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From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Killmead. All right, well, I'm Brian Kilmi. Thanks so much for listening. I'm proud to say I'm coming to you from Germany, in Wiesbaden, Germany, be specific.

The Clay Cucerne Army Base. Traveling around for the next two days, going to Poland tomorrow. Spent the day here. Seven hours in the plane, hit the ground running, and I'll be able to bring you some insight there and give you great military guests throughout the show. In fact, I'm coming to you from the American Forces Radio.

Radio network.

So, we really appreciate the fantastic facilities here, and I'll be here tomorrow, too, bringing you great insight. Think about what our military has been asked to do. What about what they've been asked to do when things rise up and problems are in Nigeria? What about taking out the nuclear program in Iran? What about when two of our guys and an interpreter are killed in Syria?

These are time for instant operations. He walked in, did the President of the United States, and we had a huge problem with the Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. Guess who took them out? Guess who neutralized it? Immediately, that was our armed forces moving up from different commands around the country and around the world.

This is the European and African command. And think about what happened in Venezuela. That's why this is so valuable to get a chance to meet the men and women who make this seem so easy. But believe me, it is anything but. This hour, I'm going to be joined by.

Uh by Benham B uh by Benham Ben Tale Taylor Blue. Taylor Blue, he's with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He's a senior with the Senior Director for the Iran program. Bottom of the hour, Sergeant First Class Miguel Akhmath will be with us too, so that'll be great.

So I'll tell you, we're looking at three major conflicts. What's happening next in Venezuela? What is Congress doing, trying to curtail what the President wants to do with their War Powers Act? I don't know, you know. Josh Hawley is the one that's a big surprise to me.

Rand Paul is always a mess. He's some eat bones in a think tank. And then, of course, you always have some people like Susan Collins and Senator Mikowski, who always are a project. But I was really surprised that Josh Holly voted for it. But it doesn't really matter because if it gets to the President's desk, if it gets past the House, he's going to veto it, and he should veto it, because the Venetian-Winland operation is one in which about the last four administrations knew how to be done.

It's this guy that chose to do it.

So, and then, of course, what's happening in Iran. I know we've seen protests before. I know you've seen major protests in 2009 and again in 2019. But, ladies and gentlemen, we have never seen anything quite like this. There's a real sense that the Iranian people, although they're taking heavy casualties now, have moved up to the point where they might be able to take their country back for the first time since 1979.

Those crazy religious Nazis who have been running that horrible country with great potential. Let's bring in Ben Ham right now to talk about this. Ben Ham, what do you think the President should do? Because he's made it clear that the Ayatollah is put on notice. Great to be with you, Brian.

Indeed, the Ayatollah has been put on notice. I think the President historically cited with Iranian protesters, unlike some of its past predecessors. there. The real fear here is, however, that the regime, always knowing that the President is interested in deals and wanting to make a deal, is trying right now to run last minute interference and try to offer up some negotiation. Except number one, I would say, do no harm, Mr.

President. Do not take that hand, because taking that hand would be turning your back on the most pro-American population, the most pro-Israeli population in the heartland of the Muslim Middle East, and that's the Iranian people. Number two, I would say there needs to be, however quickly, a public-private partnership, a task force, whatever you want to call it, to surge Starlink, satellite communications, directSL technologies and secure communications into Iran so that just your average Iranians as well as your Iranian protesters can connect to the Internet, share these images of what's going on out there, because it's not just per the Washington Post that democracy dies in the darkness. It's the Iranian people that have been dying in the darkness. Four days of internet blackout and just mass murder by the state against the street.

Number six. And we know this. Yeah. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

Sorry, la last two things. Number three, I would unleash the cyber command both with The US and with Israel to go after the entire apparatus of repression, be that the Basij, the police, the IRGC, basically disable all of their command and control. And then, number four, if they don't get the message, well, then you can always escalate things and go kinetically. I mean, even just with the drone coverage that we have there, you know, the Islamic Republic doesn't control its airspace. Imagine if you had drone coverage just showing protest crowds when the regime is trying to hide it.

Imagine if you had drone coverage just showing where the regime leaders are hiding. I mean, this is the stuff that would put wind beneath the wings of Iranian protesters. I know. We have 490 dead that have been killed in the last two weeks. The unrest has engulfed the entire country.

Rich provinces, poor provinces, the poorest neighborhoods, the richest neighborhoods. 48 security personnel have lost their lives during this. We didn't see that last time. But now it looks like they're going to get the army out. I just think they're going to try to kill the way out of this, at which time we know this president by now.

He's going to take action. And when he met today, I understand the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, met. With Netanyahu. And Netanyahu, they say, is the most popular figure in Iran. He addresses them regularly.

He talks their language, doesn't talk down to them. He understands that Israel's problem is not with the Iranian people. And for President Trump to have Have streets named after him. They're putting his name on streets. I know it's almost, you know, I know it's almost hoping he takes action.

We don't want to make this between the U.S. and Iran.

So how do you. You know, if they continue to try to kill everybody, because they got nowhere to go. If they try to kill everybody, at what point do other people get involved? I don't hear anything from our European allies. Yeah, this is really a moment of shame, not just some of our allies who have only started to say something.

I mean, Canada and a few others have started to say something, but it's just, I don't want to say too little, too late. But how come all the college campuses that were protesting everything about Palestine and Gaza for the past two years are relatively silent when it comes to this population? Where are the streets of major European cities that had basically shut down traffic? But here now there's actually mass slaughter. You know, they're power washing, using power washers to get blood off of the streets, particularly in the capital after these crackdowns.

And yet still there is silence or indifference or just occasional commentary from some of America's closest partners. And then here at home, again, the college campus situation, absolutely atrocious. I mean, I agree with Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State. Foreign policy is not missionary work. But I want to say this, we seldom get the chance.

To marry our head and our heart in the Middle East. The Middle East is the place that usually makes you choose. With the exception of Israel, you usually have to choose, your head or your heart. But standing with the Iranian people, you get both. You get to flip the script on the most anti-American terror sponsoring regime in the region, which has a bounty on President Trump's head.

And you get to empower the most pro-American, the most pro-Jelly Sweet. And Prime Minister Betanyahu, as you said, knows this exactly. There was a strong nationalist tie between Iran and Israel. Pre nineteen seventy nine, that was the case. Let's hope they can make Iran great again and make it the case in the future.

So There's a lot going on. If you think about the ripple effects, if Iran was to fall, that means Hezbollah and Hamas would no longer be financed. That means the Houthis would almost lose all of their financing. China would stop with their discount, getting their discounted oil. They get just about all of Iran's oil right now.

Maybe Iran would stop aiding Russia, who seems to be ignoring them in their time of Eden. I'm thankful for that. Because you saw how things changed when Syria. No longer was an ally. Of Iran.

I want you to hear what the President said about what you said about the Internet connection and must cut two.

Well you know We're going to be talking about that. We may get the internet going if that's possible. We may speak to Elon. Because as you know, he's very good at that kind of thing. He's got a very good company.

So he may speak to Elon Musk. And uh In fact, I'm going to call him as soon as I'm finished with you.

So that would make a difference, wouldn't it? That would make a huge difference, but I got to tell you one thing. That stuff that you prioritize When there aren't protesters being killed like this. When there are protesters being killed like this, that turning on the internet is necessary. but it's not sufficient.

What we need now is to find a way to level the playing field between the state and the street. It's critical for Iranians to be able to. Should we try to arm them? Why don't we expose everything about this regime. Why don't we take the Iranian tankers of oil, all of which are going to China, to rob this regime of revenue so it can't fund its security forces?

Why isn't there a full Intel, full core press to get the security forces to defect? There is so much the President has at his disposal here. The President likes to say he has all the cards. He is absolutely right. He has all the cards here.

And he can pick every option. start them, scale it up. And one of the best options would be to potentially even consider unleashing the Israelis. You mentioned the meeting between Marco Rubio and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Even if the regime thinks that's an option, it's going to freak out.

So you need to put them in the position to make mistakes. They know they've got their back against the wall. We can't be the one to throw them a lifeline. Benham Bend Taliblu. Taliblu is with us now with the Foundation of Democracies.

We're talking about Iran, and he's got great insight there. I want you to hear what the President's up against, because even though it's universally understood that Iran is an enemy of America since 1979 and never stops trying to kill us everywhere we go, This is what he said, Katray. Margaret, U.S. military action in Iran would be a massive mistake. It would have the effect of giving the Iranian regime the ability to say it's the U.S.

that's screwing our country up. Right now, Iranians are blaming appropriately the regime for screwing up the country. This Iranian regime has spent years focusing outside its borders on fomenting terrorism and aggression in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, instead of listening to the needs of its own citizens. And much like Syrian citizens finally threw off The yoke of Bashr al-Assad and that brutal regime without U.S. military intervention, it looks to me that Iran's doing the same.

So That politically.

Now, look, direct military action. I don't think the president's talking about that, like going to war with them, but I think there's stuff that we can do kinetically. Absolutely, there's stuff that we can do kinetically. And right now, there's a contest of wills. You know, the supreme so-called supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, is trying to test the will of President Trump.

And he's talking about right now the regime is talking about right now, if America does even the smallest thing kinetically, we're going to go after shipping, we're going to go after bases and we're going to go after Israel.

Well, guess what? If they do that, they are leading with their chin. The Ayatollah was shown to have no clothes. after the Twelve Day War. They do not control their airspace.

Again, I want to reiterate, President Trump has all of the cards here. What they're trying to do is spook America into, again, throwing a lifeline to the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism. President Trump knows better than anyone else. When you have strength, you use it in a limited fashion, but you use it decisively. And when you play, you play to win.

So the parliamentary speaker warned this morning that Iran will attack the U.S. military bases if the U.S. strikes first, also levying threats on shipping lanes and Israel. And as you mentioned, if you go do that, you might get a shot in, but that'll be your last shot ever, period.

So I think that's a huge risk because of what we just witnessed.

Now, the other thing to keep in mind is. Israel killed just about every one of their generals in their beds. What makes Iranian leadership think they don't know exactly where they live. where they walk where they train. where they're where they go where where they go to uh church or whatever to go to mosque They could take them out.

In a second.

