What Comes Next: Aftermath of Operation Absolute Resolve

Good morning, PB and family. James Waltney and Trepid Commander with you. Glad to be back to civilization after really just a blistering cold overnight in the Appalachian Mountains of my son great time, phenomenal time, really, and while we were doing any number of different things to try and keep warm, I think it was about seventeen degrees air temperature or you know, wind chill factor. Apparently we decided to overthrow a dictatorship. All the while I'm feeding wood into the woodstove and I was testing out this whole nother. I can't tell you about the camping gear on this one because I'll get sidetracked and I don't want to get sidetracked. But I will talk about some serious cold weather camping gear revelations that I had. I did get some video for the member out there, you know who you are, so we will do a show. We will do some video recap on that. Okay, I want to talk about Operation Absolute Resolve today. I want to talk about the world's reaction. I want to talk about what unfolded sort of timeline style now that we have time, you know what I mean. It's early on doing this podcast thing. It got really exciting to try to be first. It got really exciting to try to come out and be the guy who you know, gets you the news first. And look a lot of times we still are, even though we don't shoot for it all the time. But what I've learned in this news heavy era where the news and the things that happen they're not he's what they seem. I find it pretty good to wait before you really get into things, you know what I mean. It's it's really I mean, when vast majority of your information comes out of a news media that you don't necessarily trust, I do think it's you should take time. I do think you should wait. We did what we did a great job on PBN. Dave Jones did a phenomenal job. By the way, he may be on later this morning. He may not. I'm not sure. He had said he he had really motivated me to hop on this morning and do this show, and uh, I think he wants to be a part of it, so he may be on. But I want to thank him because he stepped out, he broke the news. He did a great job. He covered historical uh information about you know, our role in overthrowing leadership across the world in other forms and facets, which we do a lot of, and we have done many times. It's not really that new of a thing. Really, what's kind of what's relatively new is keeping the guy alive. That's one I haven't seen in my lifetime. I don't often remember these leaders getting to stay alive. Now, you know, it's early, it's early on. So I think what I first want to get into. I have quotes here from around the world, and that's kind of what I'd like to talk about because for me personally, well, I've always said about the drones. If we're talking about one hundred thousand deaths per year, we're talking about fentonyl we're talking about drugs. Never forget you're talking to a guy who ninety percent of his ninety percent of my cousins are dead from drugs. Okay, So I gotta my mindset is wacky when it comes to drugs. Okay. But literally I had a big family. My mom had five, four siblings, right. Three of those siblings had kids, is that right? And I don't want to say their names. Yeah, three three had kids, multiple kids, right, and like almost all of them are dead from some form of drugs or other. It's not fentonal related. Maybe I don't know. Some of them could have been, but cousins and second cousins and so on. Like a lot of people, a lot of people in my family checked out thanks to drugs. So, you know, anytime I basically I understand, you know what I mean, the severity, Right, there's been a there's been a movement. Really, Joe Rogan has kind of propagated the movement more than anybody, and he's done a lot of good things. I'm not picking on the guy. I'm just telling you like it is, right, Joe Rogan has had a consistent movement to kind of like look level off the effects of drugs. And I think he's a disciplined person who has a lot of money, a lot of resources, been around people, you know, in his sort of world, and I really do think he downplayed drug use, and I don't think it was good for the culture. I don't think downplaying drug use is a good thing period. I just don't. I don't. I have a terrible memory of taking one of my cousins to smoke pot for the first time, first drug she'd ever done. You know what, I mean, and we didn't think anything of it. You know, it wasn't no big deal. It was just just another Tuesday in Marcus Silk. And I know it wasn't my fault completely, but you know, five years later, she's dead from heroin. And that's a weird feeling to have when you're a little kid, you know what I mean, when you're young. Whatever. She you know, when she was hooked on heroin, I was probably like eighteen years old, and maybe four years prior to that was you know, everybody tells you marijuana super safe and everything's going to be fine, don't worry about it. Maybe maybe not, you know, maybe not. I'm