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Sean Parnell in for Jesse: America's involvements in conflicts since Korea
This is a podcast from WOR. It is the Jesse Kelly show. Let's have some fun on a Tuesday. OK, time out. So you realize by now that I'm not Jesse Kelly, but I have been practicing that impression since they told me that I would be filling in for him. My name is Sean Parnell. I am a combat veteran. I'm a best selling author, but more important than both of those things, I am simply a humble servant of America. And I do not want to see the Democrats destroy it. I am obviously filling in for my friend Jesse Kelly, and I am so grateful to him and his entire team for this opportunity. But we have a huge show for you today, and I'm so excited to get into it. We're going to talk about America's Groundhog's Day. That is our foreign policy. We're going to talk about the fact that diversity is not our strength, despite what many of our political leaders will tell you. Trump spoke at the Libertarian Convention and other places that where he doesn't really have any historic support. Everything. And I do mean everything the deep state did to, quote, help us during covid. Actually did the opposite, and I'm going to tell you all about it. Government conspiracy theories are hysterical when you actually think about them all that in so much more on the world famous Jesse Kelly show. So I want to tell you something. Yesterday was Memorial Day and obviously served in Afghanistan in combat for 485 days, 16 months of combat. And I lost some of my closest friends there. I think in support of 20 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I think I've lost close to 30 friends. And I'm not saying this as a poor me. I am not a victim of that experience. I am a volunteer. I volunteered for my service to this great country. And I would do it all again. But celebrating the legacy and remembering the fallen is something that is deeply important to me and in Fort Parnell, along with my amazing wife and five children. We have this awesome blended family. We do everything that we can to teach our children what it means to be free. We try to focus on every generation of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, coast guards who have given the last full measure in support of this great country. But yesterday we focused on our Vietnam vets and we've got Vietnam vets out there that are listening today. I just want to say thank you so much to all of you and welcome home personally. You know, we love you and we appreciate you here in this country. You all didn't get the welcome home that so many of us that have served our country have received. And you know, there was a time when I was a young lieutenant studying the Vietnam War. And I wish I had known then what I realize now that we are literally I literally at that time was standing on the shoulders of giants and you all are Vietnam veterans were those giants because you didn't get the welcome home that you so deserve, but you made a promise to this nation that was not grateful to you when you came home that you would never allow that to happen again in our country and we are benefiting every generation since then has benefited from that promise. So I thank you. You know, I often talk about the double edged sword of living in a free society. And what I mean by that is if you are doing the right thing on behalf of God in country and say you have children or grandchildren, you say, well, my gosh, I want my children to inherit a country that is better than the one that I had. So we work hard to give them a better life, but with each successive generation in some way children have it easier and they get further and further away from their freedom and there's a way in which in some sometimes kids don't really appreciate what we have here. They don't appreciate how truly rare freedom is. And so my family was celebrating and learning about the Vietnam War and we watched a movie called We Were Soldiers and We Were Soldiers is a great movie because it really does capture the totality of war, especially in Vietnam. The heroism of our soldiers, the fallout at home, all the horrible things that the family had gone through and the absolute cowardice of the American government. And there was something that I heard at the end of that movie that stuck with me. And I've seen the movie. I hadn't seen it for a very long time. It came out in 2002, but something that Nguyen Huon, who is the Vietnamese commander that was overseeing the battle of the Adrang Valley against, of course, famed American colonel, Lieutenant Colonel Howe Moore. And in the end of the, in the end of the movie, when the Americans had won, in quotations, won the battle, he says this in Vietnamese, such a tragedy that they will think this was their victory. So this will become an American war and the end will be the same. Except for the numbers who will die before we get there. And that stuck with me. And it's been rattling around in my noggin for the past 12 hours, which is why I'm telling you about it right now. And of course, I'm building to something with this. So follow me here, but it seems like America falls into this trap going all the way back to at least Korea, where we get involved in conflicts