March 11, 2025 • 36 mins
The logistics of waste in war. Marching around Sevastopol. A million-man mistake. Miscommunication on the battlefield. A ceasefire in Ukraine might be the beginning of the end of the war.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on
a magnificent Tuesday. I don't know how it could possibly
get any better. People with the Department of Education are
getting fired. This is amazing. And the reporting is not
only have they shut the building down, they've begun laying
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off half the employees. So that's all right. Now we'll
get to hopefully an update, a good a very good
update on the Ukraine stuff, some emails and things this hour.
But well, last night I started something and I need
to continue it now. Maybe you missed last night show.
I can't imagine that's the case, but if you did
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miss last night's show, at the start of the second hour,
I did Medal of Honor Monday, and then I started
into part one of telling a little history about the
Crimean War. I am not going to recap it for
you here because it took like forty five minutes to
get through everything I went through last night, So in
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order to catch you up in about thirty seconds to
a minute, here's what it is. It's the mid eighteen hundreds.
Russia is an autocratic empire. France and Britain hate each other,
but they decide to join forces and fight alongside Turkey
to keep Russia from taking over Key parts of Turkey period.
That's where we are, and the reason I'm telling this
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story in part is because this exact area, this exact
area is what everybody is fighting over today. In case
you thought there was anything new under the sun, and
the British slash French plan was form up a fleet
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with an army sail through the Dardenells. If you don't
know what the Dardennills are, you need to go look
them up. Just look up Istanbul and then look just
southwest of that. You'll see this strip of water. It's
a strip of water that connects the Black Sea to
the open Ocean. The plan is for the Brits and
the French to sail through that and sail up to
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a place still known as Sevastopol. You can look Sevastopol
up on a map the Black Sea. Think of it
like a circle. At the top of it, there's this
big chunk of land Crimea, and there's a city there, Sevastopol.
Why do the Brits in the French want to sail
to this Russian held place Their intention is to completely
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destroy the Russian port, so the Russians no longer have
a warm water fleet of any kind. The goal is destruction. Period.
Now you're all caught up, up and off they sail.
They sail down that way, they beach somewhere short of Sevastopol.
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What is the purpose of all this? Why would they
stop early? They weren't quite sure what the Russian army
was going to do yet are they gonna Are they
going to cross the Danube? What are they gonna do?
The Russians see this and they kind of back off.
But during this time the Brits get introduced to something that, look,
the whole world knows about now, but many times throughout
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history is neglected, the boring, boring thing called logistics. You see,
there are a lot of things, many things we do
not fully appreciate as Americans. Not because we're ugly Americans
are stupid or ungrateful any of those things. There are
things I don't appreciate fully as an American because being
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an American is all I've ever known. I've only ever
known America, and yes I've traveled other places, but the
way America does things has hardly ever talked about here.
Want you want the least sexy, to put it mildly,
the least sexy aspect of combat that is really really
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really really really important, like majorly important. What do you
do with all the waste? The human waste? Probably not
something that occurred to you, was it. You know, you
can watch a hundred movies Platoon and Braveheart and The Gladigator,
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and that's never addressed at all. That's weird. You could
even read a hundred books on this war, that war,
that battle, and rarely will you get an author to
sit and discuss at any length what to do with
human waste. Yet that is something. As soon as you
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you get into a situation where that is not done,
you will realize quickly you get a bunch of men
in one area without a solid plan to remove the
waste that comes out of them. Sickness, disease is coming,
and it is coming very very quickly. There has to
be a plan for that. I'll tell you another not
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sexy part of war, and this is remember this is
just before the Civil War. So these are the kind
of weapons we're talking about, Muskets and cannons and things
like that. Everyone wants to talk about bayonets and we're
going to get to bayonets today. Is really cool. Everyone's
to talking about bayonets and muskets and cannons. Yeah, well
that's the sexy stuff. How's your medical team? This is
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one of the things that really separated France in Britain
at the time. France had been fighting already for a
couple decades, Britain had not been. France had top notch
medical people, top notch medical people, top notch ambulance systems
for their troops in the field. This guy's wounded, we
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can save him, Get him on the ambulance, get him
this place. He needs soap and water, clean sheets. Britain
none of that. It was just like they were completely lost.
All They showed up with plenty of guns, plenty of troops,
plenty of cannons, plenty of bravery. They acquitted themselves very
well in this war, logistically not so much. They get
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to this area where the Russians aren't even and they
have this massive camp set up and cholera comes in, terrible,
terrible disease. Soon without a shot fired, they're losing a
sixth of their men before a shot has even been fired.
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That is the beginning of the horrible, long disaster that
is the Crimean War. Now we'll fast forward through that. Eventually,
they figure, okay, enough of this, it's time to get
back on the boats, and it's time to sail towards Sevastopol.
British Army, French army. They sail into the Black Sea
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and they sail towards Sevastopol. Here's a funny little historical
tidbit for you. I read and I cracked up when
I read it. It's just so funny. How wild sometimes
are the invading fleet that intended to take down Sevastopol.
And remember the Russians in Sevastopol know that that's what
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the fleet is coming to do. They were sailing towards it.
They couldn't land there, that this isn't a good place
for a big army to land there by it. But
they did sail by Sevastopol. The Russian troops on the
fort and the British and French troops on the boats
were saluting each other on the way. By just a
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totally different era, right hey, salute you. Wow the army,
this big army. They sail, They land a little ways
away and they begin to march towards Sevastopol. Now at
this point, the French, they are better troops than the British.
They just are because of experience. There's no substitute for
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experience when it comes to combat. Like I've said many times,
the French had been fighting, the Brits had not been.
And there's another part of this that is going to
come into play time and time again in the story here.
