How to Win the Cold War

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4 ай бұрын

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The Cold War had a very unique origin in that the main adversaries (the United States and the Soviet Union) had just previously been allies in a separate, historically monumental war. Taken at face value, one might hear that sentence and imagine the Cold War took the combatants by surprise, how could friends so quickly become enemies, after all? But the great irony was that not only was the Cold War not a surprise, but both sides knew it was coming. Even when they had been allies. The Cold War was as pure of a war of ideologies as one could get, not a war of armies and weapons, but one of influence and power. The United States sought to align the world with their capitalist economic model while the Soviets put their effort into reinforcing the communist model, this clash of economic ideologies led to a lot of tension, amplified by the fact that if one side was pushed too hard, nukes would follow. That possibility made this war one of the scariest, even though no shots were fired. For as Albert Einstein is often quoted to have said, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
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@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

IT'S HERE!! → youtooz.com/products/bluejay-plush-9-inch Rápido, rápido! Once they sell out they'll be gone FOREVER! This plushie is my first ever piece of merch, so I worked really hard to get it just right!! It took many revisions, but we got there in the end, I hope you all like it! :)

@gtbkts 4 ай бұрын

It's perfect. I bought 3!!!!!

@ZeusAmun-pt9dc 4 ай бұрын

The if it flies it spies poster has to become a merch drop of yours

@officaljayplaz6899 4 ай бұрын

i’m gonna touch you

@GeorgeLe 4 ай бұрын

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@Iymarra 4 ай бұрын

I hate merch.... But this little guy is cute and oh no I'm buying one

@Vengeful_Octopus 4 ай бұрын

A vodka-cooled nuclear bomber with a history of structural failure and a +20% mortality rate is the most Soviet thing I’ve ever heard of

@TQFMTradingStrategies 4 ай бұрын

The Gunner is a Unicycle Bear

@j.b8381 4 ай бұрын

Theres a cool video about it's history by Paper Skies

@Eboreg2 4 ай бұрын

Wait until you find out about torpedo juice.

@potatoreactor9395 4 ай бұрын

Or the MiG-21 radar coolant.

@gabetherootbeerguy 4 ай бұрын

Thought it said vodka-powered 😅😅

@swiftydialogues 4 ай бұрын

Alex is going to be one well adjusted* and educated man once BlueJay’s done with him. *results may vary

@gtbkts 4 ай бұрын

😅😂

@tylerpetersen6226 4 ай бұрын

He is going to fall into the "special" category I am unsure of if it is going to be the good or bad connotation though.

@becauseicangaming2479 4 ай бұрын

He's going to be in a rehab with ptsd

@Inthesanity 4 ай бұрын

How to win the Cold War

@bigz4302 4 ай бұрын

@DanGamingFan2846 4 ай бұрын

I don't know what's more insane about the tale of Mathias Rust, that he actually thought his plan would work, or that he got as far as he did. Also, a nuclear bomber that kills a lot of it's pilots and has vodka for coolant is the most Russian thing I've ever heard.

@watershipup7101 4 ай бұрын

Very much agreed.

@waterbullstudios9195 4 ай бұрын

I heard about it on the news, and was thinking the exact same thing.

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your support :)

@JunkyardDigs 4 ай бұрын

"Kind of like my college degree" I felt that🤣

@drewrichmond2964 4 ай бұрын

When?

@quinncarson9208 4 ай бұрын

Most of us do. Also, love your videos Kevin, keep it up!

@tabbitee 4 ай бұрын

The number of references I've seen to Laika in popular culture (including a sci-fi book or two in which she was actually rescued by aliens) is simultaneously heart-warming and heart-breaking.

@jamie210690 4 ай бұрын

Doctor Who has her recieve a burial out in deep space in a beautiful story that is very touching, and, in a different story, get rescued by aliens and come back to earth to invade....

@Itcouldbebunnies 4 ай бұрын

I like the story where Laika is rescued by Atlas and they make friends. I choose to believe this is what really happened, because the truth makes me too sad.

@tessiepinkman 4 ай бұрын

When I was a kid and we just had learned about Laika in school, in Sweden, (I was about 7 or 8) I couldn't sleep for about a month without waking up several times in the middle of the night crying and screaming because I was so sad for her. This was in -97 or -98, and my mother who's a psychologist thought it was *tremendous* that I showed such empathy at such a young age.

@BJGvideos 4 ай бұрын

@@tessiepinkmanat that age isn't that normal?

@tessiepinkman 4 ай бұрын

@@BJGvideos It probably is, but it wasn't exactly the reaction I wanted when I was crying. I would probably have been happier if she said something to soothe me instead of that it's fantastic that I show such empathy for a dog that died several decades ago. Btw, I wrote that last bit about the empathy as a joke, even though it did happen, because it's such a psychologist-mother thing to do and people who have a psychologist as a parent (and probably loads of people without any parent doing that work too) will recognize it in some capacity. You obviously didn't recognize it as the joke it was. Sorry 'bout that.

