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