go buy his books. You'll get a whole lot smarter, Brandon.
Thank you, my brother, as always very much appreciated. Chris.
Do you know how badly I want to scuba dive
from a submarine? What? Chris?

Speaker 3 (33:07):
What?

Speaker 1 (33:07):
What are worried about the sonar? Why? I don't know him?
Who now, Chris? Why would I be worried about the sonar?
It's deafening. I'll wear earplugs, Chris, It's not a big deal.
I want to. I want to scuba dive from a
submarine so badly, and I don't know why. I don't

(33:29):
even want to be in a submarine because I get
kind of claustrophobic if my shoulders are touching the walls.
And those submarines are made for little bitty midgets, you know,
They're just not made for somebody like me. But I
would do it. If I could scuba dive from it,
it would be sweet.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
I've seen enough Navy Seal movies. I think I could
do it. What, Chris. They even have the little things
where I don't know what they call them, but the
little things that have the propeller where it basically swims
for you I don't have to keep up with the Seals.
I'll just get an extra one of those. I can
do it anyway. We got another hour hang on