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Re:Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting p... by redis_mlc on Sunday June 06, 2021 @10:31PM (#27418394)
If you want to learn more, just watch the movie Dr. Strangelove. It was marketed as a comedy, but people in the know consider it to be non-fiction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

General MacArthur was dismissed during the Korean War because the White House weren't sure if he was going to use nukes or not (like the movie.) The policy was that the US was ready (bombers with nukes were positioned in Japan), but President Truman wanted to give final advance approval to commanders, yet MacArthur was issuing his own policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur

(It turns out that MacArthur was right about basically everything he ever said, and continued to advise Presidents.)

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Re:Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting p... by HotHotLava on Monday June 07, 2021 @03:21AM (#27419944)
Dr. Strangelove ends in a total nuclear war with humanity retreating to underground bunkers, so surely some of it must have been fictional.
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Re:Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting p... by RobertoG on Monday June 07, 2021 @08:20AM (#27421670)
Not exactly, it finish with the guys that started the war (not humanity en masse) retreating to underground bunkers with an harem. Sounds pretty realistic to me.
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Re:Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting p... by maybelsyrup on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:32AM (#27420972)
Eh, so far.
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Re:Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting p... by DaedPsyker on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:37AM (#27420672)
It was based on a non comedy book, ‘Red alert’. There is another film from the time as well , same premise, ‘fail safe’ that is also a serious take on it.
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Re:Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting p... by smhost on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:56AM (#27419808)
makes me wonder what Rhee knew. for those of you who don't know, he was trained by americans and later smuggled out of the u.s. by someone high up in the army. he then received dictatorship of southern korea from the u.s. army, then went on to kill several hundred thousand political prisoners.
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