The French and the British hate each other. They just
freaking hate each other. Historically, if you know anything about
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that continent, they have been at each other's throats at
various times throughout history, really since the history of both
of them. They're just two countries that don't get along.
The French and the English are always fighting. Now they've
joined forces now, but they're always fighting. And during its conflict.
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I mentioned it yesterday. I didn't actually mention his name,
but I mentioned yesterday. Ragland is his name, in case
you're interested. But the big Cheese for the British Army.
He happens to be missing an arm, his right arm,
if I remember right, he's missing an arm. Weird, how
did you lose that arm? Mister Ragland? He lost that
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arm fighting the French at Waterloo. That's how deep the
hatred runs here with each other. They land and it
is time to launch their first attack on the Russians,
and they are in a bad, bad spot right off
the bat you see there down below, the Russians are
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kind of on top on this ridge line. So they
have to figure out what they're going to do about that.
And the plan is this, Let's have the French scale
the cliffs and flank the Russians. So the Brits will
charge up the hill, the French will flank and they'll
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tear the Russians up. This all works out, and they
have a terrible, terrible battle with muskets and bayonets and
cannons and all kinds of people die. But eventually the
Russians are forced to flee the field and they're decimated.
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And now the road to Sevastopol is wide open in
front of the French and the British. They can go
do what they wanted to do. Ew But let's talk
about that next Jesse Kelly. It is the Jesse Kelly
Show on a Wonderful Tuesday. We're gonna get back to
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the politics, probably in ten minutes or now, maybe twenty
minutes from now. We're continuing on our Crimean War. This
is part two to Night of the Crimean War History. Remember,
you can email the show love Hey, death threats, whatever
else you'd like. Email those into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow
dot com. The French, the British they joined together. They
fight against this Russian army right outside of Sevastopol, and
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they devastate the Russian army and now laid bear in
front of them is the undefended city of Sevastopol, the
city they sailed pretty much across all the way around
Europe to get to and into the Black Sea. They
just fought a brutal battle with bayonets, muskets and cannons.
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They defeated the Russian army and there is the city
waiting for them. And then then it's hard to explain
how disastros this decision turned out to be for so
many people. The Allies, I'm just going to refer to
them as the Allies, the British and the French. They
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decide they're not going to march into Sevastopol. They decide
they're going to march around it so they can attack
it from the opposite side once they get back to
the coast and hang out near their ships. This is
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not a decision that is celebrated amongst the elites, the
generals in the British Army. The Big Cheese wants to
do it. The others are screaming at him because and
remember you can look at pictures of this. There are pictures,
not a bunch and not great ones, but there are
pictures of the Crimean War. The generals in the British
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Army are screaming at their commander, Sir, look at them.
I'm looking at the town. There are no defenses, there
are no troops. We could walk into the town now,
Sir please, it's empty, The streets are empty. It's nothing
but a bunch of frantic civilians. Sir, please march in now.
But he will not do it, and his defense was, no,
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I don't want to start any kind of an attack
unless I have my boats, which are where all my
supplies are right behind me. So I don't want to
attack from the north. I will only attack from the south.
He marches around Sebastapol instead of going in. Then then
he waits. Then he waits while the big guns are
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brought up while everything is dug in, And what do
you think the Russians are doing during all this waiting.
They're digging defenses, they're bringing in guns. The Russian navy
at this point in time knew they couldn't hang with
the British Navy and the French navy. The French navy
was there too. The Russian navy. You know what they did.
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They sunk themselves. They sunk themselves in strategic places around
the area to prevent British and French ships from getting
into places. And then the sailors on these Russian ships
took over the defense of Sevastopol. The delay in taking
back Sevastopol probably cost a million lives, one of those
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strategic decisions in the history of warfare that probably cost
a million lives. And if you were the commander, one
of the guys who made that call, if you have
any conscience at all, you probably went to bed many
many nights for the rest of your life, dwelling on
the fact that you cost a lot of people their lives. Anyway,
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so they dig in, the trenches start digging in on
both sides. The Crimean war was actually studied, not only
by the guys who fought the Civil War. About ten
years after this, it was studied by guys who fought
World War One. Why because trench warfare has finally decided
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to visit us. Pause, let's deci us. Why Remember how
many times BKA has come on here and talked about
the war in Ukraine and we were talking about what
are the advances, what's changed in warfare versus what we know?
And what is the thing? BK cameras on over and
over and over and over and over again. He's not
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the only one. Every super spook military guy I know
speaks like this. Drones, drones, drone technology has just changed warfare.
It is a new offensive weapon that has changed warfare.
With one cheap little drone and a little explosive, you
can take out a tank. Now what can you do
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with an advanced drone? What about a drone that flies
two hundred miles an hour? What if you had a
drone drone swarm of a thousand of them with explosives
on them that travel to hundred Now you've seen what
it can be. There is now an offensive weapon. Do
you don't want to know why the Russian lines in
Ukrainian lines rarely move in the current war Russia Ukraine
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because there is not, as of right now, an effective
counter to the offensive weapon. And when there's not an
effective counter to an offensive weapon, what do you do?
Human beings always do it. You saw it in World
War One and now you see it in the Crimean War.
If there's a weapon you cannot counter, you dig down,
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because digging a hole a trench is the only chance
you have to stay alive. If you don't have any
way to counter a drone, all you can do is
dig a trench, get something over your head that will
prevent it from seeing you, and pray when that buzzing
sound comes that it buzzes right by you. Well, here
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in the Crimean War, there are advancements in warfare that
won't sound that don't sound huge to us now because
of how far removed we are from this conflict. But
if you actually think about it, they get a lot more,
a lot more ugly, and trench warfare becomes a lot
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more understandable. We'll continue that at least one more segment
of this in a moment. Hang on, catchup Jesse kellyshow
dot com. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a
wonderful Tuesday. We'll get to the Ukraine stuff, the USA
stuff here in a minute. I'm gonna wrap up part
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two of the Crimean War. Here. I already said where
we are in the story. They defeated the Russian army.