So the chance of rebalancing the Middle East might be tempting enough to do something that extreme. I'm sure we'd have to sign off on that. But do you believe their intelligence could provide? I mean, they could have taken out the Ayatollah, clearly. Yeah, the joke right now is given the fear of protesters that the only people who know where the supreme leader is hiding is the supreme leader at Mossad in Iran.

So that's basically just the joke making its ways around. But you're absolutely right to talk about the level of intelligence penetration. And listen, you don't have to take that from me. Over a decade ago, the former Iranian Intel chief was basically saying how much of a Swiss cheese this country has become. And he used the words, no official should sleep safely at night.

He was talking about the level of Mossad penetration in this country.

So that was the case then. Imagine what it must be now. And we probably only saw the tip of the spear with the twelve day war last June. Let me just mention one more thing about presidential dissolve and the use of force and this contest of will, because I think this is critical here, and we can't forget about it. Six years ago this month.

President Trump took action that no U.S. President was willing to take when he took Costum Soleimani, the regime's chief terrorist, off the battlefield. Six months ago, the President joined Israel in targeting and destroying the crown jewel of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, which it had been building up for two decades, and no U.S. president before that was willing to do. And also, just a few days ago, President Trump decapitated the Maduro former Chavez regime of Venezuela, robbing the Islamic Republic of its sole state partner in South America.

So if this regime is playing that war of wills, They're playing with someone who plays to win and has a demonstrated track record of that. I know. His track record is his greatest asset. And his recent track record, as well as his previous track record, I mean, we have a chance to really solve so many problems. I know it's never easy, but I like the way you take out the enemy and then work out then don't get involved on the ground afterwards.

What he's doing now temporarily in Venezuela, not taking over the picking up the trash and handling the payment of municipal workers like you do after you take a leader. The upside is we don't own it, and they're threatened enough to actually do what he says until they get to an election. Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. Benham, Ben, Talibu, Talibu, thanks so much, Ben.

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Yeah. Yeah. The more you listen, the more you'll know. It's Brian Killmead. The actions of ICE are.

Unconstitutional, unlawful, they are cruel, they are rogue, they are racist. And they are terrorizing communities. All of our communities are vulnerable to the attacks of this rogue agency, and Congress must rein them in. ICE. Uh Cannot be reformed.

This has nothing to do with training or new protocols. This is about cultural practices that have been underway for many years. This is just unbelievable. That's a member of the squad I had in Presley pointing out ICE. What is ICE doing?

They're arresting illegal immigrants, focusing on criminals first. And what is everybody else doing? Making sure they don't do their job? Since when is it okay to break our laws, come in our country, use our system, be on welfare, be here illegally? And why, you know, do you see some of the people they've picked up in Minneapolis?

The worst of the worst, these are horrible people. And people say, well, let cops do it. They weren't doing it. They're not empowered to do it. They're all undermined, understaffed, and demoralized.

If you think that these sanctuary cities are attracting the illegal immigrant criminals, this helps the people of Minneapolis, the people of Chicago, the people of Philadelphia, people of New York City. But instead, you have pre-protesters, paid protesters out there harassing and being trained to harass ICE agents. You can't pick or choose the arm the law enforcement. People that you want to protect. They either, I don't like state cops, I don't like local cops, I don't like the local sheriff, I don't like the FBI, I don't like Border Patrol, but I like them.

No, support ICE, they have a separate mission. You will not be targeted, you'll be asked some questions, and if you are here legally, you will be let alone. What is going on that suddenly people are getting panicked that we're throwing out illegal immigrants? Maybe it's because one party really wanted to convert them. to becoming Democrats.

If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Look, it's a federal crime to impede and interfere with an ICE officer. And I think, look, it's a coordinated attack. We can see what's happening throughout the country.

I think it's a funded, organized attack against ICE officers. And what really irritates me is the left wants to play this game that ICE, they're not law enforcement officers. They are federal law enforcement officers. Impeding them and interfering with them is a crime. No one would be arguing if, you know, if we're arresting people that interfere with DEA before, you know, arresting a drug dealer or a U.S.

Marshal in attempts to arrest a fugitive. If someone stood in your way, that's a crime. You'd be arrested. But it seems like they want to, you know, they normalize. The media is normalizing interference with ICE.

It is a crime to impede ICE officers. Wow, and that is 100% right. Tom Holman said: wait for the investigation after the tragic shooting of that woman who made it her career to be an anti-ICE warrior and look to cut off ICE agents, which is extremely dangerous and illegal. And if I ever did that, I would expect to go to jail.

So would you. But evidently, ICE is somebody that we should look at as what? I don't know, Al-Qaeda? I mean, I don't actually don't even see these people speaking out against these terrorists. With me right now, I don't know if uh just to make you clear, in case you missed the top of the show, I'm in Wiesbaden, Germany.

It's my privilege to be at the Clay Kasseur Army Base. on the American Forces Radio Network. And we're privileged to have with us one of the many people serving at this base where the families are allowed to be here. It's just a thriving it's a thriving neighborhood, Sergeant First Class McGo Achmoth. Sergeant, welcome.

Hi, sir. How are you doing, sir? How close did I get to getting your name right? Uh, not quite. How would you do it?

It would be Mogul Amas.

Okay. Magool Ahmed. That sounds good.

So Magool, it's very important for you to be serving this country. First off, when it comes to National Guard service, which you're involved in, have you been asked or has your former units been asked to help out at all? uh help out in terms of uh Before I came here the year before In 2024, my unit was deployed to the LA for the ICE riots that happened. And uh some other units have been to maybe the border regions. Is it difficult?

Is that difficult service? Because you can't really make arrests, right? It's difficult just you know, doing things, I guess, against American citizens in general. Right. But especially, you have to support ICE agents when they get in trouble.

Exactly, because we're. What you do in your job is your responsibility and your duty, but What you face at home when you're out in the uniform is different, you know. People don't appreciate what you do.

So it's it's tough. It's a tough life for National Guardsmen. Right. You you find that National Guard in particular doesn't get the appreciation? Uh I guess we're underrated.

Here you're helping with floods, disasters, you're helping out.

So why did you join? Yeah. Well, I joined Um 'Cause I wanted I'm I'm actually uh from originally from Cambodia, I was born there. And I came to the States around 1980 and by about six years old. I joined Because maybe it's my gratitude to to the United States for giving us an opportunity to reside in America, because I came from the uh the Khmer Rouge area during in Cambodia.

The killing fields. The killing fields, exactly. And so and my dad served and of all the countries that he could have gone, He decided to come to America, I guess, because he was he was in the military pro pro US and then He probably met a uh like a a US advisor that told him about America, so he decided to come here while all his cousins and everybody went to like Malaysia and Australia and all that and France and all that. And what has it meant for you and your family? And it's never easy coming here.

It's not easy, it's it's a it's a cultural shock. I mean, six years old, never seen the world. I I mean I and You know, seeing skyscrapers for the first time. It was pretty amazing. Right, and you remember all this.

I do, I remember all of it. Right. So, what about your family and the adjustment they made? It was hard because, um, like I said, I come from a society where women don't usually work, the men have to work.

So, my mom had to Had to help out my dad, they had to work, she had to work, so you know, growing up we had to go to school. We wake up on our own, you know, doing stuff on our own, and just going to school. Wow.

So you joined the military. How has it been for you? It's been not an easy ride because as a marine, it wasn't it was it was really hard. I wasn't I wasn't that big, as you can see, I'm and I but I I survived. And it was tough back then, you know, 'cause I I went in nineteen ninety two And um Things weren't weren't weren't as is now.

It was little it was still tough. Did four years of that. was able to get on like the twenty second mule that came to uh the mid Mediterranean for a while. And then um I mean, I'm from California. And they got stationed in North Carolina, but there was nothing in North Carolina.

You know, it's like that was a culture shock as well. I was just like I'm I'm a city boy and I go there in Nor North Carolina and Campbell Jeune, it's like rural, right? Small towns and everything. It was like Culture Shock again. Culture Schock again.

So you went you took a break and you went back. You went into the National Guard.

Now you're here in Germany. What's your day like here?

Well Being a I work as a battery NCO in a cloik. And uh we have two shifts, let's go zero five to twelve thirty for what the first shift and then twelve thirty to about uh uh twenty hundred. And that's the second shift.

So it's And could you describe what that is? It's an acronym, so could you describe where you work? The COIC is basically like the the command center, the s uh operation. And you walk in that room and you can see Africa or of Europe, you can see all the hot spots where the drone activity is. You were there earlier and you see how big that place is.

Yes, it's huge. It's huge and it's when it's full of people and and and and the commanders are the big bosses there. It's it's it's pressure too because you have a hot war 650 miles away in Ukraine, right? Yes. You have drones incurring on our allies.

It's important that you know what's going on, what the truth is, because people lie and or they misinterpret what that flying site is. But you saw drone activity, for example, today in Norway. I didn't read anywhere. I didn't read that anywhere, but I'm sure I will soon. Yeah, our job is to battle track the operation stuff, operation data, and that's kind of.

make sure it gets to where it needs to go and we try to do our best. Yeah. And with the AI, 'cause you talked about AI earlier as well, it's like It could be false information. It could be, you know, somebody made it up, whatever. But our job is to make sure that it's accurate information passed through the commander.

So, 25 years, when do you want to retire? What else do you want to accomplish in the military? What's it meant to you and your family? I want to do 30 years, but the family doesn't see it that way. I'm going to try my best because.

Are they here with you? No. For ADOS, I'm on. Was it a I ha I came with just myself? And so my family's back home.

Okay. So that's it, because this is a place where you can bring your family, right? For active duty, yes, you can.

Okay. But National Guard is different. National Guard's they could come in and visit. Right. But they're not on orders, like, you know, not paid for or anything like that.

And could you give people a sense, since we're in Germany in Wiesbaden, what's it like here? Um Europe is beautiful. It's a lot of history here, and you know, I I like history, I like Roman history, so I see a lot of Roman like sculptures and like buildings and stuff. It's just pretty cool. It's Where Wisvan is like close proximity to everything.

You can go to France, you can go to Austria. Everything's close by.

Okay. Right. I get the sense. I feel like I'm coming into a community here. And to see families working out and to see families walking around.

I didn't know. I thought you'd have to live. Off base with your family. I didn't know this was an option. But I also talked into some, and you tell me if this is your experience, that when you walk around Germany, you get positive.

