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Thank you We sneak Operation able archer eighty three eighty

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three stands for nineteen eighty three because it's a place

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in the nineteen eighties so the us and all of

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its allies were like hey let's get together and have

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a little bit of a training sesh you know let's

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go out into the ocean chop it up for a

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little bit do a couple of war games everybody this

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is like yeah man yeah let's do it you know

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i mean send us the invite and let's go do

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this basically all of nato the north atlantic treaty organization

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they're all out there just hanging out in the ocean

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and now these war games were like like battleship but

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like the board game not the movie did i also

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mention that there were nuclear weapons involved right Who doesn't

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training session with nuclear weapons I have no idea There's

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about forty thousand troops from nato just all hanging out

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and little do they know that just across the ocean

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russia like the awkward neighbor that they are they're looking

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through their binoculars and they're like wait a minute what's

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really going on here What are they doing out there

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They didn't know that It was only a realistic really

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war game but russia thought it was for real for

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real and so then rushes like oh okay well we

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could do that to you know put somebody pick up

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the hello All right i need everybody down and london

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and east germany and you know we need to get

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warheads owned aircraft and so hung up the phone so

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that everybody goes to east germany and starts loading nuclear

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warheads on the aircraft because they're like okay what i

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want to be for real for you we could be

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for real for real too And so then oblivious to

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everything nato's just over here chilling in the ocean like

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hey we're doing the war games doing this doing that

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and they you know looking their binoculars and steve russia

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and they're like oh they must be doing their own

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war games too But what nato didn't know is that

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russia was for real for real and like nato was

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on ly like realistically really When all of a sudden

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i think it's like the british joint intelligence agency they

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get a phone call Hello No were only like war

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games What do you mean russia's about to like fly

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off with actual nuclear warheads and start a nuclear war

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We had no idea this was happening And so then

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the british day the agency they hang up the phone

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and who do they call that call Good old march

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that if you don't know her name's margaret thatcher she

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was prime minister back then she's talking to the british

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joint intelligence agency and is like what do you mean

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they're about to do that Okay well did anybody call

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russia and tell him that we were just doing war

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games Oh no they didn't Well maybe somebody should do

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that So that march that hangs up the phone and

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then she picks up the other phone She has two

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phones and she calls and she's like hey we're only

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doing war games over here What do you guys doing

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over there and russia's like oh okay well this just

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got awkward and march that is like yeah this just

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got super awkward and so then there's like this whole

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awkward silence on the phone and they're sitting there and

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then russia's like okay well we'll go ahead and put

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those back then and just act like this never happened

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and this is march statues like yeah let's do that

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Apparently they say that that incident was even more serious

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than the cuban missile crisis And we have good or

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ronald reagan i think because he was a president back

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there and our ronald r had to do was pick

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up the phone until russia that they were doing some

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war games and none of this stuff would happen So

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that right there is your operation able archer eighty three 00:03:20.68 --> [endTime] Super embarrassing

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