President Reagan's Address to the Nation on the Soviet Attack on Korean Airliner, September 5, 1983

[@ericgerwan2941]

We need another president like him again especially during these times.

[@evangoodrow]

yep

[@roberthelring6372]

We do that’s President Trump. The mainstream media hated Ronald Reagan just like they hate President Trump if you lived in this error under Reagan, you would believe the same shit they’re saying about Trump. They said about this guy they called him every name in the book back then.

[@rtcp2020]

Reddit will disagree with you.

[@misterakt]

i can’t believe he played the tape of the perps talking on national television for the whole country to hear. Reagan had more balls than our last four presidents combined.

[@CosmoPhiloPharmaco]

Indeed. Mr. Reagan was very brave and bold.

[@toddbrackett4277]

Reagan was the greatest president of my lifetime and nobody comes close. I will make one correction to your post, Reagan didn't just play the Soviet's voice recording for the whole world.

[@vilivonkin6243]

Good speech like reagan had always. Great man, great president.

[@barrydimmock5771]

And Joe Biden cannot remember his name, Reagan one of the best

[@youngjunjeon5968]

Thanks President Reagan. From st.korea. We miss you. Have peace in heaven.

[@shahrulamar5358]

In 1983 Yuri Andropov ruled Soviet Union from his hospital bed.

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@денисбаженов-щ1б After Chernenko death in March 1985 Soviet - US relationship were gradually improved under new Kremlin leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.

[@sheleighrichards5977]

What American leadership once was🇺🇸❤️

[@supermash1]

And now in March 2022 we see the Russians haven't changed.

[@alven977]

Exactly! And God bless Ukraine! 🇺🇦!

[@eddharriselmedulan6187]

Always god bless the ukraine

[@constantinecroitoru6974]

In 1983, the leader of soviet union was , Yuri Andropov - the former top leader of KGB and, the former leader of the officer KGB, Vladimir Putin !

[@yourstruly4817]

Or to put it into 80s terms: "That's just the way it is Some things'll never chaaaange!"

[@SorayaEsfandiary_]

Ronald Wilson Reagan, the BEST President we ever had, there will never be another one like him.

[@StephenLuke]

Have you seen the 2024 film starring Dennis Quaid?

[@alien4422]

The worst thing is the Russian pilot who did it didn't give a shit.

[@buoazej]

He very much did, acc. to his interview. He said that he alerted his command several times that it's a passenger plane and he opposed to execute the order initially. His command didn't care, 'it had to be done', and if he refused he and his family would be in deep trouble. Therefore it was either him or the plane. Where did You get the notion that he didn't care? USSR and US closely cooperated behind the official 'cold war' rhetoric. I know because I was born behind the Iron Curtain and I can give You some literature to learn about it.

[@alien4422]

@@buoazej He know it was a Boeing and failed to pass this information on to command. "A confirmed communist who lives in the Caucasus region, Osipovich insists that the jetliner was on a spy mission and that there were no civilian passengers aboard. He even considers himself fortunate to have achieved a measure of celebrity by having destroyed Flight 007." I saw him in a documentary and by all accounts he was quite pleased with himself.

[@MM-iy7gz]

Remember when we hated the Soviets instead of each other?

[@Cryax2]

Shouldn't have hated anybody

[@mrlim282]

President Reagan was the "Great Communicator."

[@christaber5988]

Reagan was the greatest

[@Leagueofdraven5321]

269 people were killed.

[@keleonicky]

Senator Henry Jackson was considered by JFK as a running mate in 1960

[@whitmer73]

Real Leadership....

[@WilliamplaysMM2]

i love reagan so much my 1 favrotie presdient when 80s he was us presdient usa military rank was 1rd

[@sappermade6012]

007 that’s crazy I forgot about that ! This story was crazy

[@nkmatos]

Lincoln and Reagan. The two best republicans president.

[@ΧρήστοςΑναγνωστόπουλος-δ3κ]

Best defender of

[@sappermade6012]

Human law is to help pilot’s and captains it’s a must

[@mariolaimejr03]

Never heard about this kind of attack in 1983, but if only I can find out what Reagan said something about 9/11, despite his Alzheimer's diagnosis, but I think he just said a little bit about it.

[@ΧρήστοςΑναγνωστόπουλος-δ3κ]

And the warriors going to be the same kids BCAA

[@ForeverBennett]

US shot down an unarmed Iranian airliner in 1988.

[@constantinecroitoru6974]

and, how many innocent people were killed

[@ForeverBennett]

@@constantinecroitoru6974 Just under 300 I believe.

