Calamity after calamity

Eleanora 2021-12-23 08:01:18

Although the textbooks and the teachers in the class will elaborate on the whole process of the Cuban missile crisis, when it was made into a movie of more than two hours, it still gave people a sense of tension and shock, and it also made me feel this history more. The dramatic and fierce political struggle contained in the incident. The actors played well, and I was surprised to find that Rex and the priest in "Desperate Housewives" also appeared, and Rex also played a very important role. I was a little uncomfortable watching it all at once.
As far as the crisis itself is concerned, there are many things worth thinking about. If you can list a lot in terms of political strategy, many terms such as chick game, crisis management, double-layer game and so on flashed in my mind when I watched the movie; but the most touching, it can also be said to be an eternal theme. The issue remains the issue of war and peace.
In fact, I believe that in today's world, most people are opposed to war, but blindly avoiding war does not mean the arrival of peace. As mentioned at the end of the film: What we want is not temporary peace, but permanent peace. Human history has witnessed too many killings, but since the emergence of nuclear weapons as a self-destructive weapon, most leaders of war countries have adopted a more cautious attitude, because once a nuclear war breaks out, what is coming is neither zero-sum. , And it is not a win-win situation. From this perspective, nuclear weapons can be regarded as a kind of blessing in disguise.
But I still feel that as long as nuclear weapons exist on this earth, mankind will always hang a sword of Damocles: some countries will still develop nuclear weapons for their own reliable security (using the so-called international morality). It is unrealistic to persuade sovereign states to abandon the development of nuclear weapons), and apart from what we generally think of as "rational actors"—states—the possibility of terrorism and sub-state groups getting nuclear weapons is increasing, so from this From a perspective, the nuclear threats we face in the international security environment are increasing.
But when it comes to nuclear weapons, I think of Japan’s nuclear leak, and I’m really afraid that the world doesn’t really need a nuclear war to wipe out mankind. A “peaceful” nuclear power plant is enough to bring devastating consequences.

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Extended Reading
  • Myrtice 2021-12-23 08:01:18

    Finally returned to Lhasa, a world with wifi. This movie was watched a few days ago when I couldn’t sleep and got up early and waited for the sunrise at Mount Everest Base Camp. I think this must be the highest movie-watching experience.

  • Jeromy 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    Some people hope that war will break out, some people hope that there will be eternal peace, all kinds of tricks, all kinds of negotiations, all kinds of consultations, all kinds of temptations. I gained knowledge and learned something that I didn't know before.

Thirteen Days quotes

  • Kenny O'Donnell: The point is, you trade our missiles in Turkey for theirs in Cuba, they're gonna force us into trade after trade, until finally, a couple of months from now they demand something we won't trade, like Berlin, and we do end up in a war. Not to mention that long before that happens this administration will be politically dead.

    Robert Kennedy: I don't care if this administration ends up in the freaking toilet! We don't do a deal tonight there won't be any administration.

  • Dean Acheson: Gentlemen, for the last fifteen years, I've fought at this table alongside your predecessors in the struggle against the Soviet. Now I do not wish to seem melodramatic, but I do wish to impress upon you a lesson I learned with bitter tears and great sacrifice. The Soviet understands only one language: action. Respects only one word: force.