just telling you the realities because that was it for her. You know, it's a gateway. It can be a gateway, you know what I mean. I didn't go down the drug path, but who knows, you know. So for me, when I look at this situation and I think if we're stemming that, if we're taking one hundred thousand ods and turning it into fifty thousand ods by taking a dictator out of the country, cutting gas prices, I don't love the idea of flying in and scooping up world leaders like God, you know what I mean. But at the same time, and we're not going to get into this on today's show either. This will probably be my surviving America on Wednesday. What we've been lacking in this country for a long time is a vision, you know what I mean. We when's the last time you really thought about America? Vision? What is America going to be on the world stage? What do you want America to be on the world stage. Most of the time we're too busy praising it or we're too busy trying to destroy it to sit down and really think, like, what do we want America to be on the world Do we want America to be? This? Because I think this is the direction that America is going. I think America is going in a heavy handed direction to prosperity. You know what I mean to like, if your country, if your people, if this group so on and so forth, is slowing us down, killing us, weighing us down, costing us too much money, just not working out in our vision. Bad plan, A bad plan. You know. I also think this was a tremendous move, you know, in the face of Russia, in the face of China, in the face of all these militaries, so called so on, so called militaries. I don't know. I said this for years watching Russia operate, watching these militaries hop on the scene and do their thing, like who's surprising the gap between the United States military efficiency and effectiveness and you know what's going on in Ukraine for however many years. So let's get into what people are saying. Okay, I got several different leaders here. Russia's Foreign ministry labeled the strikes quote an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. Never forget right, like Russia's these guys monster ally right, they are literally in oil business with them. They loan them money to be paid back via oil when we're when we're dropping in and scooping up oil tankers from Venezuela. There there for Russia or China, one or the other. Right, it's a big deal. I mean, it's it's a big deal. It's not it's not a maduro in a drug game. Only you know what I mean. This is a it's a big slap in the face because it also shows the world quite the opposite of what America's been doing, right, quite the opposite of what America. So you can look at America's allies. You can look at NATO, right, you can look at Israel, you can look at Ukraine. I don't even know, you know, if you would consider them an ally. But you can look at all these countries and say, when the shit hits the fan, what the big standout is the rocket attack and the ICBM attack. It was ICBMs from Iran two. It was Iran right from Iran to Israel. Do you remember that night? It was It was wild because they shot like hundreds of rockets and ICBMs and missiles Morning Phoenix at Israel. And then we hear that US and British fighter planes were up in the air. You know, obviously the Iron Dome doing it's thing. But these guys, bottom line, we showed up for our allies. We have been showing up for our allies. China never shows up for the ally, Russia never shows up for the ally. And that's what you're seeing. I mean, that's one of the biggest stories in this whole thing in terms of global order, global power, and sort of warfare. Right, is this idea that if you're an American ally, to some extent, they're gonna you're gonna have to there's repercussions. They're not gonna sit there. They're not gonna send a sternly worded message, right like like Russia did. Russia Russia's form, like their their counter strike for their ally was an active armed aggression against Venezuela, right, and of course they called it, and this is hilarious. They called for a full UN Security Council meeting Russia. Russia says, we need to get the UN on this. This is bananas. Hey, keep bombing those women and children over there in the Ukraine. I got a UN meeting about the terror of the United States of America. That's fino. I just think that that's great, and like, look, it makes a country like Russia look as foolish as they can look. And that's the reality, right, you can't look more foolish than that. You can't look more foolish than coming out making a statement saying, oh, this is an active armed aggression against Venezuela and it's unwarranted and it's crazy and I can't believe they're doing it. And then also, you know, shake the UN like its dad, like when Dad America is being beaten up on my buddy Venezuela crazy, so China China's foreign ministry. You know, I'm sure their response is going to be great too, write China is deeply shocked by and strongly condemns the United States