@purplehaze2358 4 ай бұрын

I can't be the only one that finds it hilarious that a single plane piloted by someone with 50 hours of experience total flying an aircraft managed to get further into Russian territory than the German army did.

@ivanwilliams7413 4 ай бұрын

They weren't expecting a Cessna, or whatever the European equivalent was. Low-flying, slow planes tend to get away with this sorta stupidity.

@robertmcduck6712 4 ай бұрын

Well, the Soviets obviously realised a little Cessena couldn't be military, and realised better to leave it and not shoot it down in fear of retaliation. So yes, your statement is true but the little pilot didnt change history.

@nathangreig5884 4 ай бұрын

Cesena could be a civilian who's lost or needs help, a bf109 is definitely not

@ethanchapman3799 4 ай бұрын

Twice*

@TheKlabim 4 ай бұрын

Like he said in the video?

@endarkenedeyes 4 ай бұрын

“Hilter’s first good painting” 💀

@jaxjaxattaxx Ай бұрын

That line is literally insane ☠️

@walli6388 4 ай бұрын

11:21 Thing is: The Soviets actually topped this too. They gifted the US ambassador to, I think it was the USSR, a gigantic wooden US state sigil. 100% made out of wood. Thought there was a trick in the way it was hollowed out in some places. If you targeted it at a specific wavelength, you could hear what was going on in the room through the vibrations of the wood. That's some really crazy stuff.

@Carewolf 4 ай бұрын

In Copenhagen the USSR and US embassies were right next to each other, and the US developed a special technology where they shot a laser on the windows of the other embassy, and measured what was said in the other embassy though the vibrations of the glass as measured by the laser. It was all cool and shit until Denmark discovered the US was using it to spy on Denmark too.

@nikolaideianov5092 4 ай бұрын

It was made in the god damn 50s

@the_tactician9858 4 ай бұрын

Thing is, the fact that we know what the KGB could do is scary... but the fact we DON'T know what tricks the CIA came up with other than the failures is somehow even scarier.

@LordDaret 4 ай бұрын

The guy who made the spying tech was the same guy who created the Theremin In fact, his name was Leon Theremin.

@hedgehog3180 4 ай бұрын

The sigil itself was nothing unusual but inside of it was a tiny little microphone that could be powered by shining a radio beam on it. This made it almost impossible to find since it only transmitted when that was done and otherwise gave off no signals that coukd be used to fibd it so it took years before it was discovered.

@theexplosive1062 4 ай бұрын

I love how he's able to animate true and pure terror in the speech and visuals of people. None of the screaming sounds fake or overdone but a bit too natural. 8:24 is definetly how I think people would react to somebody getting blown to bits in front of them

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

I'm a method actor

@slimey9634 4 ай бұрын

Now thats what I call dedication

@MovieFan1912 4 ай бұрын

Now I’m picturing how everyone at Hawthorn reacted when one of the chefs did that to himself.

@sand_sand7304 4 ай бұрын

I also like the delayed reaction.

@twicethegalo 4 ай бұрын

@@BlueJayYThold up

@tomsonlarrson3318 4 ай бұрын

Laika was the third dog for that particular mission as far as I’m aware, the first two escaped during training but Laika was docile and calm for a stray coming out of Moscow, and she was put through rushed training due to time crunch.

@bananamrs 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's the first time I ever hear that, and I've been cosmonaut geek since 5

@eetuthereindeer6671 4 ай бұрын

Docile and calm... wow... poor laika. Laika's good sides ended up being very bad for them

@williamhenning4700 4 ай бұрын

@@eetuthereindeer6671 And humans will take advantage of other humans with the same weakness.

@putraduha3176 4 ай бұрын

What a shitty trainee facility to let two mongrel escape

@arbiters487 4 ай бұрын

@@eetuthereindeer6671 it was pretty ruff

@emho5135 2 ай бұрын

Laika didn't die in space. She did develop superpowers from being bathed in cosmic rays and went off to fight the evil Galactic Empire.

@kingfitzzzz 4 ай бұрын

Literally the history field needs content like this. I’m a barber by profession, but I *love* history. I buy almost exclusively history books and watch quality history content nearly every day, but so many clients I have had absolutely shit boring teachers (and tbh curriculum caused some of that). They always say they can’t stand history, then I’ll tell my favorite history stories to them in a lively goofy way cracking jokes and they change their minds. You do some of the best history videos I’ve ever seen. They’re completely unhinged and that makes how thorough and dense they are more fun to absorb. You make history videos that are highly rewatchable. That’s honestly invaluable.

