Military Officials

we're going to nerd out on that. We're going to talk about the reasons, the real reasons. What's going on globally, what's the Trump plan? What might be next? What are the potential problems that we have? So many things we're gonna get to there. Tim Walls announces he's not running for re election. What happened. We'll discuss it. That New York City's going to get worse than we thought. We're going to have to go ahead and destroy Hilton Hotels

the way we destroyed bud Light. All that emails, so much more coming up tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly's Show. Now, I've been nerding out since it happened. I would venture a guest that you have been nerding out since it happened. I woke up. I woke up, and I forget which morning it was. What was it Wednesday? It doesn't matter what morning it was. I don't do details. None of that's changed. I wake up and I did the exact same thing you do when you wake up.

Don't lie. I know you do. I woke up, rolled over, grab my phone. In my defense, that's where my alarm is. I grabbed my phone to turn the alarm off, and I think I had fifteen text messages from various friends. I didn't know it was going down. You didn't know it was going down. Trump got Maduro last night. Trump arrested Maduro last night. We have been what in Venezuela. So I know you already know the story, So I won't cover the story, but I do want to bring

this up before we go on. We don't fully appreciate how elite our military is compared to almost pretty much

every other military on the planet. And there are a lot of reasons for that, which we'll talk about in a moment, But because if you're an American, if you're an American, and I know we have people listening all over the world, but if you're an American citizen, you've probably only ever lived in America, and because of that, if that's all you've ever known, you don't appreciate the differences. To be honest with you, I never fully appreciated the

differences until I joined the Marine Corps. Joined the Marine Corps, I trained with Marines, we go fight with Marines, and then there's a period of time in Iraq where there's a transition and now some European powers are coming in and they're sending in troops to do this or that, and I remember being mortified at the troops from other countries. Mortified,

not just the Europeans, by the way. I remember before we went to Thailand, we were told you're going to train with the Thai Marines, and immediately I'm thinking probably the same thing. You're thinking, Wow, they're probably going to be some stud jungle fighters. They were pathetic. They couldn't even hunt their own gear, whining all the pathetic. The Spanish came in to relieve us from some compound in Iraq, Spain. I realized they're not some military juggernaut. But you're thinking,

probably pretty switched on guys, at least modern pathetic. Our military is incredible. We don't think of ourselves probably as a Spartan like culture, but we have a military culture in this country, a rugged military culture that comes from our DNA, It comes from our heritage, It comes from our love of the outdoors, our love of firearms. We have a society full of men primed to join the

military if they are willing. We have the resources, the financial resources to buy the best training money can buy. You got all the bulleting you want. We just have elite military personnel. Now, let's understand something about an operation of this size. You could argue, let's call it a raid. You could argue historically, this is the greatest raid that has ever been pulled off. When you consider a couple things, consider this. Venezuela knew we were there. Venezuela assumed we

were coming in Venezuela is No. They're not some top tier military, but they have the assistance of you would probably say the number two and three best militaries on the planet. That would be Russia and China. We're better than Russia and China, but if you were ranking them,

Russia and China would be second and third. Russia and China were not only invested there, Russia and China were sending equipment there, equipments specifically designed to stop the United States military from doing anything like it was doing anything. They knew we were coming. They had been supplied by the second and third best militaries in the world, trained by the second and third best militaries in the world to stop us from doing it.

in our military. His nickname is Raisin Cain, and on this show, that's how he will be referred to from now on. I'm going to give Raisin Cain the floor. Now. I want you before I play him, I want you

to think about this. If I gave you twenty people and I had you organize an operation, not a military operation, an operation where one guy had to walk into this office and he had to get a stapler, and the next guy had to walk into a different office and he had to get a blue pen, and the next guy had to walk into a different office and he had to get a package of printer paper. Do you think you could pull that off? How much time and training do you think it would take to make sure

everybody knew their duty. It's more complicated in it than you think. I'll give you a little example. In fact, it's from my Christmas break. I didn't tell you this before, Hanks. I can't tell people when I'm traveling beforehand. We went to New York City for Christmas this year. We love New York City. We assume we're never going to go back now that Ma'm Donnie's going to destroy the place. We wanted a couple more days to go see the sites, eat some hot dogs, look at the Christmas tree, the

normal thing. As part of our New York City trip, we decided to do something we'd never done before. We went to the Empire State Building. There were nine of us in our party. It was a big group. I had all the tickets on my phone. In order to get to the top of the Empire State Building, you had to go through I think there were five, but don't quote me on that, five different little turnstyle things where you had to scan the ticket. One person walks through,

scan the ticket, one person walks through. I'm standing there, I scan, I'm giving orders, I scan, I'm giving orders. We screwed it up four times on the way in. Four times someone was enlisting, someone walked and walk fast enough. Someone tried to double it. Four times. That's just scanning a ticket to get in the mp higher State building. Now I want you to listen to the United States military and their operation they just pulled off. Here's Raisin Kin.