Comments. People, when they see the American flag or they see you in uniform, do you feel like you're appreciated here? We we do we do feel appreciated because, you know, like we play a big part of, I guess, NATO. We are behind the, we are, I guess, the force behind NATO, and a lot of European people they appreciate that. A lot of them are older gener uh generations where they came from the co uh World War II and all that, and they see what we've done for them, and so they do appreciate us.

Right now, uh, I don't want to get into international politics, but you know that Germany is now emphasizing their own military. In fact, so 60 Minutes Fetch from two weeks ago, they're going, Wait, this Russian threat is real, which you guys have been saying forever. Have you noticed a reinvigoration of the right of the German military? If you haven't, it's okay. No, I don't know, sir.

Because you don't see them, you don't see them, yeah. But you do see international troops on the base, we do see international troops on base, and you know, we it's we're happy to work with them. And it it's the teamwork that's going to get us through all this.

Okay. What is your job in particular? Uh my job in the the COIC is a battle NCO.

So basically we just like I said, we we uh battle track the data opera operational data and all that and just make sure that the commander gets everything that they need to conduct the the meetings that they have to do. And how does NATO relate to this? Uh sometimes we have NATO uh personnel in there. And especially when we do exercises and stuff, they they're there to work with us. Right.

Did you help Ukraine? That's part of the plan, sir. Do you think that's a vital thing for us to do? It's vital that we, you know, we do the right thing and You know, make sure that The good guys win? The good guys win, yeah.

I guess that's the best way to say it. Yep. Thanks so much. I'm going to get it right now. Uh Magal.

Artmeth. Magu Amuth. Magu Amuth. Okay, there you go. One out of two.

McGoogle, thanks so much for your service. Stay safe, and I hope you get your 30. I hope you win your family over. Thank you, sir. Yeah, I appreciate that.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, we are back. We've got a few minutes here before the top of the hour, and we're coming to you from Wiesbaden, Germany. We're here for a very special occasion to be able to see European and African command in action and get a slice of their life as we're actually on base coming to you from the Army Radio Network, armed for Army Radio. Armed Arm American Forces Network, I should say.

So we come here. I'm talking about Iran, talking about Venezuela. Really haven't talked about Venezuela. And I'll tell you. I think it's pretty impressive.

The President of the United States says, I'm going to leave this government attack. I don't want to be picking up the trash. I don't want to be handling the payment for municipalities. I don't want to be dealing with an insurgency. And I want to get their oil going.

And they're not going to get an ounce of their own oil. They're going to be starved to death if they don't cooperate. And I'm talking about the new government.

So, Secretary, I thought the President was brilliant on Friday when he brought all the executives in together. And the oil executive said, I need you to invest in this country. They have more oil reserves than anyone else. And I want you involved, and I want you to be able to modernize. That investment will pay off.

Exxon came out and said, Oh, I find it that country uninvestable. You know what the president said? You're not invited. You're not allowed to invest. And I love that because you'd be a little bit patriotic with your country.

We're not asking for a favor. For the longest time you're trying to get in there, if you provide security, you should go in. Here's Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, on Face the Nation. Here's what he talked about happening on the ground and what's going to happen on the oil wells, Cut 21. What he means is, we're changing the game for what's happening in the ground in Venezuela.

Venezuela has purchased $20 billion of Russian weapons. They've got Cuban mercenaries there. They supply oil to Cuba. They harbor the Hezbollah's headquarters for the Western Hemisphere. Venezuela has been a very dangerous, very destabilized place going down the tubes.

And with the United States influence now by controlling the sale of their oil and therefore the flow of funds into the country, we think we will see relatively rapid change, improvement on the ground in Venezuela. This is a process. We're only eight days into the process, but it's off to a strong start. I 100% agree with that. And just got to think that we have two evil empires and one terror organization out of that country.

And the president said, I want them all out. They're beginning to release political prisoners. But they talked about Maria Cachita Gonzalez, who has won the Nobel Peace Prize, and she's going to come visit the President this week. And what the President has said is he did his the CIA has let him know, intelligence has let him know, that they are not ready to take over the country. Even though they won the election, the army will decide.

They literally, obviously, have the guns. And I'm not sure that they're willing to look for that transition of power yet.

So you could say, well, that's not right. Or you could say, I want to be practical. I want to make sure our guys are getting shot and this place doesn't go to hell. But Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar weighed in last night on the same show and talked about the need to get these people out eventually, meaning the people that Maduro was serving with, CUT 24. I know that Giostado is probably worse than Maduro and worse than Del C.

They're all Alibaba and the 40 thieves. Let's don't make any, let's make sure for your international audience that, but I am very reassured the fact that we have taken the oil and the resources away from them, that Diosaro Cabello, who is a thief, I repeat, does not want to fall into where Maduro has fallen into, and they will cooperate. And somehow, because we have created this new type of model, that they will work with us. They do not have their resources.

Now they know that we're going to go into this recovery and that somehow they are going to definitely participate and work with the American. They know better. They kind of have to, or else they'll be kidnapped again. It would be great if we got that interior minister who evidently walks the streets with spikes in his bat.

So it's hard to believe that he will be reformed, especially when I hear these bicycle gangs are going up and down the streets of Caracas.

So you wonder what's going to get to them when they understand that game is over. She talked a little bit more about what's next. And what next could very well be Cuba, CUT 25. The President tweeted today: Cuba gets no more money, no more oil. The CIA assessment is that the regime in Havana is not necessarily in peril, even though the President's saying they are.

What are you doing? I represent the city of Miami, you know, the heart of the Cuban exile community. And those words are like magical. It's been 65 years. You know, Cuba is really a center of power for our enemies, Iran, Russia, China.

And now I think they're getting the memo. And Cuba, it's hanging by a threat, by a threat, I should say, because the threat that Cuba has represented to the United States has been immense.

So, Cuba is worried, and they should be. I just don't know what kind of deal the president could do. They have no assets. They have no natural resources. And what do they want to do?

Agree to what? Not persecute their people, make sure they get electricity? They're out of electricity 15 hours a day. Evidently, their pensions are $7 a month. Do you know how much eggs cost?

$8. Inflation makes the whole place unlivable. Why are we even thinking about cutting a deal? Cuba has been a thorn in our side since the 60s. Why not just let them fall on their own weight?

I don't even know what kind of deal they talk about. The Mexican government is concerned, too, because the president's made it clear that he wants those cartels done. And he says that Scheinbaum, a nice woman, totally owes her power to the cartels and will not crack down on them. The Mexican government is concerned because the indictment on Maduro mentions Mexico 25 times. 25 times.

Why? Because a lot of the drug flows through there, a lot of the money goes back to them. A lot of the illegal immigrants come through Mexico.

So a lot of the illegal activity comes there. Nobody doubts that the majority of fentanyl comes from our southern border through Mexico. Nobody doubts that the precursors come from China. Nobody doubts that our FBI director went over there and got assurances it would stop.

So the key is, what does Scheinbound mean? The President said, Look, if you got elected and these cartels are what you got to deal with, let me take them out. And she said, no, that's part of you know, we don't want you meddling.

Well, what do you want to do? Do you want to let cartels run your country? I mean that's the other choice. And to me, that's not a choice, especially when this President made it clear when he ran the first time that one of his priorities. One of his priorities was Stopping the death from fentanyl.

And what makes it special and insidious is it's not one of those things where you take it and you get addicted, and that's the problem.

Well, yet, addiction is always an issue. But which really hurts you with fentanyl is it's one and done. And a lot of kids will go online and just order Riddling, they want to focus for a test and they end up dead on the keyboard. Why? Because they put fentanyl in it.

That's what's happening. All right, don't forget to catch up to me on February 14th and in Reno, Nevada. I'll be doing history, liberty, and laps. Go to BrianKillMe.com. Streams on Fox Nation for tickets.

From high atop Fox News headquarters in New York City, always seeking solutions, never sowing division. It's Brian Kilmead. Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmeet Show coming to you from the American Forces Radio Studios right here in beautiful Wiesbaden, Germany, the side of Claire Crescern Army Base. And we are having a great time. We're going to be here for the 48 hours, be able to go see a tank battle, I understand, over in Poland tomorrow. And today we're able to go in and find out things that I can't possibly tell you.

Places like the Forge, which is a multi-domain command, Europe's innovation center.

So that was pretty cool, as well as the combat training center.

So that's going to be tomorrow. And then, of course, had a chance to work out with the men and women who are in incredible shape.

So we're able to get a lot of information going forward and find out what everybody is worried about. When you talk about the European and African command, there are a lot of challenges, and that's why it's so great to be at the American Forces Network.

So we have a study, we're looking at three hotspots. First off, Iran. I know you say. To yourself, we have thrown through this before. We've seen the uprising.

2009, Obama didn't say much. He wanted to make a deal with the Ayatollah Khomeini. And that way he did make a deal. It was horrendous. We got out of it, thankfully.

Now they don't have a nuclear program because the president took military action. And then you have Venezuela. We want to see how that progresses, trying to get the oil companies in there. And the other major hotspot could be, in fact, Greenland, as well as in America, ICE versus every left-wing city from Minneapolis to Portland to Philadelphia and New York. Paid protesters going against law enforcement agency.

It's just something I didn't think was going to happen.

So let's switch, if we can. Uh to Iran. Because right now there's 490 dead. And that's uh a lot, but it's not compared to the rubber uprising. There's about two thousand taken prisoners, excuse me, ten thousand have been ta have been arrested.

Usually that results in their death. And now we understand the Wall Street Journal is reporting That they're going to start using their military just to flat out shoot Iranians around their country, rich and poor, who are standing up, ripping their flags down, demanding the end of the Ayatollah regime. a guy that's been calling for that for quite some time. Ali Reza Jafarstada is the author of The Iran Threat, the Deputy Director of National Council of Resistance on Iran. Ali Reiza, what's different about this uprising?

First of all, Brian, great speaking with you and stay warm in Germany.

Now in terms of this uprising, you mentioned it's been going on for several years, at least since twenty seventeen, in this new form and shape. Keep in mind that every time there is an uprising, the demands and the intensity gets a lot deeper and stronger, focused on the Supreme Leader harmony and focused on change. Particularly in the past two weeks, today is the fifteenth day, when the protests started, even though it started with the opposition to the deteriorating value of the Iranian currency, but it soon expanded to other sectors of the society, the poor, the depressed, the laborers, and then the students joined. And then you saw it expanding to one hundred ninety five cities all over all the thirty one provinces of Iran. The intensity is so much that the focus of the slogans is death to Khamedeh, which is the supreme leader of the Iranian regime, death to the dictator, and death to the oppressor, be the Shah or the supreme leader.