@machematix 4 ай бұрын

I'm a chef in a similar boat. KZfaq is a blessing. I can't seem to find myself going to a library and reading a history book, but I can watch hours of this sort of stuff

@NOT_FLI 4 ай бұрын

As a Bulgarian I love our umbrellas.

@Tsktsk78 4 ай бұрын

Now this is controversial

@MegaEmmanuel09 4 ай бұрын

What about salty cucumbers?

@_Carizzma_ 4 ай бұрын

Do you love your leader?

@BC1studios 4 ай бұрын

@@_Carizzma_ That is a dangerous question to ask.

@Seby8822 4 ай бұрын

I love how you water boarded the plushy to make sure it would not tell 🤣

@thisagame5847 4 ай бұрын

The jar is far worse for the plushy.

@m808bscorpionmbt3 4 ай бұрын

@@thisagame5847true

@chrisfritz50 4 ай бұрын

@@thisagame5847same torture different substance

@NeoZondix 4 ай бұрын

That's uncanny @@thisagame5847

@BurksToreyArky 3 ай бұрын

The "coke for black neighborhoods" line is pure gold! 😂😊

@elmotheplatypus44 2 ай бұрын

Underrated line 😂😂😂😂

@DaytonaRoadster 2 күн бұрын

and profoundly untrue, but dont let Jewish doctored history stop you

@TheLastRhapsody 4 ай бұрын

16:06 That is gloriously terrifying. 16:43 The fact that was animated with the body falling smoothly to the ground instead of the usual snap to pose animating makes it all the better.

@tomsonlarrson3318 4 ай бұрын

Already made a comment but just got to this part. 17:30 My granddad worked for PepsiCo for 25 years, he was with them during the sale of those ships for the scrap value. The sheer volume of Pepsi being imported by the USSR meant that they could simply not keep up to demand with just the vodka export, so PepsiCo used other exports that were available. Since the Rouble is a closed economy, PepsiCo accepted things like apples or decommissioned warships for scrap/sale value. Anything that could be bought and sold was used pay for the Pepsi import.

@justnoob8141 4 ай бұрын

Imagining if they accidentally sold the one that is still in service

@Tomyironmane 4 ай бұрын

@@justnoob8141 The ships they got were clapped out by Soviet standards... given what the Soviets and later Russians consider seaworthy, I'm impressed they survived the trip to Norway for scrapping... and that they were a profitable source of scrap to begin with... but for a little bit, Pepsi was about the 8th largest navy in the world.

@troybaxter 4 ай бұрын

@@Tomyironmanemaybe Pepsi did receive actual working vessels after all. I mean, floating scrap is no different than what their Navy is right now anyways.

@smalltime0 2 ай бұрын

@@Tomyironmane At the time the soviets made certain alloys in greater quantity (and with better machining, not that it applies here) that they would be valuable scrap. The titanium that the USA got for the Blackbird, for example, came from the USSR (fresh ore and plates though). Even the most clapped soviet submarine from the 50s/60s would have had a titanium plating to various degrees, with the Alfa-class (built starting 1958, full production run starting 1967, decommissioned 1974) having full titanium hulls

@dinodude6992 4 ай бұрын

Hey, bluejay, if one were to inflict a specific kind of harm to one your plushies, would you feel the pain yourself? Asking out of curiosity

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

I haven't felt anything for years now

@snek1557 4 ай бұрын

@@BlueJayYT You will now :p

@dinodude6992 4 ай бұрын

@BlueJayYT So, setting a plush on fire with a flamethrower wouldn't do anything to you? If that's the case, your mortal coil won't feel the excruciating pain of getting killed by a murder drone plushie.

@LethalAether 4 ай бұрын

Im now waiting for someone to post "someone get the scissors" yes the internet has fucked up my mind, how can you tell?

@RedFail1-1 4 ай бұрын

Wtf is wrong with kids these days

@mrdogbread6735 4 ай бұрын

Oh yeah? If the USA is sooo great why did they make the USB?