[@jared1964]

And the US, like the Soviets, initially refused to admit their complicity

[@StephenLuke]

@@ForeverBennett Not only the Soviet Union and America shot down civilian airliners. Israel shot down a Libyan passenger plane in 1973, Ukraine in 2001, Russia in 2014, and Iran in 2020.

[@shahrulamar5358]

In 1988 US military shot down Iranian passenger plane. 😟😟😟

[@KennyInSubic]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@spingylvergara8807]

Terrorist passengers 😂

[@StephenLuke]

@shahrulamar5358 Yes, that’s true.

[@StephenLuke]

@@spingylvergara8807 WHAT THE HELL?!?!?! There were no terrorists onboard that plane!!! They were just normal passengers and crew! Shame on you!!!

[@spingylvergara8807]

@@StephenLuke where I said terrorist?😆😆😆😆 Idiot 🖕🖕🤣

[@ModiboMagassouba-f3s]

Downed South Korean Boeing is the price of US -URSS tension during the Cold War

[@chrisamon80]

I have to turn back the time in early on January 1, 1983, get help from President Ronald Reagan, write a warning letter to save Korean Airlines flight 007 by Soviets. The American air forces will help rescue and prevent the airlines from pilot errors and terrible disasters. They have to survive on September 1983. I want to save Korean Air 007 and I will bring them home in Seoul. Declare war on the Soviet Union, and the war on Communism in the Cold War and the war on terrorism.

[@Coops4343]

The great communicator. Only Donald Trump has come close to this gravitas since.

[@liedersanger1]

Irony. I get it.

[@AustinHollingerOfficial]

@@liedersanger1 I think Reagan would be ashamed of Donald Trump. He definitely wouldn't recognize the party which the Republicans have become

[@fastdadws4985]

Doesn't Little Ronnie RAY-GUN--once & future Warrior for The Lord GOD Almighty Himself--look FABULICIOUS here, right HERE?!?!?!?! Yes! Yes! YES! YES! YES! YES!

[@AvgJoeSmo]

This was raegans gravest mistake... The establishment had their part in the airplane being shot down...

[@주상희-d6l]

Soviet crime.

[@StephenLuke]

Exactly!!!

[@sahilhossian2449]

Umm Regan do you know about 9/11

[@pintificate]

Er...it's fairly unlikely Reagan knew about 9/11 back in 1983.

[@byteme83]

Obviously not. You think the Gipper was clairvoyant?

[@davidrobertson7315]

Reagan didn’t even know about 9/11 on 9/11 because he had Alzheimer’s by 2001 and didn’t know what was going on.

[@AustinHollingerOfficial]

@@davidrobertson7315 maybe he did know but forgot about it the next day. People with Alzheimer's often have good days and bad days.

[@pamelablizzard5912]

Y

[@rustamergashev2615]

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[@Sami-Nasr]

He was lying, he didn't mention that in the same area at the same time there was an American RC-135 flying in and out of the Soviet airspace while the Soviets were performing a sensitive ICBM testing in the area, most likely the Korean pilots were bribed to be there in the wrong time to confuse the Soviet air defence system, the pilots weren't told anything about what was happening

[@joeywelander1833]

Vatnik detected!

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Anything you say comrade.

[@cockula776]

@@JohnAsmith-rw6uoI haven't heard this old chestnut of a conspiracy theory in years!

[@cockula776]

Bruh, you're quite a bit late to the Flight 007 party. That was debunked years ago, but whatever let's you sleep at night ....

[@KennyInSubic]

Stop doing drugs bro.

[@irfan2257]

read army good nice

[@jangozubr]

Watching this after his excuses about Flight 655. What a clown 😄

[@woodykelleher9253]

That was nearly 5 years later.

[@jangozubr]

@@woodykelleher9253Yep. And it's still hypocrisy and double standards.

[@Enoughsenoughnomas]

lol watching his reaction to american killing 50 kids in the downing of flight Flight 655

[@princenoah21]

Iran= the world's leading terrorist nation.

[@jangozubr]

Yeah, some incredible hypocrisy 😄

[@StephenLuke]

@@princenoah21 Iran yes but the innocent people on Flight 655, no.

[@princenoah21]

@StephenLuke whatever suits you're delusions.

[@StephenLuke]

@@princenoah21 Says your mother! 😂😂😂

[@danielthoman7324]

Mr trickle nomics was one of the worst Presidents of all time.😂

[@wujukam]

This whole thing's a setup

[@JUAN_687]

😣😫😩