brazen use of force against the sovereign state and its actions directed at its president. Again, massive inflow of energy, oil, the whole nine yards. They hold all kinds of loans from China. They are an ally of China, and the response another sternly worded message, maximum response, sternly worded message. So on the ally front, on the you know, Russia protects its allies front, China protects its allies front. It's it's pitiful, really, which is a good thing because it's all going to play into Taiwan, it's all going to play into the you know, the next round of things with Ukraine. Because the world understands what's going on, and most importantly, the allies of these nations, China and Russia understand there is no ally You're not getting any help. Nobody's coming to help you. There was nothing they could do to protect that guy. Colombia's request back by Russian China, The UN Security Council schedules an emergency meeting Monday at ten am. I hope it's live on YouTube. Venezuela's ambassador asserted an inherent right of self defense. I don't know what that means. What could they have done, What would they have done? What could they have done? Let's jump over the timeline so you can get a feeling for what they were up against real quick. We'll take a quick break from that and talk about the timeline of events so you can understand that there's no the inherent right of self defense. I don't know if I'm reading that wrong or if I got that wrong, but just an understanding that, like there's nothing fair, fine, there's nothing going on there. Sorry, checking status. So as far back as twenty twenty, the Justice Department indicted Maduro on narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking charges, which he denied. Twenty twenty three, the president comments that Venezuela was near collapsed during the first term and hints at potential US intervention. Twenty twenty four, Maduro claims victory in a disputed election. Opposition leader at Mundo Gonzalez flees to Spain. Spain has an interesting take on this too. By the way, so this thing's been stirring in the pot between Maduro and Trump in the US for a while. Yeah, I want to I want to do one of these in particular that I'm looking for so you can understand kind of how this thing started. The night of the attack will go over all of these because it's it's pretty cool. So January second, twenty twenty six, ten forty six pm. Trump issues a final order from mar A Lago without notifying Congress to prevent leaks. And this, this is cri key to the future of our country. Okay, this is vital to the future of our country. We can't exist in a world like this where the executive branch doesn't trust Congress, right, the legislative branch. I mean, this is what it is. We have to have trust in it. If you think and listen. I don't think the guy's wrong. I really don't. I don't think the guy's wrong. When you got ilhan Omars in Congress and god only, I mean, she's probably not even the worst of them. But when you have creatures from the Black Lagoon like that that are in Congress and you've already seen things leaked, you already know that things will get leaked. How then do you call Congress together to talk about something like this, to get approval for something like this? You know, I think what we should do as a country on issues like this is you get a much smaller contingent that that comes together, votes and stays together till it's over. Collect the cell phones like you're going to a concert, put them in the EMP bag, gather everybody together in the war room, and you vote. You know what I mean. You get the heads of parties, maybe speakers right, and gather everyone together. We're gonna sit here in this room, we're gonna vote on it. If we vote that, we're gonna pull Maduro out of here. Then he's getting pulled out, and you're gonna sit here and watch it. We're all gonna sit here and watch it. And then we're gonna go back and explain what happened to our constituents because we have to build back that trust. Or this is this executive this whole executive situation is gonna be what it is. It's gonna be. I gotta make this decision. I gotta make it now, and I gotta make it myself, because I know if I put it out there, uh, you know, Crocket's gonna put it on Twitter immediately, and then there goes the whole you know, and then you're putting American service members at risk. And these guys are not This is the top tier. These are the best of the best people. They can't walk into a trap laid to them by Jasmine Crockett. Right, So all that said, here's sort of the deal. Right after he makes that announcement, aircraft take off from twenty bases across the Western Hemisphere. And I read through a lot of this. I didn't read through all of it, but that was one of the most overwhelming. I'm not a military guy, so I don't know if that's commonplace, but that was one of the most overwhelming lines in the whole timeline of operations to me, right, the whole timeline of operations was unnerving