@orsaz924 4 ай бұрын

14:27 felt like a punch in the gut, I was absolutely not expecting it 😂😂

@geoffreyentwistle8176 4 ай бұрын

I love the anecdote about the TU-22 from Paper Skies: the Russian military was dissuaded from finding alternatives to vodka coolant because the air confiding system leaked, so any kind of alteration to the mixture might result in sick pilots. The generals were put in a grounded aircraft with the air conditioning on, and sure enough the cabin was filled with the smell of alcohol. Apparently one of the ground crew was told to hide a cloth soaked in alcohol inside one of the cooling vents before the test... The AC worked fine. XD

@mnxs 4 ай бұрын

Paper Skies is awesome 👍

@Darksnowman13 4 ай бұрын

Really shitty day, I actually really needed this today. Thank you Blue Jay, your humor helps

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

Hope your day get's better, comrade

@Darksnowman13 4 ай бұрын

@@BlueJayYT that Dallas joke broke me, laughing my ass off

@ravingcuriosity6345 4 ай бұрын

Hang in there, man! 💪

@immaterialspectator4209 4 ай бұрын

As a Bulgarian, I'm happy to finally have a reason to complain about mispronounced Bulgarian names. I must say, I'm genuinely impressed about how badly BlueJay managed to mangle them. I wouldn't even have considered Georgi Markov hard to pronounce for an English speaker before now. I don't think Bulgarian even has phonemes that English doesn't. Pretty sure the only way you could get these names wrong is if you never bothered listening to them being spoken or glancing at the IPA transcription. In any case, thanks to BlueJay for the chance to be pedantic on the Internet.

@LinoWalker 4 ай бұрын

To be fair, English is very different from a phonetical point of view, compared to Bulgarian. E.g. their G's are much softer than ours, as are their R's, and they don't even have a "ж" sound. If anything, I'm just glad Bulgaria is getting talked about - we've got some really cool history :)

@immaterialspectator4209 4 ай бұрын

@@LinoWalker I mean they do, though. They have both hard 'g' and 'ж'. Just try saying 'argue' or 'pleasure'. What they don't have is the letters for them. It's not like Xhosa or Japanese where some of the sounds just don't exist in the English language and are therefore almost impossible to pronounce or even distinguish while listening, without a lot of practice. Which isn't to say that I actually have any problems with mispronunciations. I'm just happy for my country to be mentioned. I was just making a joke, about how it's seemingly compulsory to bury any video in which a foreign language is used under a pile of comments about pronunciation mistakes and how I'm happy that someone finally used Bulgarian so I could finally do it myself.

@skyliermoreton6703 4 ай бұрын

“Kids are hitting layups in Mongolia” might be one of the hardest disses I have ever heard

@ray4lsd 4 ай бұрын

Downward ejection was not that unusual, even some NATO planes started doing it, like the F-104 for example. It was later changed, due to obvious reasons, but a lot of 104s still had the hatch below the cockpit.

@riograndedosulball248 4 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the F-104, the plane notorious for killing more than a hundred pilots in West Germany alone!

@DjDolHaus86 4 ай бұрын

The F-104 had a number of glaring safety issues, this was just one of the intentional ones

@user-ro9zf9kz1h 4 ай бұрын

@@riograndedosulball248 At least they get to retire it early with replacement like the f-4 phantom. Meanwhile in Taiwan we have to suffer with that crap into the 90's because America just refuse to sell us replacement.

@chechenfeels 4 ай бұрын

@@user-ro9zf9kz1h Didnt Taiwan heavily modify its starfighters? always liked taiwans two seater training f104s

@antoy384 4 ай бұрын

@@riograndedosulball248Haha, F-“notorious for killing”-104 still has a lower death count than Boeing in 3 years

@MrPresident-gt9tc 4 ай бұрын

Hey Bluejay. You’re awesome. Thank you for your time.

@je25ff 4 ай бұрын

Are you a real person?

@MrPresident-gt9tc 4 ай бұрын

Maybe I am. Maybe I’m not. You’d never know

@weeposchweepo 4 ай бұрын

@@MrPresident-gt9tc What is real? What is a person? We will never know.

@MrPresident-gt9tc 4 ай бұрын

Reality is but an illusion we cloud our feeble minds with so that the infinity of the cosmos does not seem as cold, desolate and unforgiving as it is. Yet, even those who are aware of this macabre mirage continue to live their meaningless lives and do not stop to ponder what would happen if we simply unbraced the inevitable demise of everything and everyone, and feed our matter into the ultimate chain of events that, ultimately, simply ends in death

@Chopz007 4 ай бұрын

You’re welcome

@Rwscienceguy 4 ай бұрын

I love that Bluejay invented a character for the sole purpose of harassing them with his character.

@cylerner 4 ай бұрын

Should add that Mathias wasn't allowed in because they thought he was a dumb pilot... but because they thought he was a soviet aircraft. There was even a moment when one radar commander thought he was a search helicopter and had his radar signal marked as friendly. Another thought he was a rookie pilot who forgot to switch over his signal during a training exercise and marked him as friendly.

