When President Reagan joked about outlawing Russia and launching bomb strikes, he probably didn’t expect to put the Soviet system on war alert.
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Reagan’s Joke Lead To Red Alert | Flashback | NBC News
Drunk Russian. HAHAHAHA!
In typical Russian fashion.
Don’t think it was the Ruskis that were Pissed ?
even back then the libtard, elitist, trend-sucking dilettantes in the media would grasp at any innocuous thing to attack a conservative politician
How are they attacking him? That’s the news, no bias no saying, Good Job! Just this is what happened. That’s supposed to be the new not state run media.
If he thinks this is liberal bias, then I don’t even want to know what CNN and MSNBC are now to them…
Reagan was so awesome! He took on Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko. None could keep up with Reagan in the Cold War. It finally led to Reagan and Gorbachev ending the Cold War. American Hero! World Hero!
Stefan, I’m not sure if you were old enough during those years to understand what was going on at the personal level. I was. The nuclear clock kept inching closer to WW3. It was a game of spending and a game of chicken. Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko’s healths failed, because they were very worried with the prospect of WW3. At the personal level, their fear of WW3 perpetrated by Reagan made them sick. Reagan came up with SDI (Star Wars) knowing fully that it may not get completed or function. He basically turned it into a game of chicken. He was not afraid to raise the game of chicken to the highest level. Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko were too afraid to even communicate directly with Reagan. Gorbachev began communicating with Reagan and realized that not only can WW3 be averted, that Reagan was willing to provide an exit strategy for USSR that would save Gorbachev’s face (to some extent). The Eastern bloc defeating themselves is a myth. If you lived in the 70’s and 80’s, you would understand the constant fear of nuclear warfare that peaked in the early 80’s. You won’t understand this today from wikipedia or videos or newspaper/magazine articles. You had to live through it. We, in the US, were very afraid that the draft would return. Anyway, if you think the Eastern bloc fell on its own, you underestimate the immense effect Reagan had on everybody … Republicans, Democrats, allies, and adversaries.
+Stefan Genov Why do you think the Eastern bloc (communism) was failing? Because instead of spending on basic life necessities, Reagan forced USSR to spend massively on weapons of mass destruction, and to try and come up with some SDI system of their own. Reagan’s strategy was to make USSR spend itself into the ground. As for the state of the world today, I don’t think you can say there is any country that is doing great, including China. All countries are economically interdependent on each other. There will no longer ever be big winners in today’s global economy world. That said, I still think the US and China have the strongest economies today. And you probably would never guess what race I am, based on you jumping to conclusions by bad mouthing the US.
I agree with Reagan all the way!! He should have pushed the button back then already!
Go Donald Trump!!!
Go Trudeau!!
@buster rymes America not so great
@Jeshkam If the Russian Federation goes the way of the old Soviet Union, who will control all those nuclear missiles in Russia after the implosion?
@Chet Pomeroy Good people?
@Jeshkam Well, let’s hope so!
😂😂😂
I love former US President Ronald Reagan peace through strength huge arms race build up that ended cold war with former Soviet Union. America was only Nuclear power back in 1945 President Ronald Reagan should of been President made sure US was only Nuclear Power. US President Ronald Reagan was Nuclear Cowboy gun shooter. President Ronald Reagan wanted peace through strength.
Never ever underestimate the complexity of why the Soviet Union crumbled. It crumbled from within. The whole Arms Race just made the system look old and tired. Thanks to Radio Free Europe, Solzhenitsyn and other outspoken critics countering the Soviet propaganda, the people of the Soviet Republics started to push back. They wanted their independence and they got it. If the people of the USSR had been united…..things would have ended very differently.
YOU JUST GOT..
..
PRANKED
Enemies of us have agency. If a joke makes them initiate war, that is on them.
This is a lot more serious than Trump saying “I have a nuclear button that works” – yet people are making out that it’s a declaration of war.
Pressing a button is just a lie. There’s no any button. A declaration of war will be taken only in the President’s announcement. Ronald Reagan’s announcement almost caused the Third World War. Every wrong announcement might be destructive.
Jeremy Hunt Are you some sort of stupid?
@Adam he’s right…
I mean, Reagan wasn’t serious. Trump is.
Paying attention to the media currently it’s like urinating into a strong wind we know the outcome but we always hope for different one
I remember this.. freaked out everyone!!!!!!
We could have made them illegal 30 years ago….and now they interfere with our elections.
you got no prooof they manipulate your elections
more evidence that the DNC are up to that… accusing others of what they are doing…
Benjamin Crookston I know, it’s terrible. Clinton and the Democrats should go to prison for what they did.
