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Get started at vanta.com. Hey, we are back and with me in studio is Tim Kennedy, Army Ranger Sniper and Special Operate Forces Operator and co-founder of Save Our Allies, the host of a new Fox Nation special called General Patton and the Prayer that changed history. And we're going to get to that shortly. We even have some clips. It looks fantastic. Also, anytime you could see some video of World War II and Patton moving around talking is great.
And Tim, we're going to get to that shortly. Great to see you. It's good seeing you. Twice in one day. It must be a thrill for you to see me twice.
It's going to be a long day, but we're going to be okay. Right. To get publicity on this. Yes, sir. First off, before we get into it, whose idea was this? This is actually Fox. They came to you.
They did. They obviously know I'm a believer. I love the Lord.
I love the Bible. And, you know, 20 years in service now, faith has been tested and tried. So, you know, I haven't hidden the fact that I think prayer is important.
I don't think I'd exist. I'd be dead 10 times over if it wasn't for my mom and all of her friends praying for us. And all the moms and all the grandmas over there that pray for their kids when they're in combat, for those men and women wearing a uniform.
God bless you and keep praying. Gotcha. That's where it came from, from here. Oh, got it.
All right. So let's talk about the war that's happening right now, raging Ukraine and Russia. You've seen it up close.
How is it? It's the stuff of nightmares. It's really weird having fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, you know, and deployed multiple times to South America and Africa. This is a different thing because it's a first world country, right? There's cobblestones. It's a proper European city. You know, when you go to Kiev, it's a beautiful place. Was or is?
Is, is. Kiev and Dnipro still beautiful, but always under attack. And so that there's been this disconnect, I think, especially for American military members that have served and have fought in, you know, in the global war on terror. This, we're in a proper European country and there's drones and there's incoming sirens for rocket attacks.
And, you know, the. The everyone looks like us, both sides, so it's a very different feeling type of conflict. And then the war itself with drones specifically, it's World War One style trench warfare.
That's also using 2025 first person drones for the most casualty producing weapon on the battlefield. And it's just going on and on. But the president says, not going in, not with me. So he says he's going to have a conversation with Vladimir Putin today and then he's going to call Zelensky. Whatever you want to say about Zelensky, he got in line after he's saying, what do you need? Direct talks? I'll show up. You want that mineral deal?
We signed off on it. Can I, can I buy stuff off there? I'm not asking. I'm going to, can I buy Patriots from you? So miss defense missile. So again, if he just says I need offensive weapons that might take Trump off. He's like, I'm trying to bring to peace.
So don't just give me Patriots. I want to be able to knock them out of the box. I want to knock them out of the sky. So now with all the pressures on Putin, here's what Robert Gates, former defense secretary and CIA director said about what the president could do today.
Cut 48. Would you advise president Trump not to take that face to face even if Vladimir Putin was willing to do it? I would say you need to figure out some leverage that you have going into that meeting with Putin. What can you do that puts more pressure to prayer on Putin to make him believe his, his interests are served by not just a ceasefire, but a basically at least freezing things in place. So if that's the challenge, what would Tim Kennedy say it bring up in that phone call?
Yeah, I mean, thank God. I'm not the one having to do these negotiations. President Trump is one of the most unique diplomats. And he gets a lot of of hate because people don't understand the way that he approaches these kind of diplomatic complex situations. Leverage to him immediately, and not surprising goes to the economy. He starts looking for ways where, okay, what are the things that he that that Putin needs for him to be successful? Obviously, Russia is huge in energy. So when he's looking how, what is happening with gas and oil coming out of Russia?
Where does it need to go into Europe? Can if we start right taxing and limiting their ability to distribute and sell their, like their largest influencer to their GDP being energy and who's buying it China, who's buying it India, who's buying it Brazil, and I'm sure there's some other European countries allowing it to be selling them buying them from there, even though we push back on that when when Donald Trump took office. Well, pushing back, but not it hasn't been a heavy hand. You know, it's not at all.
No, not yet. But President Trump, they don't want to affect the global price. But what the President is also doing is drilling down. The price of oil was around 100. Now it's 60. It's crazy. So then all of a sudden, you're taking half the revenue from him, who's also selling it at a discount. Yeah. Yeah.
These are leverage points. And these are the things that President Trump is going to sit down when he talks to Putin and Zelensky. Zelensky, since he came to DC in a tracksuit, things changed. You know, he learned, you know, I think it's become very clear that the respect from Ukraine from both the ambassador who I had the privilege of speaking to last month to President Zelensky, they are falling in line. They're here for a conversation and hopefully for not just a ceasefire, but ultimately real peace talks. But Putin's a tough, tough nut to crack, because his objective is to reestablish greater Russia, Soviet Union. And if that's his objective, the question is, from what you've seen in battle, is he crazy like a fox? Or is he crazy, diabolical? Because does he understand that Trump is giving him his whatever you think of Trump, he's giving his best chance of remove a quick removal of sanctions. He's being treated. He's treating Putin not like the villain that he is, even though he might be pretending, giving him a shot at ending this, an off ramp.
