Speaker 1: The Jesse Kelly Show in woooo Indeed it is time
Speaker 1: to do history. I will be back with more politics
Speaker 1: in the final hour, where we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the COVID shot information that's coming out another museum, heighist,
Speaker 1: medical schools are horrible, people are leaving college. I'll get
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Speaker 1: coming right now because it is our two and we
Speaker 1: are smack dab in the middle of our history on
Speaker 1: the Rhodesian Bush War. Again reminding you parts one and
Speaker 1: part two with all kinds of background that was last
Speaker 1: night in the night before you got to go download
Speaker 1: the podcast if you want that. I think you will
Speaker 1: find it helpful. Not a requirement at all to understand
Speaker 1: kind of where we're at now where we pick up today,
Speaker 1: but I think it would be incredibly helpful. Now, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the state of Rhodesia. Let's first talk about voting,
Speaker 1: shall we. I posed a question to you last night
Speaker 1: at the end of our little history segment. I posed
Speaker 1: the question to you about us, about our country, your country,
Speaker 1: my country, who should be able to vote? And I
Speaker 1: think we agreed last night that there should be some restrictions,
Speaker 1: right We may disagree on what those restrictions might be.
Speaker 1: But you don't want ten year olds to have a vote, right.
Speaker 1: You don't want felons sitting in the joint getting ready
Speaker 1: to go to the electric chair tomorrow. You don't want
Speaker 1: them to have a vote, right. You don't want illegals
Speaker 1: to vote to you. Okay, So no matter what you agree,
Speaker 1: there should be some restrictions. Now, I'm going to play
Speaker 1: you something. I know we're doing history, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to play you something I played at last hour. Here's
Speaker 1: Shri Indiana Jones of Michigan. I am sick of your lies.
Speaker 1: The American people are sick of this lies. American people
Speaker 1: demand truth America. Is there do you think if we
Speaker 1: add higher voting standards in this country that Sri Indiana
Speaker 1: Jones would be a member of Congress? Play Chris, you
Speaker 1: know what? Give me a favorite, Chris grab Hank Johnson
Speaker 1: Guam Ticking Tipping over. We haven't played that one in ages.
Speaker 1: It's years and years and years old. I think this
Speaker 1: might be ten years old. The reason I bring it
Speaker 1: up is Hank Johnson just got done calling America the
Speaker 1: great Satan.
Speaker 2: We are the world's number one bully, and we're using
Speaker 2: our immense, unrifled power to rule over those who have
Speaker 2: less power, and we're doing it with him unity. And
Speaker 2: this sends a shocking message to the world that America
Speaker 2: is indeed, uh the what did what did they used
Speaker 2: to call the Great Hand of Satan or something?
Speaker 1: That's the same Hank Johnson back in the day who
Speaker 1: said this, this is.
Speaker 3: A island that at its widest level is what twelve
Speaker 3: miles from shore to shore and at its smallest level,
Speaker 3: the smallest location, it's seven miles between one shore and
Speaker 3: the other. Is that correct? I don't have the exact dimensions,
Speaker 3: but to your point, sir, I think Guam is a
Speaker 3: small island.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: My fear is that the whole island will become so
Speaker 4: overly populated that it will tip over and.
Speaker 3: Capsize.
Speaker 1: We don't anticipate that. Let me ask you an honest question,
Speaker 1: funny as that is, if we had higher voting standards
Speaker 1: in this country, do you think that person would still
Speaker 1: be in Congress making decisions on laws that govern the
Speaker 1: most powerful country on the planet, of course not. Rhodesia
Speaker 1: was the wealthiest country in all of Africa. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned several times, already paved roads, wonderful schools, doctors, lawyers,
Speaker 1: great standard of living. You would have thought you were
Speaker 1: in any modern American city. The rest of Africa, not
Speaker 1: all of it, but most of the rest of Africa
Speaker 1: living in backwards conditions. And then there's this jewel in Rhodesia.
Speaker 1: So who got to pick the government of Rhodesia. Well,
Speaker 1: there were changes over time, by the way, but in
Speaker 1: general you had to qualify to vote, and contrary to
Speaker 1: what all the do gooder kamis around the world said
Speaker 1: at the time, part of the qualification was not the
Speaker 1: color of your skin, but there were literacy requirements, property qualifications,
Speaker 1: you had to be a subject of the British Empire.