that don't have a clearly defined end state. A conflict without clearly, without a clearly defined victory. And we sacrifice tens of thousands of American lives in support of that conflict to have at the very end, we win every battle, tactical battle on the battlefield, yet somehow we walk away from the war, feeling like we've lost. This has been bothering me because it feels like here in America, we don't often learn from our history. So this will become an American war and the end will be the same. Except for the numbers who will die before we get there. Korea, Vietnam Desert Storm, 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, 20 years. Folks, I'm 42 years old, about half of my life. This nation has only known war in those two nations. And what does America have to show for those two wars? Can we definitively say that we are better off? Can we definitively say that we are safer? How about more prosperous? Of course, we cannot. Trillions and trillions of dollars spent. Tens of thousands of Americans dead hundreds of probably close to 100,000 Americans wounded over the course of 20 years. Hundreds of thousands wounded, certainly with the invisible wounds of war. America's sons and daughters are this nation's most precious natural resource. And what did we sacrifice them all for? What was it all for? And that's going to bring me to Ukraine. Before I tell you about Ukraine and some of the latest headlines from there, let me tell you about preborn. A recent study reports that the rapidly declining global birth rate will lead to a major population crisis if birth rates continue to decline. Their massive support for Planned Parenthood is all a part of their plan. While we may feel hopeless in the constant attack on life, there is an amazing way to fight back when they shout abortion, we shout life. Preborn is leading the way every day. Their network rescues 200 babies. You see when a mother meets her baby on the ultrasound and here's the heartbeat. A baby's chance at life doubles. 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I love that guy. Oh, that's awesome. So we've been talking about the cost of war and we've been talking about America's groundhog's day foreign policy. Of course, talking about the famous movie with Bill Murray. We seem to get ourselves back in the same situation all the time over and over again. And what I was building to in the previous segment was a discussion about Ukraine and a headline that has not been talked about enough. And this is, of course, from zero hedge and the headline is this Ukraine confirms France will send military trainers to its soil. Ukraine's military said it's welcoming French trainers in Ukraine in new remarks, which strongly suggests that for the first time France is deploying troops to Ukraine soil. This marks the beginning of major boots on the ground. Escalation in a formal public policy or a public capacity by a NATO state. Ukraine's top commander said on Monday he had signed paperwork, allowing French military instructors to visit Ukrainian training centers soon. Reuters also reported this on Monday. Folks, this is, this is scary stuff. I have a question to all those folks who have Ukrainian flags in their bio on Twitter or X. I wonder if you are willing to send your son or your daughter to Ukraine to fight for their freedom. Do you support that war so much that you are willing to send your own children to fight it? If the answer to that question is no, then you should take the Ukrainian flag out of your bio immediately because folks, let me tell you, that is exactly where this war is headed. Think back to what we just talked about in America's Groundhog's Day foreign policy. We have invested hundreds, over a hundred billion dollars of American taxpayer money to the war effort in Ukraine. And let me tell you this. The best that we can hope for in that fight, the longer we fund Ukraine is a stalemate. And the longer that that stalemate drags on, the more likely that American sons and daughters will find themselves on the battlefield, keeping the peace and come hell or high water. We cannot allow that to happen. As I mentioned, American sons and daughters sending American sons and daughters into the fight should be a last resort. They are our best. They are our brightest. They are our most precious natural resource, yet politicians on both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans in Washington seem to be marching to the drumbeats of war and unison on this issue. There is no distinction between Republicans and Democrats. And that scares me a little bit. Because America is not ready for a long protracted war in Ukraine with American sons and daughters facing down a Russian horde. War is absolute hell. Trust me. I've been there. It changes you. You know, folks, so much of my foreign policy perspective as it pertains to the direction of this country is based on my own personal experiences, boots on the ground as an army officer. Now, Jesse, he was a marine enlisted guy. I was an army officer, but what we both have in common is that we were both in the infantry, we were both knuckle draggers. And let me tell you, there is something about seeing war up close and personal that changes you in a very deep and fundamental way. And so I'm not