Does he not see an opportunity to have an off ramp with with some dignity? It's hard for Americans with our view of the world, especially as proud Americans that appreciate the free market and democracy. The perspective of Russians, and Putin specifically, every decision that they make is to the benefit of Russia. Every decision, every consideration, those lenses that he looks at the world and every conversation is this long game about what is the best for Russia. Which the long game might be to have economic relations with America.
That's right. Financially, it could be very beneficial to them. And that might be the best thing for Russia.
But bringing, you know, the the the the USSR, the the large expansion of the Russian Empire, you know, those also might be goals of Vladimir Putin. And how do we reconcile these two things? Are they mutually exclusive? Or could they be complimentary?
They could be, but that's, thank God, why Trump is the man to do these negotiations. Two segments. I want to talk about Iran next block, but I want to talk about Patton and both these blocks. First off, set the scene. Here is the Battle of the Bulge is approaching. We're in Europe. We got into that theater.
You have George Patton, who's been studying Rommel and couldn't wait to finally take on the Nazis. He's finally there. But he needs something else. What does he need? Yeah, he needs, he needs he needs weather.
He needs good weather. So D-Day happens, you know, storm beaches, we climb cliffs, Rangers climbing Point to Hawk, Omaha Beach, you know, running up the sandy shores as machine gun fires, dropping young Americans that even lied to serve. Fast forward three months, we fought into Europe, where we're moving and encroaching on Hitler's doorstep. Hitler, in a brilliant move, decides in his best efforts to divide ours, our forces, and he is going to have one more major offensive. And this is November, December of 1944. And if he's successful, this would prolong the six, maybe even deny us victory in Europe. If he's able to divide these forces, Patton needs to win this specific battle.
And we have to have air support. But there's clouds and he does the thing that only Patton will do, which is he goes to his chaplain and he says, I need a prayer. And he writes a beautiful prayer, which is now we know is Patton's prayer. He distributes it to 250,000 soldiers. 70% of the military currently believes, has a belief in a greater God.
Back then it was around 80%. So 80% of the people in battle, and I'll argue that there, that there, it was 100% because there's no atheists in a foxhole. So if you, if you just surveyed, everybody's serving, they're like, yeah, I believe in a God and I hope that he's going to be here.
So he, he makes 250,000 of these prayers and distributes them to everybody on the ground. And everybody starts praying and they pray for good weather. The weather breaks, battle of the bulge happens. And this major offensive from the Germans is either going to be successful and it's going to prolong the war or we're successful in the battle of the bulge. And then we're going to be in, in Berlin. So Alexandria Kirchow and Helen Patton are on your special.
Here they are talking about this, Cut 57. Imagine lying in a ditch that took you hours to dig due to the frozen ground. You're taking cover next to the body of a fallen soldier. You're low on ammo and have no reinforcements coming.
And the enemy is firing at you. Your faith is really all that you have. You have to believe in something. You have to believe in something bigger than yourself. You have to believe in some kind of force, something that's going to help you and your comrades endure the unendurable.
He wanted the soldiers to cultivate their faith so that they would never be alone. And that was his granddaughter. Yeah.
Yeah. The family's remarkable. You know, generals on both sides of the Patton family.
You have the Tatans too. That's right. And they, just a few months before that in August, Patton, when talking with General Bradley, trying to decide about which army was going to do the next major offensive, they stopped and they prayed. And they didn't have enough resources to support both armies.
But it was time and time again that you see faith being one of the main driving forces about how Patton's making decisions. Obviously we were successful in Europe. Obviously we stopped the Nazis. And he wanted to go right to the Soviet Union. Yes, he did.
He did not want to stop. History has been very kind of things that he said. If you look back to post April 1945, early as November, Patton was clearly calling for it.
If we don't fight them now, we're going to be fighting them again. Right. And he was not wrong. But he was, we made alliance with them in order to get into Europe. So to turn and shoot your friend or shoot your ally might have been trouble. But he was right. And remember, MacArthur wanted to take China. He's going to think they're going to be a problem. They're both right. I know. You know, we had to fight them four more times to include the Cold War. Well, Tim Kennedy's sticking around. More on this, a special that's on Fox Nation right now.
It's called General Patton and the prayer that changed history. So Iran wants to avoid a war, you would think. But the stuff they're saying right now makes me think they don't.