And then people really getting fed up with the repression. They even confronted revolutionary guards. In some cases, they tried to disarm them. The guards came back and attacking them. The information we just got about it an hour ago from compiling from this our sources on the ground from almost all the 195 cities that were involved shows that the actual number of those killed by the regime in the past two weeks is over 3,000.

You're killing 3,000. 3,000. This is and actually the actual numbers may be higher. We're always a little cautious about putting out numbers. We are trying to compile the names and details of it.

The reason some of that information didn't get out because the regime cut off the internet, the communications is extremely slow while they were doing the killings. You know, our leader, Mrs. Maryam Rajabi, put out a statement today, you know, sending condolences to the people of Iran, especially the family members and friends of those who have been killed, who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Iran. But she called this killings as a crime against humanity on the part of the Iran regime, saying that all of the peoples who are perpetrators of this crime should be held accountable when Iran is free and they will face a trial. But the fact that they this time they killed more than any other times in the past five, six years when the uprisings were taking place is a clear indication that this one has been so far a lot deeper, much more focused, much more threatening to the existence of the Iran regime.

But today, the fifteenth day is still continuing. Here is what President Trump said, cut one. Iran's in big trouble. It looks to me that the people are Taking over certain cities that nobody thought were really possible just a few weeks ago. We're watching the situation very carefully.

I've made the statement very strongly that if they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved. We'll be hitting them very hard where it hurts. And that doesn't mean boots on the ground, but it means hitting them very, very hard where it hurts.

So, I mean, he doesn't know. He hasn't been specific, but evidently, according to the Wall Street Journal, they're drawing up some type of military action. We know that Marco Rubio met with the Secretary of State met with the Prime Minister of Israel today, who's extremely popular in Iran.

So something's going on. And when the President says something, we're pretty sure people understand he's going to do it on his own time, but he's going to do it.

Well, Brian, of course, the circumstances have now changed internationally related to Iran. Just four or five years ago, you had Europe rushing to embrace the Ayatollahs, giving them concessions, money. They closed their eyes on their terrorism, on their nuclear weapons program, on their missile program. Even in this country, predominantly over the past three, four decades, we talked about it before, the policy was a policy of appeasement. And the people of Iran paid the price.

The rest of the world paid the price because not only it enabled the regime to kill people, but it enabled them to develop nuclear weapons and missile program, expanding their network of terror proxies in the region, all of that. That has significantly changed.

So I think it's important for the world to understand that at the end of the day, what we are counting on is our own network. Iran, our own country. Right, but they need guns. I know, but you need guns. Right now, there's just no guns out there outside the army and the military.

But right now, this is part of it: there's food shortages, there's power shortages, there's water shortages, punishing sanctions that are going on, the after effects of the 12-day war with Israel, all combining to just make these people want to throw this government over. Do you think it's real that Ayatollah has a trip planned to Moscow? Should things get worse? Do you think there's actually been planning done? Yeah.

Well, I have no doubt that the Mullahs' number one preoccupation, especially in the past few months, has been their existence, their survival. Number one, they will try to stay in power, see what it takes to put the revolt down, what it takes, you know, just to survive another week or month. I have no doubt that Khamenei has various plans for that. And that's why, exactly as you said, Brian, it's so important to be on the side of those who are confronting the revolutionary guards. Because change is going to come by the people of Iran.

Those, you know, Iran is a big country. Those who are on the ground, who have been fighting, confronting them, the organized resistance, you know, no matter what. I understand what you're saying. I understand what you're saying, but we've seen this movie before. This has got to be different.

This is the best chance yet. But if they don't have some type of help militarily from somebody, whether someone's going to, the Messiah. Sneaking in guns to him. I mean, we've seen great courage already, but obviously there's nowhere for them to go.

Well, you know, Brian, there is no shortage of guns and weapons or other tools in Iran. You know, it's just, you know, people have, in so many cases, when they revolt against the ruling government, it takes a strong toll. But when the nation makes a decision, it's very difficult to push them back. And people are now in that situation. Thank God there is an organized force who has experience of fighting the Ayatollahs for the past four decades.

The most important thing is that the MEK resistance units who are on the ground, they played a huge role for the continuation of these uprisings. They learned a lot. They gained a lot of experience in the past two weeks.

So MEKA is MEK, which is an opposition net army. They have money. Right?

Well, the MEK is actually exactly the most organized Iranian opposition movement over the past four decades. Are they on the ground there? Yes, they are on the ground. They have a network on the ground. You know, the regime in a period of one year they arrested or killed or were missing about over 3,600 members of the MEK on the ground.

But it didn't help the regime because more people joined. And in a lot of these cities that the process was going on, the MEK network was on the ground paving the way, opening ways. They were the ones who were sacrificing, encouraging the youth to join. That's why I think the most important help the United States, Europe and everybody else can do is to recognize the right of the people of Iran to overthrow the regime. Recognize the resistance units on the ground that they have the right to confront the Belution Guard.

They have the right to fight them and push them back. But they do know they have the right, but they also know they're going to get shot. How do you feel about the exiled Iranian crown prince? Here he is speaking yesterday, Karate. The people in of Iran have responded and reacted positively.

To a promise of intervention by the President and his administration, that if the regime turns their gun and continues massacring its own people, that will not remain unanswered. That's the ask on the ground. We need to make sure that this time the Iranian people are successful. That kind of assistance will go a long way. in letting the Iranian people prevail in this war that we have against this regime.

Is he popular there? He seems to be. Absolutely not. The only reason you know, and you just described him as such, is that he's the son of a deposed dictator, the Shah, which was thrown out of the country in a popular revolution. Both him and his grandfather, the only thing he represents, Iran is not going to go backwards to another form of dictatorship.

There is something for change. You don't think he should play a role?

Well, his role is destructive because he's sending signals to the revolutionary guards. He's nowhere to be found and he's spending more time. He was in the Bahamas when the uprising started. And until a week after the uprising started, then he showed up and said, Well, I asked the people to show up also tomorrow.

Well, people were already in the streets. They were chanting Death City Khamenei, Death City Dictator. They don't need a son of a dictator for the movement to succeed. To the country, he's just sending the wrong message that as though the people are going to go backwards. He doesn't have any experience running anything.

He's just a son. He left when he was about 13, I think. But we'll see. I think he could stole billions of dollars of Iranian people's money and living luxuriously outside of the country. And every time there's people dying in Iran, he just shows up in order to do an interview and gain recognition.

Not what's needed. You need fighters on the ground. You need committed people. You need an organized force who've been fighting this regime for the past four decades. The movement that exposed all the major nuclear sites of Iran, their terror network, the MEK is the number one target of the killings in Iran and their terrorism outside.

They are the ones who are paying the price on the ground. You don't need any remnants of the previous dictatorship. Of the shot. All right. Ali Raza, best of luck.

Hopefully, this coup works. Thank you so much, Brian. No matter what the regime does, Iran will be free. I have no doubt about that. I know.

I'm just tired of waiting, and I know you are too. Thanks so much. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Ben Allen will be joining us, CEO and co-founder of Apex Path. We're here in Wiesbaden, Germany. We're giving you the latest on our men and women who are serving up close and personal in the European and African Command.

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There are so many A-listers, and by A-listers, I do mean people who are on A-lists that have been heavily redacted, but. Yes. And the golden globe for best editing goes to the Justice Department. Yes, congratulations. And the award for most editing goes to CBS News.

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So, Nikki Glazier letting her politics slip in. I thought in the Hollywood game they decided not to be political. That's why I didn't have Jimmy Kimmel, but that Nikki Glazer is extremely funny. But if she goes after both sides, I think she's great. I think it would be great for the Golden Globes.

Here's more from her as she goes after Leo DiCaprio, cut 35. Leonardo DiCaprio is here for one man bun after another. How good was Leo in one battle? I mean, it's insane.

So good.

So vaping good. What a career you've had. I mean, countless iconic performances. You've worked with every great director. You've won three Golden Globes, an Oscar.

And the most impressive thing is that you were able to accomplish all of that before your girlfriend turns 30. I mean, it's just insane. But she went on to say that was a cheap shot, but we have nothing else on you, except for you like pasta, the last time he gave a real article, which is true. He does not really talk to anybody. Last week we played his actor-to-actor.

They have the series now, which is really on the paper. It's a good idea, but when you see these actors talk to each other, they have no idea how to ask questions, and it's really awkward. He did one. Who was the one he did it with? And they didn't really know each other's careers.

Oh, Jennifer Lawrence. Yeah. And it was just so awkward. And then I've thought this one Who's the one in Wicked? Who's the woman in Wicked?

She did Adam Sandler. Two awkward people. Oh, do you agree in this? Oh, thank you. You were great in this.

Oh, thank you. You were funny in this. Oh, thank you. That's the whole interview. But went on to say: here's Amy Polo.

She was the first podcast winner, Podcast of the Year, Cut 36. I just want to say that I know I am new to this game. I have great respect for this form. I have great respect for all the people that I have nominated with. I am big fans of all of you, except for NPR.

Yeah. Just a bunch of celebs phoning it in, so try harder. That was it? Yeah, that was good. But that was Amy Poehler.

But this is what I heard too. Is that you really can't fault that they didn't pick Joe Rogan or anybody else because you have to enter.

So they wouldn't just pick you, you have to enter. and those guys didn't want to enter.

So I hear that's good podcast. Do you ever listen to it? All right, you haven't. Allison says she has not.

So, but the people say it is good. I know she was funny. That's when SNL was funny. Look at the Brian Kill Me show and Beesbaden, Germany, don't move. The fastest three hours in radio.

You're with Brian Kilmead. All right, I'm coming to you through the Armed Forces Network here in Wiesbaden, Germany. If you want to know what's going on in Europe, the challenges, if you want to know what's going on in Africa, this is where it's all done. This is the command. And I've had a chance to be here for, I think, 48 hours, 52 hours, in and out.

Come back, you're going to see a lot of this stuff on television. Did a quick hit today doing six hours of radio, three hours right now.

