Support for the current thing wasn’t enough to trump fear of World War III as one Oscar-winning filmmaker expressed regret over his 2020 presidential pick: “I made a mistake.”
(Video: Russell Brand)
Foreign policy may have been a major selling point for then-candidate Joe Biden’s campaign against then-President Donald Trump, but his administration has overseen embarrassing failures and increased international tension.
Joining podcast host Russell Brand to discuss his new documentary “Nuclear Now,” director Oliver Stone became just the latest public figure to rip the hawks in Washington, D.C. for the “suicidal” game the president is leading with regard to the war in Ukraine.
“This is a potential World War III. This is the same situation as World War I, in a sense. The stupidity of it because of the alliances and the fears and the built-up phobias,” Stone said on “Stay Free” Friday after suggesting, “…we’re taking Russia to the edge now. We are really going to the edge. This is crazy what’s going on and nuts, it’s suicidal. We are gonna hurt ourselves in a big way.”
The filmmaker known for “JFK,” “Platoon” and a documentary about the United States government’s involvement in ousting Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 titled “Ukraine on Fire” explained how Biden has not behaved the way he had expected the presidency to go.
“If we don’t stop this, what Biden is doing, this guy is — I voted for him — I made a mistake, I was thinking he was an old man now that he would calm down, that he would be more mellow and so forth, I didn’t see that at all,” expressed the director. “I see a man who maybe is not in charge of his own administration. Who knows?”
Earlier in the week, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had also voiced concerns over the American government’s apparent disinterest in a peace deal as he pointed to Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s involvement with the 2014 crisis under then-President Barack Obama along with her current role.
According to Kennedy, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send only 40,000 troops to invade Ukraine was “not enough to conquer the country” and therefore an indication “he wanted somebody to come to the negotiating table.”
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Like Kennedy, Stone pointed to figures prominent in both the Biden and Obama administrations like National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Nuland, associating them with the “Neoconservative movement who started the war in Iraq.”
He further decried the media for ignoring the ethnic complexity of the conflict in Ukraine referring to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and “our allies” as “rabid anti-Russian people” opposed to ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine seeking autonomy.
“You have to look at the reasons for this war, and whenever you do, the Americans like to simplify and say it’s a question of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. That’s very simplistic and very black-and-white,” Stone told Brand.
However, as Kennedy had contended of then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson shutting down early talks for a peace deal after the initial invasion, Stone said America “…didn’t want the deal, they didn’t want the peace treaty. They don’t want to give autonomy to Donetsk and Lugansk. Now look where we are. It’s gotten worse, and it’s going to get worse.”
The regretful Biden voter had also said that despite the narrative, “…it seems that he’s dragging us stupidly into a confrontation with a power that is not going to give. This is their borders. This is their world. This is NATO going into Ukraine. This is a whole other story.”
The director’s entire discussion with Brand can be viewed here:
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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