Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill served his country in 400 combat missions over 16 years and shot and killed Osama bin Laden during arguably the most famous, deadly raid in modern American history.
montana The native knows the most about confronting terrorists and the grim realities of war.
but as he has seen bloodthirsty Vladimir Putin‘s invasion of ukraine From afar, he has seen soldiers vying for a leader who has ‘lost his marbles’ with an endgame to cement his place in the history books, and has seen America responding to what it sees as a weakness. admits.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the convicted veteran criticized the Biden administration for scrapping a nuclear missile test last weekend while the Russian military began attacking Ukrainian civilians and how the Pentagon is more concerned with them Climate change agenda instead of trying to stop Putin.
‘You don’t beat a madman with nuclear weapons, by weakness. It’s like trying to stop a school bully by appeasing it, that’s bullshit.
‘When I was in service, the main concern was whether you could handle the task at hand. Now they (the Pentagon) are wasting time and resources on making warships green. The unfortunate truth is that Russia and China are laughing at us when we talk about climate change in the military.
He said he doesn’t care about his legacy, despite killing the al Qaeda founder after a decade-long hunt, and is only focused on making sure his children are looked after.
O’Neill also said that politicians like Lindsey Graham should not talk about the assassination of Vladimir Putin for the sake of TV ratings, but insisted that he would not be against anyone in the Kremlin’s inner circle who would criticize Putin. Like Julius Caesar’ will take out.
Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill, who shot Osama bin Laden, criticized the Biden administration for scrapping a nuclear missile test while Russian military began attacking Ukrainian civilians and how the Pentagon is trying to stop Putin more concerned with their climate change agenda in comparison.
‘The level of corruption is as high as it has been in the United States. These politicians talk with their mouth on both sides. They say one thing and vote for another. They need handlers’.
He was a member of SEAL Team Six that took out the mastermind of 9/11 in the deadly raid on Abbottabad in 2010 and was featured on the big screen in Zero Dark Thirty, Captain Phillips and Lone Survivor.
He has now published a book with Medal of Honor winner Dakota Meyer titled ‘road ahead‘ about lessons from his life and military career.
SEAL was decorated 52 times, leaving as the senior chief petty officer. His decorations include two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars with Valor, a Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor, three Presidential Unit Citations and two Navy/Marine Corps Commendations with Valor.
O’Neill admitted that he initially did not think Putin would invade Ukraine because he ‘made the mistake of trying to understand the judgment of a madman’.
He believed that Russian leaders would manipulate the West to spend more money on defense by deploying hundreds of thousands of troops along the border, but never went in. He admitted that he was wrong.
With helicopters and jets shot down by the Ukrainian resistance, they fear Putin will move into heavy, long-range artillery. Pentagon officials have already indicated that this is happening in conjunction with Russian attacks in western Ukraine, just 60 miles from the Polish border.
He said the US was “crushing” Russia with economic sanctions that crippled Russia, but they still needed a “money of strength”.
‘That’s when it gets extremely bloody. That’s when the s*** gets real,’ he said of Russian rockets coming from above the horizon and landing in Ukrainian cities full of civilians.
‘We haven’t seen anything bad like this since 1939. We used to joke about movies where he said that a virus would be the reason for the lockdown. We thought that was crazy. I am a big believer in the general prejudice, that nothing bad can ever happen because it never happened.’
When the United States starts talking about climate change being the ‘number one concern for national security’, he says, the rest of the world starts making fun of us.
‘They’re concerned about making their warships green and then theirs, and I have people who are still in the military who are out on special operators because of the need to go to the range or the weight room and train for combat. Instead they’re taking classes on ‘gender studies white anger.’
He called climate-related initiatives “ridiculous”, especially with growing fears that Putin could turn to nuclear weapons during the conflict.
‘The United States of America has decided that we are going to be the ‘nice people’, by saving the ‘snapping turtles’, and with nuclear war the planet will get ‘too hot, fast’.
O’Neill also said that politicians like Lindsey Graham should not talk about the assassination of Vladimir Putin for TV ratings, but insisted that he would expel Putin ‘like Julius Caesar’ in the Kremlin’s inner circle. will not be against.
He said he hoped the invasion would reach a point where the Russians are “kicking their butts so badly” that the West and Ukraine will strike a deal with Moscow to give them a way.
‘I am an optimist and that is my hope. But my prediction was so bad before, I am. I’m just leaving what I hope happens.
‘Most people in the world can agree. There is one person who can stop it. He just needs to stop this.’
He has now published a book called ‘The Way Forward’ with Medal of Honor winner Dakota Meyer about lessons from his life and military career.
He says he gets upset when videos of downing Russian helicopters are shared on social media.
‘There are Russians in those planes and my friends are dying in a helicopter crash, and there’s nothing good in that.
‘Most soldiers don’t want to be there. It’s all because a man has lost his marbles in the Kremlin.’
O’Neill said there is no way the US can do to Putin what it did by killing bin Laden in a SEAL raid and that most Americans are getting their ideas of war from TV and social media.
‘We need to know where he is and hit him with an airstrike. You have to find out how we get into Russia, how they don’t see us and what we do when we land.
‘Leave your video game strategies at home, because they don’t work.’
‘You can’t fix the past. You can certainly learn from the past and if it doesn’t work, you can change it. The only thing we have in common is that the clock keeps ticking. So you can live in the past or you can move on and you can, you can try to make the best of it ever and look forward to tomorrow.
‘We all spent our first day somewhere. We are all scared, but eventually you get used to it and that’s all you can do now. What is the way forward? We are all cut from the same cloth.
He asks why we constantly ‘fight each other’ in foreign conflicts and says that most soldiers from the opposing sides will get along if they ‘sit over a coffee in a Paris cafe’.
‘And how a fat kid from Montana who doesn’t know how to swim becomes a Navy SEAL in Osama’s bedroom. If I can do it, anyone can’.
Rob O’Neill and Dakota Meyer’s The Way Forward is Available to Buy Here,
O’Neill said there was no way the US could do to Putin what it did to bin Laden in a SEAL raid and that most Americans are getting their ideas of war from TV and social media.
O’Neill is pictured with his wife Jessica at gunpoint. The couple married in 2017