So we'll be able to talk to a lot of great men and women who serve, one of which is not in uniform but still serving. Ben Allen, CEO and co-founder of Apex Path. He's been in the military up until 2018 and still managed to have seven kids, six girls, one boy. And Ben was able to put me through the paces this morning, extremely positive. When I first saw you, you have such a formidable, somewhat intimidating demeanor.

I didn't think you'd be this encouraging, but you are a very encouraging, positive guy. Thank you. I mean, it was easy to work with you guys. Thank you guys for coming out and training with the soldiers. I know it made their day.

You guys throwing down and sweating with them, sweat equity goes. And they do this every day, right? Every day, that's right. But why CrossFit? I thought it was so interesting.

They said, no, CrossFit's necessary. Yeah, I wouldn't call it CrossFit. It's more the elements of functional fitness and high metabolic demands. What we, you know, we were blessed to know over the last 24 years of hard combat what the requirements are. And right, so what we've taken from that, what General Donahue here in Europe has done is, hey, here's the requirements of combat.

Let's train them that way every day. Right. And putting that to the forefront. Understood.

So now you're doing that, but tell me about your service. What got you into it? You know, I was graduating college, and Iraq had started. Afghanistan was kind of kicking back up again, and I wanted a chance to serve. I was on the way to law school, and I decided to enlist for a deployment, and that turned into a career.

And when did you realize you wanted to stay? During that first deployment. Why? The camaraderie, the sense of mission, seeing once you deploy, once you see what's going on in the world, you see the two active wars. That's right.

Three. You can count ISIS as part of it as well. Yeah, sure. And once you see the need of what's going on out there and the protection of the homeland, it can be pretty addicting. Ben, where did you end up serving?

What units? I started out as in 7th Special Forces Group, and then I stayed in JSOC the rest of my career. And wh what was that like? Uh Time of my life. It was a blast.

But challenging, right? You're putting your life on the line, you're going into the worst of the worst places. Absolutely, but you know, it's worth it. You're doing it for the right reason, for the right people. And again, the more you get exposed to the reality of the world, the more you want to change it.

So, describe some of the things that you can, that you were able to do in Iraq and Afghanistan and over in Syria. You know, we had a number of things.

Southern Afghanistan getting to retake the Hellman back in 06 and 07. We were able to push in the first real unit to push in into Syria to do counter-ISIS missions in 2016. Got to do a lot of getting Iraq and handing Iraq back over to the Iraqis.

So, a lot with Lebanon as well. And in 2018, what was the reason you wanted to get out? I had gotten hurt a few times. How many times? You said you had seven back surgeries?

Yeah, I've had quite a few back surgeries. I went left when I should have gone right probably more often than not, and I got medically retired. What else? Let's see, I've got some metal on my leg, and and it was just time I was a a ton of kids at home and I couldn't yeah, I couldn't uh couldn't couldn't uh do the job anymore the way I wanted to. See, when you go when you talk to special forces guys, they always it's almost like talking to a a former football player.

You know, if you were successful, or say a running back, you carry the ball, you're going to be beat up. Oh, that's right. All you guys are beat up. But what I don't get, and you can tell me I'm wrong about this, but you need 20 years to get the benefits, right? No.

If you get injured in combat enough times or injured training for that, they can award you full benefits prior to that.

Okay, did you get that? Yeah, I got it at 18 years.

Okay, at 18 years. Because a lot of guys, let's say you're just banged up, but you can continue to serve. And you got to get out in 8 or 10 because of the intensity of your unit and your missions. Doesn't it seem like you should have special It should be a different Than the 20-year mark for special services, special ops? Yes, I do think it is.

And I tell you, right now, as this administration is taking the VA and who they have running the VA, they're making a lot of special exceptions for that reason. Can I give you an example? Where you can still get medical benefits. It may not be full retirement, but you can still get persistent care, persistent benefits, and persistent help for any injuries you sustained while you're in. All right, so now, but you're still serving.

You're over here training.

So tell me your role now with the military. Right now, you know, we kicked off in 2022. We looked at, hey, we know what's happened the last 24 years as this near-peer fight is starting to burgeon across the world. How can we take the lessons learned from the previous 24 years of GWAT and apply those to prepare troops for the global war on terror? And so, how do we apply that to the near-peer fight?

Well, what's going on with Russia, what's going on with China, how can we get them ready for that? And so we started a firm on preparing soldiers to get ready for that.

So, Delta Force, are you familiar? I've heard of it. Yeah. So they were able to reportedly lead the charge to take Vent to take Maduro out of his bed. They had planned it.

I guess they made a mini. A compound where he would be, and they would either have a safe room there. They worked on that. I keep talking to military people. They were just in awe of the coordination and the whole mission.

What about you? One, of course, there's the best and brightest in the world. I've got all the respect in the world for them. And I would think if you talk to them, I think it was old number seven. It's what they do every day, it's what they prepare for their entire career.

It was just another day for them. But they got intelligence. The CIA must have really done their job. Yeah, I think it was a full-spectrum effort from other nations, from our own internal agencies. I think it can show when the departments working together what's possible.

So, Ben, the other thing we heard reports over the weekend that some of the Venezuelan soldiers were speaking, and they said before they came in, they thought we were going to square off with you guys. And then, next thing you know, they were vomiting and their ears were bleeding, and they got hit by something. And he says, You got the Americans didn't miss. They overwhelmed us. But they hit them with something, whether it's sonic or something else, that they were immobilized.

Do you know anything about this? To me, personally, it sounds like some type of concussion grenade. That makes you feel that way. Yeah, it's non-fragmentation, but concussion to where it will make you feel like you're nauseous, make you feel sick, and disorient you.

So, do you guys have you guys used this before? We've been using it throughout the war on terror, probably the last 30 years. And has it been effective with those same symptoms? 100%. Right.

So is that part of the reason they were so confident and able to handle the big numbers that the Venezuelan army had? Yeah, I wasn't there, so I can't speak specifically, but I think just the amount of training our soldiers do in special operations, the amount of dedication, I don't think there's any target they would hit that they're not confident. Do you know anybody that got hit by an EFP of Iran? Uh In Iraq. Yeah, there's dozens of folks as you go through diplomas that you see.

How much harder do they make the Iraq mission? I think they're still making it hard. I think they made it magnitudes of power harder. They continue to fund, they continue to pipe weapons, they continue to do the propaganda, they continue to be a state sponsor anywhere they can. And so I think they were a persistent problem, they still are now.

So when we see this uprising happening now. You're a civilian. And you know, that happened in 2009, we didn't do much. In 2019, we didn't do enough. And now the President said, don't shoot your own people, but they are.

300 dead. I just heard a report that it might be 2,000 dead, and they might put the Army on their people. But they've never seen uprisings like this. Why should we care, as an American? Why should I care about that mission?

You know, they were a loyal people group to us prior to the Ayatollah taking over in the late 70s. And they were a valuable member of our culture and our society across the world. And so anytime someone's out there oppressing people in that manner and killing people for no reason, I do think we have the opportunity to help people and to help the world seen in that manner. We don't want to beat the police. But again, every time that the Ayatollah wins, we lose out at a national scale across the globe.

But if you look at the ripple effects, think about Syria. They lost Syria as an ally, how hard that, how great that was for us, how bad it was for Russia. And now, if you look at the one country funding the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas, it is Iran. That's right. And they're the ones that are making nuclear weapons to go after Israel.

So, if you cut off, if you just get a somewhat normal regime in Iran that wants to make their country better, not terrorize the world. This could have huge implications. It has massive implications. It has massive implications on both what's going on in Ukraine and Russia, what's going on elsewhere around the world with our troops that are in the CENTCOM AOR.

So I think it's a profound effort. It's eerily similar to the admonishment that President Trump in his first term gave Assad with the red line in Syria. And he came through on that, too, and dramatically changed that culture. I want you to hear what Rand Paul said. Cut for.

Well, I think we wish them the best. We wish freedom and liberation the best across the world. But I don't think it's the job of the American government to be involved with every freedom movement around the world. And I do believe that bombing them may have the opposite. It's like, how do you drop a bomb in the middle of a crowd or a protest and protect the people there?

If you bomb the government, do you then rally people to their flag who are upset with the Ayatollah, but then say, well, gosh, we can't have a foreign government invading or bombing our country. It tends to have people rally to the cause.

So is he right?

Well, we just bombed the government nuclear sites, and they're rallying towards us.

So I would disagree on that on his latter point there. It goes against what he said. And I think yes, I don't believe that It's empirically the United States' job to be the world police, but in certain scenarios, this meeting that criteria, I think it is needed to help. And this administration has proven they're not going to do nation building. They're in there to make change and to make a positive effect, and then we stop.

And so I think the track record we have doing that now, I think we should be. I think he's a little off target on there. I think he's way off target. He's always off target because he doesn't want to get involved in anything, always thinks we're the worst. Then the other thing is, how much could they make things better in Iraq?

I mean, they have those Irani militias in Iraq pushing the Shia cause against the Sunnis. They've actually had successful elections in Iraq, but I guess. They're um I guess they're delegitimized to some degree by Iran, who seems to be the power. That's right. And they hate each other historically.

They've hated each other forever, the entire war of the 80s, right, between Iraq and Iran. What I think you'll see, though, is the Abraham Accords that we have going again, you're seeing this great mobilization of leaders throughout the Middle East. And the one thing that's lagging behind is the Iran people and the Iran government. I think if we get them into that situation where they're able to be a contributor, I think you'll see that take off in ways that it never has before.

So if I told you in 2001, well, Saudi Arabia is going to be economically oriented, they're going to be trying to get in Western investment, they're going to change the curriculum, the Wahhabi curriculas, and they're going to rip that out. And you know what? In 15, 20 years, we're going to probably want to ally with them to a degree. You go, Brian, come on, please. The people that gave us bin Laden, but if you look at it, The fact that women, we think this is a joke, can actually drive, can walk around without anything on their head, can go get jobs, encouraged to go to college, where he's telling them to learn an occupation.

It's not okay to have your servants do everything. I see incremental positive change. I know we don't want to live there. I get it. But they really want to develop their country.

That's what we ask. It's a process, and this is an integral part of the process to get there. You have to eliminate the bad to start making positive steps.

So I couldn't agree with you more on that. Right. But in 9-11, if I told you this, you'd go, that's the last country, because what they did. But I also think it's important to point out that other Gulf states are doing the same thing. You have kings, emirs, not our speed.