@user-cw3wm9lx7w 2 ай бұрын

lol

@swaginton1180 4 ай бұрын

Yaaaa I agree, that explanation that they debugged the cat and let it live a happy and long life afterwards rings about as closely to “don’t worry little Timmy, Mr. peanuts is fine, he’s just living on a farm with all the other doggies upstate… no you can’t see him.” As you can get. That cat definitely got fucking splattered sadly

@addictionsucks8848 4 ай бұрын

It's probably somewhere in the middle. Likely it didn't end up working and they just euthanized it and went about their business

@troybaxter 4 ай бұрын

100%. If that cat lived a long happy life, then I have a cute happy *living* space dog I am willing to sell you.

@tonytouchz757 4 ай бұрын

yeah I dont think this mission happen, its too dumb to be true.. as other said, maybe in between as in I personaly belive they just threw the cat back in a alley and thats it

@user-cw3wm9lx7w 2 ай бұрын

yep.

@mauricedavis2160 12 күн бұрын

You get it!..🙏✨👌😿😢🐲❣️

@Derapplecraze 4 ай бұрын

I don’t understand how bluejay doesn’t have a million subs yet his content is amazing

@mattdragon333 4 ай бұрын

Not pg 13 tho, KZfaq doesn't take kindly on that

@Blakearmin 4 ай бұрын

He's blown up over the last year

@keegi9255 4 ай бұрын

There is one interesting fact about Mathias Rusts flight to Moscow that isn't mentioned. The day whe flew into Soviet Unions territory was May 28. That day was the Border Guards Day there. So probably many of them were quite drunk and could not function well. So not just coincidence he made it to Red Square but also a well picked date.

@mediocrityproductions 4 ай бұрын

A cat cyborg'd by the government to be a spy sounds like the plot of a forgotten spy kids spinoff

@Eros-9-7-22 4 ай бұрын

The silence after putting Bluejay in the jar speaks volumes…

@diplodocus6969 4 ай бұрын

put the bird in the jar

@nola281 4 ай бұрын

Does Alex know he could do that?

@robertschafer4773 4 ай бұрын

You didn't poke holes in the jar. The bluejay is dead.

@nola281 4 ай бұрын

A plane with vodka as a coolant, that sounds right. Honestly how neither side didn't accidentally destroy the world is amazing. No one was careful or logical.

@nikolaideianov5092 4 ай бұрын

It gets worse That bomber has 400liters of vodka in the training veriant that has 3 crew(?) .soo it has a crew to vodka ratio of ~133liters per crew The mig 25 has a crew to vadka ratio of 300liters per crew Becose it has only 1 crew

@user-cw3wm9lx7w 2 ай бұрын

@@nikolaideianov5092 ir isn’t entirely vodka rhough, didn’t rhey say it is 40% water.

@nikolaideianov5092 Ай бұрын

@@user-cw3wm9lx7w most vodka IS 40% water

@user-cw3wm9lx7w Ай бұрын

@@nikolaideianov5092 I think my point was people weren’t drinking like 133 liters of vodka.

@nikolaideianov5092 Ай бұрын

@@user-cw3wm9lx7w do you mean alcohol ? Also the pilots didnt drink it they sold it for what ever (including schooling lol, a new car ,etc)

@Sonatengraf 4 ай бұрын

What a ride, very funny bits throughout. I'm convinced the “cola war” segment stems from a typo, but is interesting, nonetheless. Thanks, BlueJay!

@channelantoneon 4 ай бұрын

My therapist: "It's just a cartoon, he's not realistic enough to hurt you." Hyperrealistic BlueJay: 16:04 (Absolutely made my day)

@alexanderkidonakis9185 4 ай бұрын

The ricen pellet was 1.5mms A regular bb is 4.5mm For reference(think how small that is for a deathly dose)

@JumpCutThis 4 ай бұрын

Except it’s *ricin* correct? I’m not trying to be all spellchecky, but it just doesn’t look right and my OCD tells me to verify ;) Yep I checked it’s ricin

@JSnow-st7hm 4 ай бұрын

@@JumpCutThisI heard rice from the video…

@martin09091989 4 ай бұрын

The ethanol/water mix was widely used as a coolent in suviet technology. A coworker of mine was a flight technician in the east german NVA when he served. He said that all the radio equipment and airplane avionics where cooled ether with staight ethanol or a mix with watter, because it was widely available and perfect for the job. Non toxic, non corosive, good as anti freze, especially in high-flying jets, and very low in viscosity for very compact heat exchangers. And very good as a drink when diluted to the right amount! ;)

@HicSvntDracones 4 ай бұрын

I remember when I did my pilot training, MS flight sim (I think 95)which was used by most flight schools in the 90s) had landing a Cessna in red square as an actual mission

@luciboi8182 4 ай бұрын

Love how Alex has a "Protect Yourself from Kidnapping" poster next to his bed

@zero95lucky 4 ай бұрын

Right next to 'pidgeon' shooting

@southafricancarlover8666 4 ай бұрын

You will never know why this got soo many likes.