Speaker 1: There were things, and I don't want to get too specific,
Speaker 1: because they changed, you know, pre nineteen sixty one they
Speaker 1: were more strict. Then Rhodesia to try to roll back
Speaker 1: some things started to ease those restrictions. But you know,
Speaker 1: on the voting roles, for instance, in nineteen sixty one,
Speaker 1: there were ninety five thousand white people who were able
Speaker 1: to vote and there were twenty two hundred Black Africans
Speaker 1: who were able to vote. It was not barring any
Speaker 1: skin color. But because the qualifications were what they were,
Speaker 1: because there were standards, a large percentage of the white
Speaker 1: Europeans in Rhodesia could vote and a very small percentage
Speaker 1: of the Black Africans could vote. Now that sounds extremely,
Speaker 1: extremely discriminatory, doesn't it. That sounds wrong. Surely everybody who
Speaker 1: reaches the age of eighteen should have a say in
Speaker 1: the government, right. And the reason I bring this up
Speaker 1: is it's going to become a central theme of our story.
Speaker 1: Rhodesia didn't see it that way. Rhodesia enjoyed its standard
Speaker 1: of living, enjoyed the kind of country it was. But
Speaker 1: here's a problem, you see, and it's a big problem.
Speaker 1: You've heard of the Labor government, the Labor Party, I
Speaker 1: should say, of Britain. I've told you before, that's their Democrats,
Speaker 1: that's their Communist Party. Those are the ones who run Britain. Now,
Speaker 1: that's why they're massively importing Muslims from all over the
Speaker 1: planet to form rape gangs, to pillage the British women.
Speaker 1: The Labor Party, well in the nineteen sixties, there are
Speaker 1: things going on globally that are going to essentially doom
Speaker 1: Rhodesia in the end. And one of those things is
Speaker 1: the Labor Party was running things in Britain. Combine that
Speaker 1: with this, the airfingers quote civil rights movement globally is
Speaker 1: really really reaching its peak. Now why did I say
Speaker 1: airfingers quote Because the civil rights movement surely was only good, right,
Speaker 1: and I think you would agree with me that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably not great to have black people eating at
Speaker 1: different restaurants, and that's not a great way to run society.
Speaker 1: That's not a just way to run society. The reason
Speaker 1: I gave the airfingers quote thing on it was, well,
Speaker 1: remember what we talked about last hour. I've spoken before
Speaker 1: about this many times. Let me use the example I've
Speaker 1: used before in Montana in the Rocky Mountains. If you
Speaker 1: hike through the Rocky Mountains in an area full of boulders,
Speaker 1: you will inevitably come across one that looks It looks
Speaker 1: like God pulled out his sword and sliced it in half.
Speaker 1: It's not just broken, it's this clean, smooth break, and
Speaker 1: it's odd looking. We're talking about a boulder the size
Speaker 1: of your car sliced in two. Only God didn't use
Speaker 1: his sword. You see, over time that boulder developed a
Speaker 1: little crack, not big, you might not even really see
Speaker 1: it with your eye, a little crack. What happened from there? Water, inevitably,
Speaker 1: maybe it's snow melting, maybe it's rain. Water would get
Speaker 1: in it, and then one night the temperature would drop
Speaker 1: to such a degree that water would freeze. When water freezes,
Speaker 1: it expands. When it expanded, pop the rock shattered into
Speaker 1: This is exactly what communists do in every single society.
Speaker 1: They find existing cracks, legitimate cracks, by the way, oftentimes
Speaker 1: legitimate cracks. They find the cracks in your society, They
Speaker 1: get inside of that crack and they try to freeze
Speaker 1: it to shatter the society. And the global communists most definitely,
Speaker 1: the Soviets recognize the civil rights movement, not just in
Speaker 1: America but other places, but the civil rights movement as
Speaker 1: an incredible opportunity for them to shatter the country, and
Speaker 1: they got to involved in it. They were very focused
Speaker 1: about being involved in it. They viewed it as an
Speaker 1: opportunity to break America, to break Western civilization. This was
Speaker 1: going on in many different countries in the nineteen sixties. Now,
Speaker 1: I already laid out the government of Rhodesia at the time.
