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REAGAN LETTERS REVEAL THAT ‘RISK’ GAME HELPED AVOID WAR WITH SOVIETS
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SIMI VALLEY, CA – Sources report that the latest release of personal documents from the Reagan Presidential Library will contain an unexpected bombshell: Letters revealing how Reagan learned from playing the game ‘Risk’ that war with the Soviet Union would have been fruitless because “it is militarily impossible to hold Asia.”
Reagan apparently became obsessed with the strategy game during the latter half of his first term, often huddling for hours in the den of his Rancho del Cielo retreat with his loyal wife, Nancy, his sometimes-liberal daughter, Patti Davis, and his official White House astrologer, Joan Quigley, playing out countless scenarios of attempted world domination.
“I am drawn into endless conflict in Central America,” Reagan laments in one letter posted on SmokingGun.com. “Desperate as I am to defeat Patti’s leftist forces in the region,” Reagan continues, “I hatched a secret plan to sell arms to Joan in the Middle East if she would support me in Central America, but Nancy said that would be cheating.”
“Europe is too strongly divided,” Reagan observes in another letter, this to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. “But Australia,” Reagan brightens, “she is ripe for invasion!” Because this letter never actually mentions the Risk game, Weinberger is said to have sparked something of an international incident at the time, when word leaked that he had prepared a detailed invasion plan just in case Reagan was serious.
But perhaps Reagan’s greatest realization is documented in another of his letters to Weinberger discussing the trials and tribulations of his Risk games with Nancy, Patti and Joan. “It is impossible to hold Asia,” Reagan solemnly concludes, his tone weary of war. “It’s just like Joan predicted. I am left to send my hoards of Coca-Cola, Levi’s and McDonald’s franchisors to do the work my armies cannot do.”
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