American filmmaker Oliver Stone explained in an interview for the Serbian daily Politika that the conflict in Ukraine was triggered by targeted actions by Washington, which resulted in Kyiv losing its neutral status towards Russia.
“I don’t want to go into the bigger story of what’s happening in Ukraine because the case isn’t easy and everyone is just screaming, ‘The Russians are attacking,'” he said, wondering who was really to blame. Landscape.
“What happened there in Donbass since 2014 and how many people were displaced there because the US heavily armed the Ukrainian army,” he said, adding that since then “Ukraine was no longer neutral, it was against the Russians.” . which “upsets the balance of military equipment and hence war comes”.
The renowned film director slammed Washington for rushing to condemn any country in the world that “crosses the line of international order” while “the US breaks the rules when it feels like it”. “You ask me about the case [Jamal] Khashoggi, that was cruel, but I think one of the worst cases is the case [Julian] Assange and his “murder”. […] So who are we to point the finger at anyone?”
America’s only “hope”
When asked about the current US government, the three-time Oscar winner regretted voting for Joe Biden. While the current president has always been “belligerent,” Stone hoped he would “mature” over the years. He also believes that Barack Obama’s picking of Biden as his running mate in 2008 to placate the “establishment” was “a huge mistake.”
“Grandpa has proven to be very dangerous and now he’s yelling, ‘Let’s kill the Russians, now’s our chance,'” he said, assuring that Biden “confuses Russia with Putin and thinks he’ll do it if he Putin gets rid of Control Russia as in the season of [el presidente Borís] Yeltsin. And that’s just a dream.”
In this context, the director of films like ‘Platoon’ or ‘JFK’ believes that the only “hope” for the US would be “the emergence of a third party” since both Republicans and Democrats “work and function the same way”. and invest the same money in the military industry”.