But the fact is they're trying to grow their economy.

So in other words, they're trying to live for this life instead of the next one. That kind of gets us on the same page. It gets us on the same page. And, you know, we made massive strides in that between 2017 and 2019 under the Abraham Accords. And then we kind of pulled the rug out from underneath them.

And so they're a little bit timid right now. For four years. That's right. We said that they were the pariah nation. We eliminated the Houthis.

And then we said the Houthis were not terrorists. And they showed us we were wrong. And as we start to go back to that, I'm not shocked. They're a little bit slower to the punch. But we have to continue to give them a way to win.

Right. See, the thing is, what people understand is these imperfect cug, it's not France, it's not England. But if we pull out. China fills the gap. Russia will fill the gap, no problem.

Then we lose that sphere of influence and the ability to influence it all. Overall, you look in incredible shape. You look like you could still serve. I know you are banged up and you don't necessarily want to. What kind of shape is our special forces in?

Because now you're with Apex, and one of your jobs is to make sure they're physically ready. I would tell you, our United States Special Operations Services, SOCOM as a whole, they don't need my help. They're way better than I'll ever be. They're doing fantastic. What we're trying to do is what they're doing on the front line, what they're doing ahead of our time.

How do we scale what they're doing and scale it across the broader force? That's what General Donahue and CSA Molenex are here in Europe. Both have a phenomenal soft background, and they're taking that and spreading it across the general purpose force to better prepare our service members for what will be potentially a near-peer conflict and the deterrence of a near-peer conflict. Do you get the sense and just your people, Paul? Just the people that you know then.

Do you get the sense that people are happy with where the direction the military is right now? The military is a lot bigger than I think the civilian population understands. There's a lot of layers to it. There's a lot of layers to the Department of State and the Department of War now. And so it takes a long time to turn, but I think everyone is happy that it is starting to turn in the right direction.

Right. And we're starting to build steam. I think these wins, like Maduro, what could possibly be a win in Iran, those type of wins we're hitting Syria and ISIS. Those things are starting to give positive credence to the steps that we're taking. Secretary of War, once you just get back to war fighting and forget the political correctness, was that necessary?

Absolutely. The military has to be and should always be apolitical. The military is designed for one thing to close with and destroy. And if we're not doing that, we're doing a dereliction of duty. All right, Ben, thanks for taking care of me today.

Thanks for everything you've done for the country. And you're still serving. Absolutely, sir. Thank you. Great job today.

All right. Thanks so much. I don't usually do deadlifts.

Now I know how to do them. I thought it was bad for my lower back. You said, hey, I got seven surgeries. It's the best thing you could do. I'm taking your advice.

Back in a moment. Coming to you on a need-to-know basis because, man, do you need to know? Ian Brian Killmead. Uh The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead.

Hey, welcome back, everyone. It's Brian Kilmead here from the Armed Forces, the American Forces. Network over in Europe, and we're in Germany, Wiesbaden, Germany, and we're getting the latest on the military, the challenges that are out there. I don't think I have to remind anybody listening right now that we have historic times. I mean, Venezuela, our own hemisphere.

We know about other things that don't make headlines, but Argentina, a conservative country that We are helping to make sure that they stay in power. We now have an ally with a leader in Bolivia as well as Honduras, in Panama as well. And as you look around the region, El Salvador, yeah, I don't love the dictatorship idea, but the guy ga the guy jailed every single gang member in his country and is a ch is a very loyal ally to us in our time. In the last f one year, We are seeing our country finally take a look at its backyard, and we know what happened in Venezuela and where we go from here.

Now you have an historic opportunity, I believe, with Colombia as the leader calls up and says, Hey, listen, how do we come to an agreement here? I know we have a lot of cocaine distribution. Maybe I could stop it with you. The President says, Come see me at the White House. That's progress.

Now, Brazilian leaders are a huge problem, but the other thing that's happening is Cuba. Cuba is going to be starved out. They're going to collapse from within. I don't know anybody that feels differently. And the next would be Iran.

This is historic times, and a lot has to do with the policies and the willingness to use our military to not only show force, execute, which sends the message around the world. Our enemies are not liking it. You know who's quiet? China and Russia. Yours for the brain kill me, Chill.

By the way, don't forget Fox Nation will stream it February 14th in beautiful Fort Myers, Florida, and then over to Reno, Nevada on April 30th. I'll see you there in person. BrianKilmey.com for tickets. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest growing radio talk show. Brian Kilmead.

Hi, everyone.

So glad you're there. It's the Brian Kilmey Show on the road. Don't check for me on the 15th floor. I am now safe in Wiesbaden, Germany, at the Claire Cucern Army Base, where, and from the American Forces Radio Network, I was saying armed forces, that's a mistake. This arrow is going to close strong.

I have Kennedy, who's just getting out of the shower. She wants me to buy some time for her. And then I'm going to have General Donahue, who runs this place. He is the four-star general. He's the commander of the U.S.

Army, Europe, and Africa. And he has been here since 2024. And man, it is a lot of responsibility, and he's up for the challenge. You're going to meet the guy that's in charge of so much and has already had a fantastic career. And dare I say, the best is yet to come.

So he's going to be with us in the studio. You might have seen him earlier today. I was able to speak to a group of officers, his officers, which was obviously a thrill of a lifetime. But the second greatest thrill of my lifetime is talking to Kennedy any day. Kennedy, How do you feel about being on the show?

I feel great about this. The fact that you have two four star generals Uh I I you know, I'm considered to be a a general in the uh It's a war on freedom and in my household. You know, it's it's really one and the same. Uh, just just fight in the good fight every single day. Uh, I do mine with uh lip gloss and some pointed words from my iPad.

And the general does it with uh, you know, guns and um people in cute uniforms.

So that I don't know if you refer it to that way. They they do seem very similar, camouflage. Could I ask you, Kennedy, what else are you doing today? Not that you need to not that this isn't enough, but usually it's outnumbered. Usually it's the five.

I mean, what are we what are we looking at? You can see me on Gutfeld all this week. I'm going to be on the yeah, yeah, I'm going to be on the entire week. I'm going to be hosting Kennedy Save the World, my award-winning podcast. Uh today Where you know, you talked about some of your dates where people can come and meet you in person.

I will be talking about the same thing with Jimmy Phela on my podcast, which will be released later today on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and of course, FoxnewsPodcast.com. And what happens if Kenny comes up? Does you know Kenny's been a star since, I don't know, since you're in your 20s, right? I mean, you emerge in your 20s at MTV. No, I no, I think twenty years old is about I do think it's the eighteen nineties if they were to do a twenty three and me on you.

But Kennedy, as we look at where we can see you on stage, where would we do that? In April, I'm going to be in Norfolk, Virginia on April 10th. That's going to be a great series of shows. Um I will be in uh Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas. May 9th, 10th.

There are going to be a couple shows there. I will be in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Reno, Nevada in October. And I'm really excited to meet people because this time around I'm actually going to return the hugs. Right. At first, you were reluctant.

I've seen some of the pictures. You're like, when's he going to stop? But who's going to raise your children?

Well, I mean, my uh youngest is 16, and she'll be 17 here pretty soon.

So they're they're out of the uh The body training. Luckily, you know, there. There it it's not as hands-on as it used to be. I I understand that. Uh because you coddled your kids when they were infants.

Too much, yes. Exactly. In retrospect, you have regrets.

So, let's just talk about the real world being that we have some time. Do you get you? You are not nearly as hopeful as I am. That things are going to work out well. I looked at some chronic problems in this world.

Iran has been at the center of it. Venezuela, over the last 20 years, right in our hemisphere, giving a home to Hamas, Russia, China, being aid to Cuba, Cuba pushing their philosophy in Bolivia, Nicaragua, being a mentor to Chavez, who took over Venezuela. And we see China's presence all over, and we're seeing the pushback with El Salvador, Argentina, and Bolivia, and Honduras, and now we saw the Maduro. Do you believe that we are in one of those moments where people are always going to say, I remember when a lot of our enemies paid the ultimate price, and now you factor in Cuba could be on the doorstep as well as Iran. Do you feel as though I have rose-colored glasses on and you regret doing the show?

I don't think you have rose color glasses on in wanting there to be less communism and more freedom. It's just I think we might have a little disagreement as to how we get there. But we are both aiming at the same thing, and we both have to acknowledge that Doing nothing and assuming that these communistic tendencies are going to go away, that's incredibly naive. But I I get the yips at regime change and military intervention. That's what worries me.

Um, I would much prefer uh the the quick strikes as opposed to any sort of ground incursion, which of course leads to multi-decade wars. No one ever has that intention when they start out. No president ever goes, you know what? I want to do this thing and I want to make sure we're still there in twenty years. Uh but somehow, you know, passed his prologue.

And I hope this is the President that is able to change all of that, having people in power who have actually suffered the consequences of these interminable tail consuming the head wars. Do you believe that in retrospect a Stern talking to or the silent treatment would have been better? Please. You know, we really have to go back to middle school girl tactics if we're going to get anything done. And you've already said that.

Yeah, we think that al-Qaeda, we think that Hezbollah, you know, we think that Hamas and al-Shabaab are the most Fearsome factions on the planet. It's really eighth-grade girls. And, you know, it's like that level of cruelty, that style of psychological manipulation. If we had a little bit more of that, I think that we would see less trouble. I think that that could be the topic on your next podcast, but I will not produce your podcast, although you've asked me many times.

Lindsey Graham thinks Lindsey Graham says the silent treatment. and a stern talking to will not work. He has a different perspective, cut eleven. This is the biggest deal since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Regime changes what we're talking about, not from Lindsey Graham, but from the people.

The people of Iran are tired of living the way they live. If you're a 16-year-old girl and you don't wear the hairdress right, they take you off a bus and they kill you. The people don't want the Ayatollah anymore. I don't want him. If we can get rid of him, it'd be the best thing that could ever happen.

But if he stays, if after the people go back into the streets yet again, they've done this before, Trump's got their back, Obama didn't. But if he hangs on the Ayatollah, it'd be the biggest disaster in the Mideast, like maybe forever. If the Ayatollah goes, it's the best change in the history of the Mideast in a thousand years. Yeah, I put the music in on the end. But he was sitting here.