Speaker 1: How do you think their government, how do you think
Speaker 1: that's landing with the global civil rights do gooders on
Speaker 1: the planet. Let me spoil it for you. It ain't
Speaker 1: landing well, and Britain decides they want to do something
Speaker 1: about it. Uh oh, we'll be back days the Jesse
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Speaker 1: is the nineteen sixties. The civil rights movement across the
Speaker 1: globe has been invaded and infected by communists doing the
Speaker 1: best they can to divide Western society. And of course
Speaker 1: Britain has their communists as well. We have our Democrats,
Speaker 1: they have their Labor Party, the Labor government in Britain.
Speaker 1: They don't like the look of Rhodesia right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course it's wealthy, it's prosperous, it's clean, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: But not everyone gets to vote. In fact, not very
Speaker 1: many Black Africans get to vote. Lots of white Europeans
Speaker 1: get to vote, and so they start pushing. Remember at
Speaker 1: this point, Rhodesia is a British colony. I cannot stress
Speaker 1: that enough. A British colony, meaning they are under the
Speaker 1: British crown. Says, uh, how about one man, one vote,
Speaker 1: everyone gets to vote. Well, the government, the people of Rhodesia,
Speaker 1: they understandably said, excuse me, look around at Africa. Do
Speaker 1: you have any idea what's going to happen if we
Speaker 1: allow everybody to have a vote with no property requirements
Speaker 1: and know nothing of it. Do you understand what will
Speaker 1: happen here? The whole place will be over all this prosperity.
Speaker 1: The communists didn't want to hear it. One man, one vote,
Speaker 1: one man, one vote, over and over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. Now Rhodesia has to make a choice. And
Speaker 1: keep in mind that I'm really skipping over some boring
Speaker 1: political negotiations. But Rhodesia's government they were trying as hard
Speaker 1: as they could to do whatever they had to do
Speaker 1: to work with Britain. So they didn't have to do
Speaker 1: well what they're about to do, meaning in nineteen sixty one,
Speaker 1: they even changed how they do the voting. They didn't
Speaker 1: change it completely, but they opened it up a little
Speaker 1: bit more, kind of introduced tiars to it. You could
Speaker 1: be in the A tier. The beat again their work.
Speaker 1: They're trying to massage the situation without giving up their country.
Speaker 1: Britain did not want to hear it. The Communists in
Speaker 1: Britain did not want to hear it, and they said, no,
Speaker 1: you will do this, and so Rhodesia they rebelled. There's
Speaker 1: no other way to put it. In nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 1: rhodesha said, yeah, we're not a British colony anymore. Now
Speaker 1: we're ours, We're Rhodesia, we're independent and this is how
Speaker 1: we're going to run things.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Now pause for a second. You have probably heard of
Speaker 1: the SAS before, the Special Air Service. If you have not,
Speaker 1: you should know that that is the British version of
Speaker 1: the Navy's and in fact they came about really because
Speaker 1: of the British fighting in Northern Africa. They were the
Speaker 1: guys parachuting behind enemy lines doing all kinds of you know,
Speaker 1: special operations stuff. They are to this day, bad to
Speaker 1: the bone, bad dudes. The British SAS well. Up to
Speaker 1: this point, remember we're in the sixties. Rhodesia's military they
Speaker 1: would work hand in hand with Britain's military because again
Speaker 1: it's a British colony, and Rhodesia had an SAS as
Speaker 1: well that trained with the British sas. Super super bad dudes.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying. Rhodesia declares independence in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty five. Britain is so angry about this, they actually
Speaker 1: consider a military response to the open rebellion of the
Speaker 1: Rhodesian country of the Rhodesian government, and they approached the
Speaker 1: British sas and start talking to them about it. The
Speaker 1: British SAS had such a level of respect for the
Speaker 1: Rhodesians they had trained with and worked with, the British
Speaker 1: government essentially faced a mutiny from within their own high
Speaker 1: level sas. The guys weren't going to go Nah, I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm not. You want me to attack Rhodesia. Nah, Now
Speaker 1: you got to do something. If you're the British government, right,
Speaker 1: you can't let open rebellion go, especially these white racists
Speaker 1: in Rhodesia. And again, I want to remind you of
Speaker 1: something I reminded you of last night. Over half of
Speaker 1: the Rhodesian army was black Africans. This is not a
Speaker 1: white versus black thing. How it was sold to the planet.
