WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:05.120 The Jesse Kelly Show in woooo Indeed it is time 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:09.199 to do history. I will be back with more politics 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:11.599 in the final hour, where we're going to talk about 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:16.120 the COVID shot information that's coming out another museum, heighist, 5 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:19.440 medical schools are horrible, people are leaving college. I'll get 6 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.160 to emails. All that stuff is coming, but it ain't 7 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:26.519 coming right now because it is our two and we 8 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:30.440 are smack dab in the middle of our history on 9 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:34.359 the Rhodesian Bush War. Again reminding you parts one and 10 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:38.479 part two with all kinds of background that was last 11 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:41.039 night in the night before you got to go download 12 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:43.320 the podcast if you want that. I think you will 13 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:47.439 find it helpful. Not a requirement at all to understand 14 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:49.679 kind of where we're at now where we pick up today, 15 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:56.159 but I think it would be incredibly helpful. Now, let's 16 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:02.439 talk about the state of Rhodesia. Let's first talk about voting, 17 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.319 shall we. I posed a question to you last night 18 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.879 at the end of our little history segment. I posed 19 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:13.280 the question to you about us, about our country, your country, 20 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:19.159 my country, who should be able to vote? And I 21 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.879 think we agreed last night that there should be some restrictions, 22 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.879 right We may disagree on what those restrictions might be. 23 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.239 But you don't want ten year olds to have a vote, right. 24 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:36.319 You don't want felons sitting in the joint getting ready 25 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.359 to go to the electric chair tomorrow. You don't want 26 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.799 them to have a vote, right. You don't want illegals 27 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.040 to vote to you. Okay, So no matter what you agree, 28 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:50.200 there should be some restrictions. Now, I'm going to play 29 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:52.640 you something. I know we're doing history, but I'm going 30 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:56.920 to play you something I played at last hour. Here's 31 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.840 Shri Indiana Jones of Michigan. I am sick of your lies. 32 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.599 The American people are sick of this lies. American people 33 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:11.439 demand truth America. Is there do you think if we 34 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:16.639 add higher voting standards in this country that Sri Indiana 35 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:21.520 Jones would be a member of Congress? Play Chris, you 36 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:26.280 know what? Give me a favorite, Chris grab Hank Johnson 37 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:31.120 Guam Ticking Tipping over. We haven't played that one in ages. 38 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.879 It's years and years and years old. I think this 39 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.479 might be ten years old. The reason I bring it 40 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.319 up is Hank Johnson just got done calling America the 41 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:41.080 great Satan. 42 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.520 We are the world's number one bully, and we're using 43 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:56.639 our immense, unrifled power to rule over those who have 44 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:01.199 less power, and we're doing it with him unity. And 45 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:06.280 this sends a shocking message to the world that America 46 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:11.599 is indeed, uh the what did what did they used 47 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.840 to call the Great Hand of Satan or something? 48 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.120 That's the same Hank Johnson back in the day who 49 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:21.639 said this, this is. 50 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:30.360 A island that at its widest level is what twelve 51 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:35.439 miles from shore to shore and at its smallest level, 52 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:49.199 the smallest location, it's seven miles between one shore and 53 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:54.639 the other. Is that correct? I don't have the exact dimensions, 54 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.680 but to your point, sir, I think Guam is a 55 00:03:57.719 --> 00:03:58.520 small island. 56 00:03:59.120 --> 00:03:59.319 Yeah. 57 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:05.639 My fear is that the whole island will become so 58 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.759 overly populated that it will tip over and. 59 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:13.919 Capsize. 60 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:20.800 We don't anticipate that. Let me ask you an honest question, 61 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:27.800 funny as that is, if we had higher voting standards 62 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.600 in this country, do you think that person would still 63 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:36.279 be in Congress making decisions on laws that govern the 64 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:42.120 most powerful country on the planet, of course not. Rhodesia 65 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:47.959 was the wealthiest country in all of Africa. As I 66 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:54.199 mentioned several times, already paved roads, wonderful schools, doctors, lawyers, 67 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:56.600 great standard of living. You would have thought you were 68 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:01.120 in any modern American city. The rest of Africa, not 69 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:03.199 all of it, but most of the rest of Africa 70 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:10.160 living in backwards conditions. And then there's this jewel in Rhodesia. 