US Navy Deploys near Venezuela

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

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said today that is making a lot of people on
the right angry about bringing in Chinese students, lots of them.
But you know what time it is, Oh, that's political.
We don't have time for that. Now. It's the start
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So we're gonna do too tonight. This guy says Jesse,
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
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of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Before you get to the two
to ten loop, bridge 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, I

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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 4 (02:34):
Did, hey, honoring those he went above and beyond, it's
Medal of Honor Monday.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
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 Shah 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
ran uphilled toward the mind, drawing a sheath knife as

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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 mine. As he reached for
the wire, the mine was detonated, killing him instantly. Five

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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 and
reflect great credit upon him himself, his unit in the

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US Army. And just to let you know, in case
you don't, a claymor mind is a terrifying thing. They are.
They're full of ball bearings. I have a little bit
of experience with them. And look when we trained with them,

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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 yourself in
front of one is awesome, man, awesome. Douglas Bernard Fournette.

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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 already used 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,

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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 guy says, so he was
Oh yeah, look at that. Born nineteen thirty accredited to Hawaii,
is what they say. It was. So without further ado, also, Army,
let's do the second Medal of Honor citation for an

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Anthony T. Ca ho Ohannohanno. And I'm sorry if I
screwed up the pronunciation on that, I'm stupid.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
I do that, hey, honoring those who went above and
beyond its Medal of Honor Monday.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life,
above and beyond the call of duty. Private First Class
Anthony T. Caho 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 the

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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 to

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execute a limited withdrawal. As the men fell back, Private
first class ca Ho 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 Caho gathered a supply of grenades and

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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. When

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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 to governed

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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 coho Ohanohanno's extraordinary heroism and selfless devotion
to duty are in keeping with the finest traditions of
military service and reflect great credit upon himself the seventh

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Infantry Division in the United States Army, and we will
play taps in honor of both of these gentlemen. To now,

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it's amazing how often those Korean War ones 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

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than you could kill, and they would send 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, Look into Korea.

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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 don't remember if

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it's a kid friendly or not. It could be. Chris said,
probably not, No, it could be. I don't remember. So kids,
ask mom and dad. It is the Jesse Kelly Show.
A wonderful, wonderful Monday. Just did 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.

(10:56):
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. 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.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Very important relationship.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
We're going to get along good with China.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
I use so many stories about we're not going to
allow their students.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
So now we're going to allow their students to come in.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
We're gonna allow it's very important, six hundred thousand students.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's very important.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
So we're gonna get along with it. 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 biggest corporate thieves

(11:53):
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 that's really bad. It's really bad. However,

(12:16):
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 Zolensky had to be like a stupid,
angry little troll, I'm not playing cards. That Everyone knows

(12:37):
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.
You can want it, you can scream that's wrong, but
you don't have it. All right, So let's have a

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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,
not nineteen ninety. That's a tiny, tiny example of how

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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
I have to make it extremely simple, China makes the stuff,
we buy the stuff. That's the terrible relationship we are in.

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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
used to tell me all the time, you can't wish
away where we currently are. We we don't have all
the cards. We have some cards. We have cards, There's

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no question about it. We have some cards. Look, I'm
gonna talk to Brandon Wykert next. I'm gonna flat 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

(14:32):
least that high'ma I'm gonna confirm it with Brandon Wickert
in a moment. What if it's seventy percent. Now 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

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your military need to keep running. You want your military
to be as modern as the next. 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

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that's suicidal and insane. I don't like it either, 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

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have a bunch of comedies up there in charge. Now,
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 so we

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can 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

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Mexican 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.
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 some things, as he
often does, joining me now, wonderful author National security man

(17:05):
Brandon Wikert, Hey, Brandon, why is the Navy going down
to Venezuela?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
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

(17:31):
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 (17:42):
Oh well, that always goes well, Okay, let's rewind quite
a bit, because I realize 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, squad, what's going on there?

Speaker 3 (18:03):
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.

