This is the Jesse Kelly Show.

It is the Jesse Kelly show.

Another hour of the Jesse Kelly show on a wonderful, wonderful hump day. And I am just so excited about everything going on right now.

You know, freedom is not free. And now it's time to pause all the politics and the Ukraine and the tariffs and the, they're tearing down the air.

the Amazon rainforest and everything else going on because,

well, now is time for our third and final installment of the Crimean War.

If you missed the first two, go download yesterday's podcast of the day beforehand.

Iheart Spotify, iTunes, where we're just

talking about the war that nobody seems to know anything about. But we thought it would be

uniquely beneficial to have some idea of the history of that region, the northern part of the

Black Sea, the Crimean region, Sevastopol, these resource rich areas, Russia and

their warm water fleet, the Black Fleet. Let's talk about it. So again, I'm not going to recap it

all for you. I can't possibly do that, but the one-minute version is Russia. This is the middle of the 1800s, 1850s.

Russia's Tsar decides this Ottoman Empire. They're kind of old and brittle. I think I'll take

Constantinople. Britain, France, they don't want Russia to take Constantinople. And the Ottomans,

of course, don't want Russia to take Constantinople. And the Ottomans, of course, don't want Russia to take Constantinople.

So they sail this huge force down up the Dardanelles past Constantinople, Istanbul.

And now they are currently laying siege to the city that is still very much there, Sevastopol.

The French are separate from the British, even though they're fighting on the same side.

They're entrenched outside of the city.

We're talking civil war type weapons to give you a frame of reference.

Muskets, bayonets, cannons, things like that.

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