talking to you about my combat experience to impress you. I'm telling you to impress upon you the importance of not getting involved in another war in Ukraine with no clearly defined mission, no clearly defined end state. We have no idea what victory looks like in, oh, by the way, America has seemingly rejected any semblance of a negotiation, a peace negotiation between Zelensky and Vladimir Putin. Leadership, folks, whether it's foreign policy or on the battlefield or in the political arena is all about pursuing common ground, pursuing diplomacy. And if you're pursuing American foreign policy, I would like to lead with diplomacy. So we don't find American sons and daughters facing down a Russian horde. And oh, by the way, Russia is a nuclear armed power. That's the direction that we're going, folks. And that should scare each and every one of you. And you know, that's what I appreciate about President Trump. And if you've listened to me on my show, Battle Ground Live, which streams live on rumble from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, see how I did that shameless plug right there. Then you know that I've been a Trump guy since the very beginning. Now, hey, this is it. This is a big tent party. Love Trump. Don't like Trump. It doesn't matter. If you want to save this country, we want you listening to this show because we need your help and in the trenches in the, in the fight to save it. But what I appreciated about Donald Trump from the very beginning is that he just thought differently. You know, in Washington, there's this crazy group think that happens where I told you where Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same on so many issues. You call them the uni party. Well, what I appreciated on about Donald Trump is his ability to resist group think on both sides of the aisle on any given day, he was an equal opportunity. He's making, he was making Republicans angry. He was making Democrats angry. And I appreciated his approach to foreign policy because it was focused on a diplomatic and state surgical strikes. And different is what we need right now. Because what we have done for the last 20 years, both in Iraq and Afghanistan has not been effective. We've thrown away American blood and treasure. There's something about maybe toppling autocrats. That's ain't such a good idea. We tried it in Egypt. It didn't work out great. We tried it in Libya with Gaddafi. It didn't work out great. We've sown chaos there. We tried it in Syria, tried it in Iraq. We left the void in Iraq when we pulled out, which gave rise to ISIS. When America gets involved with no clearly defined end state and Republicans and Democrats seem hell-bent on doing just that, bad things happen. We need to change. We back here soon talking about the fact that America is a melting pot, right? Stay tuned. Jesse Kelly, Jesse Kelly radio show be right back on the Jesse Kelly radio show. My name's Sean Parnell filling in for my buddy. Marine Jesse Kelly. I'm, of course, an army veteran. He's a Marine combat veteran, army combat veteran. He's enlisted. I'm an officer. It doesn't matter. We're still friends. But listen, folks, all my life. I have been taught and this plays into everything else that we're talking about. So just go with the flow here. And if you're just joining us, you'll know exactly where I'm going with this. But all of my life, I have been taught that America is a melting pot, haven't you? I'm sure that in school, you were told by your history teachers or social studies teacher that, Hey, look, America welcomes people from all around the world. And when they come here, they don't have to discard their culture outright. No, of course they bring the best aspects of their culture here to America with them. But at the end of the day, they're Americans first. In fact, my grandfather was the youngest of, I think, six siblings and came across on the boat from Italy. And I, my mom in my aunt told me a story about my grandfather at a, at a Italian American event in Western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, where I'm from. And they were watching my mom and my aunt was watching my grandfather talk in Italian with all these people there and he came back and he looked at my mom and he looked at my aunt and they said when they were just little kids, well, dad, I didn't know that you spoke Italian. And he goes, ah, I speak Italian. But listen, I'm America. I'm an American first. So my grandfather, a lifelong Democrat, was an OG America firster. But listen, folks, diversity is not our strength. If you believe everything that I just told you that we are in melting pot and we welcome people with open arms from all around the world, then you believe that it's not diversity that is our strength. It's our unity. It's as Americans where we look past our many differences. That is our true strength here in America. But you hear two types of people say the diversity is diversity is our strength. You're two five types of people say this. You hear garbage, commie lives who are lying to you. And you also hear useful idiot Republicans who want to ingratiate themselves to the media and be in the popular crowd. Those two groups of people are morons. If you hear anybody tell you that diversity is our strength, you should