downtown Caraclus while maintaining the element of tactical surprise. Let me talk a little bit about the preparation. After months of work by our intelligence teammates to find Maduro and understand how he moved, where he lived, where he tried, what he ate, what he wore, what were his pets? In early December, our force was set pending a series

of aligned events. The force included F twenty two's F thirty five, F eighteen's EA eighteens, E two's B one bombers and other support aircraft, as well as numerous remotely piloted drones. As the force began to approach Caracas, the Joint Air Component began dismantling and disabling the air defense systems in Venezuela, employing weapons to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters into the target area. We arrived at Maduro's compound.

overwhelming force and self defense. One of our aircraft was hit but remained fliable, and as the President said earlier today, all of our aircraft came home. Maduro and his wife, both indicted, gave up and were taken into custody by the Department of Justice, assisted by our incredible US military with professionalism and precision, which with no loss of us life.

all flesh and blood, human beings. And when it comes to a military operation, what's the thing we love the most? The Delta Force guys, the Navy seals, but this was Delta Force. But the guy, the big, the big tough guys with the guns. Every dude in the back of his mind secretly kind of wants to be that guy, thinks maybe he could have been that guy. Every woman in the back of her mind has thought, I'd like to go on a date with that guy. It's human nature.

It's human nature. They do all the cool stuff, they have. The cool stuff's human nature, and they deserve all the credit in the world. However, remember there are so many things that go into an operation like this, things that we never think about. Raisin Kin talked about the intelligence gathering. Remember, before any Delta Force guy gets to fast rope out of a helo under the roof of a compound, long

before he gets to do that, there's another guy. There's another girl on the ground writing down when Maduro leaves for work where he likes to eat breakfasts, and that person if caught in a hostile foreign country, well, Venezuela's famous for their torture. Now you realize that, like any evil, disgusting communist regime, when they get their hands on you, not like it. Think about the bravery that takes to be sitting in the woods outside of Maduro's compound watching.

Maybe you've chosen to become a CIA asset or any one of the other intelligence gathering agencies we have, and you're a Venezuelan. You've chosen to work with them. You risk everything for that. Now, let's set that aside. Let's not ignore the pilots, not just not just the fancy top gun stuff. Helicopter pilots. You know how brave it is to be in a helicopter. You ain't moving that fast.

Low people firing machine guns up at you. You know you are one RPG in the tail rotor away from dying in a burning blaze on the ground at night in hostile territory. It takes a tremendous amount of guts to go do things like that. And as I said, the Delta Force guys deserve all the credit in the world.

Make sure we take a moment of appreciation to realize there's a lot of people, a lot of people who risked dying to go pull something like that off, hard to plan for, hard to pull off in a very very dangerous thing, to go in at midnight in a hostile land and grab someone. It's impressive. Now, now let's have a much longer talk than all that. Now that I'm done nerding out, let's talk about the why, because you know, you're hearing a lot of things like this.

further back than that. The founding fathers of this country all had European heritage. That's something important to understand. European heritage. They grew up, they grew up watching something. They grew up watching Europe fighting with each other all the time, the various countries of Europe always having a squabble about this or that or this territory. They're always fighting all

the time. If you were to do a military history show on Europe fighting European countries fighting each other, I don't think you could fit it in in a year. It would take that long to get into the endless conflicts. And the found realized that endless wars drain the treasury. They deprive people of liberty in the end, because you always have to do something during wartime that deprives people

of things. And the Founders realize that as they established this country clear across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, as they establish this country, something that would completely recap the new country they were establishing would be getting involved in European wars, really foreign wars in general. Why are we getting involved? They're always in a fight. It would be like you that couple you know, maybe you're related to them,

maybe they're neighbors. Maybe that's something that couple you know who's always having some drama, blowout fight, they're always about to get a divorce. There always is they're always that picture you trying to stick your nose in it, or maybe you do do this every single time Tom and Susie had a knockdown drag out after too much veno on a Friday night. What would that mean for you and your happiness in your life. It would be miserable,

wouldn't it. The Founders had exactly that view about getting involved in foreign wars. Their view was, Hey, we will protect America at all times, we will protect our trade at all times, we will trade with virtually everyone at all times. But foreign wars are not our problem. If you are a nerdy history person kind of like me, I would invite you. I'm not going to read it here to read George Washington's farewell address. Look, you can use it on the Google machine. Look it up on

the Google machine, George. It's very short. George Washington's farewell address. He lays it out that was it was not even controversial. That was the doctrine for foreign policy in this country. That brings us to James Monroe. He was president in the eighteen twenties. Again, the details don't matter. That's what the Monroe doctrine comes from. The Monroe doctrine wasn't necessarily special. It was really just Monroe reasserting what our foreign policy is. Hey,

