The Prepper Broadcasting Network - What Comes Next: Aftermath of Operation Absolute Resolve

Episode Date: January 4, 2026

Here we look at the timeline of events, the reactions of the world and what's to come following Operation Absolute Resolve. Its a historic moment that will be argued about for decades!! Get Prepared with Our Incredible Sponsors! Survival Bags, kits, gear www.limatangosurvival.comEMP Proof Shipping Containers www.fardaycontainers.comThe Prepper's Medical Handbook Build Your Medical Cache – Welcome PBN FamilyPack Fresh USA www.packfreshusa.comSupport PBN with a Donation https://bit.ly/3SICxEq

Good morning, PBN family, James Walt and the Intrepid Commander with you. Glad to be back to civilization after really just a blistering cold overnight in the Appalachian Mountains with 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 17 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 wood stove and I was testing out this whole other.

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. 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 it's early on doing this podcast thing it it got real 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 always what they seem. I found it's pretty good to wait before you really get into things.

You know what I mean? 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 you should take time. I do think you should wait. 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 really motivated me to hop on this morning and do this show. And 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 information about, you know, our role in overthrowing leadership across the world and 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 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 uh 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 100,000 deaths per year, we're talking about fentanyl, we're talking about drugs.

Never forget, you're talking to a guy who 90% of his 90% of my cousins are dead from drugs. Okay. So I got a, 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 had kids, multiple kids, right? And like, almost all of them are dead from some form of drugs or another. It's not fentanyl 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 and i basically i understand you know what i mean the 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 consistent movement to kind of like level off the effects of drugs and I think he's a disciplined person who has a lot of money a lot of resources has been around people

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 uh we didn't think anything

of it you know what i mean it wasn't a big deal it was just just another tuesday in marcosilk and uh 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'm when you're young whatever she you know when she was hooked on heroin i was probably like 18 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 um 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 go down the drug path but who knows you know so first

For me, when I look at this situation, and I think if we're stemming, if we're taking 100,000 ODs and turning it into 50,000 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? When's the last time you really thought about America's 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, 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 military so-called, 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, it was surprising the gap between the United States military's 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. Remember, forget, right? Russia's these guys monster ally, right? They are literally in oil

business with them. They loaned them money to be paid back via oil when we're when we're dropping in and scooping up uh oil tankers from venezuela they're there for russia or china one or the other right it's a big deal i mean it's a it's a big deal it's not it's not a meduro 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 the quite the opposite of what america's been doing right quite the opposite of what america's been doing right quite the opposite of what America's 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

to it was Iran right from Iran to Israel remember that night 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 its thing but these guys bottom line we showed up for our allies we have been showing up for our allies China never showed 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 going to have to, there's repercussions. They're not going to sit there. They're not going to send a sternly worded message, right, like Russia did. Russia's, like their counterstrike for their ally was an act of armed aggression against Venezuela, right? And of course, they call for, and this is hilarious, they call for a full UN Security Council meeting Russia. Russia says, like, 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 phenomenal. I just think that that's great. And 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 in coming out making a statement saying oh this is an act of 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 u.n like it's dad like my dad america is being beaten up on my buddy venezuela crazy so uh China. China's foreign ministry, you know, I'm sure their response is going to be great too, right? China's 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 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 at columbia's request backed by russian china the u.n security council schedules an emergency meeting monday at 10 a.m i hope it 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 didn't understand that, like, there's nothing. Fair. Fine. There's nothing going on there. Sorry, checking status.

So, as far back as 2020, the Justice Department indicted Maduro on narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking charges, which he denied. 2023, the president comments that Venezuela was near collapse during the first term and hints at potential U.S. intervention. 20204 Maduro claims victory in a disputed election. Opposition leader Edmundo 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 and the U.S. for a while. I want to do one of these in particular that I'm looking for so you can understand kind of how this thing starts. started the night of the attack.

We'll go over all of these because it's pretty cool. So January 2nd, 2026, 10.46 p.m., Trump issues a final order from Maralaga without notifying Congress to prevent leaks. And this is 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 we 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 i think what we should do as a country on issues like this is you get a much smaller contingent 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 and maybe speakers, right, and gather everyone together. We're going to sit here in this room. We're going to vote on it. If we vote that we're going to pull Maduro out of here, then he's getting pulled out and you're going to sit here and watch it. We're all going to sit here and watch it. And then we're going to go back and explain what happened to our constituents. Because we have to build back that trust or this.