laugh in their face because it's not. And of course, Democrats do that to divide us. Democrats do that to keep and retain power. It's all that really matters to them. I mean, think about it. Democrats divide people. Black, white, Christian, atheist, young, poor, young, old, rich, poor. It doesn't matter if there's a difference among us. The Democrats use that difference to divide us. But of course, an unhealthy focus on diversity is making our military a hellscape, which actually puts our servicemen and women in danger. But it also puts our country in grave danger as well. In fact, there is not a day that goes by where I don't hear from members of our military, whether it's active military, they will tell me that in training, training for going to war, that they spend far too much time in the classroom. Watching PowerPoint presentations focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or LGBTQ, Alimento P, and sanity, or pronouns. Just talk to a Marine that was telling me about this a couple of days ago. I mean, listen, folks, this stuff is real. Go on social media, go on TikTok. You'll see it for yourself. I saw this clip of a Navy dude putting on lipstick and dancing around on an aircraft carrier talking about landing a plane. Now I know what you're thinking, isn't this just a normal recruiting ad for the Navy? But no, that's, that's not, of course, it's not. See, we don't focus on our differences when you're in the military. You, we discard our many differences. It's not about, it's not about who you are as an individual. It's not about your sexuality. It's not about who you love, what color your skin is, what, what God you worship. You're a part of something greater than yourself. You're a part of a unit and a focus on things that do not directly pertain to making us a more lethal force on the battlefield is simply just dangerous. It's irresponsible. And if you think that this does not matter, I can assure you that you would be wrong. Priorities from the top in leadership, they 100% trickle down to rank and file enlisted soldiers in the military. This overt focus on this BS completely distracts us. It makes us less safe. It actually puts lives in danger on the battlefield. In fact, I can think of one such instance, you're talking specifically about my infantry platoon. We were the most diverse group of people that you could possibly imagine. Six of my troops in the infantry and Afghanistan were not even American citizens when they, when they joined up, they joined because they loved this country and they wanted to fight for it and they wanted to serve. Almost every one of the 85% of my platoon was wounded. There was one time we were overrun. And I remember watching my men fight who were true heroes. And by the way, the job that most of these kids had before joining the military was high school shortstop. It was one triumph of the human spirit after the next. And the reason that they were so effective on the battlefield was, was, of course, we have sexy equipment and we have good training. But the reason why we were victorious that day and on every day thereafter was because we fought as one. We were united in purpose under a common manner, under a common banner, fighting for a common mission. My platoon survived because we did not dwell on our many differences as Americans. We survived because we were able to unite behind them. But our military is not that today. Do you remember General Milley on Capitol Hill talking about White Rage? Listen, if you don't remember, first of all, on the issue of critical race theory, et cetera, I'll obviously have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is. But I do think it's important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read, and the United States Military Academy is a university. And it is important that we train and we understand. And I want to understand White Rage and I'm white and I want to understand it. So what is, oh, I want to understand White Rage. And I said, I and by the way, you might be thinking, well, isn't that funny that every time Sean talks about White Rage, he goes into white male rage. The irony is not lost on me, but I will tell you this. When he said that, I went on Tucker Carlson Show. And two days after he said that, I said, well, maybe General Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, should focus on the withdrawal from Afghanistan. That is inevitably coming down the pike three months later after he said that we surrendered in Afghanistan and what was one of the worst, most humiliating defeats in American history. If you think that we're not distracted on this diversity, equity, and inclusion in sanity, you'd be wrong. Or how about this? Gaza peer failure. Biden decided without permission. This is from a muse on Twitter slash X to spend more than $500 million building a peer to deliver gay aid to Gaza. Palestinian terrorists intercepted every ounce of the aid. The US military suffered multiple casualties. And now the peer is sinking into the ocean. This makes us less safe. We're definitely distracted. 