So a Navy guy picked... Well, Mitch Bradley, he got in a lot of trouble recently, didn't he? Not a lot of, but he got some shit for... What did he get shit for? He was... He had to go and testify recently. Mitch Brad... I know Mitch. Is it Mitch? Yeah. This is Frank Bradley. Frank Bradley, Mitch, yeah. Did they call him Mitch? Yeah, I did. Should. You're supposed to call him Admiral, apparently. Yeah, I should have been saying Admiral. That's probably why I got booted. I mean, to me, that I think backs up even the, if you want to call it a claim or just the the realization that you know that the mission

and the specifics of it should dictate who gets it not preference it should oh there should be no

preference and i and again i'm speaking on behalf of what i think happened i don't know the i didn't

know all i knew when the bin laden raid was being discussed was that i was running a jump

dive trip to miami which is going to be a blast

but I was pissed because our commanding officer and Mass Chief were coming. It's like, fuck, I mean we're going to have fun still but I don't want those assholes there. Not assholes, but you know, sure. And then they got pulled to DC for some reason like fuck yeah, we're going to South Beach. And then we got recalled from there. It's like, hey, we found a thing. This thing is in a house this house is in a bowl you're going to go get this thing and bring it back to us

oh cool yeah that's how fast it was um from there. It's like, hey, we found a thing. This thing is in a house. This house is in a bowl. You're going to go get this thing and bring it back to us.

Oh, cool.

That's how fast it was.

I'm curious to get your take on Venezuela, kind of generally speaking, is,

obviously the way that this mission was done seems smarter,

both tactically, geopolitically um and long-term wise

hopefully less negatively impactful on the host nation or you know this i think will do nothing

but positive for um for the host nation. Can you?

And I think that president Trump was pretty quick to tell the vice president, hey, don't fuck around. You're going to find out too, which and then turn and right and go, Hey, Mexico. And then Columbia. Hey, this is happening. This is that was not, that was not to get Maduro. That is, that is a change in geopolitics in the western fucking hemisphere. And they bring up the Monroe Doctrine, it's bigger than that.

It's literally, hey, everyone with security from China, you sure? Oh, hey, Russia, you're nothing. Good luck fighting Ukraine for whatever reason. Do you think that that had the bigger role in the decision to do that than... No, 100%. Drugboats were a distraction. 80% to 90% of oil from Venezuela is going to China. Now they can't have it. Without telling the American public, because we're too busy fighting over who's going to win in the wildcard, how many years did this push before China even thinks about Taiwan? You don't have fucking oil. Guess what? You don't have energy too. Those microchips and useless. And they're getting it from Venezuela. Now we have it and i what i love too is why'd you go there oil say some shit we went there for the oil we're going to

maintain it you know no blood for oil in iraq there should have been because we wouldn't be in debt

right but again the media just just spinning it for talking points.

No, for sure.

Is there any concern from your experience that Venezuela could turn into a sort of Iraq 2.0?

No, because we didn't send people in to try to build a democracy they didn't want.

I think the biggest problem that we made in Iraq was immediately dismantling the bath party because, well, it's, I mean, our senior leadership historically has sucked. It's the whole, let's make a brand new command because I'm a one star, but I need a two, a second star. My buddy that's a bird could take this one, I'll take that one. We just expand that one we just expand i um i just yeah just um we got rid of the bath party and so there's no leadership so there's just chaos i think we still have their military leadership in place in dictatorships like that in communism um uh iran um keep the military in place people have been saying what they needed to say to keep their heads on their shoulders.

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