Posted by Jan den Breejen on September 20, 2000 at 03:36:03:
World War III (Discovery Channel Documentary) & the Dr. Strangelove movie
You probably know allready this movie
DR. STRANGELOVE
-General Ripper, in Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, seals off his high security defense bunker, overrides the authority of congress and the president, and opens fire on his own troops. He does this so that he can initiate a "Code Red" which, in effect, means he has authorized the annihilation of the planet Earth. No one can be trusted, including men that are wearing the same uniform and saluting the same flag. He believes the Russians are responsible for fluoridation, an insidious Commie plot to contaminate the red-blooded American water supply. General Ripper cannot allow this conspiracy to sap all of our precious bodily fluids. This is why he will only drink grain alcohol and rain water, and why he must eschew the culmination of the sexual act with women so as not be drained of his essence.
Of course general Ripper is a Paranoid Disordered character.Now there is a pendant with regard to the crisis regarding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.:
WORLD WAR III
This 'semi fictional' documentary is made in a clever way; at first -when you put on your tv set and the documentary has started - you think you look at a regular Discovery Channel documentary since it's made according to the same format. Then you think 'hey this isn't the way things did go?' and your suspicion towards the authenticity of the main characters (the CIA man, the German general - both are Narcissistic characters) is immediately activated.General Ripper's character we now find in Russian super general Susjkin whose main disorder paranoia is combined with narcissism (he claims to have been with the group of Russian soldiers who put their flag on the Reichstag building in WWII.) Susjkin has made career by being good and fanatic at putting down the several uprisings against Soviet power in the Eastern Block countries. He has power over the Eastern European sphere of power of the Russians and when in Berlin things get out of control and mercury's rising he takes a 'preventive' action: putting a demarcation line in the North Sea in order to prevent American supply ships coming to Europe. The American military ships pass the line, are shot down by Soviet submarines who in return are sunk by the American navy. Then Susjkin's paranoia becomes outright madness; exploding an atom bomb as a deterrent show of force; since his communication and radar system is destroyed and has become unreliable and so he doesn't know what the Americans are up to. The American missile defence system gives the president no time to think and here we have armagedon! The story is more complicated but based on much real life information. Things can spiral out of control more easy than most people wanna know….
By the way: Paranoid political and military characters are the ones most responsible for mass suffering: think of Stalin, Hitler….Perhaps its a good thing that Putin is a Narcissistic leader and not a paranoid.
Jan