71 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:16.040 So who got to pick the government of Rhodesia. Well, 72 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:20.600 there were changes over time, by the way, but in 73 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:27.279 general you had to qualify to vote, and contrary to 74 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.560 what all the do gooder kamis around the world said 75 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.120 at the time, part of the qualification was not the 76 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:40.120 color of your skin, but there were literacy requirements, property qualifications, 77 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:43.879 you had to be a subject of the British Empire. 78 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.279 There were things, and I don't want to get too specific, 79 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.680 because they changed, you know, pre nineteen sixty one they 80 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.600 were more strict. Then Rhodesia to try to roll back 81 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:57.720 some things started to ease those restrictions. But you know, 82 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.160 on the voting roles, for instance, in nineteen sixty one, 83 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.600 there were ninety five thousand white people who were able 84 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:08.279 to vote and there were twenty two hundred Black Africans 85 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:11.120 who were able to vote. It was not barring any 86 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:16.279 skin color. But because the qualifications were what they were, 87 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:20.759 because there were standards, a large percentage of the white 88 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:25.839 Europeans in Rhodesia could vote and a very small percentage 89 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:30.680 of the Black Africans could vote. Now that sounds extremely, 90 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:36.600 extremely discriminatory, doesn't it. That sounds wrong. Surely everybody who 91 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:39.279 reaches the age of eighteen should have a say in 92 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:42.800 the government, right. And the reason I bring this up 93 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:45.720 is it's going to become a central theme of our story. 94 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:50.519 Rhodesia didn't see it that way. Rhodesia enjoyed its standard 95 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:53.959 of living, enjoyed the kind of country it was. But 96 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.199 here's a problem, you see, and it's a big problem. 97 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.519 You've heard of the Labor government, the Labor Party, I 98 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:06.879 should say, of Britain. I've told you before, that's their Democrats, 99 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:10.079 that's their Communist Party. Those are the ones who run Britain. Now, 100 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.000 that's why they're massively importing Muslims from all over the 101 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.959 planet to form rape gangs, to pillage the British women. 102 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:21.839 The Labor Party, well in the nineteen sixties, there are 103 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:26.959 things going on globally that are going to essentially doom 104 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.720 Rhodesia in the end. And one of those things is 105 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:36.959 the Labor Party was running things in Britain. Combine that 106 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:45.319 with this, the airfingers quote civil rights movement globally is 107 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.000 really really reaching its peak. Now why did I say 108 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:53.519 airfingers quote Because the civil rights movement surely was only good, right, 109 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.040 and I think you would agree with me that, Yeah, 110 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.959 it's probably not great to have black people eating at 111 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:02.439 different restaurants, and that's not a great way to run society. 112 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:05.519 That's not a just way to run society. The reason 113 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.279 I gave the airfingers quote thing on it was, well, 114 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.319 remember what we talked about last hour. I've spoken before 115 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.560 about this many times. Let me use the example I've 116 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:19.839 used before in Montana in the Rocky Mountains. If you 117 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.279 hike through the Rocky Mountains in an area full of boulders, 118 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:27.800 you will inevitably come across one that looks It looks 119 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:32.240 like God pulled out his sword and sliced it in half. 120 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:37.320 It's not just broken, it's this clean, smooth break, and 121 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.159 it's odd looking. We're talking about a boulder the size 122 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:44.960 of your car sliced in two. Only God didn't use 123 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:51.360 his sword. You see, over time that boulder developed a 124 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:54.480 little crack, not big, you might not even really see 125 00:08:54.519 --> 00:09:00.480 it with your eye, a little crack. What happened from there? Water, inevitably, 126 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.879 maybe it's snow melting, maybe it's rain. Water would get 127 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.919 in it, and then one night the temperature would drop 128 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:12.480 to such a degree that water would freeze. When water freezes, 129 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:20.000 it expands. When it expanded, pop the rock shattered into 130 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:26.600 This is exactly what communists do in every single society. 