Yeah, thank you. But he's right. This is the best chance, and maybe the last chance to get rid of him. He literally is going to kill his way out of this. And you wonder what our responsibility is.

And I think we have one. I think that maybe Netanyahu has one. If he had the phone numbers, he knew where the generals were sleeping and killed them all. Maybe he knows where the civilian leaders are sleeping. But then you get he is, I couldn't believe this.

Netanyahu is the most popular political figure in Iran amongst his people. He does regular broadcasts there. And Trump's Trump is number two. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me because Um They're powerless. But they are hungry.

And we talk a lot in this country, you pay a lot of lip service to, oh, this person's a fascist, and Trump is literally Hitler. Um and you know it's tragic when a protester Is shot and killed, but you've got. You know, it's estimated to be around 550 protesters who have been killed here.

So it is a very different reality. For them. And I agree, Obama didn't do it right. He dropped the ball and just expected by the virtue of his greatness. that the theocracy would step aside.

That's not going to happen. But and I I am very interested to hear from an objective analyst what the correlation is between the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities Yeah. You know, the the because I I think there is a a direct correlation between the weakening of the Ayatollah now. Because Before, I think Iran was very emboldened to continue murderously squashing these protests, but They are in a very different position militarily and economically. And when you've got both legs of that stool.

Which have collapsed or in the process of collapsing, then the people who are protesting have. much more power. And I something like that is bound to happen organically like it did with the the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. And you know, we should be mindful and supportive of that. But Lindsey Graham is one of those people who has wanted to have a ground invasion in Iran for decades.

Like he and John Bolton for so long were conjoined twins in terms of their hawkishness. And those are the guys who really scare me. I have not heard. President Trump be as aggressive and as irresponsible as Lindsay Graham has in the past. And there's a lot I like about Lindsey Graham, but that hawkishness is not one of those things.

So, Elon Omar, a lot of times you say to myself, Brian, I can't figure out this issue. Have you known, do you have Elon Omar's number? And I always say, I don't.

So, what I'll do, and you keep asking me, and I think you have to get it on your own. Yesterday, she was especially brilliant in point-painting Minneapolis as something that's all Donald Trump's fault, and of course, that driver that lost her life tragically, and that was all the ICE fault. Here it is, cut 18. Prove to us what documentation you have: that one, that she was paid, two, that she was agitating when we can hear her say she's not mad, she's not upset. She's clearly trying to wave cars to bypass her.

And so it's just this level of rhetoric is unjustifiable to waive people. Peacefully waving cars to go by. Are you kidding me? She blocked the road for over three minutes, was dancing in the driver's seat, honking her horn, accelerated at agents, and was seen at other blocks doing it. And she was known as an anti-ACE warrior who took training to do this.

I'm not saying she should have been killed, do an investigation, but to think this woman wasn't getting paid. By the way, I'm sure she was getting paid, even though her mommy was paying all her bills and she's got three kids, and she left a six-month-old at home to destroy Minneapolis and stop get this ICE from Alexi from arresting illegal immigrants. criminals from their streets. Uh this she's trying to for make everyone forget about the fraud that she has up to her neck in. Uh who?

Ilhan Omar? Yeah. Yeah, Ilhan Omar can tip this one out, and there needs to be an ethics investigation into how she and her. new husband, not her brother husband, have enriched themselves. Because I'm really sick of hearing about these progressives who get into Congress to become public servants and then all of a sudden, while still in office.

You know, at least the Obamas had the good sense to wait until they left to sign $60 million deals with publishers and Netflix. Like, you know, I I have a lot of respect for that. Like, build your brand and then capitalize on it. You can't do that while you are in office. And that's ripping.

Mocking the country. Mocking the country at every turn. Yeah, she is terribly anti-American and one of those people who says that if you look into the Somali community, and where the majority of the fraud is taking place, you're racist. It's like, oh, so because you're Somali, you can commit crimes and no one can say anything. No, that's not how this country works.

That's not an equal application of the law. And You know, unfortunately, this woman, d Renee Goode, does bear responsibility because think about it from the ICE agent's perspective. Think about how they're taunted all day long. And her wife was standing there calling the ICE agent fat and, you know, purposely, demonstrably being very, very disrespectful.

So, you know, you have to assume that these people are the same as some of the other Protesters, it is legal, it is enshrined in the First Amendment that we have the right to protest. There's no doubt about that. But When a sworn officer tells you to get out of the car, You have to get out of the car. I do not believe this woman should have been killed. But I do believe she does bear responsibility for where she was, what she was doing, and how she was doing it.

And they all know what they're doing is a form of agitation. And you know, that's what the left has been pushing for. They have wanted an outcome like this, unfortunately. And it, you know, it doesn't make her a hero. It doesn't make her 2026 is George Floyd.

It makes everything so much worse. And it devalues. Peaceful political protest, which is it's not only necessary in Iran, it is necessary in this country. Just do me one favor, tonight at one point, when you make a point, you said, as I originally said on Brain Kill Meet's radio show to Guttfeld, it'll just ruin his night. No, as you said, not as I said.

Just say, as I mentioned on Brian Kilmead's radio show to Guttfeld, could you do that? Only if you promise to stay up until 11 to watch the show. Because I know you don't have a lot to do in the morning, so you know, it's easy for you to stay. And I'm in Germany. I'm not sure if it's easier or later than that.

So next time I promise to bring you. Are you in Later Hosen right now? Yes, uh underneath my jeans. Very good. You've always been into layering.

Right, that's true. Kelly, just stay within yourself. Whatever you do today, thanks so much for helping my show.

Now go save the world on your podcast. I'm going to do my damnedest. Thank you, Brian. Back in a moment. Increasing your intelligence quotients.

What the hell did you just say? It's Brian Kilmead. He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead. I'm just seeing some of this footage on Iran tonight, and it is big.

They're bigger than ever. Every province is rallying against the sitting government. I know that the military has said we're going to take part in this, and that usually means killing people. But I don't know if you can kill everybody. And I don't know if there's a way to get these very brave protesters some guns, because that's the only thing the Ayatollah is going to understand.

Here's the President of the United States yesterday, cut one. Iran's in big trouble. It looks to me that the people are taking over certain cities that nobody thought were really possible just a few weeks ago. We're watching the situation very carefully. I've made the statement very strongly that if they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved.

We'll be hitting them very hard where it hurts. And that doesn't mean boots on the ground, but it means hitting them very, very hard where it hurts.

I don't know. They say they're working on plans right now, some type of plans.

Now, don't get panicky. I'm not saying invasion. Nobody thinks invasion, but maybe there's some things we can do. To get their attention, to say, either you find a way to get these people water and don't put up their food a thousand percent, or else you have to come up with a policy that these go get these people off the streets. Killing all of them is not going to fly.

And I'm surprised, and I shouldn't be perhaps, that none of our European allies who have been Haunted by Iran, whose people were captured and imprisoned by Iran, taken hostage by Iran, from England to France, Spain, and others. They don't want to come out strongly. For the people on the streets, even some of these news services, the BBC. You know, Canadian broadcasting too, not a word. This is an evil regime.

The world's a better place if the Ayatollah is not there anymore. Information you want, truth you demand. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back, everybody. It's kind of raucous here at the American Forces Radio Studios here in beautiful Wiesbaden, Germany, on the military base of Clay Cassern, over in Germany.

We're lucky enough to come here. We'll be here for about 48 hours. It's all because Command General Christopher Donnie, who's used to getting his own way, he invited me, gave me a great itinerary. I got a pass through Fox, and now I'm here. Along with joining me right now, not only the general, but Also, Command Sergeant Major Christopher Mullanex.

Welcome to both of you guys, and thanks so much for having us out here today. Brian, thanks. It is amazing to have you all. The other thing that Brian did is we're having our commanders conference with all of our command sergeant majors. And we're fortunate enough to have Brian come in and talk to us, which was amazing.

But then he had the President of the United States dial in and talk to us.

So they won't remember anything we talked about in the conference, but they'll remember that.

So what I did is, because I know the President lives and breathes the military, just loves you guys and women. But I just text him, I go, Hey, Mr. President, yesterday, I go, I'm just about leaving for Germany. I told him where I was going. and I lost all my internet.

I went on the plane seven hours. I had all this work I wanted to do. It could not get on the internet. Landed, can't get on the internet.

So I looked down, it was like still yesterday, two days ago.

So finally, as I walk in to give the speech, all my text messages come in. Uh how we just Let me just take a look. And he's sitting there, he says, Let me know when you get there. I want to talk to them.

So I did the speech, I come back and I said Let me talk to him. And he was doing the radio, doing another radio show. And he said, let me finish this radio show. And he called back.

So it was great.

So, guys, first I want to hear your story. Um You have such responsibility on your shoulders. You have the European Command and Africa. First off, the European Command. You got a war 650 miles away.

General Donahue. And I've seen by the way, you're not saying it, but the New York Times said a whole thing about how involved you've been in helping Ukraine sustain this unprovoked onslaught from the Russians. How dangerous does it feel here? Uh I I mean That's probably part of the problem. Here it doesn't.

Right, I mean you're you're walking around, you're seeing everything. But you mean actually in our base, but how does it feel in the region? The closer you go to Ukraine, The more you feel it, and the more the people and the countries and the military, you know, are. clearly pretty dialed in the closer the e further east you go To the eastern flank, yeah, you feel it. Scott, how would you describe your job every day?

So, as the Command Sergeant Major, really what that means is I'm the senior soldier for the United States Army all across Europe.

So, of all the soldiers we have here, I'm the senior one. responsible for being an advisor to my commander. That's a real small part of what I do. Ultimately, what I do is making sure that our soldiers and families are taken care of and ultimately making sure our soldiers are trained and ready. How many do we have in the in the region?

We have uh Roughly, just ballpark, just about sixty thousand. About sixty thousand prior to the invasion of Ukraine. How hard was your job, General, in explaining to our European allies and NATO allies that there's a real threat out there? How about this? Prior to Crimea being taken, and if you were in charge in 2008 when Georgia, they lost two provinces, haven't gotten it back yet, in the beginning it seemed so hard to explain to the Europeans that you should really be paying you should be concerned about your own defense and lack of attention you're paying to it.

How much easier is that job now? Yeah, it obviously it's a lot easier since February 22. And also and just look at what has just played out, what the Secretary General and also our Ambassador, Ambassador Whitaker, And military leadership were able to get with this new 5%: 3.5% for military spending, 1.5 for infrastructure. That shows you how serious. They're taking it now, yeah.