(18:24):
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,
who took over. They have funded drug cartel operations. They're

(18:48):
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, run
by Venezuelan national Smart Mattic, may be involved in the

(19:10):
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 a Miami court. So there's
a lot of problems with Venezuela. We've had going back
several decades. Every president has talked about how much of
a problem it is. But because it's an oil producer,

(19:32):
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 (19:40):
Okay, So we are currently purchasing oil from Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
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 with Chevron.
This became a fight about three or four months ago
in the Trump administration. You had people like Rich Grenell,
you know, Rick Cornell, You had people like him versus

(20:09):
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. We
drove for it, and Marco Rubio was saying, hey, that
money is directly feeding these organizations in Venezuela that are
sending drugs, human traffickers, illicit arms, trendy iragua into the

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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 included, believe this was
part of a larger move to slowly build up a
regime change operation. Don't forget Also Venezuela's regime has allowed
the Chinese, the Russians, and even Iran into our hemice

(21:00):
fear 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 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

(21:21):
if that's what we should be doing, but that is
the logic behind I think what Trump is doing.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
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 know about Colombia
and they dang sure to know about Mexico. What's Venezuela's
vested interest in the YEO.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
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 leaders of the Venezuelan intelligence operation. They all run,

(22:11):
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,

(22:32):
the regime and the cartel is one. And then of
course there's also Trende Aragua, which, as I said, it's
described as a prison gang in Venezuela that has these
sort of transnational ties. In fact, Trende Aragua is a
paramilitary force. I live in Florida. I deal a lot
with Venezuelan expats. All of them tell me TDA Trende

(22:53):
Aragua is a paramilitary force that Maduro deploys to go
after things like Thennezuelan political dissidents in America. So that's
what Venezuela is doing. And a lot of the Cartel
of the Suns actually does business and supports the Colombian cartels.
They do business and help out with certain Mexican cartels,

(23:14):
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 (23:22):
Okay, now you mentioned China, you mentioned Russia. In what
way do they invite them into our hemisphere?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Well, the Russians through the Wagner Group, which is their big,
supposedly private military contracting group. 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 Caracas.
They provide a lot of the protection for Venezuela's leaders.

(23:50):
I suspect they provide protection and conduct operations on behalf
of both the Venezuelan government and the cartel of the Sons.
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

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one thirty six Iranian made drones 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 stabilize America's leading
role in the Western hemisphere. It's also part of China's

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control of the Panama Canal as 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 is the epicenter of all of this, inviting the
American enemies into our hemisphere to undermine us that regime.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Is Brandon, do you have I didn't even get to
the freaking Panama Canal or Venezuela's military capability. Do you
have time for one more segment with me?

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
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
Wickert educating us on some things when it comes to Venezuela.

(25:24):
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 3 (25:39):
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 AI to

(26:00):
AD 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

(26:24):
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 Fediyen in Iraq. They really
weren't that impressive at the end of the day. Obviously,
I Rock itself was a disaster, but actually knocking out
Saddam was was pretty straightforward. I think the same thing

(26:45):
is true of Maduro. I would just posit 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 the death.
They're dealing with basically a narco criminal gang that just
wants the biggest slice of the pie they can get.

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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 a deal that some ambitious

(27:28):
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, especially because

(27:50):
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 for
remaining in them remaining in power.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
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 3 (28:26):
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 Johan,
who's an independent war reporter, he's been in Panama on
and off for the last two years. He's actually taken

(28:46):
pictures and posted an on a substack 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 through

(29:09):
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 the North

(29:32):
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 (29:45):
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 3 (29:50):
So this was this, you know, this was what Trump
was talking about. He tried to leverage the trade war
with China, uh, get them to basically sell off the
two properties, the big properties they have to Blackrock. I'm
setting aside my distaste for black Rock. It didn't go

(30:12):
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 gonna 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 he's actually finding

(30:35):
ways to basically completely surround 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

(30:55):
Panama and maybe squeeze them and if necessary, bake them.
But I mean, well, 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 (31:07):
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 3 (31:18):
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 early Burke rather class destroyers. They've
got ninety six vertical launch system cells that can pop

(31:42):
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
attack CRU's missile capability and probably the ability to launch

(32:03):
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 we are rapidly ramping up
our force presence in our hemisphere for the first time
in decades.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
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? Why are you? What?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
What?

Speaker 1 (32:43):
What are worried about the sonar? Why? I don't know him?
Who now? 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.

(33:04):
I don't 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. Now 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

(33:25):
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.