131 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:32.399 They find existing cracks, legitimate cracks, by the way, oftentimes 132 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:37.519 legitimate cracks. They find the cracks in your society, They 133 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.360 get inside of that crack and they try to freeze 134 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:47.279 it to shatter the society. And the global communists most definitely, 135 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:50.879 the Soviets recognize the civil rights movement, not just in 136 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.279 America but other places, but the civil rights movement as 137 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:59.559 an incredible opportunity for them to shatter the country, and 138 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.320 they got to involved in it. They were very focused 139 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.480 about being involved in it. They viewed it as an 140 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:13.080 opportunity to break America, to break Western civilization. This was 141 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:17.759 going on in many different countries in the nineteen sixties. Now, 142 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.399 I already laid out the government of Rhodesia at the time. 143 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.279 How do you think their government, how do you think 144 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:30.919 that's landing with the global civil rights do gooders on 145 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.320 the planet. Let me spoil it for you. It ain't 146 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:39.440 landing well, and Britain decides they want to do something 147 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:44.720 about it. Uh oh, we'll be back days the Jesse 148 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:50.279 Kelly Show on a magnificent magnificent Thursday. Do not forget 149 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.480 tomorrow's ask doctor Jesse Friday. You need to email your questions. 150 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.480 They don't have to be political, doesn't matter what it is, history, food, whatever. 151 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:02.960 Email them into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. It 152 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:06.720 is the nineteen sixties. The civil rights movement across the 153 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:10.720 globe has been invaded and infected by communists doing the 154 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:14.639 best they can to divide Western society. And of course 155 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:18.279 Britain has their communists as well. We have our Democrats, 156 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.759 they have their Labor Party, the Labor government in Britain. 157 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.519 They don't like the look of Rhodesia right now. Yeah, 158 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:32.519 of course it's wealthy, it's prosperous, it's clean, it's wonderful. 159 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:39.600 But not everyone gets to vote. In fact, not very 160 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.879 many Black Africans get to vote. Lots of white Europeans 161 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:49.000 get to vote, and so they start pushing. Remember at 162 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:53.720 this point, Rhodesia is a British colony. I cannot stress 163 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:58.000 that enough. A British colony, meaning they are under the 164 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:03.360 British crown. Says, uh, how about one man, one vote, 165 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.799 everyone gets to vote. Well, the government, the people of Rhodesia, 166 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:13.279 they understandably said, excuse me, look around at Africa. Do 167 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.720 you have any idea what's going to happen if we 168 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:19.639 allow everybody to have a vote with no property requirements 169 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.159 and know nothing of it. Do you understand what will 170 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.080 happen here? The whole place will be over all this prosperity. 171 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.039 The communists didn't want to hear it. One man, one vote, 172 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.759 one man, one vote, over and over and over and 173 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:38.320 over again. Now Rhodesia has to make a choice. And 174 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:42.159 keep in mind that I'm really skipping over some boring 175 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:48.080 political negotiations. But Rhodesia's government they were trying as hard 176 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:51.159 as they could to do whatever they had to do 177 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:55.039 to work with Britain. So they didn't have to do 178 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:59.200 well what they're about to do, meaning in nineteen sixty one, 179 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:02.559 they even changed how they do the voting. They didn't 180 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.879 change it completely, but they opened it up a little 181 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.759 bit more, kind of introduced tiars to it. You could 182 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:12.639 be in the A tier. The beat again their work. 183 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:17.279 They're trying to massage the situation without giving up their country. 184 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:21.279 Britain did not want to hear it. The Communists in 185 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.039 Britain did not want to hear it, and they said, no, 186 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:31.559 you will do this, and so Rhodesia they rebelled. There's 187 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.159 no other way to put it. In nineteen sixty five, 188 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:39.399 rhodesha said, yeah, we're not a British colony anymore. Now 189 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:43.320 we're ours, We're Rhodesia, we're independent and this is how 190 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:44.240 we're going to run things. 191 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:44.480 Now. 192 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:49.639 Now pause for a second. You have probably heard of 193 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:54.600 the SAS before, the Special Air Service. If you have not, 194 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:59.320 you should know that that is the British version of 195 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:03.519 the Navy's and in fact they came about really because 196 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.840 of the British fighting in Northern Africa. They were the 197 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:09.799 guys parachuting behind enemy lines doing all kinds of you know, 198 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.720 special operations stuff. They are to this day, bad to 199 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.799 the bone, bad dudes. The British SAS well. Up to 200 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.840 this point, remember we're in the sixties. Rhodesia's military they 201 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.240 would work hand in hand with Britain's military because again 202 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:33.799 it's a British colony, and Rhodesia had an SAS as 203 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:39.240 well that trained with the British sas. Super super bad dudes. 