we are not getting involved in Europe. We're not involved. The only way we're going to get involved with European countries is if if they come start some things over here. Now pause, what would they be starting over here? What was Monroe talking about? Well, remember this was the colonial age. This was the era still on the planet where powerful countries would find foreign lands that had resources or locations things they wanted, and they would go conquer them. That's

what colonizing is. Its conquest by other means. Really, yeah, people are going to die usually, but eventually it works out depending on the country doing the colonizing. Where you step in and and you decide, hey, your resources, it's now they're now our resources. You work for us. That's

what colonizing is. This was going on all over the planet at the time, and before that, European countries, some of them hostile to our interests, were still sticking their nose in countries that were close to US, South America most definitely. The Monroe doctrine was hey, hey, hey, we're not going to get involved in your stuff over there. If you start getting involved in our stuff over here, it's going to be a problem. We're going to have

a problem. The Monroe doctrine, essentially, for the one oh one version, is in our hemisphere, in our neighborhood, we will not have trouble. You want to throw used time and things like that in your front lawn across town, you're welcome to do so. Trash your area. You live across the street from me, and try that, we're gonna have a problem. Now that brings us to Russia and China and Iran if we're being honest, but won't focus

on Russia and China. For the longest time, this started really with the Communists, surprise, surprise, the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party. They recognized that South America, really, i'll just call it Latin America. Latin America was an opportunity

for them, not just an opportunity to acquire resources. Latin America presented them with an opportunity to take over governments because there's so much Spanish colonialism that took place in Latin America, and the Spanish did colonialism worse than anybody. They just sucked at it. They would just go steal all the gold and abuse everyone, and they just weren't good at it. And so you had all these disaffected,

miserable people. You had all these unstable, corrupt governments. And China in the Soviet Union at the time, recognized this is an opportunity for us to not just take power take resources in these places. This is an opportunity for us to essentially set up shop, set up a fortress, if you will, right next to our number one enemy, the United States of America. They always hated America. They always wanted to take down America. And if you're going to invade, what do you have to do first? You'll

have to move next door. And they have spent decades moving in to Latin America, Venezuela, especially Venezuela's more recent, but Venezuela is just the best example. It's not just the the fentanyl, the oil. The truth is Russia and China and Iron. They realize it's extremely beneficial to have a nice little setup just south of America, just in case we need such a thing someday. And of course

the oil does matter. I don't want to be dismissive of that, and it does matter that they're poisoning America on purpose, with the help of China with endless drugs. So what happened? What are we doing? Well? Things are changing rapidly on the planet because of the Trump administration. We'll continue on this next It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Magnificent Monday, only ten minutes away from Metal of Honor Monday, which I love and I know you love, where we will honor a hero. Do not forget.

You can send us your love, your hate, your death threats, whatever you would like. Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. I will get to those at some point in time. I want to finish chopping away at this. So we have decided, the Trump administration has decided correctly that we are going to start taking back control of our hemisphere, our neighborhood. Why why is Donald Trump talking about things like this is ready to fall?

our mortal enemies have moved next door. And you can't have that, and we won't have that. I think that Maduro is not even close to being the last leader who's going to be toppled. Then Q is going down, Well, they're leadership. I think Colombia is going down now. Mexico is a different nut crack. Let me explain Cuba, all right, you have communist leadership there, you have a people sick of it, they hate them. That's that's prime for US.

Colombia similar that's prime for us in Mexico. In Mexico, there's a city situation that we have talked about before. When Donald Trump talked about declaring war on the cartels, wiping the cartels off of the planet. Because half of Mexico, roughly half the states in Mexico are cartel rum they are narco states. It makes it more difficult. What does that mean? A narco state? When normal people think about cartels, they think about a couple of Mexican dudes hiding out

in the jungle processing cocaine and shooting people in the head. Okay, that's very accurate. But do you think about them handing out turkeys at Christmas time? Because they do that. Let me ask you this. Do you think about the cartel being the healthcare provider for you and your family? Oh? Man, little Billy has stretched strep throat. Come on in, we'll get him taken care of. Yes, this hospital is run by the cartel. Oh, you're young and in love. Isn't

that precious? You're gonna get married? Great, come get married at the church the cartel built. The priest who marries you will be cartel connected. Got potholes in your road, let's pave it over. Who's gonna do it? The cartel they are the government in so many parts of Mexico. It's not just one compound, it's not just one cocaine plant. It's it's in the bones. If you will, it's in the bones. That's a completely different story. But I'd be worried abo our Mexico.

what we did. I think you cannot allow as a nation, as a powerful nation, you can't allow anyone to take your stuff because doing that sends a message to the rest of the world that someone can just take your stuff. In the future, if we lose assets in a foreign land and some scumbag takes it over, can we please drop a gigantic bomb on it on the way out the door. You don't get to see steal our stuff. That doesn't happen. That aside. Let's do Middle of Honor Monday.

Then we'll talk potential problems. Then we'll get to emails and tim walls and so much more. Hang on,