They could have walked into Sevastopol, they chose not to. Instead,
they delayed, They walked around the city. Now the Russian trenches,
trenches are getting deeper, the British trenches are getting deeper,
the French trenches are getting deeper, Fortifications getting thicker, big
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guns being brought up, reinforcements brought in. It all at
all is pretty much a horrible situation. And oh did
I mention the British and French hate each other. Yeah,
they hardly communicate even though they're fighting on the same side.
In fact, there are two lines, there are two camps,
if you will. They're in separate areas. The French areas
over here, the British areas over here. So they're working
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together but not really working together. It's a big old
freaking mess. Now now comes one of one of the parts. Well, actually,
there's a couple parts of this story that I should
drop in on you here, so I think it might
maybe help you make a connection with something. What's the
name of the most famous nurse you can think of historically, anybody,
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famous nurse anything. Florence Nightingale. She's on most people's lists,
Florence Nightingale. Did Corey guess right?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Chris guests right, yeah, right? Anyway, Florence Nightingale. Why do
we know that name? Because Florence Nightingale was British and
Florence Nightingale began to get the reports back at home
of how disgusting and horrible the medical conditions were, and
so she stepped in here, which we'll get to that
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in a little bit. Another name you probably know, or
at least the name of a book. Ever heard of
the book? Warren Piece? Ed? Chris rolled his eyes. Everyone's
heard of Warren Piece? Who wrote that book? Tolstoy? Where
would Tolstoy ever learn about Warren Peace? Tolstoy was a
Russian in Sevastopol during all this, That's where Tolstoy learned
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all that. So there's a couple of little Crimean war tidbits. Anyway,
Now time for probably the most famous moment of this
entire war. The Russians, they decide they're not going to
sit inside of the city forever. They want to go
out and they want to bust up the British lines
and maybe steal some of their guns. So they counterattack.
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They try to cut through the British lines. They do
successfully run off a lot of the Turks. The Turks
actually put up a very heroic defense here, but it's
a fading empire. They didn't have the people for it,
and the Russians do start stealing some of the guns.
Now comes a moment of an all time miscommunication moment
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that turned out to be horrific slash heroic. I guess
it depends on whether or not you're one of the
people who got hit by a cannon ball. The British
had this elite unit known as the Light Brigade. The
Light Brigade is what they were known as. It was
a cavalry unit. They're all on horseback talking straight up
old school sabers and the works, the Big Cheese, and
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the Light Brigade gets a note that says, hey, gosh,
go get those guns. I'm paraphrasing, but that's what it says. Now.
The note was not referencing the gigantic rush line of
cannon that were aimed at the light brigade. At the moment,
the note was not saying charge the cannon line. The
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note was in reference to the guns over the hill
that the Russians were currently stealing. Hey, Light Brigade, ride
your horses down there and stop them from stealing the guns.
That's what the note was meant to say. But when
you paraphrase things, things can be misinterpreted. The head of
the light brigade interpreted this note as an order for
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him to form up his six hundred about six hundred
and thirty two, if I remember right, six hundred and
thirty two members of the light brigade against a wall
of Russian cannon and charge. Now I mentioned the advances
in warfare, and I delayed mentioning it until now. Canon
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is not new. Napoleon used cannon. Cannons weren't new, but
cannons had advanced in such a significant way. In fact,
one of the parts of this battle of this war
I didn't even go into, was at the very beginning
of it, the Russian navy incinerated a huge portion of
the Turkish navy because they had something the Turks hadn't
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seen exploding cannon balls. You may think that's just something
that always happened. Everyone's cannon balls exploded. No, no, no, no, no, no,
lots of times. It was just a solid metal ball.
But technology being what it is, guns, heavy guns, cannons, mortars,
they had advanced past what normal people were used to
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facing on the battlefield. I actually personally witnessed when I
was in France. I witnessed a piece of armor. You
can go look it up to this day. If you
like it's fascinating, you look it up online. If you're
not traveling where one of Napoleon's guys. He was wearing
an all metal I forget what it was, copper maybe
I don't remember what it was, an all metal breastplate,
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an all metal breastplate, and you can see there's a
gigantic cannon ball hole through it where he obviously died
pretty much instantly. A cannon ball hit him in the breastplate,
went right through it, and it's on display to the state.
It's famous. The guy was hey wrote, charged dead. So
that's how cannon balls used to operate in this era.
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They do more devastating things and the six hundred men
of the Light Brigade pulled out their sabers like warriors
and did as they were told and charged a line
of cannon Like I said. You can call it stupidity,
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you can call it heroism. I don't know what you
want to call it, but I know if you're on
a horse with a saber in your hand, charging a
line of cannon, you are made of tougher stuff than
I am. Brits certainly don't have anything to be ashamed of.
It's a famous, famous charge for a reason. The Russians
were obviously a bit taken aback by these psychos charging
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them on a horse, started firing away and blowing them away.
The Brits managed to get clear into the Russian lines,
where they started hacking off Russian heads and arms. I
told you, this thing gets real, real ugly. I haven't
even gotten to some of the worst of it yet.
They then blow through the Russian gun line and head
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back towards the Russian cavalry and start fighting with them.
Soon they're very clearly overmatched and they're about to be annihilated.