Speaker 1: Black Africans died with their European brothers in this war.
Speaker 1: Europeans would give their lives to save Black Africans in
Speaker 1: this war. This wasn't some Nazi that's not at all.
Speaker 1: How it was. Yes, there were fewer black voters, no
Speaker 1: question about it. It was not a white versus black thing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Britain has to do something. So they essentially get the world,
Speaker 1: that really most of the civilized world, to sanction Rhodesia.
Speaker 1: This is a country that is landlocked. Keep in mind
Speaker 1: they have no access to water, anything like that. Britain
Speaker 1: slaps sanctions strict ones on Rhodesia. Now, this would normally
Speaker 1: be about the end of any landlocked country, but Rhodesia,
Speaker 1: to their credit, they had a couple of friends and
Speaker 1: those friends happen to be neighbors. We'll talk about those
Speaker 1: friends some combat things in a moment. We'll be back.
Speaker 1: Jes It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic,
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Speaker 1: let's get back to the story here. Nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 1: Rhodesa declares it's independence. Britain is upset, to put it mildly,
Speaker 1: they get the rest of the world and they themselves
Speaker 1: slap crippling sanctions on Rhodesia, or I should say what
Speaker 1: should be crippling sanctions on Rhodesia. But Rhodesia has a
Speaker 1: couple of friends. Now we need to do something that
Speaker 1: I did with you the first night, but we're probably
Speaker 1: gonna do this a couple more times because you have
Speaker 1: to visualize this. You don't have to look at a map.
Speaker 1: You can, but I want you to draw a circle
Speaker 1: in your mind, or maybe you can draw one of
Speaker 1: if you're a visual person. I want you to make
Speaker 1: this a clock. Okay, so it's a clock. Now. From
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock to six o'clock, that's obviously half o'clock, there
Speaker 1: is a country known as Mozambique, all right, Mozambique. From
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock over to let's call it ten o'clock, there
Speaker 1: is a country known as Zambia. All right. From six
Speaker 1: o'clock to about eight o'clock there is South Africa. Why
Speaker 1: am I doing this? Slame clock thing, because it matters
Speaker 1: so much for our story. South Africa. We will begin there.
Speaker 1: South Africa and Rhodesia are as tight as tight can get.
Speaker 1: There are so many South Africans in Rhodesia. They love
Speaker 1: each other, they work together, they have similar forms of
Speaker 1: They are best, best, best freaking friends. As far as
Speaker 1: countries go. South Africa is a friend. When these sanctions
Speaker 1: get slapped on Rhodesia, South Africa steps up and says, hey,
Speaker 1: we got you, sell us your stuff. We'll continue to
Speaker 1: trade with each other. South Africa also has and this
Speaker 1: will definitely matter for our story throughout our story. They
Speaker 1: have that wonderful, wonderful liquid gold known as oil. They
Speaker 1: keep Rhodesia's well supplied with oil. They have a friend. Now,
Speaker 1: let's go to Mozambique. Remember the twelve o'clock to six o'clock, big,
Speaker 1: big border with Rhodesia. They're also friendly because Mozambique at
Speaker 1: this point, and this will change. Spoiler alert, this is
Speaker 1: going to change. Mozambique is run by the Portuguese, all right,
Speaker 1: the Portuguese Rhodesia. They get along. They are still working
Speaker 1: with each other, trading. Zambia the country in the Northwest.
Speaker 1: Forget about them. We are going to get to them.
Speaker 1: They're going to be featured here shortly. But Rhodesia has friends.