@malegria9641 4 ай бұрын

South Africa #1 🇿🇦❤️ falastin hurreh

@shoebill4902 4 ай бұрын

@@malegria9641ok bot

@uri3453 4 ай бұрын

wait, but this is also an i like my own comment comment just disguised as an anti-i liked my own comment comment

@riaannorval632 4 ай бұрын

🇿🇦

@vinasol1161 4 ай бұрын

Respect

@dwaterson21 24 күн бұрын

"Wanna put him in a jar? You can." *absolutely deafening silence*

@grumpycat2092 4 ай бұрын

Growing up in the late GDR watching "das Sandmännchen" (a bed time series for kids featuring a nice grandpa sort of sandman) I really liked Sputnik 1, bc they featured it in the series and it looked cute for a satellite. But I will never forgive how Sputnik 2 killed Leika. Such a cute doggo 🥺

@kman2747 4 ай бұрын

it's a nitpick, but technically the rocket at 12:43 is the Vostok rocket, which was based on the R-7

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

Oh man you're right, I even knew the difference too, shoot. Good catch!

@ZSASM7.62 4 ай бұрын

@@BlueJayYT Dang, I guess that means I have to report your video for misinformation.

@alisonk5807 4 ай бұрын

NERD! Jk, you do you

@DND-not-BOY 4 ай бұрын

I love how Alex is trying to defend himself

@thatotherrandomfloridian9456 4 ай бұрын

The kidnapping defense poster is what got me lmao

@LordDaret 4 ай бұрын

The thing about project A-119 is that the Soviets ALSO tried to copy that themselves. Apparently they codenamed theirs E-4 and it was also dismissed for the same reasons as the American project. Some stories report on it, but I do not know if there is a specific source for this.

@toyang6 4 ай бұрын

Funny thing about the Vodka coolant, is that the US Navy had the same problem with Alkohol based rocket propellants. Here is a quote of a research paper: "The only difference we could find was that it evaporated a lot faster than denatured alcohol when a sailor opened a drum to take a density reading. We had some very happy sailors while that program was going on."

@user-cw3wm9lx7w 2 ай бұрын

Wait, woulen’t industrial alcohol nor be safe to drink

@BurgerMeister19 4 ай бұрын

BlueJay I must say you never fail to make me chuckle, Well till next globe troting adventure. Thanks, The BurgerMeister.

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

Cheers, BurgerMeister

@byte287 4 ай бұрын

gotta love the BurgerMeister

@ClockworkOuroborous 4 ай бұрын

Oh God, I'd forgotten about this. It was a crazy time to be alive and in college. This being that guy flying to Moscow. The rest of the Cold War was quite a thing too. I was about 6 years old back around '73 when I found out I lived in a nuclear target zone and understood that means if there was a war I was dead. ETA: I haven't laughed this hard at one of your posts since the Russian Navy vs England's fisherman, I mean Japan. Yes, Japan. You win the internets today good sir, you win.

@flyingdeathcatsgo 4 ай бұрын

They probably didn't actually abandon the spy animal program. Likely they just switched to an easier to train animal, one that happens to be the goodest boy.

@user-cw3wm9lx7w 2 ай бұрын

spy dog might actually work, you coukd hide the microphone in the collor.

@khornatekrieger3023 4 ай бұрын

For a moment I thought maybe this list might include the insane Pentatomic army model which was intended to literally win the cold war, specifically the ground war of any nuclear exchange utilizing close air support and large bombers with tactical nukes, nuclear howitzers, recoilless rifles and all manner of buttoned up vehicles to fight in a recently nuked battlescape. Beyond just the casual nuclear use, it was also meant to be spread wide out to prevent complete destruction with any return nuclear exchange, assuming that two or three of your five brigades were going to get obliterated causing all manner of command and control issues.

@RipOffProductionsLLC 4 ай бұрын

"The US was literally planning to fight a war post-apocalypse. Fallout ain't got shit on this." -LaserPig, The Bradley Wars.

@user-cw3wm9lx7w 2 ай бұрын

@@RipOffProductionsLLC imrerwsrinf.

@GaldirEonai 4 ай бұрын

I remember Rust's flight being covered on the news and even then my reaction was "...what an idiot!". I was seven.

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

Hahaha that's awesome, I woulda loved to see that first hand.

@bobbygoestoabyss6624 4 ай бұрын

I remember, being amazed by a dude with my forename landing a plane on the red square. Then my mother educated me on, how much of an idiot that guy was. On the other hand my mother also told me, that Lenin was a good guy, when i asked her about the picture of this goat bearded bald dude on the wall.