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OK, we have been talking about Biden's legacy and how it has been marked by one blender after the next, after all, Bob Gates, Obama, Barack Obama's Secretary of Defense has said Joe Biden has been wrong about literally every foreign policy decision for the last 50 years. Oh, by the way, Joe Biden has been in Washington for 50 years. So you do the math, he's basically been wrong about everything. But his overt focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, LGBTQ element. Op in sanity is making our military less effective and making our nation less safe. On May 3, two illegal alien Jordanians tried to breach a military base at Quantico driving a box truck. Again, do you think we might not be focused on the right stuff here? Rice confirms Jordanians who attempted to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico were both in the US illegally. A spokesperson for the base said that two people in a box truck were stopped at the gate with the driver allegedly telling military police officers they were making a delivery to the post office and worked for a company subtracted sub-subcontracted by Amazon. Now, of course, Amazon has no record of them actually working there. And then, of course, there's this possibly related mysterious shooting outside army special forces residents in North Carolina raises questions to Cheshin men who spoke broken English were found near the soldier's home. The family alleges the suspected intruder, 35 year old Ramazan Derev of Chicago was taking photos of their children when confronted near a power line at a wooded part of the property and altercation ensued Derev was shot several times at close range. A second man, whose name I don't know how to pronounce, but I'll give it a crack. Anyway, Dustin Kav Astelan was in a vehicle some distance from the incident and was questioned by authorities and then he was released. So we have illegal aliens crossing our southern border illegally and now trying to penetrate the security of military bases all across our country. It's almost like this is all coordinated. And I have to say that at least they were not praying outside of an abortion clinic because that would be bad and potentially land them in jail for over a decade. But alas, I digress. This isn't an isolated incident, folks. And I joke, but it's graveyard serious. Listen to US fleet forces commander at an admiral talking about what the Navy is dealing, how how the Navy is dealing with all of this right now. It's crazy list on Jennifer's reporting. Chechens, Jordanians, some of them just crossed the border. What's going on? Well, you know, this thing or our military base is getting penetrated by foreign nationals is happening more and more. Yeah, this is something we see probably two or three times a week where we're dropping these folks at the gate with a week, a week, at least. And this is just Navy alone where we're seeing folks try to come in. And usually the cover story is and I'm a student. You know, I'm here. I'm an enthusiast. I want to see the ships, that type of thing. We have to turn them around. And typically we get NCIS involved with those and we get biometrics when possible. But yes, there's been enough taken. Do they have passports? Do they have a lot of times they have papers? They have papers, yes. But they're in no way of shape or form authorized to be on our base. And it's really hard for us to tell the underlying motive for these type of cases. Wow, that's it's really hard for us to discern what the underlying motivation for these cases are. Listen, folks, I served on active duty for almost seven years. I have never heard of this happening. Not even one single time, let alone two to three times a week. And that is just the Navy. Not only are we distracted, we have a real problem on our hands here, folks. And oh, by the way, while our borders open and our nation is being infiltrated, the whole of our FBI and justice system seems to be singularly focused on getting Trump, national security be damned, faith in the system be damned. Getting Trump is all that seems to matter. We have an open border, 10.5 million illegal alien streaming into our country. We have US military bases, illegal aliens trying to break onto military bases. We have sessions surveilling special operations, troops. And oh, by the way, there have been more reported incidences of foreign nationals, illegal foreign nationals surveilling special operations troops. But hey, getting Trump is all that seems to matter. And of course, Trump is up there with sloppy Alvin Bragg right now dealing with all of this stuff. And I will tell you what, it would be amazing. If we had an FBI and we had a Department of Justice that would actually focus on the threats that we face here, rather than trying to put the front running presumptive Republican nominee in prison for the rest of his life on 93 plus felony charges, it's just absolutely crazy that we live in a time like this. But it is what it is, folks, when we get back, we're going to talk a little bit more about sloppy Alvin Bragg and the closing arguments happening in the trial today. And we are going to jump in strong to our two right back here soon on the Jesse Kelly radio program. I'm Sean Parnell. I will see you in just a little bit. We're going abroad for the first time in years to Spain. But we don't speak Spanish. So we started using battle and started learning. This has been a podcast from WOR.