Speaker 1: What's the result of this, They declare independence. All these
Speaker 1: sanctions they're supposed to be bankrupted, Rhodesia's flourishing, flourishing. They
Speaker 1: went independent and they're getting along really, really well. Now
Speaker 1: we have to go globally again, because this will matter
Speaker 1: for the rest of our story. Communists, it's a religion
Speaker 1: of destruction and domination. As we've talked about so many
Speaker 1: times before, communism was never supposed to be about any
Speaker 1: one country. Communism was always designed, always pushed as being
Speaker 1: a global thing. At this point in history, the Soviet
Speaker 1: Union is churnin and burning, China churning and burning. These
Speaker 1: are communist countries and they are very very interested in
Speaker 1: spreading their communism globally. And they are then, just as
Speaker 1: they are now, very very interested in the continent of Africa.
Speaker 1: Africa is gigantic, it is strategically located. They have all
Speaker 1: kinds of resources that every country wants. The communist nations
Speaker 1: on the planet want Africa, and they want all of it.
Speaker 1: And they recognize there's an opportunity. Here. We have this
Speaker 1: country called Rhodesia. Britain has cut them off, and there's
Speaker 1: a crack, isn't there. We're ready to discuss that crack.
Speaker 1: There are all kinds of little villages and African reservations,
Speaker 1: essentially in Rhodesia, Black Africans who have not had a
Speaker 1: standard of living equal to the white Europeans. There's enough
Speaker 1: of a crack there that can be exploited. And now
Speaker 1: terrorism starts. Terrorism mainly from Zambia. Zambia. Remember it's that
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock to ten o'clock the northwestern border, that's Zambia.
Speaker 1: The Soviets and the Chinese both form groups African communist,
Speaker 1: African nationalists, whatever word you want to put on it,
Speaker 1: African groups, and they decide they're going to have a
Speaker 1: go at conquering Rhodesia. And they weren't even that subtle
Speaker 1: about it. The Soviets freaking gave them tanks. They would
Speaker 1: send advisors, Chinese advisors, Soviet advisors. How involved are the
Speaker 1: Soviets and Chinese and this will matter for the rest
Speaker 1: of our story. They would take African leaders and they
Speaker 1: would ship them to places like the Soviet Union, like China,
Speaker 1: like East Germany, and they would ship them there for training.
Speaker 1: And I mean in depth training, not just weapons training,
Speaker 1: not just battle tactics. I'm talking about insurgency tactics, communist tactics.
Speaker 1: How do you infect a place? How do you infiltrate
Speaker 1: a place? How do you destroy a place? Training camps
Speaker 1: for the Africans put on by the Soviets and the Chinese,
Speaker 1: and the poor Rhodesians don't even understand what is about
Speaker 1: to come their way, but they do. The night a
Speaker 1: white farmer, it's nineteen sixty six, a white farmer and
Speaker 1: his wife, they are ambushed and slaughtered on their farm.
Speaker 1: I need to set up something here. I already mentioned.
Speaker 1: Rhodesia is a huge country. I mentioned that last night.
Speaker 1: Not so much night, it's this is a very very
Speaker 1: big place. It's not a small country. And they of
Speaker 1: course have these cities, these urban areas. But as I've said, farming, agriculture,
Speaker 1: it's such a wonderful land for that. It's just made
Speaker 1: for that. It was a huge part of their economy,
Speaker 1: huge part of what they did. And there were these
Speaker 1: huge farms that the Europeans ran and owned, and they
Speaker 1: had of course Africans working on their Black Africans working
Speaker 1: with them, and things like that. But these farms, as
Speaker 1: you can imagine, you can't put a farm in the
Speaker 1: middle of the city. They are rural, rural farms. They're
Speaker 1: out there, they're in the hinter lands. They're not right
Speaker 1: next to the cop shop. This creates a security nightmare
Speaker 1: for Rhodesian farmers. There will come a day we're not
Speaker 1: there yet in our story where farmers will have twelve
Speaker 1: foot high security fences all around their homes because they
Speaker 1: were worried their kids couldn't go to the in the
Speaker 1: yard without a bunch of guerrillas chopping them up with machetes.
Speaker 1: That's how dangerous this situation is. But they don't know
Speaker 1: this yet, right because the terror hasn't started. Well, the
Speaker 1: terror just began nineteen sixty six, white farmer and his
Speaker 1: wife butchered, butchered, and the Communists in Africa, in the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union in China, they want the terror to increase,
Speaker 1: and they found I was about to say an unlikely ally,
Speaker 1: but anyone even vaguely familiar with our political situation in
Speaker 1: the United States of America will understand it's the most
Speaker 1: likely ally in the world, wouldn't you know it, Young
Speaker 1: college girls started to help the international communists smuggle in
Speaker 1: weapons they could use to commit acts of terror. As
Speaker 1: I have said many times, there is no more vicious,
Speaker 1: violent communist on the planet than the liberal white woman.
