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Inspired by recent events, I re-watched 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=fn_a
by dade_ 5y ago
Inspired by recent events, I re-watched 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Vladimir Putin watched the movie with Oliver Stone. Putin said not much has changed, except the situation is more dangerous today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdxls8uC4DA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdxls8uC4DA
Discussing the Ukraine war the other day, I brought up the movie and learned that people have no idea what MAD is. It is possible that the only thing more insane about the MAD doctrine is that people living under it have no idea they do. What a world we live in!
- cmurf 5y agoQuite a lot of people now have no understanding of the cold war either, considering it old history at best. It is more relevant right now than what's happened between 1991 up until last week. Even if you were paying attention in 2009 and 2014 and saw those events as dress rehearsals for last week, it's still shocking how a founding member of the U.N., a permanent member of the Security Council, has allowed romatic notions and fear of encroaching democracy end his kleptocracy into the biggest risk to returning us right back to the cold war. And yes, it's probably true that Cold War 2.0 will be more dangerous and expensive than before. This will have a disproportionate cost, but everyone will pay in one form or another.