The French recognize this charge in and the Light Brigade
has to charge back through the Russian lines of cannon
they had just fought through initially, and they are butchered
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during this entire process. Brave, ridiculously brave, yes, but still butchery. Nonetheless,
by the end of the day, six hundred and thirty
men charged the light brigade had depending on which accounting
you read, about two hundred and fifty men left. Now,
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the charge was not all for not. I don't want
to act like it was. Yes, there are Brits dead, wounded,
taken prisoner. It was an ugly, ugly affair. But that
level of fanatical bravery, at least in the eyes of
the Russians, did impact the Russians to such a degree
that they never again marched their cavalry out for a
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battle with the Brits. They thought to themselves, these guys
are nutballs, and they're pretty good on a horse. I
think we'll just go ahead and stay back with the
cavalry inside the city. And that brings us to tomorrow,
meaning I will get to it tomorrow, and I will
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finish it tomorrow. Start of the second hour, I'll finish
it tomorrow. And yeah, it definitely involves troops emerging through
the fog fifteen feet away with bayonets attached that kind
of thing. Yeah, crime in war, underrated war. All right,
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good happen today, Hang on, Jesse. Kelly returns next it
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is music to my years.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Today we've made an offer that the Duke.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Is Secretary of State Marco Rubial.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Today we've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted,
which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate
negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring
and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their
ability to prosper as a nation. Now, hopefully we'll take
this offer and out of the Russians, and we hope
that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace.
The ball is now in their court. But again, the
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President's objective here is number one above everything else. He
wants the war to end. And I think today Ukraine
has taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope
the Russians will reciprocate.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now, this is a wonderful thing, so we should celebrate that,
celebrate when wonderful things happen. Right, things are far from over.
How many times have you seen a conflict followed a
conflict and you saw there was a ceasefire and then
the ceasefire gets broken. And we've talked about this before.
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I just want to talk about it again. Why would
Russia reject it? Well, here's an example. Actually, this is
a perfect example. Remember when Ukraine they pushed into Russia.
It was a counter offensive. It's a common move in
war when you're being invaded, you invade them to try
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to get their guys to pull back. They feel like
they have to play defense. So Ukraine did that with Russia.
And then we've gotten word recently, and you never know
exactly what the total truth is on the ground, So
take this with a grain of salt. But I've seen
it from several reliable sources that the Ukraine offensive not
only is really it's not moving forward anymore, but the
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Russians are cutting them off from the rest of Ukraine.
Now that is disaster. If you are a unit and
you are completely surrounded by another unit, especially especially in
an artis hillary war, You're just gonna get pounded to mincemeat.
They're gonna surround you, they're going to line up their guns,
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point them all to the inner part of the circle,
and you're all going to die, or you have to surrender,
which surrendering to the Russians when you're Ukrainian probably doesn't
end all that well. Anyway, the Russians aren't historically the
people you generally want to surrender to. Okay, so why
would this ceasefire fail? Well, again, I don't know that
it will. I hope it will succeed. What if you're Russia,
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What if you have a couple divisions of Ukrainians you
just finally cut them off, or you're about to cut
them off, and you're about to annihilate a significant chunk
of the enemy force. Now Trump brings this ceasefire agreement
to you, even if you want the war to end,
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if you're Russia, do you accept that ceasefire? It's a
thirty day ceasefire. What happens to the surrounded Ukrainian troops
if you just if you agree to a thirty day ceasefire, well,
they're going to use that thirty days to find a
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way to scurry back home. And what happens at the
end of the thirty day ceasefire If an agreement isn't reached,
then you've just allowed two divisions of your enemy to
escape back home and they're not in the mousetrap for
you to annihilate anymore. That was one example of I
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just wanted. I wanted to let you know that this
journey has all kinds of danger in it, but the
journey doesn't start without what happened today. Today the word
is Ukraine. Zelensky sent a letter of apology to Donald
Trump for what happened in the White House, and he
should have that was a no brainer move. Should have apologized.
He did that apparently got the ball rolling forward again.
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Apparently Zelenski got ahold of all his new best friends
in Europe who've been running their mouths a lot about
we've got your back, we'll always protect you. And apparently
apparently the rubber didn't kind of meet the road with Europe.
They made a lot of noise, it sounded really great,
but the troops, the money, the planes that didn't end
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up showing up. So Ukraine felt like they had no
other choice. Let's sign a ceasefire. Let's try to get
out of this deal. Let's hope the Russians and who
can ever trust the freaking Russians, But let's hope the
Russians decide they've got what they want. A good deal
for them is on the table. Let's hope they agreed
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to a ceasefire, which means men stop dying, which is
the ultimate goal should be. And then people have to
sit down at the table and figure out who gets what.
And when I say figure out who gets what, let's
be honest to figure out how much of the territory
Russian took we're going to allow them to keep. And
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being as how possession is nine tenths of the law,
as the saying goes, Russia is gonna feel entitled to
keep most of it. And you know what's wild is
that history story I just told you. It's all this area.
That's why I chose to do the Crimean war. It's
all this area. And you know what else is wild?
Ukraine was ready to sign a peace deal in twenty
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twenty two, and guess who stopped it? The prints the
printz once again, the Pritz just can't see im to
stay out of here. Boris Johnson and the Prince stepped
in and said, no fight on at all cost. Charge
that charge that cannon line anyway. But that's what's going
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on now. And no matter who you are, what you're
rooting for, it is a good thing. One and a
half million men dead. That surpasses all of the people
we've lost in every war we've ever fought as a country,
from the beginning to right now. One and a half
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million men dead. That is so insanely sad. And this
part of the country, man, Look, we just told you
a story from the eighteen fifties. Here we are in
twenty twenty five, and men are still dying in droves
in this area. Man, those if those fields could talk, right,
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if that area could talk, how much blood has been
soaked into that horrible, horrible soil over there. Remember it's
Stalin's starvation, the Helloa more. It's just how much suffering
and pain can one region go through? I don't I
don't know. Remember I've said before that I really think
countries like Haiti or Cursed You had a successful slave
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rebellion and things are like worse now than they were before.