204 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:45.039 You get what I'm saying. Rhodesia declares independence in nineteen 205 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:51.679 sixty five. Britain is so angry about this, they actually 206 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:57.720 consider a military response to the open rebellion of the 207 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:02.120 Rhodesian country of the Rhodesian government, and they approached the 208 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:07.679 British sas and start talking to them about it. The 209 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:13.279 British SAS had such a level of respect for the 210 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:17.679 Rhodesians they had trained with and worked with, the British 211 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:22.519 government essentially faced a mutiny from within their own high 212 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:27.080 level sas. The guys weren't going to go Nah, I'm good, 213 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:31.919 I'm not. You want me to attack Rhodesia. Nah, Now 214 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.919 you got to do something. If you're the British government, right, 215 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:42.360 you can't let open rebellion go, especially these white racists 216 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.480 in Rhodesia. And again, I want to remind you of 217 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:49.200 something I reminded you of last night. Over half of 218 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:53.960 the Rhodesian army was black Africans. This is not a 219 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:57.919 white versus black thing. How it was sold to the planet. 220 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:04.000 Black Africans died with their European brothers in this war. 221 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:08.320 Europeans would give their lives to save Black Africans in 222 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:12.679 this war. This wasn't some Nazi that's not at all. 223 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:16.360 How it was. Yes, there were fewer black voters, no 224 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:22.200 question about it. It was not a white versus black thing. Anyway, 225 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:29.799 Britain has to do something. So they essentially get the world, 226 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:36.399 that really most of the civilized world, to sanction Rhodesia. 227 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:39.720 This is a country that is landlocked. Keep in mind 228 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:44.279 they have no access to water, anything like that. Britain 229 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:51.240 slaps sanctions strict ones on Rhodesia. Now, this would normally 230 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:56.399 be about the end of any landlocked country, but Rhodesia, 231 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:01.200 to their credit, they had a couple of friends and 232 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:04.359 those friends happen to be neighbors. We'll talk about those 233 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.279 friends some combat things in a moment. We'll be back. 234 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:13.559 Jes It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic, 235 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.519 fantastic Thursday. Remember to send in your ask Doctor Jesse 236 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.240 questions for tomorrow. Remember you can download the show iheard Spotify, iTunes, 237 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.480 let's get back to the story here. Nineteen sixty five, 238 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:31.359 Rhodesa declares it's independence. Britain is upset, to put it mildly, 239 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:34.720 they get the rest of the world and they themselves 240 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:39.079 slap crippling sanctions on Rhodesia, or I should say what 241 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:44.720 should be crippling sanctions on Rhodesia. But Rhodesia has a 242 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.200 couple of friends. Now we need to do something that 243 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.759 I did with you the first night, but we're probably 244 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:52.839 gonna do this a couple more times because you have 245 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.240 to visualize this. You don't have to look at a map. 246 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.440 You can, but I want you to draw a circle 247 00:17:58.480 --> 00:17:59.960 in your mind, or maybe you can draw one of 248 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.880 if you're a visual person. I want you to make 249 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:07.319 this a clock. Okay, so it's a clock. Now. From 250 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:13.200 twelve o'clock to six o'clock, that's obviously half o'clock, there 251 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:19.519 is a country known as Mozambique, all right, Mozambique. From 252 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:25.559 twelve o'clock over to let's call it ten o'clock, there 253 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:31.039 is a country known as Zambia. All right. From six 254 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:35.880 o'clock to about eight o'clock there is South Africa. Why 255 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:39.400 am I doing this? Slame clock thing, because it matters 256 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:43.759 so much for our story. South Africa. We will begin there. 257 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:50.559 South Africa and Rhodesia are as tight as tight can get. 258 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:55.240 There are so many South Africans in Rhodesia. They love 259 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:58.720 each other, they work together, they have similar forms of 260 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:03.680 They are best, best, best freaking friends. As far as 261 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:09.440 countries go. South Africa is a friend. When these sanctions 262 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:13.920 get slapped on Rhodesia, South Africa steps up and says, hey, 263 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:17.480 we got you, sell us your stuff. We'll continue to 264 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:21.000 trade with each other. South Africa also has and this 265 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:24.839 will definitely matter for our story throughout our story. They 266 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:30.400 have that wonderful, wonderful liquid gold known as oil. They 267 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:36.079 keep Rhodesia's well supplied with oil. They have a friend. Now, 268 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:40.160 let's go to Mozambique. Remember the twelve o'clock to six o'clock, big, 269 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:46.960 big border with Rhodesia. They're also friendly because Mozambique at 270 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:50.000 this point, and this will change. Spoiler alert, this is 271 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:54.680 going to change. Mozambique is run by the Portuguese, all right, 272 00:19:54.920 --> 00:20:00.680 the Portuguese Rhodesia. They get along. They are still working 273 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:05.640 with each other, trading. Zambia the country in the Northwest. 