@RipOffProductionsLLC 4 ай бұрын

Indeed, he was lucky that Soviet air defense was so incompetent/non-functional that day... Then again considering Russia(before during and after its time as the Soviet Union)'s long history of corruption at basicly every level of every aspect of society, it's honestly shocking the Cold War lasted as long as it did...

@lahma69 4 ай бұрын

@@bobbygoestoabyss6624 Ya.. I'm not sure that is the adjective I would choose to describe Lenin but each to their own I suppose 😏 I'm guessing you grew up in an Eastern Bloc country?

@computer_toucher 4 ай бұрын

"Hitler's first good painting" killed me!

@_chew_ 4 ай бұрын

It killed Hitler too

@analysissel 4 ай бұрын

16:04 Bluejay instills me with an existential dread that I only wish I could inspire with my pseudo-lovecraftian fanfiction.

@Dr_Larken 4 ай бұрын

Love the video, I just wish I didn’t already know a lot of this! But still, I’m glad you can pile it all into a video for those who don’t know any of this or only no some of it!

@todeaa 4 ай бұрын

i no no wanna :'(

@maniakares 4 ай бұрын

lol

@Duckboi2382 2 ай бұрын

But you gotta

@alienworm1999 4 ай бұрын

Considering the wings would literally melt off from the heat of that bomber, I’m sure crews really did use every drop of ‘coolant’ they could get their hands on (while drinking some, of course)

@Warsie 4 ай бұрын

Im sure in an actual WW3 scenario they wouldn't be drinking it lol

@nikolaideianov5092 4 ай бұрын

@@Warsieits the soviet union In ww2 the crew drank the breaking liquid becose its almost vodka

@hedgehog3180 4 ай бұрын

@@nikolaideianov5092 That's actually Stalin/NKVD paranoia, the airfields were just rough and there were supply issues at some airbases so a lot of planes had their landing gear break upon landing.

@nikolaideianov5092 4 ай бұрын

@@hedgehog3180 frankly i wont be supprised if its at least partly both

@user-cw3wm9lx7w 2 ай бұрын

@@nikolaideianov5092 yeo.

@sviatoslavs.1305 4 ай бұрын

60% distilled water 40% ethanol Ethanol enjoyers: "I like where this is going."

@potatoking8759 4 ай бұрын

absolute blast from beginning to end

@mapledreamer7983 4 ай бұрын

Fun fact, my grandfather regularly traveled on KAL 007 for work back in the day, and had made that flight to Korea a couple of weeks before it was shot down. He told me that some magazine (I think TIME) published an article about the flight, and he said that the in-flight meals described in the article were the exact same ones he had eaten weeks prior.

@trygveplaustrum4634 4 ай бұрын

Props for using a screenshot of *The Man from UNCLE.* I watched it recently; that’s such an underrated film.

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

I agree, I loved it!

@goldenfiberwheat238 4 ай бұрын

@@TheBearInTheChairugh that Napoleon movie was terrible

@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii 2 ай бұрын

5:40 Major flaw in the plan was thinking you could train a cat to do anything a cat didn't want to do.

@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer 4 ай бұрын

11:59 thank you for reminding me what the Space Dog movie was called, I watched that alot in my Childhood

@321_Luca 4 ай бұрын

finally some more weird, funny, partially historic jokes by BlueJay, yay

@MarcMagma 4 ай бұрын

3:48 ...That was without a doubt the funniest burn I ever heard.

@kassassin_brahgawk Ай бұрын

Your channel gives me so much inspiration for my D&d/MotW games I write ,😊 tysm! I love your take and your art ❤

@hedgehog3180 4 ай бұрын

Downwards ejections are somewhat common, the F-104 Starfighter also had a downwards ejection system for a while, that plane was also nicknamed the widowmaker but not because of the ejection system.

@mistertagnan 2 ай бұрын

I find it interesting how the Germans decided to use a plane with tiny-ass wings and a reputation for being a flying coffin as the base for their VTOL fighter jet. I’d think that for a VTOL jet, you’d want a stall speed above Mach 2

@jaspy555 4 ай бұрын

Almost 30 minutes huh? You bet your behind I’m about to watch this entire thing. (Also that Soviet can’t out pizza the hut joke was MINE)

@cantonlowlifemedia 4 ай бұрын

I fuckin love this channel! Informative (to a degree), yet hilarious! The only thing I don't like about it is how long it takes between new videos. Not complaining, as I'd rather have good content with a sparse release schedule than shitty content regularly.

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

They take a lot of time unfortunately! If you check my description, I've got a link to my sources. That should really highlight the extent of my research and why these take so long

@cantonlowlifemedia 4 ай бұрын

@@BlueJayYT oh I'm well aware that they take a good deal of time and effort! I didn't miss the disclaimer about the upload schedule. Just wishful thinking on my part! Keep up the awesome content and take your time. 😁🤗

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much :)

@tfrowlett8752 4 ай бұрын

10:52 there was a second assassination attempt on one Vladimir Kostov in Paris a year before Markov, but he recovered because the pellet was fired into his back, away from the main blood vessels.