It's just a horrible place. Maybe this area is cursed too,
I don't know. But anyway, that's a good thing. Let's
talk about USA. Do some emails, still paying for DEI training,
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This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on
a magnificent Tuesday. I don't know how it could possibly
get any better. People with the Department of Education are
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only have they shut the building down, they've begun laying
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off half the employees. So that's all right. Now we'll
get to hopefully an update, a good a very good
update on the Ukraine stuff, some emails and things this hour.
But well, last night I started something and I need
to continue it now. Maybe you missed last night show.
I can't imagine that's the case, but if you did
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miss last night's show, at the start of the second hour,
I did Medal of Honor Monday, and then I started
into part one of telling a little history about the
Crimean War. I am not going to recap it for
you here because it took like forty five minutes to
get through everything I went through last night, So in
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order to catch you up in about thirty seconds to
a minute, here's what it is. It's the mid eighteen hundreds.
Russia is an autocratic empire. France and Britain hate each other,
but they decide to join forces and fight alongside Turkey
to keep Russia from taking over Key parts of Turkey period.
That's where we are, and the reason I'm telling this
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story in part is because this exact area, this exact
area is what everybody is fighting over today. In case
you thought there was anything new under the sun, and
the British slash French plan was form up a fleet
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with an army sail through the Dardenells. If you don't
know what the Dardennills are, you need to go look
them up. Just look up Istanbul and then look just
southwest of that. You'll see this strip of water. It's
a strip of water that connects the Black Sea to
the open Ocean. The plan is for the Brits and
the French to sail through that and sail up to
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a place still known as Sevastopol. You can look Sevastopol
up on a map the Black Sea. Think of it
like a circle. At the top of it, there's this
big chunk of land Crimea, and there's a city there, Sevastopol.
Why do the Brits in the French want to sail
to this Russian held place Their intention is to completely
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destroy the Russian port, so the Russians no longer have
a warm water fleet of any kind. The goal is destruction. Period.
Now you're all caught up, up and off they sail.
They sail down that way, they beach somewhere short of Sevastopol.
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What is the purpose of all this? Why would they
stop early? They weren't quite sure what the Russian army
was going to do yet are they gonna Are they
going to cross the Danube? What are they gonna do?
The Russians see this and they kind of back off.
But during this time the Brits get introduced to something that, look,
the whole world knows about now, but many times throughout
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history is neglected, the boring, boring thing called logistics. You see,
there are a lot of things, many things we do
not fully appreciate as Americans. Not because we're ugly Americans
are stupid or ungrateful any of those things. There are
things I don't appreciate fully as an American because being
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an American is all I've ever known. I've only ever
known America, and yes I've traveled other places, but the
way America does things has hardly ever talked about here.
Want you want the least sexy, to put it mildly,
the least sexy aspect of combat that is really really
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really really really important, like majorly important. What do you
do with all the waste? The human waste? Probably not
something that occurred to you, was it. You know, you
can watch a hundred movies Platoon and Braveheart and The Gladigator,
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and that's never addressed at all. That's weird. You could
even read a hundred books on this war, that war,
that battle, and rarely will you get an author to
sit and discuss at any length what to do with
human waste. Yet that is something. As soon as you
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you get into a situation where that is not done,
you will realize quickly you get a bunch of men
in one area without a solid plan to remove the
waste that comes out of them. Sickness, disease is coming,
and it is coming very very quickly. There has to
be a plan for that. I'll tell you another not
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sexy part of war, and this is remember this is
just before the Civil War. So these are the kind
of weapons we're talking about, Muskets and cannons and things
like that. Everyone wants to talk about bayonets and we're
going to get to bayonets today. Is really cool. Everyone's
to talking about bayonets and muskets and cannons. Yeah, well
that's the sexy stuff. How's your medical team? This is
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one of the things that really separated France in Britain
at the time. France had been fighting already for a
couple decades, Britain had not been. France had top notch
medical people, top notch medical people, top notch ambulance systems
for their troops in the field. This guy's wounded, we
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can save him, Get him on the ambulance, get him
this place. He needs soap and water, clean sheets. Britain
none of that. It was just like they were completely lost.
All They showed up with plenty of guns, plenty of troops,
plenty of cannons, plenty of bravery. They acquitted themselves very
well in this war, logistically not so much. They get
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to this area where the Russians aren't even and they
have this massive camp set up and cholera comes in, terrible,
terrible disease. Soon without a shot fired, they're losing a
sixth of their men before a shot has even been fired.
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That is the beginning of the horrible, long disaster that
is the Crimean War. Now we'll fast forward through that. Eventually,
they figure, okay, enough of this, it's time to get
back on the boats, and it's time to sail towards Sevastopol.
British Army, French army. They sail into the Black Sea
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and they sail towards Sevastopol. Here's a funny little historical
tidbit for you. I read and I cracked up when
I read it. It's just so funny. How wild sometimes
are the invading fleet that intended to take down Sevastopol.
And remember the Russians in Sevastopol know that that's what
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the fleet is coming to do. They were sailing towards it.
They couldn't land there, that this isn't a good place
for a big army to land there by it. But
they did sail by Sevastopol. The Russian troops on the
fort and the British and French troops on the boats
were saluting each other on the way. By just a
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totally different era, right hey, salute you. Wow the army,
this big army. They sail, They land a little ways
away and they begin to march towards Sevastopol. Now at
this point, the French, they are better troops than the British.
They just are because of experience. There's no substitute for
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experience when it comes to combat. Like I've said many times,
the French had been fighting, the Brits had not been.
And there's another part of this that is going to
come into play time and time again in the story here.
The French and the British hate each other. They just
freaking hate each other. Historically, if you know anything about
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that continent, they have been at each other's throats at
various times throughout history, really since the history of both
of them. They're just two countries that don't get along.
The French and the English are always fighting. Now they've
joined forces now, but they're always fighting. And during its conflict.
