Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "What's the risk of nuclear war from the Russia-Ukraine conflict? - BBC News" video.
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While observing the bedlam being played out daily on our screens, I couldn’t help but be struck by how eerily similar this whole farrago is to Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove , with a slight tweaking of point-of-view, and flipping of roles, in which America is Russia and Russia is America. In Kubrick’s masterpiece, American Brigadier General Jack D Ripper (Putin), has been driven insane with paranoia by the events of the Cold War. (In Putin’s case insanity and monomaniacal post-Cold War paranoia at a loss and diminution of his beloved Russia, as was USSR.) Ripper has become convinced that there is a plot by the ‘Commies’ (USA/NATO in Putin’s case) to ‘sap and contaminate our precious bodily fluids’. (In Putin’s case to sap and contaminate the minds of the Russians, and the idea of a Greater Russian Empire.) Ripper decides to take pre-emptive, first-strike unilateral action by striking the USSR. (Putin’s pre-emptive strike on Ukraine, and by extension the West in general.) The B-52s, under Ripper’s command, go in and hydrogen bomb the USSR. (Mercifully, Putin has not yet gone this far.) The US president along with his back-room staff attempt to stop the bombers from delivering their payload. (We can only pray Putin has back-room staff strong enough and prepared to step in if he tries to fulfill his nuclear threat.) Here’s the rub, however, the only way to stop the bombers in Dr Strangelove ,is a recall code which only Ripper knows. (We must pray, even the atheists/agnostics amongst us, that with Putin, it’s not only him that has access to the button.) The US government tries to capture Ripper to get the recall code from him, but Ripper gets away. (Will we be able to stop Putin?) The really scary kicker in Kubrick’s film, however, is that the Soviets have built a doomsday machine that will launch enough missiles to destroy all life on Earth if an American nuclear bomb hits them. (I’m pretty confident Putin’s enemies - us - won’t go this far.) Eventually, Ripper is overpowered, but shoots himself before the recall code can be given. (An inside job on Putin, perhaps, before he can incinerate the planet?) One man ignores the recall code and piles headlong towards Moscow. (A member of Putin’s inner team, perhaps?) He attempts to drop the bomb. (On Ukraine? On Europe? On America?) After some door-jamming black humour he opens the doors and rides down on the bomb. 💣 Moscow retaliates with horrifying consequences for the planet. (Surely the West won’t go this far.) Let’s hope that, in this case, life won’t imitate art.👀
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