Speaker 1: It's just a fact. So we will continue with all
Speaker 1: this in a moment. Is the Jesse Kelly Show on
Speaker 1: a fantastic Thursday getting ready to move into Ask doctor
Speaker 1: Jesse Friday. Get your questions emailed into Jesse at Jesse
Speaker 1: kellyshow dot com. Back to our story of the Rhodesian
Speaker 1: bush War, terrorist attacks have begun. Russia has their own
Speaker 1: group of African nationalists communists. China has their group of
Speaker 1: African Nationalists communists. They are receiving training. Now again, it's
Speaker 1: not that I'm apologizing, but I'm just gonna drop more
Speaker 1: details on you because the details are actually necessary. Most
Speaker 1: of the time, details kill a story. But you have
Speaker 1: to understand this, two different groups of African nationalists communists. Okay,
Speaker 1: there is ZAPU going to go into what it stands for.
Speaker 1: That's a detail, doesn't matter. ZAPU backed by the Soviets.
Speaker 1: Then there's ZANU backed by the Chinese. Don't worry about
Speaker 1: making sure you know who's back by who. Zapu backed
Speaker 1: by the Soviets, Zanu backed by the Chinese. These organizations,
Speaker 1: as I said, are being trained by the Soviets in
Speaker 1: the Chinese in infiltration tactics. Rhodesia is not fully aware
Speaker 1: of it yet, but war has already been declared on
Speaker 1: them by the Soviets in the Chinese, who want to
Speaker 1: make Rhodesia a communist country, and they start by sending
Speaker 1: rebels over the border. In fact, let me give you
Speaker 1: a summary of how this war is going to go.
Speaker 1: Not to spoil the ending, but you probably get it
Speaker 1: by now. Let me give you a summary of how
Speaker 1: this war is going to go. There aren't that many
Speaker 1: white Europeans in Rhodesia, right, two hundred thousand, give or
Speaker 1: take two hundred thousand of them. That big of a
Speaker 1: military twenty thousand again, give or take. It's gonna depend
Speaker 1: on the time period twenty thousand. In the military, the
Speaker 1: Communists are going to start setting up shop in the
Speaker 1: countries around Rhodesia, and they're going to start making incursions
Speaker 1: into the country. The military is going to fly out
Speaker 1: and kill this incursion and kill that incursion. They find
Speaker 1: ten guys here and twenty guys there, and they find this,
Speaker 1: and they find that. But over time, as the world
Speaker 1: retreats on poor Rhodesia, the incursions increase in volume, increase
Speaker 1: in frequency. You understand, this is the very beginning of it.
Speaker 1: We're in like nineteen sixty six here. What's happening now
Speaker 1: is the Rhodesian military, which is elite, absolutely elite. Are
Speaker 1: There are a few different elements to the military. I
Speaker 1: want to mention right now. They have an air force.
Speaker 1: Remember when I said South Africa and Rhodesia are super tight.
Speaker 1: About half of the Rhodesian Air Force is actually South African,
Speaker 1: South African pilots, South African planes. That's how tight they are.
Speaker 1: That will matter later on. So there's an air force.
Speaker 1: They have the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Again, I want to
Speaker 1: stress over half of the Rhodesian Light Infantry were Black Africans.
Speaker 1: This is not a white versus black war. The Rhodesian
Speaker 1: Light Infantry amazing troops, amazing troops again, outdoor people, rugged people,
Speaker 1: mandatory military service. They were amazing troops. And then there
Speaker 1: were actually two different kind of special operations forces, special
Speaker 1: Green Berets, Navy seals. Okay, there were the Rhodesian sas
Speaker 1: I already mentioned them earlier, bad dudes. And then there
Speaker 1: is another group super super cool called the Cellus Scouts
Speaker 1: or Seleuse Scouts. I've heard it pronounced a thousand different
Speaker 1: ways as I was doing my research for the show.