after I read aircraft take off from twenty bases across the Western Hemisphere, because it let me know, this is an operation on a scale that I don't even understand. Yeah, you know what I mean. I would never I mean, it makes sense now that I read it, but I would have never thought to keep this thing covert, you know, send a couple planes off of this base that big, and you know, because the size of the opposite amazing, Right, it was huge. So let's do a little more and then we'll go through the timeline itself. Right, a few more world sort of reactions, because I think they're fun. Right, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Santras, remember the guy who lost the election of Maduro, fled to Spain, right, Spain said, He says Spain did not recognize the Maduro regime, but neither will it recognize an intervention that violates international law and pushes the region toward a horizon of uncertainty and belligerence. And for Pedro, you could read it two ways, right, you could read it like he's neither hot nor cold. He's lukewarm. But I don't know, I think he's kind of on the money. Right. It's good that Trump came out and said I'm gonna take over Venezuelan and We're gonna run it just fine for a little while. That's that sounds great. From mar A Lago, we got to see it. America doesn't have a good track record of showing up and taking care of things and other nations. Right, the whole war in Ukraine is basically largely started by the US, you know what I mean, it was largely started by Barack Obama and what's his name, McCain in the United States of America. I mean, it's it was a festering world of tensions over there anyway, but you know, we definitely pushed it in that direction with what is the Color Revolution. So so that's Spain's take on it. Of course, the Brazilian leaders another corrupt operation down there. They're petrified these acts. This is President Louis in Nasio da Silva. Is that the guy's whole name? Louise and Nazio Lula da Silva condemned the strikes as crossing an unacceptable line. These acts quote, these acts represent a grave affront to Venezuela's sovereignty and yet another extremely dangerous precedent for the entire international community. Yeah, that's a stern, stern worded message, but a well worded message. Let's go with that, right, I'm not gonna do anything. Doesn't really make any difference at all, but there is a there is a tinge to truth in that we know it's not like on the up and up. It doesn't feel above Bord. It doesn't feel like there's something about it that feels wrong, I think, even to Americans, even as like Americans glowed about how well it went and YadA, YadA, YadA, and even though we think that it could affect things like oil flow to China Russia, drug flow to the United States, there is a weird thing about dropping in and taking a president done. Right, So let's see what we got here. Oh, Marina Corina Machado. Of course, she's in love with it. Basically Maduro's main opposition. Right, he's out, she's happy. That's the deal. So I don't know. I don't know if you expected much different coming from the international world or from the global sort of response. Right, interesting, Right, the l two survive in chat. What's up, my man? He has a he has a really good point here. He says, do you lock up Congress for four days because you told them there was a well? He says that the whole operation was stopped for weather, right, And then he says, so my vote. In other words, he's questioning my voting idea. Do you lock Congress up for four days, you know, because you told them there was a storm? I think you do? Yeah, I think that's exactly what you do. Actually, I think, but then again, they have to know why they're there, because if they're there for four days, they're going to leak anyway, right then they can leak anyway. So then the whole point it becomes a moot point. But it's I mean, it's the age of lightning everything. You know what I mean, it really is. It's the age of sort of being able to do things quickly. We could figure it out. Don't leave it to me the podcast hosts, to figure out how to run the country. Figure out a way that we could do this thing better, more efficiently, so that basically what I don't want to see is the executive branch always saying I had to do it because Congress sucks. Because that goes both ways. That goes both ways when there's a Republican president, when there's a and you know, what if it's bigger than this, what if it's much better, bigger than this. What if we start making these kinds of decisions with China and Russia, probably more China than Russia, But you never know, right, I mean, do you want to wake up in the middle of the night like most of us did. I was up, but and and find out like, oh, we just made a serious, serious military move that's going to affect the rest of your your future, your children's future, your grandchildren's future. And it's been planned for months and weeks and whatever, and the only guy who signed off on it was