Trump should have a hotmike moment like this:
“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw the Deep State forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
Haha, he would never dare to touch his jewish overlords of the deep state, he is their puppet like every other president
We should have bombed Russia. I spent 13 miserable months in that shithole, no one would miss them back in the 80s and no one would miss them now.
David Lato I would miss them because of their rich history. The last 30 years of their history have been extraordinarily interesting. I don’t agree with them politically, with their an annexation of the Crimea, supporting Assad and a plethora of other things; but from a historical standpoint they are one of the most interesting countries in the world.
I don’t have anything against ordinary Russian people, because most of them are good people, however I hope the balding, ex-KGB mafia boss from Kreml will be electrocuted soon.
@Jeshkam забавно, ведь большинство россиян его поддерживают
USSR: How many levels of brinkmanship are you on
US: Like, joking about bombing in a sound check, my dude
USSR: You are like a little appeaser, watch this
USSR: WE NOW EMBARK ON MILITARY ACTION AGAINST US FORCES
And the press explodes when trump says “I have a big red button”
Clay Bailey but it turns out the big red button is just the button he presses to get a Diet Coke sent to his private study.
One was clearly a joke in bad taste, one was a petty insult to a volatile nuclear power that could have ended in nuclear war. I recommend learning the difference
Clearly St. Ronnie was just being “sarcastic.”
Reagan made America great again
@rich duley Now THATS a good joke
@Bob not as big a joke as you, bud.
Reagan hated poor people
@Juan Figueroa no he hated welfare trash
Might have been drunk ?
That was hillarious
0:12 – 0:13
1:24 – 1:25
When you reverse engineer the sound clip. You will realize the state run media’s brainwashing technique on it’s own people.
😱😱😱😱
Explain.
I mean it sounds like a compressed audio sample, but I don’t have access to Audacity right now.
What does it say?
Who’s here from JK News?
Reagan was speaking off air and it was the fake news liberal media that leaked the recording and caused the Soviet threat.
Laughs in drunk soviet.
Good stuff
Reagan told us Russia is the kingdom of evil that’s true…I wished USA has nuked Russia instead of Japan..at least with 100 nuke bombs…
Evil empire. He called it Evil empire. And it still is.
Well, well, well. There you go again.
Reds can’t understand humor????
The world was destroyed by a drunken Russian.
They’ll never believe it.
‘Well meet again,
don’t know where,
don’t know when,
but I know well meet again some sunny day’.
Iran got a taste of Russia’s puckering this day.
Heres my opinionon this serious matter
1st i was NOT here
2nd you did not see me
3rd this NEVER HAPPENED
4th NO COMMENT
I can remember when he did that. The left lost their f-ing minds. It was beautiful.
They thought he’d single handedly destroy the world. He didn’t.
Jesus I like Reagan but talk about a big blunder. It’s easy to laugh at this today but during the Cold War this no joke could have been how the world ends.
Speculates that he might’ve been drunk?
Of course he was drunk, that doesn’t mean anything.
it’s just a prank bro
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nobelprize winner and himself victim of the Bolshevikparty in Gulag.
“You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred, they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media in the hands of the perpetrators.”
“We cannot state that all Jews are Bolsheviks. But without Jews, there would never have been Bolshevism. For a Jew, nothing is more insulting than the truth. The blood maddened Jewish terrorists have murdered sixty-six million in Russia from 1918 to 1957.”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
I’d like to hear: We will start arresting Antifa and George Soros in 15 minutes.
LMFAOOO “The russian might’ve been drunk”
Fake news, they don’t explain what happened til 2 minutes into their story and their fear mongering graphics showing a convoy sailing from Russia.
2:04
Drunk Russians? No, I don’t believe it!
But the way he said it…as if he was on a hurry to get to the bathroom or something.
Came here from The Americans. This plays in the background in a season 5 episode.
It’s a prank bruh
You don’t give immediate any credit for anything let them carry on like fools Reagan used to laugh at the joke about them that’s when the media was full of adults
Reagen wasn’t too smart ngl.
“It’s just a prank, bro.” -Reagan, probably.
And 99 red balloons float by……..
It was beyond being unpresidential to make this joke. Trump also did this kind of thing lately, which could lead the country to another world war. Those among the republicans who support this irresponsible and unpresidential behavior should be dropped out of a helicopter to gulag.
Russia doesn’t seem to have a sense of humor.
Throwback to when Reagan almost accidentally started WW3. Oops.
NBC can’t even spell “led” correctly. Our media is a joke.
PS “lead” is how you spell the metal (or the present tense of “to lead”). When.i was a journalist, we had standards.
Where is Ashton Kutcher when you need him? I thought this was another Punk’d episode..
NUCLEAR THREAT PRANK GONE WRONG – SOVIET INVASION CONFIRMED – RED ALERT DECLARED