On the Beach (1959). We're all doomed

NATO is massing troops on the Russian border. American voters elected Trump who promised to improve relations with Russia, but that was a lie like everything else he said. Clinton lost in large part because her one and only campaign promise was to bring the US into direct warfare with Russia.

There was the movie On the Beach (1959), Stanley Kramer's big budget post nuclear holocaust movie, with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Tony Perkins, Fred Astaire. Nuclear war has destroyed the Northern Hemisphere. A radioactive cloud is spreading over the Earth. In Australia, people wait for it to reach them. The government distributes suicide pills.

At one point, there's an auto race. The drivers know they're doomed anyway and there's one wreck after another. The winner is the one driver who managed to survive. He takes a victory lap. The track is empty except for wrecked cars.

And now we have a country run by people, both Republicans and Democrats, who are actually pushing for World War Three. They know that global warming will kill us all. Climate change is happening faster than we thought. Donald Trump denies it but he's building walls around his golf courses to guard against rising sea levels. Maybe they think nuclear winter will solve the global warming problem, or they want to die on their own terms and take the rest of the world with them.