the president, right, Yeah, Jay ferg I was like a shadow of myself yesterday. I haven't heard your show yet, but I can't wait to see it. You all should check it out. Phoenix Survival was on air Saturday. PBN man Relentless Prepper Broadcasting Network. Be a great year in twenty twenty six here at PB and I can promise you that don't get me started. Don't get me started. So let's go through the timeline. I may clip this timeline and post it as a podcast on its own. So let's go through the complete timeline of Operation Absolute Resolve. We'll talk about the background and lead up events. Twenty twenty, the US Justice Department indicts Maduro. You know what, this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna stymy this camera here. You guys can look at my beautiful background. I have a feeling my dog is gonna knock my camera over any second now because he keeps doing laps underneath the desk. He's on his own narco terrorism right now, So in essence of you not having to sit here and watch me, you know, read, we'll just cover that US Justice Department in dts Maduro on narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking charges, which he denies. All right, this is twenty twenty three. Former President Trump comments that Venezuela was near collapsed during his first term and hints at potential US intervention. Twenty twenty four, Maduro claims victory in the disputed election. Edmund Gonzalez, opposition leader, takes off to Spain after an arrest warrant sent out for him, because you know, Maduro is such a nice and understanding fella. US labels it's fraudulent and accuses Madua of leading in narco state. Right. Jump forward to July twenty twenty five. Trump administration designates the Cartel of the Suns, linked to Maduro as a terrorist group and authorizes military force. So that was the way. In August twenty twenty five, US military build up in the Caribbean Cia infiltrates Venezuela to monitor Meduro's routines, including habits, diet pets, and movements. So August twenty twenty five is the beginning of the end for Maduro. Right, the CIA is in there and they're figuring out where he's gonna be and when he's gonna be. The early September twenty twenty five US strikes on suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific, sinking over thirty five votes and causing one hundred plus deaths. By December, fall twenty twenty five, US troops train on a mock Maduro compound, practicing breaches with blowtorches. Regular briefings involved Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete hag Seth, and CIA director John Ratcliffe. November twenty twenty five, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado meets US officials offering oil access. Ooh wit, the old word. That old word always seems to show up when we start talking about taking leaders out. US designates Venezuelan and gangs as terrorist organizations, It deploys US s Gerald Ford and poses but blockade. So you know, November it was pretty much a done deal for Maduro, which you know, if you go by the zones, if you go by the sort of the Jones methodology, that's the way it works. Right when they start bringing toys out in large numbers, you know that it's it's game. On early December twenty twenty five, US Positions Forces planning under Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine agreement with Trinidad and Tobago for airport access CIA covert ops launch in Venezuela. You know, for those of you who are always petrified and wary of the CIA, it is good to read kind of like, you know what they do and how they do a little bit to understand, you know, how it plays into the baddest men on the planet dropping in and conducting an operation like this. Future Dan dubbed it the one Hour War, which I thought was really really phenomenal. December nineteen, twenty twenty five, operations shift to mar A Lago for final planning Christmas day or before Christmas Day. Trump approves the operation late December. A last ditch deal offers Maduro exile in Turkey in exchange for oil concessions. So there was a deal given to Maduro exile in Turkey in exchange for oil concessions, but he rejects it, prompting final go ahead for the operation. Trump announces impending strikes. US seesars oil tankers. December twenty nine, twenty twenty five, first direct US strike on Venezuela and soil A. CIA drone hits a cartel facility. Right, nobody's losing sleep over that one. Late December, proximbly one week before the operation, Trump calls Maduro privately urging surrender, but Maduro refuses. This all sounds spot on, and then we go into the execution of the operation. Right execution of Operation Absolute Resolve. January second, twenty twenty six, ten six pm. We talked about this. Trump issues the final order and and he doesn't notify Congress to prevent leaks. Clear weather allows for launch aircraft takeoff from twenty bases across the Western hemisphere. That is bananas. And now it gets even crazier. At one am some standard time January third, twenty