274 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:07.640 Forget about them. We are going to get to them. 275 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:11.920 They're going to be featured here shortly. But Rhodesia has friends. 276 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:16.200 What's the result of this, They declare independence. All these 277 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:23.880 sanctions they're supposed to be bankrupted, Rhodesia's flourishing, flourishing. They 278 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:29.240 went independent and they're getting along really, really well. Now 279 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.319 we have to go globally again, because this will matter 280 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:40.480 for the rest of our story. Communists, it's a religion 281 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:43.200 of destruction and domination. As we've talked about so many 282 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:48.200 times before, communism was never supposed to be about any 283 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:54.720 one country. Communism was always designed, always pushed as being 284 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:59.599 a global thing. At this point in history, the Soviet 285 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:05.680 Union is churnin and burning, China churning and burning. These 286 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:09.920 are communist countries and they are very very interested in 287 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:15.440 spreading their communism globally. And they are then, just as 288 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:20.279 they are now, very very interested in the continent of Africa. 289 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:25.279 Africa is gigantic, it is strategically located. They have all 290 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:30.519 kinds of resources that every country wants. The communist nations 291 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.720 on the planet want Africa, and they want all of it. 292 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:40.759 And they recognize there's an opportunity. Here. We have this 293 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:48.319 country called Rhodesia. Britain has cut them off, and there's 294 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.400 a crack, isn't there. We're ready to discuss that crack. 295 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:57.880 There are all kinds of little villages and African reservations, 296 00:21:58.039 --> 00:22:02.960 essentially in Rhodesia, Black Africans who have not had a 297 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:06.880 standard of living equal to the white Europeans. There's enough 298 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:11.680 of a crack there that can be exploited. And now 299 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:22.640 terrorism starts. Terrorism mainly from Zambia. Zambia. Remember it's that 300 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:28.960 twelve o'clock to ten o'clock the northwestern border, that's Zambia. 301 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:37.400 The Soviets and the Chinese both form groups African communist, 302 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:40.480 African nationalists, whatever word you want to put on it, 303 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:45.000 African groups, and they decide they're going to have a 304 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:50.000 go at conquering Rhodesia. And they weren't even that subtle 305 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:54.440 about it. The Soviets freaking gave them tanks. They would 306 00:22:54.440 --> 00:23:00.079 send advisors, Chinese advisors, Soviet advisors. How involved are the 307 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:02.680 Soviets and Chinese and this will matter for the rest 308 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:06.920 of our story. They would take African leaders and they 309 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:11.160 would ship them to places like the Soviet Union, like China, 310 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.200 like East Germany, and they would ship them there for training. 311 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:18.839 And I mean in depth training, not just weapons training, 312 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:25.039 not just battle tactics. I'm talking about insurgency tactics, communist tactics. 313 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:28.279 How do you infect a place? How do you infiltrate 314 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:32.240 a place? How do you destroy a place? Training camps 315 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:37.559 for the Africans put on by the Soviets and the Chinese, 316 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:42.000 and the poor Rhodesians don't even understand what is about 317 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:45.440 to come their way, but they do. The night a 318 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:49.440 white farmer, it's nineteen sixty six, a white farmer and 319 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:53.759 his wife, they are ambushed and slaughtered on their farm. 320 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:56.599 I need to set up something here. I already mentioned. 321 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:59.200 Rhodesia is a huge country. I mentioned that last night. 322 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:00.680 Not so much night, it's this is a very very 323 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.279 big place. It's not a small country. And they of 324 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:09.400 course have these cities, these urban areas. But as I've said, farming, agriculture, 325 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:12.160 it's such a wonderful land for that. It's just made 326 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.359 for that. It was a huge part of their economy, 327 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:17.079 huge part of what they did. And there were these 328 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:21.960 huge farms that the Europeans ran and owned, and they 329 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:24.920 had of course Africans working on their Black Africans working 330 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:28.640 with them, and things like that. But these farms, as 331 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:30.680 you can imagine, you can't put a farm in the 332 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:35.960 middle of the city. They are rural, rural farms. They're 333 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.839 out there, they're in the hinter lands. They're not right 334 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:44.680 next to the cop shop. This creates a security nightmare 335 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:47.920 for Rhodesian farmers. There will come a day we're not 336 00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:52.240 there yet in our story where farmers will have twelve 337 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:57.759 foot high security fences all around their homes because they 338 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:00.160 were worried their kids couldn't go to the in the 339 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.920 yard without a bunch of guerrillas chopping them up with machetes. 