@TerritorialPoplar 4 ай бұрын

I love how you casually reference real "behind the scenes" history, and can get away with it through the lens of a joke. You're doing good work.

@logank9177 4 ай бұрын

The quality keeps getting better! Always looking forward to your next post!

@danielhale1 4 ай бұрын

Always a great day when BlueJay uploads! BTW I first leaned about crews drinking the plane's coolant from Paper Skies. He has lots of great videos!

@soupmaster1217 4 ай бұрын

15:58 Bro 💀✋

@kwhp1507 4 ай бұрын

Hitters best painting had me rollin!

@Deathissweet 4 ай бұрын

I love YA CONTENT BlueJay! Every time a video shows up It makes me chuckle with the the insane facts that you present. Can't wait for the next one!

@dawsondemro4858 4 ай бұрын

Who would have thought that all you needed to win the Cold War was a good Civ V loadout?

@maxb.5905 4 ай бұрын

BlueJay Uploads are the only source of terrible wordplays and dark humor left thanks for your service

@vincentpuccio3689 2 ай бұрын

Dude, your presentation is hysterical. I’m gonna look forward to watching the rest of your videos.

@TheExpertProcrastinator 4 ай бұрын

liked just after the microwave and "need a ceiling decoration?" bit, only 3:04 deep into the video and i already love it too much edit 1: when i think intelligence i do think of blue birds from the internet.

@nixonhatridge3608 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful. Truly a work of art.

@bearjam5372 4 ай бұрын

I'll never get tired of the makarov jump scare

@julianparsons3027 4 ай бұрын

17:19 *_”WHITE coke”_* huh? Coca Cola came back around, full circle… a return to their roots.

@SirRias 3 ай бұрын

17:39 I appreciate the picture of the usa focused on a big mac

@shadhinov 4 ай бұрын

2:47 bluejay plushies are the first youtuber narrated ad I ever actually fully saw. And rewatched a bunch of times. Hilarious lmfao

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

I want to make every second of my videos enjoyable ;)

@shadhinov 4 ай бұрын

And you succeeded. I know this sounds weird but thank you for microwaving the plushie.@@BlueJayYT

@Miro.A.Mursu- 4 ай бұрын

@@shadhinovWait, its weird to microwave plushies?!?!? No wonder she left me!

@MicrowaveOvenVideo 4 ай бұрын

3:43 you owe me a new coffee seeing that I painted my keyboard with it laughing so hard.

@patz9792 4 ай бұрын

making a plane that runs on vodka is the most Russian thing ever

@ilikebutteredtoast1514 4 ай бұрын

I love you blue jay, I’ve been learning a lot about the Cold War and Vietnam war. I’m so happy I get to watch you cover it too.

@lukearts2954 4 ай бұрын

Wow, this one is back on par! Perhaps it was just me, but I got the impression that I shed less tears from laughter on the past couple of videos compared to the earlier work, but this one truly got me dehydrated...

@abdelhadibouzidi432 4 ай бұрын

You fill the hole in my chest in the shape of oversimplified

@Bannditbunny 4 ай бұрын

Soviet engineering in a nutshell: if it doesn’t fall apart on the tarmac put it into mass production

@paulhickie6974 17 күн бұрын

The problem with Tu-22 was eventually fixed they stayed in service until 1990s.

@Irongaze86 2 күн бұрын

I love how the posters on Alex's walls are instructional on how to avoid BlueJay. All in vain of course.

@itush2770 4 ай бұрын

Love your content bluejay, great vid. just wanted you to know you're work is very appreciated:)

@s0uldr4ke31 4 ай бұрын

How can you fit this much humor into a history video, it's honestly blowing my mind!

@Mr.Serpent-ti4nh 2 ай бұрын

2:08 "GET IN THE PLANE ALEX!" "but... Bluejay. I'm not your child. You literally just busted open my wall." "Fair point."

@Lockdown7263 4 ай бұрын

I did ask if he could fit in a mason jar, now there’s Edit: thats the Most likes I’ve ever gotten :)

@Anonymous-wc3fe 4 ай бұрын

Just want to say thanks for inspiring my love of history, I love your content man!

@BlueJayYT 4 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed!!

@MrMontanaNights 4 ай бұрын

Hiter's first good painting freaking killed me dude...but not as much as it killed Hitler.

@musicc5554 4 ай бұрын

Bluejay. You went from slightly unhinged plushy ad..straight into the funniest self elimination joke I've seen in a while. What a wild ride. Bravo