Hour 2: History Of The White War Pt. 2

The Jesse Kelly Show

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What it's like trying to cross a freezing river high up in the mountains. A million men for lines that did not move. The struggles for control of the high ground. The difficulty in getting people, weapons, and food up the mountains. The height and the temps are just a few of the dangers. The road of 52 tunnels.

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0:00.0	This is the Jesse Kelly Show.
0:14.5	It is the Jesse Kelly Show, another hour of the Jesse Kelly show.
0:20.0	In lieu of talking about tariffs and the White House infighting and everything else underneath the sun instead, we're setting all that aside.
0:28.9	It's time this hour to talk.
0:31.1	Part two, maybe the final part.
0:32.7	I don't know of the worst battlefield conditions I've ever read about in the history of the world.
0:41.0	I'm not exaggerating.
0:42.9	And it's fighting that nobody knows about.
0:45.2	Very few people do.
0:47.0	The Italian Front.
0:48.5	It's known as the Italian Front of World War I.
0:53.1	Give you a 30 second recap of what you missed yesterday in case you're just now joining
0:58.3	us.
0:59.5	Germany and Austria, Hungary.
1:01.2	I'm just going to refer to them as Austria from now on because I get annoyed having to
1:04.5	say that whole name.
1:05.7	Germany and Austria, they're at war with Britain, with France, with Russia.
1:11.2	Italy's not sure which side they're going to land on, but they decide they really want those Alps on the northern part of Italy.
1:19.0	The Alps Austria currently has.
1:21.4	They declare for the Allies and they go after the Alps.
1:25.7	The Austrians are desperately fighting on two fronts already,
1:29.8	so they don't have the men or the resources to properly defend this area,
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