This is, this executive, this whole executive situation is going to be what it is. It's going to be, I got to make this decision. I got to make it now and I got to make it myself because I know if I put it out there, you know, Crockett's going to 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 20 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 takeoff from 20 bases across the Western Hemisphere because it let me know this is an operation on a scale that I don't even understand. 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, 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 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 going to take over venezuelan we're going to run it just fine for a little while that's that sounds great from mara lago we got to see it america doesn't have a good track record of showing up and taking care of things in other nations right the whole war in ukraine is basically largely started by the u.s you know what i mean it was largely started by barack obama and and uh what's his name mccain and 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 the what was the color revolution so so that spain's take on it of course the Brazilian leaders another corrupt

operation down there. They're petrified. These acts, this is President Luis Innasio, Lula de Silva. Is that the guy's whole name? Louis Innasio Lula de 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 worded message, but a well-worded message.

Let's go with that, right? It's not going to do anything. It doesn't really make any difference at all, but there is a tinge to truth in that. We know it's not like on the up and up. It doesn't feel above board. It doesn't feel like there's something about it that feels wrong, I think, even to Americans. Even as Americans gloat about how well it went and yada, yada, y'ad. 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, 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. But 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 l2 survive in chat what's up my man he has a uh he has a really good point here he says uh 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 becomes a move 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 host to figure out how to run the country figure out a way that we can 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. And what if it's bigger than this? What if it's much 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, and find out like, oh, we just made a serious, serious military move that's going to affect the rest of 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? J. 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. I'm going to be a great year in 2026 here at PBN, 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. 2020, the U.S. Justice Department indicts Maduro. You know what?

This is what we're going to do. We're going to stymie this camera here. You guys can look at my beautiful background. I have a feeling my dog's going to knock my camera over any second now because he keeps doing laps underneath the desk. He's on his own narco-terrorism. terrorism right now. So, in essence of you not having to sit here and watch me, you know, read, we'll just cover that. U.S. Justice Department indicts Maduro on narco-terrorism and cocaine

trafficking charges, which he denies. All right. This is 2020. 2020, former President Trump comments that Venezuela was near collapse during his first term and hints at potential U.S. intervention. 2024, Maduro claims victory in the disputed election. Edmund Gonzalez's opposition leader takes off to Spain after an arrest warrant sent out for him because Maduro is such a nice and understanding fella. U.S. labels it's fraudulent and accuses Maduro of leading a narco state, right? Jump forward to July 2025. Trump administration designates the cartel of the sons linked to Maduro as a terrorist group and authorizes military force. So that was the way in.

August 2025 U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean. CIA infiltrates Venezuela to monitor Maduro's routines, including habits, diet, pets, and movements. So August 2025 is the beginning of the end for Maduro, right? The CIA is in there, and they're figuring out where he's going to be and when he's going to be there. Early September 2025 U.S. strikes on suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific sinking over 35 boats and causing 100 plus deaths by D.E. December, fall 2025 U.S. troops train on a mock Maduro compound practicing breaches with blow torches, regular briefings involved Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth, and CIA director John Ratcliffe. November 2025 opposition leader Maria Corina Machado meets U.S. officials offering oil access. Ooh, we, the O word. That O word always seems to show up when we start talking about taking leaders out. U.S. designates Venezuelan gangs as terrorist organizations, it deploys U.S.S. Gerald Ford and imposes of a blockade. So, you know, November, it was pretty much a done deal for Maduro. Which, you know, if you go by the Jones, 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 game on. Early December 2025, U.S. positions forces planning under Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Cain 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 19, 2025 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. U.S. seizes oil tankers. December 29, 2025, first direct U.S. strike on Venezuelan soil. A CIA drone hits a cartel facility, right? Nobody's losing sleep over that one. Late December, approximately 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 execution of operation absolute resolve January 2nd 2026 1046 PM we talked about this Trump issues the final order and he doesn't notify Congress to prevent leaks clear weather allows for launch

aircraft take off from 20 bases across the western hemisphere that is bananas and now it gets even crazier at 1 a.m eastern standard time january 3rd 2026 cyber attacks precedes air strikes over 150 aircraft f-22s f-35s f-a-18s ea-18s e2s b i don't even know what any two is b1b's my favorite drones c847s a h 64s bomb northern venezuela targets like like the Caralota Air Base, Fort Tyuna, and ports. Power disrupted in Caracas, Delta Force 160th, Soar, an FBI-HR-T raid, Maduro's compound. He and wife, Siliaflores, captured en route to safe room.

