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- 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
“It’s just a prank, bro.” -Reagan, probably.
Should be "It's just a prank, comrade"
More like "lighten up francis"
reagan: we begin bombing in 5 mins
ussr: YOU'RE GONNA DO WHAT?
USSR reacted within minutes, they were listening. Crazy how one joke could have turned into war
@@Wicked-hx7yg Not just war, the end of the world. Narcissism and therefore totalitarianism rule the planet, so it could very well have been our last day. Thing is, both China, North Korea, America, and Russia has enough nuclear weapons each to destroy the planet 10 times over. They have so much power by now, that they don't even realize it anymore. Just one wrong interpretation, and the globe could be gone. Scary yet quite fascinating stuff imo.
Yellow hat
North Korea is a tricky one, i saw a documentary of people talking about a bloody nose approach. But they argued that it isn’t effective since the enemy doesn’t know what you doing. They might think it’s all out war and send nukes.
@@Wicked-hx7yg Exactly, they have no idea as of to just how much power they hold. Sooner or later we'll have to do something about it (however possible) as we'll otherwise, well, potentially that is, be exterminated along with every other living things on the planet, quite possibly even the planet self.
@@Aberrantly "Thing is, both China, North Korea, America, and Russia has enough nuclear weapons each to destroy the planet 10 times over. "
Its a debunked myth( plus given that nuclear arsenals had shrunk 4 times from 80s)
Biosphere would ve become pretty unhealthy, and hundreds of millions of people were lost, though. Still not enough for some catastrophic planet apocalypse.
I m more worrying about architecture and extinction of some specific human nation and animal species in this case . Planet will be OK
LMFAOOO "The russian might've been drunk"
“Though one did speculate that the Russian might have been drunk”
And in other news, the sky might have been blue
Maybe there was a soviet Homer Simpson on his first day having a vodka duff...
that was hilarious! especially when he said it so seriously
"Mr. Gorbachev, we do a little trolling".
I don’t think Gorbachev was leader yet.
a tad bit of tomfoolery
😂😂😂😂
“You see, Mr. Chernenko, we here in the States do a little bit of trolling”
It's a prank bruh
Scp 1984 didn’t think so
You can't convince me that Marvin Kalb isn't sprinkling some of his own dry humor throughout this. I laughed a few times.
The world was saved by a Russian who wasn’t drunk.
🧀
🍻
... by *the* Russian who wasn't drunk
Ruskies come out of the womb DEAD DRUNK
Ah yes yes
Russia drink vodka all drunk
America eat big mac all fat
More dumb boomer cold war jokes please
This still makes me laugh out loud
I mean
It’s not hard to tell by the way he said it that he was joking
Russians don’t understand American humor. If they do understand English, they’ll understand us very literally.
I mean who hears “I have signed legislation to outlaw Russia forever” and takes it seriously
Someone who speaks a different language
That is why what the President says, even in jest, matters.
you can hear the aid laughing i nthe background XD
2:01 "The Russian might have been drunk."
Really? A drunk Russian officer? On a weekend? In Vladivostok? Nahhhhh!!!!
1:18 I don't know why but I find the word "confusion" funny lmao
But is it not confusing the way some folks find some words "funny"?
"Particularly common on the weekends."
"But THIS was a weekday."
"The Russian might have been drunk."
I love this clip so much.
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
Jokesmanship!
The US shoulda sent a missile flying towards Moscow as a hilarious prank!
YOU JUST GOT..
..
PRANKED
When Trump said “I have a big red button”, it reminded me of that one seen from Monsters vs. Aliens where the president almost presses the button to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal instead of the coffee dispenser
That was the button for 'bring diet coke' under Trump.😁
The Covfefe Dispenser. 😅
Don't care that it happened years ago, it's still funny 😁😁
I love how they used the battleship game to demonstrate warfare.
this is somehow the funniest thing ive watched on youtube all day
SERIOUSLY FUNNY
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."
@@thegreatkingofevilganondor1500 "I didnt like his tweet. Nuke America immediately"
You think that's how NK is thinking? Please come back to reality and learn what actual danger is
@@1Peasant Of course that's not how they think, and don't patronize me. But you have to agree, throwing insults at countries hostile to America and owns nukes is not a wise move.
*Reagan:* We begin bombing in 5'.
*Russian Operator:* Hold my vodka...
Nations of drunks & potheads playing with nukes...
It's a miracle we're still alive.
Indeed 💯😳🤦♂️
Reagan was a flipping gangster. Love that guy
Can’t believe that was almost FORTY YEARS AGO.
I remember this.. freaked out everyone!!!!!!
The world and Ukraine needs Reagan today.
Nixon would be better tho
consider this:
president mccain
One of the many highlights in his great presidential career.
POOR MISUNDERSTOOD AWESOME AND FUNNY RONNY REAGAN.❤❤❤ I ALWAYS LOVE HIM
online we call that TROLLING
Speculates that he might've been drunk?
Of course he was drunk, that doesn't mean anything.
it's just a prank bro
Where is Ashton Kutcher when you need him? I thought this was another Punk'd episode..
Literally 1984
“We begin in 5 minutes.”
Russia 4,320 minutes later: Oh no
Enemies of us have agency. If a joke makes them initiate war, that is on them.
