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History, Current Affairs, Conservativism, Business, Freedom. All in All.
Hosted by author, conservative, business owner, veteran, dad - GH Edwards.
Hey. It's g h Edwards. Let's talk a little bit about military and the war and military history. Now I'm a veteran. I served over ten years in the US Air Force as a fighter jet mechanic.
Speaker 1:Love them guys, crew chiefs. Alright. But I was really interested in studying the history of wars in a high level view. And no one ever really discusses how we've gotten to where we are now in our global positioning. And a lot of it has to do with conflict.
Speaker 1:So let's take an example of World War one. However it started, you know, it's way back in the old days, the Ottoman Empire and, you know, the the people think the Ottoman Empire and a lot of these old things were ancient history, but they were really just in the early, you know, nineteen hundreds. Anyways, so when the war kicked off, at the end, Germany had been defeated because Germany was the one that kinda started everything. They had been defeated and they had been punished. They had been sacked with debt that they didn't pay off until very recently, to be honest.
Speaker 1:They were sanctioned. They were held back. They were you can't build a military. Japan was kind of the same way. Like, Japan was not allowed to build a military, an active military after World War two.
Speaker 1:Same kind of an idea. They have a defense force. But anyways, Germany took this pretty hard. They were angry at how the chips fell at the end and how Europe treated them after World War one. Basically, it's your fault and they sanctioned them and really just set up to be bankrupt forever, which was pretty rough, pretty rough to do.
Speaker 1:If you take the idea of how do we treat the, you know, for lack of a better word, losers in a conflict, how do we treat them afterwards? Look at Lincoln in the civil war. After the civil war ended, he had a lot of pressure that says, the people of the South were traitors. Are you kidding me? They tried to overthrow the government or break away or however you wanna dive into that.
Speaker 1:But Lincoln said no, let them keep their gun and a horse and send them home and all is forgotten. Now that's some leadership right there. That's a fully leadership that I completely believe in. After this conflict we're going through now, I believe we should just say, alright, what happened in the past happened in the past. How can we move forward?
Speaker 1:Dwelling on things in the past only keeps you in the vision of the past. So let's move forward. Anyways, Germany got sanctioned. So they were very upset about this, and they eventually found a a leading voice in Adolf Hitler. And he came up, and Germany is great, and Germany is fantastic.
Speaker 1:We need to reinvest our military, and we're gonna go on, and you can't hold us back, and we all know how that went, World War two. So you can almost say that World War one and the way it ended led directly to World War two, which is how it is. World War two happened, you know, as an old Midwestern guy, conservative. I'm major World War two fan. And I'll tell you having traveled through Europe, it is a still an open wound scar topic in all of Europe and in Russia to this day.
Speaker 1:When you meet someone, World War two will be brought up very quickly. We need to understand the fact that it's still a very important topic, especially in Russia. The Russians feel that they gave away so much and got nothing in return. I mean, they lost something 20, you know, 27,000,000 people, people are saying. They lost more than roughly everyone else combined together.
Speaker 1:To give an example, The United States lost 419,000 people, obviously a ton. But compared to 27,000,000, it's not even close. It really isn't. So just know that coming in. But either way, World War two ends.
Speaker 1:We all know how World War two ends. You know, the British and the Americans and the Russians come out victorious. Immediately at the end of that, we basically know we're gonna be in a conflict of some sort with Russia at the end. That's a whole other thing you can discuss on how it ended and were we too harsh coming in dealing with Russia? Some people say yes.
Speaker 1:Were we not harsh enough? Some people say yes. Either way. We basically immediately fell right into the cold war where we are watching Russia and watching the commies, you know, and doing that kind of thing. That led to the Korean War.
Speaker 1:Our fear of communism and what's called the domino effect if one country falls into communism, we're all gonna fall into communism. And that also led into the Vietnam War, which is where John f Kennedy comes in. And what I'm saying at this point now is the Korean War and the Vietnam War were direct results of how World War two ended, and World War two is a direct result of how World War one ended. So we're at the point now where Vietnam, communism, we have one brave visionary person who has stepped back and said and asked the question, okay. So why are we enemies of the Russians?
Speaker 1:Can we not be enemies of the Russians? The Cuban Missile Crisis was the pressure point that was needed to step back and say, wait a minute. Maybe we can just discuss this as people and get past this economic mindset idea we have that holds us back. And that person was John f Kennedy. He came out and said, why are we against the Russians?
Speaker 1:Should we be against capitalism? Who is driving this force behind why we hate capitalism so bad? It's not in the constitution. It's not in the declaration of independence. Let's discuss this.
Speaker 1:And then by complete coincidence, he's killed very, very shortly after that. We can discuss that later. But we are deeply lodged in the Cold War era. Korea's done. Vietnam's done.
Speaker 1:But we're still in Cold War. We're still watching the Russians. And then the Russians make a big bold move and they invade Afghanistan in the eighties under Reagan. And if you ever wanna catch up on something like that, Charlie Wilson's War, the movie with Tom Hanks and Julie Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Amazing movie.
Speaker 1:Check it out. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. But we throw our money behind the Afghanis to stop the Russians from coming in because we don't want the Russians come in there and get access to a warm water port, which we'll discuss more about geopolitics later on. So the Russia Afghanistan Conflict, we get involved and we supply the right the Afghanis and we train them a bunch and yada yada yada.
Speaker 1:Lo and behold, that training and money and winning that came in Afghanistan end up coming back to us in 09/11. The Afghanis had defeated the Russian empire. The bear came in and they defeated with the weapons and the training that we gave the Afghanis. So long story short, they turn around and take those skills and knowledge and weapons that they had, and they used them against us to plot the nine eleven attacks. And that has led to where we are at this point.
Speaker 1:So the entire overall point of this is is just to say a high level leadership thought is that every major conflict we've been in has led to the next one. Now does that mean I'm anti conflict? We shouldn't be going to war? No. Absolutely.
Speaker 1:We need go to war. I mean, there's times where people need to get smacked back, and that's America's job to smack people back sometimes when they get out of line. But we need to understand that as Charlie Wilson's war said, the ball keeps on bouncing. We bounce that ball sometimes, and it's gonna keep going. And are we going to anticipate the next move?
Speaker 1:Are we going to help it end up in the correct way? Something we need to discuss. So this is not about battlefield tactics. This is about high level strategy.