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I mentioned it yesterday. I didn't actually mention his name,
but I mentioned yesterday. Ragland is his name, in case
you're interested. But the big Cheese for the British Army.
He happens to be missing an arm, his right arm,
if I remember right, he's missing an arm. Weird, how
did you lose that arm? Mister Ragland? He lost that
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arm fighting the French at Waterloo. That's how deep the
hatred runs here with each other. They land and it
is time to launch their first attack on the Russians,
and they are in a bad, bad spot right off
the bat you see there down below, the Russians are
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kind of on top on this ridge line. So they
have to figure out what they're going to do about that.
And the plan is this, Let's have the French scale
the cliffs and flank the Russians. So the Brits will
charge up the hill, the French will flank and they'll
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tear the Russians up. This all works out, and they
have a terrible, terrible battle with muskets and bayonets and
cannons and all kinds of people die. But eventually the
Russians are forced to flee the field and they're decimated.
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And now the road to Sevastopol is wide open in
front of the French and the British. They can go
do what they wanted to do. Ew But let's talk
about that next Jesse Kelly. It is the Jesse Kelly
Show on a Wonderful Tuesday. We're gonna get back to
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the politics, probably in ten minutes or now, maybe twenty
minutes from now. We're continuing on our Crimean War. This
is part two to Night of the Crimean War History. Remember,
you can email the show love Hey, death threats, whatever
else you'd like. Email those into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow
dot com. The French, the British they joined together. They
fight against this Russian army right outside of Sevastopol, and
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they devastate the Russian army and now laid bear in
front of them is the undefended city of Sevastopol, the
city they sailed pretty much across all the way around
Europe to get to and into the Black Sea. They
just fought a brutal battle with bayonets, muskets and cannons.
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They defeated the Russian army and there is the city
waiting for them. And then then it's hard to explain
how disastros this decision turned out to be for so
many people. The Allies, I'm just going to refer to
them as the Allies, the British and the French. They
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decide they're not going to march into Sevastopol. They decide
they're going to march around it so they can attack
it from the opposite side once they get back to
the coast and hang out near their ships. This is
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not a decision that is celebrated amongst the elites, the
generals in the British Army. The Big Cheese wants to
do it. The others are screaming at him because and
remember you can look at pictures of this. There are pictures,
not a bunch and not great ones, but there are
pictures of the Crimean War. The generals in the British
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Army are screaming at their commander, Sir, look at them.
I'm looking at the town. There are no defenses, there
are no troops. We could walk into the town now,
Sir please, it's empty, The streets are empty. It's nothing
but a bunch of frantic civilians. Sir, please march in now.
But he will not do it, and his defense was, no,
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I don't want to start any kind of an attack
unless I have my boats, which are where all my
supplies are right behind me. So I don't want to
attack from the north. I will only attack from the south.
He marches around Sebastapol instead of going in. Then then
he waits. Then he waits while the big guns are
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brought up while everything is dug in, And what do
you think the Russians are doing during all this waiting.
They're digging defenses, they're bringing in guns. The Russian navy
at this point in time knew they couldn't hang with
the British Navy and the French navy. The French navy
was there too. The Russian navy. You know what they did.
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They sunk themselves. They sunk themselves in strategic places around
the area to prevent British and French ships from getting
into places. And then the sailors on these Russian ships
took over the defense of Sevastopol. The delay in taking
back Sevastopol probably cost a million lives, one of those
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strategic decisions in the history of warfare that probably cost
a million lives. And if you were the commander, one
of the guys who made that call, if you have
any conscience at all, you probably went to bed many
many nights for the rest of your life, dwelling on
the fact that you cost a lot of people their lives. Anyway,
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so they dig in, the trenches start digging in on
both sides. The Crimean war was actually studied, not only
by the guys who fought the Civil War. About ten
years after this, it was studied by guys who fought
World War One. Why because trench warfare has finally decided
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to visit us. Pause, let's deci us. Why Remember how
many times BKA has come on here and talked about
the war in Ukraine and we were talking about what
are the advances, what's changed in warfare versus what we know?
And what is the thing? BK cameras on over and
over and over and over and over again. He's not
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the only one. Every super spook military guy I know
speaks like this. Drones, drones, drone technology has just changed warfare.
It is a new offensive weapon that has changed warfare.
With one cheap little drone and a little explosive, you
can take out a tank. Now what can you do
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with an advanced drone? What about a drone that flies
two hundred miles an hour? What if you had a
drone drone swarm of a thousand of them with explosives
on them that travel to hundred Now you've seen what
it can be. There is now an offensive weapon. Do
you don't want to know why the Russian lines in
Ukrainian lines rarely move in the current war Russia Ukraine
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because there is not, as of right now, an effective
counter to the offensive weapon. And when there's not an
effective counter to an offensive weapon, what do you do?
Human beings always do it. You saw it in World
War One and now you see it in the Crimean War.
If there's a weapon you cannot counter, you dig down,
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because digging a hole a trench is the only chance
you have to stay alive. If you don't have any
way to counter a drone, all you can do is
dig a trench, get something over your head that will
prevent it from seeing you, and pray when that buzzing
sound comes that it buzzes right by you. Well, here
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in the Crimean War, there are advancements in warfare that
won't sound that don't sound huge to us now because
of how far removed we are from this conflict. But
if you actually think about it, they get a lot more,
a lot more ugly, and trench warfare becomes a lot
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more understandable. We'll continue that at least one more segment
of this in a moment. Hang on, catchup Jesse kellyshow
dot com. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a
wonderful Tuesday. We'll get to the Ukraine stuff, the USA
stuff here in a minute. I'm gonna wrap up part
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two of the Crimean War. Here. I already said where
we are in the story. They defeated the Russian army.
