US Foreign Policy Is Emulating Dr. Strangelove

Across the globe, as the US empire digs its own grave trying to dominate every corner of the world, Kubrick’s 1964 film resonates throughout Washington.

I have seen Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War nuclear comedy film Dr. Strangelove more times than I can even remember. The film is perhaps the greatest representation of the Cold War mindset that exists inside the thought patterns of the American national security state. In the film, a rogue US Air Force general named Jack Ripper orders a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union on the basis of a lie that Moscow is poisoning the American water supply and has already launched a first strike that killed Ripper’s superior officers.