How do we trust one another as nations? Essentially we hold each other at gunpoint with a bunch of nukes and hope the other doesn’t pull the trigger first. Dr. Strangelove’s satirical presentation of how our nation operated during the Cold War similarly reflects the tensions in the current political world. With world leaders dropping bombs and declaring attacks on other countries, we have to ask ourselves at what point is it too much.
We are already at the point where we could easily bring about mutual destruction, so why tempt fate and continue feeding the aggression between nations. I have expressed in the past my own fault for not taking enough time to read up on current events, but I hear enough to know that we need to find a more peaceful solution rather than rely on our nation’s arsenal to protect us from other nuclear powers. I hope that the time never comes that we need to use this power, and as seen by the movie Dr. Strangelove, it would not end well for any party. It really makes you wonder how far our trust would go with other countries if we weren’t worried about their hands being on the trigger.
I agree. I think it is vital that the United States does not get too caught up in the global cat and mouse game — and that our leaders do not focus too much on how to always put the interest of America before that of global equilibrium. I could see us being to focused on why everyone’s out to get us, and starting some global conflict where we would be the bad guys.
Personally, I think the main reason another world war hasn’t broken out is that it won’t be profitable enough to the military-industrial complex. The current arms race that has no foreseeable end is a much more reliable source of $$. It’s films like these that make me question how much power the populace truly has in directing the nation’s agenda. But most take the world as it is rather than how they would like it to be.