twenty six, cyber Attax precedes airstrikes over one hundred and fifty aircraft F twenty twos F thirty five's faaighteens eaaighteens e twos B. I don't even know what an E two is. B one b's my favorite drones. C forty seven's AH sixty four's bomb northern Venezuela. Targets like the Carlota Air Base, Fort Tyuna and ports power disrupted in Caracas, Delta Force one sixtieth sore and FBIHR T raid Maduro's compound. He and wife Cilia Flores captured en route to safe room. One. US helicopter damage, two soldiers injured, no US fatality. Strikes last thirty minutes, swelling air defense is destroyed. So one of the things we always talk about here on PBN is how cyber tax procede air strikes right, war equals off grid bingo. Right. The other thing that's amazing here is the strikes lasted thirty minutes and in that time we destroyed Venezuelan's air defenses pretty without losing anything but a helicopter with two injured soldiers right, no fatalities. January third, twenty twenty six, US forces withdraw from Venezuelan airspace by four to twenty one. Am. Trump announces capture on truth social with photo Maduro blindfolded in Nike and gray Nike sweatsuit. By the way, this is uh. This sweatsuit's becoming a hot item. You may want to buy yours now. Shortly after the announcement, Venezuelan VP Delsa Rodriguez assumes acting presidency, demands proof of life, declares emergency, can mus quote aggression, US issue issues superseding indictment against Maduro and Flores for narco terrorism, cocaine conspiracy, and weapons charges. Casualties reported at least forty Venezuelan's killed, including one civilian unspecified Cuban forces. That's an interesting three word portion of that sentence, right, That's another story for another day. January third, twenty twenty six before five pm, Medua and Flores arrived at Stuart Air National Guard Base, New York, transferred to Manhattan DEA Office, then Metropolitan Attention Center in Brooklyn. From Venezuelan. From Venezuelan vacation pad to Brooklyn, New York. In Wow, in less than twelve hours. That's wild, you know. So. January fourth, twenty twenty six, armed civilian groups and protests emerged in Venezuela, some celebrating the Duro's downfall. International response, you know, Iran cry babying, calling Iran condemns as state terrorism, which again is as laughable as Russia. Right, it's as laughable as Russia. So what comes next? Pbon family, that's the that's the next question, right, that's the next question. What do we see next? Hmm? Rules based international order? What does that mean? What? What does it look like to put these rules down on paper? Right? To put these rules down on paper and to say that they mean something with the UN and the and you know, all the treaties and all the conventions and so on, when war really happens, when these things really break out, right, because what are you gonna call this? This is what it is. You know, it's not whatever, don't. I don't want to get into that argument. It's a very interesting situation. Right. It kind of exposes the rules based international order as selective. Right, I think it. I think it will deepen the alliances probably between China, Russia, Iran and maybe that little bricks group of nations. More. Right, they meet together and they say, de man, the United States is out of control. Right. Price of gas is gonna go down, no doubt about that. For the US, price of gas is gonna go down. The amount of drugs flowing into the country is going to go down. I mean, these are these are undeniable facts, right, there's no way that all this can go down. And we don't see greater alliances between well, I don't want to call it alliances because we beat to death the allies and how you know, allies work in this world with China and Russia and India and so on. So probably not really that big of a change over there. But I think there will be a lot of a lot of sternly worded letters and cross armed meetings right where the bricks nations get together and say we need to do something about that. And look, someone may eventually do something about the United States or Donald Trump. So that is a piece of this puzzle, right, like you don't nowadays, you don't need eighty aircraft and delta force to really do harm. That's the story of the Ukrainian Russia war. Right. So it's not that you know, we're in pervious by any stretch. Right, if I were against the US, I probably do exactly what I Ran does and and continue to do what Iran always is doing, which is funding the people who come to our nation and shoot people up and blow people up. I don't want to speak it into quite frankly, I don't want to speak it into reality, So I'll leave it at that. But yeah, we'll see, We'll definitely see a drop in oil prices for sure. Right, what else? What else comes? Well, the future of Venezuela is at risk. Now, we're not good at this part. We're good at the part prior. We're not good at this part. This is the part we always mess up. So hopefully we have a better game