They could have walked into Sevastopol, they chose not to. Instead,
they delayed, They walked around the city. Now the Russian trenches,
trenches are getting deeper, the British trenches are getting deeper,
the French trenches are getting deeper, Fortifications getting thicker, big
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guns being brought up, reinforcements brought in. It all at
all is pretty much a horrible situation. And oh did
I mention the British and French hate each other. Yeah,
they hardly communicate even though they're fighting on the same side.
In fact, there are two lines, there are two camps,
if you will. They're in separate areas. The French areas
over here, the British areas over here. So they're working
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together but not really working together. It's a big old
freaking mess. Now now comes one of one of the parts. Well, actually,
there's a couple parts of this story that I should
drop in on you here, so I think it might
maybe help you make a connection with something. What's the
name of the most famous nurse you can think of historically, anybody,
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famous nurse anything. Florence Nightingale. She's on most people's lists,
Florence Nightingale. Did Corey guess right?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Chris guests right, yeah, right? Anyway, Florence Nightingale. Why do
we know that name? Because Florence Nightingale was British and
Florence Nightingale began to get the reports back at home
of how disgusting and horrible the medical conditions were, and
so she stepped in here, which we'll get to that
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in a little bit. Another name you probably know, or
at least the name of a book. Ever heard of
the book? Warren Piece? Ed? Chris rolled his eyes. Everyone's
heard of Warren Piece? Who wrote that book? Tolstoy? Where
would Tolstoy ever learn about Warren Peace? Tolstoy was a
Russian in Sevastopol during all this, That's where Tolstoy learned
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all that. So there's a couple of little Crimean war tidbits. Anyway,
Now time for probably the most famous moment of this
entire war. The Russians, they decide they're not going to
sit inside of the city forever. They want to go
out and they want to bust up the British lines
and maybe steal some of their guns. So they counterattack.
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They try to cut through the British lines. They do
successfully run off a lot of the Turks. The Turks
actually put up a very heroic defense here, but it's
a fading empire. They didn't have the people for it,
and the Russians do start stealing some of the guns.
Now comes a moment of an all time miscommunication moment
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that turned out to be horrific slash heroic. I guess
it depends on whether or not you're one of the
people who got hit by a cannon ball. The British
had this elite unit known as the Light Brigade. The
Light Brigade is what they were known as. It was
a cavalry unit. They're all on horseback talking straight up
old school sabers and the works, the Big Cheese, and
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the Light Brigade gets a note that says, hey, gosh,
go get those guns. I'm paraphrasing, but that's what it says. Now.
The note was not referencing the gigantic rush line of
cannon that were aimed at the light brigade. At the moment,
the note was not saying charge the cannon line. The
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note was in reference to the guns over the hill
that the Russians were currently stealing. Hey, Light Brigade, ride
your horses down there and stop them from stealing the guns.
That's what the note was meant to say. But when
you paraphrase things, things can be misinterpreted. The head of
the light brigade interpreted this note as an order for
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him to form up his six hundred about six hundred
and thirty two, if I remember right, six hundred and
thirty two members of the light brigade against a wall
of Russian cannon and charge. Now I mentioned the advances
in warfare, and I delayed mentioning it until now. Canon
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is not new. Napoleon used cannon. Cannons weren't new, but
cannons had advanced in such a significant way. In fact,
one of the parts of this battle of this war
I didn't even go into, was at the very beginning
of it, the Russian navy incinerated a huge portion of
the Turkish navy because they had something the Turks hadn't
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seen exploding cannon balls. You may think that's just something
that always happened. Everyone's cannon balls exploded. No, no, no, no, no, no,
lots of times. It was just a solid metal ball.
But technology being what it is, guns, heavy guns, cannons, mortars,
they had advanced past what normal people were used to
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facing on the battlefield. I actually personally witnessed when I
was in France. I witnessed a piece of armor. You
can go look it up to this day. If you
like it's fascinating, you look it up online. If you're
not traveling where one of Napoleon's guys. He was wearing
an all metal I forget what it was, copper maybe
I don't remember what it was, an all metal breastplate,
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an all metal breastplate, and you can see there's a
gigantic cannon ball hole through it where he obviously died
pretty much instantly. A cannon ball hit him in the breastplate,
went right through it, and it's on display to the state.
It's famous. The guy was hey wrote, charged dead. So
that's how cannon balls used to operate in this era.
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They do more devastating things and the six hundred men
of the Light Brigade pulled out their sabers like warriors
and did as they were told and charged a line
of cannon Like I said. You can call it stupidity,
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you can call it heroism. I don't know what you
want to call it, but I know if you're on
a horse with a saber in your hand, charging a
line of cannon, you are made of tougher stuff than
I am. Brits certainly don't have anything to be ashamed of.
It's a famous, famous charge for a reason. The Russians
were obviously a bit taken aback by these psychos charging
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them on a horse, started firing away and blowing them away.
The Brits managed to get clear into the Russian lines,
where they started hacking off Russian heads and arms. I
told you, this thing gets real, real ugly. I haven't
even gotten to some of the worst of it yet.
They then blow through the Russian gun line and head
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back towards the Russian cavalry and start fighting with them.
Soon they're very clearly overmatched and they're about to be annihilated.