340 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:07.119 That's how dangerous this situation is. But they don't know 341 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:09.839 this yet, right because the terror hasn't started. Well, the 342 00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:13.000 terror just began nineteen sixty six, white farmer and his 343 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:20.319 wife butchered, butchered, and the Communists in Africa, in the 344 00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:23.880 Soviet Union in China, they want the terror to increase, 345 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:29.599 and they found I was about to say an unlikely ally, 346 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:34.759 but anyone even vaguely familiar with our political situation in 347 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:39.119 the United States of America will understand it's the most 348 00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:43.839 likely ally in the world, wouldn't you know it, Young 349 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:50.240 college girls started to help the international communists smuggle in 350 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:55.519 weapons they could use to commit acts of terror. As 351 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:58.759 I have said many times, there is no more vicious, 352 00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:04.200 violent communist on the planet than the liberal white woman. 353 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:08.559 It's just a fact. So we will continue with all 354 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:12.319 this in a moment. Is the Jesse Kelly Show on 355 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:17.079 a fantastic Thursday getting ready to move into Ask doctor 356 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:21.079 Jesse Friday. Get your questions emailed into Jesse at Jesse 357 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:24.119 kellyshow dot com. Back to our story of the Rhodesian 358 00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:30.039 bush War, terrorist attacks have begun. Russia has their own 359 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:34.440 group of African nationalists communists. China has their group of 360 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:40.640 African Nationalists communists. They are receiving training. Now again, it's 361 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:43.000 not that I'm apologizing, but I'm just gonna drop more 362 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:47.240 details on you because the details are actually necessary. Most 363 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:49.240 of the time, details kill a story. But you have 364 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:56.799 to understand this, two different groups of African nationalists communists. Okay, 365 00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:01.240 there is ZAPU going to go into what it stands for. 366 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:06.319 That's a detail, doesn't matter. ZAPU backed by the Soviets. 367 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:12.599 Then there's ZANU backed by the Chinese. Don't worry about 368 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:15.359 making sure you know who's back by who. Zapu backed 369 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:20.720 by the Soviets, Zanu backed by the Chinese. These organizations, 370 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.799 as I said, are being trained by the Soviets in 371 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:29.000 the Chinese in infiltration tactics. Rhodesia is not fully aware 372 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:32.200 of it yet, but war has already been declared on 373 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:35.640 them by the Soviets in the Chinese, who want to 374 00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:41.799 make Rhodesia a communist country, and they start by sending 375 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:44.279 rebels over the border. In fact, let me give you 376 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:46.720 a summary of how this war is going to go. 377 00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:49.279 Not to spoil the ending, but you probably get it 378 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:51.440 by now. Let me give you a summary of how 379 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:54.039 this war is going to go. There aren't that many 380 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:58.039 white Europeans in Rhodesia, right, two hundred thousand, give or 381 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:00.559 take two hundred thousand of them. That big of a 382 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.319 military twenty thousand again, give or take. It's gonna depend 383 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.599 on the time period twenty thousand. In the military, the 384 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:10.319 Communists are going to start setting up shop in the 385 00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:14.960 countries around Rhodesia, and they're going to start making incursions 386 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:19.240 into the country. The military is going to fly out 387 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.319 and kill this incursion and kill that incursion. They find 388 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:25.240 ten guys here and twenty guys there, and they find this, 389 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:29.480 and they find that. But over time, as the world 390 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:36.680 retreats on poor Rhodesia, the incursions increase in volume, increase 391 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:40.920 in frequency. You understand, this is the very beginning of it. 392 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:45.279 We're in like nineteen sixty six here. What's happening now 393 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:50.319 is the Rhodesian military, which is elite, absolutely elite. Are 394 00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:52.680 There are a few different elements to the military. I 395 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:55.599 want to mention right now. They have an air force. 396 00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:59.599 Remember when I said South Africa and Rhodesia are super tight. 397 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:04.240 About half of the Rhodesian Air Force is actually South African, 398 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:08.599 South African pilots, South African planes. That's how tight they are. 399 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:10.680 That will matter later on. So there's an air force. 400 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.640 They have the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Again, I want to 401 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.960