One U.S. helicopter damage, two soldiers injured. No U.S. fatality strikes last 30 minutes. Venezuelan air defense is destroyed. So one of the things we always talk about here on PBN is how cybertax precede air strikes, right? War equals off grid. Bingo. Right. The other thing that's amazing here is the strikes lasted 30 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 3rd, 2026 U.S. forces withdrawal from Venezuelan airspace by 421.

a.m. Trump announces capture on truth social with photo of Maduro blindfolded in gray Nike sweatsuit. By the way, this is, this sweatsuit's becoming a hot item. You may want to buy yours now. Shortly after the announcement, Venezuelan VP Delsi Rodriguez assumes acting presidency demands proof of life, declares emergency, condemns the U.S. quote, aggression, U.S. issues superseding indictment against Maduro and Flores for narco, terrorist, Um, cocaine conspiracy and weapons charges casualties reported at least 40 Venezuelans killed, including one civilian, unspecified Cuban forces. That's an interesting three-word, uh, portion of that sentence, right?

That's another story for another day. January 3rd, 2026 before 5 p.m. Maduro and Flores arrive at Stewart Air National Guard base, New York transferred to Manhattan, D.E.A.R. office than Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, from Venezuelan vacation pad to Brooklyn, New York in, wow, in less than 12 hours. That's wild, you know. So, January 4th, 2026, armed civilian groups and protests emerge in Venezuela, some celebrating Maduro's downfall. international response you know iran crybabying calling iran condemns as state terrorism which again is as laughable as russia right it's as laughable as russia so what comes next pbn 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 u.n 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 going to call this this is what it is you know it's not whatever whatever whatever 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 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, you man, the United States. is out of control right price of gas going to go down no doubt about that for the u.s price of gas is going to 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 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 sternly worded letters and cross-armed meetings, right? Where the BRICS nations get together and say, we need to do something about the. 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 80 aircraft and delta force to really do harm we that's the story of the ukraine russia war right so it's not it's not that you know we're impervious by any stretch right if i were against the u.s i probably do exactly what iran does and continue to do what iran always is doing which is funding to 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 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'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 $1.50 average. Look, it's been on the radar, Trump's radar for a long time. in many ways

you have to do something about 100,000 of your people being killed a year, right? You can't do nothing. And I know that China's the one selling the precursors of fentanyl to people and a lot of it's being produced here in the United States.

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 can get to real fast, a guy we could flood their 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 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 uh 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 Russia-Ukraine war and trying to fend China off from Taiwan. And I think every opportunity that he gets to show the world what the U.S. 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 going to have access to a lot more oil that's going to 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 from 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 what is the future of America what do we want America to be in this world, right? Because if we're going to play world police or not going to play world police, or we're going to play nationalism or not play nationalism, or we're going to 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 going to if we're going to stop playing world police then you better get used to this shit you know what i mean this is something you got to get used to this is the difference if we're not going to 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 going to be isolationism for the U.S., America first, so on, and so forth, then I have a feeling that these type of military operations are going to be way more common.

We're not going to spend all kinds of time trying to manipulate a nation with money, and we're not going to spend all kind of time sort of bandying about. We're going to 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 adios. 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 uh like i said without a clear vision for this country and what we want this country be and and by not participating i mean sure we 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 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 comment 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've got to think about it and you've got to communicate it sometimes. Sometimes you've 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 going to get my representatives answer in machine and they're never going to call me back or yada yada yada right sometimes you just got to do that you have what is called a 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 1805 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 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. The more people that get on board with this thing or jump off that thing, if we sit here and we type in chat or we type in the comment 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, 72 hours? I like it. I don't like it. Then you'll have an I like it. I don't like it world.

And you'll have an I like it. I don't like a country. And you'll have the kind of country that people like us deserve if we're just going to just, just, And that's it. You know what I mean? If we're just going to say, oh, 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 going to 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 pulled that off, man. It's an incredible thing. the whole start to finish from the planning to the execution to the you know this is this Dave Jones always says it's training you know he says 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 PBN family onward and upward and upward

Keep your eyes about you. It is what it is. These stories like these are the reason 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 Fergan Chad says my life doesn't stop. Yeah.

We just keep going. So come what may, we better be prepared. All right, folks. Sunday morning with the Intrepid Commander, I hope you enjoyed it. Dave, I hope you're not too upset. you didn't hop on or I didn't get you and verify you. I'm not sure what happened, but we didn't cross wires effectively. But that's 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 going to 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 a sternly worded prep on. How about that?

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