I mean, for the longest time, right, Scott, I mean, you heard our our president say to NATO, pay your 2%. And it went from five nations to maybe 18, 19. But how many guys in AI are now? 31? 31, 32 nations in NATO.

Now, I think all but Spain are making the efforts to do that. And that shows a dedication. Doesn't it also show that? Sergeant Major, that the Russians' hope of dominating has actually had the opposite effect? Yeah, I think you could say that.

Because They've added two nations to NATO, number one. Number two is you no longer have to explain to people there's a threat, and now you have a bunch of our allies pouring money into their own defense. Has that made it easy on us? We're getting there, absolutely. Right.

You mean we're getting there NATO-wise? Yeah. What's the coordination between this command and NATO? Yeah, so we are also dual-hatted. I'm also the land force commander for General Grinkovich, right?

My boss on that side. General Dag Anderson for Africa.

So, with all that, right. To go back to your question of how has that changed?

Well, specifically the spending has gone up. Everyone's much more serious. If you look at all the things that we have done with plans and everything else, the NATO na the other NATO nations are the they are the forward elements And they have taken on more responsibility.

So, all that is occurring. And then you have the increase in spending and everything else. And all this spending, remember, any of the capability we develop out here should be able to go anywhere. Anywhere we go, we're going to fight with other members of this alliance. And that capability will be able to go globally anywhere as well.

Or if we need some of that capability, they can give that over to us.

So all these things play in together. But without a doubt, You know.

Okay. That we have their attention and they are absolutely doing stuff. And as a NATO commander, you know, I'm the one who, from a land force commander, I hold them accountable for what they're doing, right? Which is a change. And that is very powerful for a U.S.

Officer, general officer, to be able to do that. Right. And Scott, when you talk about life on the base, Chris, excuse me. Chris, when you talk about life on the base, I get this sense that there's a real sense of family here. You see families walking around.

I mean, how much different is that when you, instead of being deployed overseas alone waiting to come home, your family's with you? Yeah, I tell you, it makes a hell of a difference to be wherever we are as a professional force, having your family there, I mean, that's what it's all about. You know, we've all done the long deployments. We'll probably do them again and again. But the fact that we're able to come here, have a high quality of life, being well taken care of, it makes the world a difference.

And morale is high, soldiers are motivated, they get after it every day. And the most important part is when we take care of our families. Our soldiers are able to focus on the mission, and that's exactly what we do well. And, Sergeant Major, do you remember why you joined? I do.

Um Long story short is uh Grandfather was a cook in the Army during the Vietnam era. My dad served for a few years, was medically retired because he was in a training accident. I always knew I wanted to serve. They never pushed me towards it. I was sort of, I grew up with my dad.

It was just me and him, and I was alone and unafraid, mostly through high school, because he was always working. Um best decision I ever made was joining, and I'd scored enough high enough on the scores that I was offered an option forty, which means I got a shot at trying out for the Rangers. It worked out. I spent seventeen years there. Joining the United States Army, best decision I ever made.

So, those days as a Ranger, you're talking about two active wars, right? And many missions we don't even know about. Yeah, I tell you. What was that like? I tell you, I remember September, we talked about it a little bit today.

I was sitting in my barracks room with my guys. We were preparing our equipment, getting ready to go to the field. Fox News was on, and we watched both planes hit the towers on Fox and Friends. We had no idea what was going on. The first one was like.

Wow, that's a hell of a mistake. The second one, like, that wasn't, that was on purpose. And then they're like, get on the truck, we're going to training. And then December of 2000, so that was. Um uh September 11th.

By December, my company was deployed to Afghanistan. One of thirteen rotations, which is about. You know, we only do about three, four months, so that's like close to four years. General, what about with you? What was your rank when this happened?

Where were you? Yes, I was a captain and I was actually a joint staff intern when I was with uh General Myers and uh you know we were there the whole day um watching all this play out. Um the actual chairman was gone. And so we were the ones that did all the response and everything with it. And I was a young captain.

Are you in the Pentagon? You weren't at the Pentagon at the time. We were, yeah, I was assigned to the Pentagon. We drove over to Capitol Hill. He was doing a bunch of in-calls with senators, specifically Senator from Georgia, when it all happened, and walked up and the, you know, what.

The Northcom commander, what we call it today, different name back then. You know, his name was General Eberhardt. He called General Myers, and I distinctly remember him telling me. what was occurring, get General Myers, and then we drove back. Right as the other plane was hitting the building, hit the Pentagon.

And hit the Pentagon. To this day, when you look at the Pentagon. Chris, do you think it's even possible for a train a plane to I know it I know I'm not I know this conspiracy. I'm not that guy. But isn't it amazing that a plane could get that low to do that?

Today? You mean today? Yeah, today would probably be shot out of the sky. We couldn't imagine something like that happening, I think. Yeah, I mean.

Unbelievable. Right. I mean, uh and to think that where you were Could have been a target too. Flight ninety three was heading to the capital. Oh, absolutely.

Yeah. And it's amazing when you talk about the American people. Think about how quickly we changed. Right, all those things happen. But they got word, you know, and the famous, hey, let's roll, you know, um, by the, you know, all the passengers on there.

That's how quickly we changed on over and already started cha you know, making sure that no more attacks happen. And that's so underappreciated. A lot of the things that happen to make sure by fighting over there, nothing happened over here, how many plots get thwarted, it doesn't work to anyone's interest to go hail it because people will try to figure out how you stopped it, right?

So, I guess that's one of the things you do when you serve because the attacks that don't happen, you don't get credit for. Right, right. You have to be the whether it's all of our intel agencies, the special operations forces, all the FBI, and everybody else, right? They're out there doing incredible stuff all the time. I get the European Command.

Tell me about the challenges in the African Command. Um you you know the We just had our commanders' conference down there with General Anderson last week. And clearly and they're General Anderson's talking back to the Secretary all the time about this, but you have a number of threats that are down there that we collectively are watching very closely and coming up with solutions, but not just the solutions of, hey, it's just U.S. doing it, right? But rather, how do we do this in a way that's different where the African nations and other nations that are involved down there are all contributing to make sure that we take care of this?

So I think we have a really smart Uh Uh Realistic approach to get after some of the problems, but then also the opportunities, right? For us, when we talk about rare earth minerals and everything else, incredible opportunities for investment down there for us to do that. And that's competing with China and Russia, right? All those things. Sergeant Major, all these terror groups are still all over Africa.

For a guy that fights terrorists for 20 years, is it frustrating? It is, it is, and it's a complex and uh dangerous world. Do you think you understand the mindset at this point? The mindset of the enemy.

Well I mean Yeah, it's pretty simple. They they hate America and uh they would kill us all if they could. That's that's what it really comes down to. And there's no way to There's no way it would take a thousand years to change that. But here's what gets me encouraged.

I look at Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. I don't want I'm not saying I'm I'm in awe of their governments, but they understood the terrorists were a problem to them. and they changed the curriculum in Saudi Arabia. They're starting to change the cur curriculum in Gaza. Do you think that's at the root of this?

It's got to that we got to make sure these kids aren't growing up with these beliefs so they don't don't end up being your problem, General Donahue? Yes, I mean across the board, right, we it's not the military's job to do this, but to your point, we we got to come up with solutions that change stuff. And you see some good things that are happening out there, right? Clearly, there's positive movement in Syria. You mentioned some of the other ones there, but But our job No matter what, we have to be prepared for anything that develops or is out there and we have to deal with it.

All right, listen, guys, we're going to have a few more minutes when we get back. We'll wrap up this hour here from the American Forces, the American Forces Network Studios. Don't move. Do you listen to the Brian Kill Me Show from Wiesbaden, Germany? Real talk, real guests, real insight.

Where curiosity meets conversation. It's the Brian Killmeat Show. Uh From his mouth to your ears, it's Brian Killmead. All right, we got four minutes left here until tomorrow's show in Wiesbaden, Germany. In between, I'm going to go to Poland and they're going to, I think they're going to give me an honorary tank.

I get to take at least one tank home. We haven't confirmed that, but I'm talking to people. I'm talking to Commanding General Christopher Donahue and Command Sergeant Major Christopher Mullenex, and we're just wrapping up this hour. First off, Your main focus, one of our main enemies is Russia. They paid a brutal price because of a lot of the strategy that this command came up with with Ukraine, al along with their great bravery.

Yeah, early on, absolutely.

So, and you know, now our focus is Right now, as far as US, Army, Europe, is we're watching everything in the world, and we want to develop. and we are doing that right now. Unbelievable things occurring. You saw some of the drone manufacturing, but we are we've redesigned our forces to make sure that we can go anywhere in the world and fight any adversary. We just created a drone battalion.

Out of the third of the five. I think robots are coming. Absolutely. How close? In some areas, we're very close, right?

If I'm just going to keep it G-rated, but if you watch what uh Ukraine is doing right now with ground robots. Clearly, we are watching, observing, and also testing and doing similar things that they're doing. Whatever they're doing, if that's version, we'll just call it 2.0. We're already on 4.0. Wow, Sergeant Major, you keep hearing about a focus on lethality.

Have you noticed the mindset change? I have because uh you know, when we um Russia invaded Um Crimea. That was our first rotational brigade that came forward, and the focus was on interoperability. We had Companies all over the place doing different things. And we realized, you know what, they're doing a lot of great work, but they're not focused on the right training things.

And so when General fast forward a little bit, General Donahue came in and said, Hey, We're going to focus on making sure that our forces are as lethal as possible, minimizing exercises, making sure they're the right exercises, and then making sure ultimately all of our companies get a night live hire. What was the response from the men and women who serve? They're like, this is exactly what we signed up to do, is train. It's tough realistic training. And so they're they love it.

And Brian, when we talk about lethality, let's just cut to the chase.

Okay, that means you see your adversary, you find them, and you kill them as quickly as possible. You kill anything that can kill you. That's what. That's engagement, too. Right.

Rules of engagement three, if you pose a threat, we're going to shoot you and kill you. Right. So my point is: whenever we're training these people, we're training them for combat, to make on large-scale combat. All the stuff we've learned. General Donahue, thanks so much.

Command Sergeant Molnex, thanks so much for all you do. And everybody listening, back in Visbon tomorrow.