Speaker 1: These are all excellent units, top tiering units. They are
Speaker 1: having no problem hunting down and wiping out these rebels
Speaker 1: right now because there simply aren't enough of them. You
Speaker 1: should know, the first group of rebels who came across
Speaker 1: the border was not a big group, got hunted down
Speaker 1: and annihilated almost immediately. They get located, hunted down, annihilated.
Speaker 1: The air force is used, helicopters are used to they
Speaker 1: have to stay mobile because there aren't enough of them
Speaker 1: to just be stationed all over the country. They have
Speaker 1: to put them in various spots and then be ready
Speaker 1: to hop on a plane, hop on a helicopter, and
Speaker 1: get where you're going. The use of parachutes and helicopters
Speaker 1: is something that will last throughout this war. All right,
Speaker 1: group comes in, gets wiped out. Group comes in, gets
Speaker 1: wiped out. The Communists, though they're starting to get smarter,
Speaker 1: as they fail what they had initially tried to do.
Speaker 1: Who was, as I mentioned, terrorist tactics. Hey, let's butcher
Speaker 1: a farmer in the family, let's throw a let's throw
Speaker 1: a bomb in an ice cream shop. Let's just basic
Speaker 1: what you would kind of recognize today as more Jihati
Speaker 1: terror tactics. But the Rhodesian military, the Rhodesian intelligence service
Speaker 1: was so good. These tactics weren't working that great. They
Speaker 1: wanted the Kammis needed more power, and so they started
Speaker 1: to do something. They started to set up secret camps
Speaker 1: inside of the country, inside Rhodesia. Remember it's a huge place,
Speaker 1: so you don't just send in ten idiots from Zambia.
Speaker 1: You try to set up camps inside. Now, we were
Speaker 1: about to get to a point where it's going to
Speaker 1: get very difficult on the Rhodesians. But they're definitely winning
Speaker 1: right now. And a huge part of why they're winning
Speaker 1: is these Kammi terrorists are coming from Zambia, virtually all
Speaker 1: of them from Zambia, because Zambia is the one that's
Speaker 1: not a friend. Well, the border between Zambia and Rhodesia
Speaker 1: is a big river. Rivers help provide security because they're
Speaker 1: hard to cross. They're hard to cross unknown, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: The Rhodesians understand. If they simply keep this river monitored,
Speaker 1: keep your patrols up there, you should be able to
Speaker 1: locate and snuff out all the Kami terrorists, either as
Speaker 1: they're coming or shortly after they come. You hunt them down,
Speaker 1: you snuff them out. And I mentioned earlier the sell
Speaker 1: Us Scouts Selus Scouts. I'm just going to call the
Speaker 1: cell Us Scouts. I went to community college. They did
Speaker 1: so much cool stuff. One of the things they were
Speaker 1: so good at the SAS two but was tracking. It's
Speaker 1: wild when you read the books, how these guys track.
Speaker 1: They'd be out there in the bush and they'd come
Speaker 1: across sign that terrorist groups had come, and they would
Speaker 1: just start hunting them like they were animals for a day,
Speaker 1: two days, three days, following the tracks like like like bloodhounds,
Speaker 1: and then they'd finally find them. You make a phone call,
Speaker 1: you bring in the troops. You kill them all. You
Speaker 1: find them, make a phone call, bring in the troops,
Speaker 1: kill them all. And I know we're about to be
Speaker 1: done with our story. I'm gonna get back to politics.
Speaker 1: Sometimes wounded terrorists trying to get back to Zambia, would
Speaker 1: be eaten by crocodiles in the rivers. One guy I
Speaker 1: read a story about he was wounded, got hunted down
Speaker 1: by a lion. Wild. What's happening? But tomorrow something will
Speaker 1: happen that will spell eventually disaster for the Rhodesians. That's
Speaker 1: gonna have to wait till tomorrow, or wait Monday, Chris, Monday,
Speaker 1: not Tuesday. No, we're not making them wait till tuesday.
Speaker 1: That's not right. No, No, tomorrow or Monday. We'll do
Speaker 1: it Monday, all right. Our story continues on Monday. Back
Speaker 1: to politics next