The French recognize this charge in and the Light Brigade
has to charge back through the Russian lines of cannon
they had just fought through initially, and they are butchered
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during this entire process. Brave, ridiculously brave, yes, but still butchery. Nonetheless,
by the end of the day, six hundred and thirty
men charged the light brigade had depending on which accounting
you read, about two hundred and fifty men left. Now,
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the charge was not all for not. I don't want
to act like it was. Yes, there are Brits dead, wounded,
taken prisoner. It was an ugly, ugly affair. But that
level of fanatical bravery, at least in the eyes of
the Russians, did impact the Russians to such a degree
that they never again marched their cavalry out for a
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battle with the Brits. They thought to themselves, these guys
are nutballs, and they're pretty good on a horse. I
think we'll just go ahead and stay back with the
cavalry inside the city. And that brings us to tomorrow,
meaning I will get to it tomorrow, and I will
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finish it tomorrow. Start of the second hour, I'll finish
it tomorrow. And yeah, it definitely involves troops emerging through
the fog fifteen feet away with bayonets attached that kind
of thing. Yeah, crime in war, underrated war. All right,
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good happen today, Hang on, Jesse. Kelly returns next it
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is music to my years.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Today we've made an offer that the Duke.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Is Secretary of State Marco Rubial.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Today we've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted,
which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate
negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring
and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their
ability to prosper as a nation. Now, hopefully we'll take
this offer and out of the Russians, and we hope
that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace.
The ball is now in their court. But again, the
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President's objective here is number one above everything else. He
wants the war to end. And I think today Ukraine
has taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope
the Russians will reciprocate.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now, this is a wonderful thing, so we should celebrate that,
celebrate when wonderful things happen. Right, things are far from over.
How many times have you seen a conflict followed a
conflict and you saw there was a ceasefire and then
the ceasefire gets broken. And we've talked about this before.
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I just want to talk about it again. Why would
Russia reject it? Well, here's an example. Actually, this is
a perfect example. Remember when Ukraine they pushed into Russia.
It was a counter offensive. It's a common move in
war when you're being invaded, you invade them to try
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to get their guys to pull back. They feel like
they have to play defense. So Ukraine did that with Russia.
And then we've gotten word recently, and you never know
exactly what the total truth is on the ground, So
take this with a grain of salt. But I've seen
it from several reliable sources that the Ukraine offensive not
only is really it's not moving forward anymore, but the
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Russians are cutting them off from the rest of Ukraine.
Now that is disaster. If you are a unit and
you are completely surrounded by another unit, especially especially in
an artis hillary war, You're just gonna get pounded to mincemeat.
They're gonna surround you, they're going to line up their guns,
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point them all to the inner part of the circle,
and you're all going to die, or you have to surrender,
which surrendering to the Russians when you're Ukrainian probably doesn't
end all that well. Anyway, the Russians aren't historically the
people you generally want to surrender to. Okay, so why
would this ceasefire fail? Well, again, I don't know that
it will. I hope it will succeed. What if you're Russia,
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What if you have a couple divisions of Ukrainians you
just finally cut them off, or you're about to cut
them off, and you're about to annihilate a significant chunk
of the enemy force. Now Trump brings this ceasefire agreement
to you, even if you want the war to end,
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if you're Russia, do you accept that ceasefire? It's a
thirty day ceasefire. What happens to the surrounded Ukrainian troops
if you just if you agree to a thirty day ceasefire, well,
they're going to use that thirty days to find a
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way to scurry back home. And what happens at the
end of the thirty day ceasefire If an agreement isn't reached,
then you've just allowed two divisions of your enemy to
escape back home and they're not in the mousetrap for
you to annihilate anymore. That was one example of I
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just wanted. I wanted to let you know that this
journey has all kinds of danger in it, but the
journey doesn't start without what happened today. Today the word
is Ukraine. Zelensky sent a letter of apology to Donald
Trump for what happened in the White House, and he
should have that was a no brainer move. Should have apologized.
He did that apparently got the ball rolling forward again.
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Apparently Zelenski got ahold of all his new best friends
in Europe who've been running their mouths a lot about
we've got your back, we'll always protect you. And apparently
apparently the rubber didn't kind of meet the road with Europe.
They made a lot of noise, it sounded really great,
but the troops, the money, the planes that didn't end
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up showing up. So Ukraine felt like they had no
other choice. Let's sign a ceasefire. Let's try to get
out of this deal. Let's hope the Russians and who
can ever trust the freaking Russians, But let's hope the
Russians decide they've got what they want. A good deal
for them is on the table. Let's hope they agreed
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to a ceasefire, which means men stop dying, which is
the ultimate goal should be. And then people have to
sit down at the table and figure out who gets what.
And when I say figure out who gets what, let's
be honest to figure out how much of the territory
Russian took we're going to allow them to keep. And
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being as how possession is nine tenths of the law,
as the saying goes, Russia is gonna feel entitled to
keep most of it. And you know what's wild is
that history story I just told you. It's all this area.
That's why I chose to do the Crimean war. It's
all this area. And you know what else is wild?
Ukraine was ready to sign a peace deal in twenty
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twenty two, and guess who stopped it? The prints the
printz once again, the Pritz just can't see im to
stay out of here. Boris Johnson and the Prince stepped
in and said, no fight on at all cost. Charge
that charge that cannon line anyway. But that's what's going
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on now. And no matter who you are, what you're
rooting for, it is a good thing. One and a
half million men dead. That surpasses all of the people
we've lost in every war we've ever fought as a country,
from the beginning to right now. One and a half
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million men dead. That is so insanely sad. And this
part of the country, man, Look, we just told you
a story from the eighteen fifties. Here we are in
twenty twenty five, and men are still dying in droves
in this area. Man, those if those fields could talk, right,
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if that area could talk, how much blood has been
soaked into that horrible, horrible soil over there. Remember it's
Stalin's starvation, the Helloa more. It's just how much suffering
and pain can one region go through? I don't I
don't know. Remember I've said before that I really think
countries like Haiti or Cursed You had a successful slave
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rebellion and things are like worse now than they were before.
It's just a horrible place. Maybe this area is cursed too,
I don't know. But anyway, that's a good thing. Let's
talk about USA. Do some emails, still paying for DEI training,
all that and an anniversary. Before we get to an
anniversary in more, let me remind you that not every
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