You, I'm just going to talk to Tim. You've been there. EFPs. Aren't they part of the, isn't that the IEDs on steroids? They killed so many of your guys. Yeah. That is Iranian built.
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Spotify podcast spelled BABEL.com slash Spotify podcast. Rules and restrictions may apply. The way I would characterize it is that this war could end immediately and Israel's made that clear. It could end immediately if Hamas surrenders and gives up the weapons and demilitarizes and releases all the hostages, including the deceased ones. They did that, this conflict would end. That's been true from the very beginning. It's been true for months now. They're the ones that have chosen not to accept that offer.
The F has gone in strong at the same time. There's conversations going on with intensity over in Doha because they want to see if they get the other 23 hostages out so far. They've been able to kill. It's basically confirmed Muhammad Sinwar, the second guy after his brother to lead and they wiped out a lot of their higher ups. Tim Kennedy with us now, army ranger, sniper, special forces operator, co-founder of Save Our Allies. Tim is also host of a new Fox nation special.
It's available now. General Patton in the prayer that changed history. So Tim, where do you think this is heading in Gaza?
I mean, I look at these pictures. It looks like the most devastating, the other definition of devastation. There's a move now to possibly take a million to Libya. Isn't Libya just as bad almost?
Not almost, definitely as bad. It's apocalyptic when you look at the photos of what Gaza looks like right now. And nobody's to blame for this but Hamas. And then Iran. Yes, Iran by proxy funding Hamas and enabling them both in training and equipment for the October 7th attack. This is what they wanted the whole entire time.
Wall Street Journal today said Sinwar publicly was saying that we have to stop Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalize relations, the Abraham Accords to continue, and this is what we have to do. He did this for the exact reason. And it was successful in that way.
It delayed everything, delayed, but it didn't stop. No, stability and security, free markets thrive. So does democracy and so do people. These are things that Iran does not want. They do not want stability. They don't want security in that region. They have flourished during the chaos and anarchy and they want to stoke the fires of war.
But Tim, don't you see how in many ways they're losing? They lost Syria, right? The Hezbollah is flat on its back. Hamas is on the run. The Houthi rebels are now, I guess, going to let our ships go through, but they have not stopped in many ways. And then you have their missile defense virtually destroyed by effective Iranian retaliation. This is as vulnerable as Iran has been.
Do you see it the same way? They are undoubtedly vulnerable, but they're also closer to a nuclear weapon than they've ever been. They have been digging their heels in, both under ideology and their kind of resolute, unwavering position about where they're going to be positioned in the Middle East. And I think now is the time for the entire region, mostly Muslim nations, should be condemning and clearly calling a spade a spade that Iran has been funding every single one of the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah, and the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah. These were all Iranian-funded proxy aggressors that were intentionally destabilizing the region. And call them out on it. Until that happens, until they're being held accountable by their neighbors, what's going to be happening in the Middle East?
But they know it better than we know it. And they probably had those conversations when the president was going through the three Gulf states and met with the Syrian leader. Syria hates Iran. They destroyed their country, killed innocent people, propped up Assad. Shia, Shia. Alawites are a form of Shia.
The Alawites, a minority, controlled the country. If you had a problem, they just killed you. Barrel bombs, the most horrific way possible.
I'm loving that. I would also, if I'm the U.S., say, hey, do you want relations with us? Kick out Russia. When you want to see Russia out of the Middle East, that's their foothold. Russia and China have been playing a really strategic game where every time there has been instability, both in Africa and the Middle East, they're just sitting there, you know, biding their time so they can insert themselves. China coming in with like, hey, we can help rebuild this infrastructure. I'll build this port for you or I'll build this new airport for you at this really discounted interest rate. But ultimately it's China funded and China supported. And then they have a foothold. We have to stop letting Iran get away with these opportunities and China and Russia as a second order effect to capitalize on these moments. Here is a little from your special.
It's out now. It's called it's a general pattern in the prayer that changed history. Cut 54. My grandfather wasn't the loose cannon that some people portray him as. In fact, his nickname that was given to him by the press was blood and guts. But he wanted to be known as brains and guts. He constantly read military history, even as a young child.
He loved hearing stories about it and then would read it himself. Just the consummate military historian who wants to apply all that he has learned onto the battle. And Tim, he felt like he was a man of destiny to begin with. And he knew he was going to be in battle, right? Yeah. I mean, there's even quotes of him saying that, you know, he was he was former generals reborn.
Yes. You know, he believed that he was born into this moment in time to save the world from tyranny. And boy, did he. And by Tim, Tim does a great job. He's hosting a brand new special general pattern in the prayer that changed history.
Go check it out on Fox Nation. Tim, thanks so much. Great talking to you. It is time to take the quiz. It's five questions in less than five minutes.
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