And 99 red balloons float by........
Best comment so far
Words matter.
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."
lmao deepstate
trump would have outlawed forever China and he would begin bombing in 5 minutes with the nuclear football
there is no deepstate quit coping lol
SOVIET INTELLIGENCE AT ITS BEST, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT
Absolutely true.
this event was so classic lol
No comment ~2b2t reference
Soviets really lost their sense of humour after Brezhnev died didn't they?
I remember that! We all had a big chuckle over it!
We need to hear this now (March 2022).
This is why I voted for Regan
This is why I didn't.
“I have signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever…We begin bombing in five minutes.” Lmao
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.
@@joejohnston5872 Thanks for this .
You are right if you didn't experience it you can't feel it.
Imagine if the internet and social media existed back then.
It would be so much more palpable.
We got that feeling 2 times during this war in Ukraine if you followed it closely.
But things calmed down pretty quickly.
Both sides lowered the tones.
It's like a dance where you accidentally step on the others feet , fix it on the next step but keep on the dance .
But once in March when they got close to Kyiv and they couldn't take it there was a risk of escalation but they fell back
Then on the build up on Donbass which quickly fizzled out.
Cause Russia could escalate here but if they make that decision it means NATO USA has to respond.
If escalation is big enough the response needs to be big enough.
@@joejohnston5872 I don't think USSR failed because of the spending.
That was a small factor but USSR had bigger problems.
By the way the system works during Reagan the successors were all of the same generation so they were swapping one dead man for the other. They didn't die of stress they died cause they were old and USSR life expectancy is lower.
2 their economic system didn't work , China changed course but USSR kept their ideological dogma about economy
Then you have the failed Afghanistan war. So it was many many things. Gorbachev was given a sinking burning ship he just managed to park it on the port with out crashing it. And everyone criticizes him for it when it was not his fault.
And this is why the USSR didn't last. They couldn't even take a joke.
this guy bombing Verdansk when I'm about to evacuate to Verdansk Stadium
Reagan was the bane of their existence!
We should have gone through with it.
Well, well, well. There you go again.
Narrator is the 80’s counterpart of the Star Wars the clone wars cartoon series narrator
"The one [US Official] did speculate that the Russian might have been drunk." 2:01 And the problem is ???
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'.
Back when people still had a sense of humor
This is one of my favorite things Reagan ever did he demonstrated to the Soviets that he had no fear whatsoever and he started a program because the service was stealing so much technical information so he had to Seattle and dad dad technical information into some of the biggest projects, the Soviet Union was attempting to construct with, of course, terrible, disasters outcomes
Reminds me of the lyrics to 99 Luftballoons.
We do a little trolling
Would’ve been funny if he told the Soviets and them only.
" if he fires one, I'll fire one... " FIRE ONE !
Was not that from The Bedford Incident? IF so, does it not fit in well with "We start bombing in five minutes"
“Reagan: The Movie” costarring Harrison Ford as Tom Brokaw of NBC News.
I remember this. They made a song out of it.
Was it Land of Confusion?
No, it was a song that was played in dance places sort of disco with clips of Reagan's joke.@@robr177
Good stuff
The Cold War was a sitcom
Imagine this happens in 2021👀
"It's just a prank bro!"
The prank:
I'm guessing that somehow, Stanislav Petrov was on duty there on August 15, 1984.
I can imagine the exact opposite I wonder how the US would react... Wouldn't be so funny
Yep, it's only funny because US got lucky it didn't get nuked
I know the comment is a year old but the video kinda answered that question too, we didn’t do anything rash either
A drunk Russian? They would never.
Laughs in drunk soviet.
Reagan, One of the greatest, and funniest Presidents
The Russian may have been drunk ....
He forgot to say ‘in minecraft’ after the joke.
Best troll EVER!
Scp 1984 is very angry.
Man of humor, I see.
But the way he said it...as if he was on a hurry to get to the bathroom or something.
Wasn’t this suppose to be a private comms check that wasn’t supposed to get out?
Didn't Peter Sellers make a movie on this?
The Joke heard round the world
"In the 80s people knew how to take a joke"
Came here from The Americans. This plays in the background in a season 5 episode.
Russia blinked
I remember that...😂 hilarious 😂And when he went to the German Cemetery 😂 Ronnie was too much😂
What a chad
okay …. walk walk
let’s not talkie talkie
Lol they got trolled and gave out very important information in return about where submarines where and reaction time was under the guise of a joke. Smart
we do a little trolling
imagine a war was just started because of a joke...
The joke that almost made a WW3...
Just a prank bro
Plot twist: It was a young KGB agent who saved the world from a Thermonuclear World War.... that young KGB agent's first name was Vladimir.
Nope.....it was, in reality, a middle-aged+ officer in a bunker who had rank to launch but who refrained from acting like a machine...
PRANKING RUSSIA WITH BOMBS AT 3AM *GONE WRONG*
I scared you, didn't I?
Good ole Dan Rather
Reagan is/was and will remain a legend...
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.
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If i could find a souvenir just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon I think of you and let it go 🎈
Connor Roy was interested in politics at a very young age.
Oops! 😆
Imagine that! Nuclear holocaust began because of a joke.