plan, right, Hopefully you have a better game plan for what Venezuela looks like post Maduro. It'd be great to have them as an ally, right, it be great. It'd be great to have an oil producer like that. The most cynical of all people, I guess, are saying that the United States did all this just to get the oil price down the dollar fifty average. Look, it's been on the Trump's radar for a long time. In many ways. You have to do something about one hundred thousand of your people being killed a year, right, you can't do nothing. And I know that China is the one selling the precursors of fentanyl to people, and a lot of it's being produced here in the United States, but some and it's just one of those. Unfortunately for Maduro. I think this is the full story. He's a wrong place, wrong time kind of guy. He's a bad dude, there's no doubt about it. But he really was sort of the wrong place, wrong time guy. He was the closest Russia, China ally cartel ally dictator with a bad track record, closest to the United States. A guy we could get to real fast, a guy we could flood there operating waters, you know, with all kinds of equipment and ships and so on, and we could do it quick, and we could do it easy and you know, project power, as they say, pretty quickly, pretty easy to Venezuela. So I think it made him a real easy target for Donald Trump to make a move like this that had a lot of different goals in the residual effect, right, a lot of residual goals, and the residuals were I guarantee it with drugs. I guarantee it was oil. But one of the biggest ones I think is Donald Trump smashing his head against the desk trying to stop the rush of Ukraine war and trying to fend China off from Taiwan, and I think every opportunity that he gets to show the world with the US military is capable of on a small scale, is a chance to kind of, you know, play our hand a little bit with these larger nations, because we don't want to go to war with them. We want to talk some sense into them. So what comes next, we'll just have to see. We'll just have to see. But there are some things we can count on. Right, We're gonna have access to a lot more oil. That's gonna make a difference. We'll get that strategic reserve refilled. I'm sure that it'll be interesting to see how long this lasts as outrage in the international community. It will be absolutely devastatingly boring to watch Congress cry about it for a week. They'll probably try to impeach him over it, you know, that whole thing. But the bigger story for me, guys, and kind of what I want to talk about this week more is and this is our job. This is the people of this country's job is to figure out what is the future of America. What do we want America to be in this world? Right? Because if we're gonna play world police, or not gonna play World Police, or we're gonna play nationalism or not play nationalism, or we're gonna play all these different games that people say we play, and you know a lot of times they're right, what does that look like? And what do we want? Because look, if we're gonna, if we're gonna stop playing World Police, then you better get used to this shit, do you know what I mean? This is something you got to get used to. This is the difference. If we're not gonna have our little tentacles and our little dollars and cents in every country spread out doing the work to you know, to get them to do our bidding fundamentally, then you better get used to tariffs, and you better get used to military operations where people who are a threat to the United States go away rapidly. In other words, if it's gonna be isolationism for the US America first, so on and so forth, and I have a feeling that these type of military operations are gonna be way more common. We're not gonna spend all kinds of time trying to, you know, manipulate a nation with money, and we're not gonna spend all kind of time sort of bandying about we're gonna look at it as this is a clear and present danger to the United States and what we want to be doing right now and audios and look, you can see that with the rhetoric with Iran, I mean, with the way that Trump's been talking about Iran. It just took me completely off guard the other day to hear him talk about, well, we're probably not done with strikes on Iran. Okay. That tells me that that's changed. The way we deal with leadership, the way we deal with nations has changed. And like I said, without a clear vision for this country and what we want this country to be. And by not participating, I mean, sure, you know, people vote for this person and that person. But one of the things that the average you talk to, the average American, they have a lot of things to say, right, Oh, the cost of living is high. Oh, Donald Trump's a monster. Oh I'm glad we're deporting criminals. And you know, whatever wherever you fall on the spectrum, it's really hard to post the vision, your vision for your nation in the comments section. Do you know what I mean? It's really hard to hop on x and really articulate your vision for your country. But see, one of my problems with the American people is we want the bread and circuses only and we want Big Daddy up in the executive branch to handle everything else. And that's not how the country was created and how it was envisioned. So, in other words, you got to think about it and you got to communicate it. Sometimes. Sometimes you got to think about what you want from your nation and what you want your nation to be, and then you have to communicate that to people and you have to do it. You just have to do it. It doesn't matter if you say, oh, I'm just gonna get my representative's answering machine and they're never gonna call me back, or YadA YadA YadA. Right, sometimes you just got to do that. You have what is called the civic duty, and it goes beyond just deciding making the great decision every four years, will I go all the way over to the school and vote or will I do I have something more important to do? Right, That's all that's my take. Otherwise, if you don't create a vision for the US, if we don't create in our minds, in our hearts sort of some kind of future for how we want the United States to operate. Look and convey it, which we all have the capacity to convey it. Don't act like you're voiceless this day and age. Right, It's one thing. If you lived on a farm in you know, eighteen oh five, and you got a newspaper or whatever letter, Yeah, you didn't have no voice. You could have had the perfect vision for the United States. Nobody'd ever hear from you. It's a different world. Now you have to convey. You have to convey that vision. What you want, what you don't want out of your country. See everything in the world that I see anymore happens with momentum, Right, the more people that get on board with this thing or jump off of that thing. If we sit here and we type in chat, or we type in the comments section of some video or something, and say, I like what Donald Trump did, I don't like what Donald Trump did, which is basically what the world's going to do for the next what seventy two hours, I like it, I don't like it. Then you'll have an eye like it. I don't like it world, and you'll have an eye like it. I don't like a country, and you'll have the kind of country that that people like us deserve. If we're just gonna judge and that's it, you know what I mean, If we're just gonna say, ooh, a thing happened and I like it. Well, a thing happened and I don't like it. Well what else? I don't know what else, but I like it. I don't know what else, but I don't like it. Right, I'm gonna go back to Xbox now. Thank you, think it over, PBN family. One thing's for certain. Hats off to the United States military. Hats off to the United States military. I wish that we could in an alternate universe, right, watch Russia try what we did. Watch China try what we did. I personally would love to see North Korea take a shot at it in some alternate war gaming universe, just for the laughs, you know what I mean. So you have to, you know, you have to understand that those men are a different thing, those men and women that pull that off. Man. That's so it's an incredible thing. The whole start to finish, from the planning to the execution to the you know, this is Dave Jones always says it's training, you know. He says that the big difference maker is training in the United States military against every other military And from my experience, you know, in the working world, you can always tell where training is great and where training sucks. So yeah, let's do it. Pbon family, onward and upward, keep your eyes about you. It is what it is. This is these stories like these are the reasons that we prepare, the reason that we've done all these things that we've done over the years. Right because the world doesn't stop, Jay Fergenschad says, my life doesn't stop. Yeah, which is keep going, you know, so come what may, we better be prepared. All right, folks, Sunday morning with the interrapid Commander. I hope you enjoyed it, Dave, I hope you're not too upset it you didn't hop on or I didn't get you and verify. Yeah, I'm not sure what happened, but we didn't cross wires effectively. But that's the world, the world's take on the events. That's the timeline of events. That's my take on the whole situation. And now we'll just have to sit back and hopefully watch the gas prices go down and see if anybody's gonna do anything about it. I'm sure, the UN will have some sternly worded messages for the United States and Donald Trump. And that's it. Man, keep doing what you're doing. I'll give give a sternly worded prep on. How about that. See you next week, folks. Monday, we kick off a whole new week, all new objectives, the whole thing, right. Don't forget to tune into the Prepper Broadcasting Network and spread the word for me. Okay, share these podcasts tell people that in this day and age, you may want to listen to PBM. Thanks everybody in chat for giving your two cents. I appreciate you. Guys. We'll talk to you