Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - Novo: novo.co/lex - Blinkist: blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off premium - SimpliSafe: simplisafe.com/lex and use code LEX - ExpressVPN: expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free - NetSuite: netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour 2:54 - Nuclear power 15:52 - Russia and US relations 21:07 - JFK and the Cold War 26:24 - Interviewing Putin 50:02 - Invasion of Ukraine 59:20 - Why Putin invaded Ukraine 1:13:44 - Propaganda 1:21:02 - Interviewing Putin in 2022 1:28:17 - Nuclear war 1:34:28 - Advice on interviewing 1:38:09 - Interviewing Hitler 1:41:30 - Putin interview language barrier 1:42:41 - Love 1:44:36 - Advice to young people 1:47:42 - Mortality 1:48:44 - Regrets 1:50:41 - Meaning of life

@kyleking9417

Жыл бұрын

Have a good week Lex !

@Dronescapes

Жыл бұрын

Great interview ♥️♥️♥️

@shakebraza196

Жыл бұрын

Why don't you talk about ISRAELI OCCUPATION SIR. IF RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE , WHY DON'T PEOPLE OF USA OPPOSE ISRAELI OCCUPATION ? Hypocrisy is the word for this phenomenal support of Usa Government.

@MrKeithkerr

Жыл бұрын

@@shakebraza196 that's one point of view...everyone has their opinion

@Dronescapes

Жыл бұрын

@@shakebraza196 Perhaps he does not have all the time to talk about everything that everyone cares about, or perhaps his guests are talking about certain topics, given the limited time they have. Oliver Stone could talk about multiple topics, they just have to choose what is interesting to him and current. I think that a 1000 interviews could be made just with the topic you are referring to. Blaming an interviewer for not choosing what you want to talk about, perhaps, not the right way...By the way, this can lead to WW 3, so it is a strong topic, perhaps stronger than others, although other topics might still be very interesting.

“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.” - Edward Snowden

@synystera

Жыл бұрын

@@greg5023 should they have stayed and be prosecuted by criminals?

@bryansmith5578

Жыл бұрын

Snowden is hiding out in Moscow and is awfully quiet in the face of Russia's war crimes against the Ukrainians. His silence speaks volumes.

@iviciaable

Жыл бұрын

@@shafferd90 you and many others are mixing the terms a bit between War, Invasion, Special Operation, especially and deliberately in Western MSM media, it is the similar situation with mixing terms, when in Christianity for example, especially in the West, Jesus is God, and Jesus itself said he is "son of God" 😀 War=when two or more countries are shooting at each other for prolonged period of time, no matter if its a Full Invasion or Special Operation or whatsoever, so this in Ukraine is War between Russia and Ukraine (and proxy War between Russia and US/UK but thats another subject) however its not an Invasion, it is a Operation and that is as clear as a day. Invasion = when one country officially declares a war against other country or countries, and uses maximum available forces to destroy and fully invade that country, Operation (special or you name it) = War is not declared by the attacking Country against the attacked one, attacking country uses limited resources in order to achieve only specific goals without fully invading some country. For example, war between US and Vietnam during majority of time was more Special Operation than Full Invasion, War against Serbia in 99 was also a Operation and not a full invasion, War in Libya was a Operation and not an Invasion, War against Iraq on the other hand in 2003 was a full Invasion as there was no special objectives but total defeat and destruction of Iraq (aside the weapons of mass destruction 😉) and they succeeded I believe - 1milion deaths, mostly civilians unfortunately but it is what it is, WW2 of course was not an Operation of any kind, it was Germany, Japan and etc. Invasion on various countries across the globe. So practically its not correct that when those specific journalist in Russia say in public media that Russian actions in Ukraine are not a "War" but not a "Special Operation" which is an official statement and strategy of the country officials, those journalists are practically being hostile against its own country or are considered as such, especially in this kind of "be or not to be" situation Russia is. So War is always War, but there is a big difference between Invasion and Special Operation.

@theamericandream5917

Жыл бұрын

@@shafferd90 exposing American war crimes is apparently a crime in America as well, punishable by death.

@davidminnesota4050

Жыл бұрын

Edward is in Moscow now and yet I don't hear him speaking out about Russian State crime. He is trapped and every day his outrage at the USA data gathering is losing it's inertia, big whoop. Now his real fear is Putin. He's a smart guy and he probably wonders if his Russian girlfriend is a plant and why does it all have to be so ironic. Edward is hollow - full stop.

"A healthy democracy will take criticism and shrug it off." So true.

@dangdoldangdol9568

Жыл бұрын

@Al Coholic that's how it's shrugged off.

@dangdoldangdol9568

Жыл бұрын

That's how it's shrugged off

@maxawood

Жыл бұрын

@@dangdoldangdol9568 So who gets to measure “healthy and educate?”

@isorokudono

Жыл бұрын

Someone needs to read Plato's Republic. democracy is MOB RULE. You don't want to live in a democracy.

@Five2nd

Жыл бұрын

Yeah so true. Too bad Stone’s idol Putin kills anyone who criticizes him.

Years ago, Mr. Stone sat next to me at a TED conference. I was thinking holy sh*t that's Oliver Stone. I was thinking about what I might say to him and he just starting commenting to me about the speaker on the stage, and we just had this cool friends sitting next to each kind of conversation. I'll never forget that. Probably the most real person I met in my years of going to the early TED conferences.

There are those in this world who purposefully shoulder more responsibility on their shoulders for the benefit of humanity and I put Oliver Stone in the top rank. Thank you for all of your dedication.

@Joanne-vr4zu

2 ай бұрын

Correct analysis

@Bangwax

Ай бұрын

All of stone is a propagandist, unfortunately. Brilliant movie maker. But total scumbag after re-watching this year and a half later. Total scumbag full of either lies or false beliefs. Is rather amazing.

Now that you have interviewed Oliver Stone, and with the views he has, it would be good and fair to interview Gary Kasparov, as he has the opposite view and he is Russian.

@AndyMiron

Жыл бұрын

He isn’t Russian he is one of those ethnic Jews who is anything at all but not Russian, as anti-Russian as it can be in fact..

@benl9047

Жыл бұрын

That would be amazing! I love Kasparov

@verlith30

Жыл бұрын

Kasparov is actually Azeri/Armenian which was part of the soviet union

@nikolaishmelev7837

Жыл бұрын

Gary Kasparov is not Russian.

@alexanderpapadopoulos2383

Жыл бұрын

he already did

As a someone who lives in Ukraine right now ( two last days city`s been shelled) I struggle with the urge to give in to my emotions and just let Oliver have it ( You really stop listening to geopolitical littanies after months of war). Before the February 24th , I was and still consider Mr. Stone a brilliant filmmaker, I`ve seen about dozen of his movies which I enjoyed to different extends. I do agree with his notions on how US has operated in the world since the WW2, however I tend to notice that Oliver is in a sense oblivious to the facts of similar deeds on the USSR side and of course on the Russian side. Russia has created grey zones during the Putin administration ( internationally unrecognized states) around its borders: Transnistria,PRD,PRL,Crimea,Abkhazia,Ossetia,Nagorno-Karabakh.And it seems to me that he assumed that the 72 hour operation of taking over Ukraine by coup d`etat would be yet again completely justifiable. He conveniantly criticizes EU propaganda and omits the fact that in Russia any independent media outlet was closed (( Dozhd,Meduza, Echo of Moscow (were kicked out of their office after 32 years of work) , Novaya Gazeta with Nobel Peace prize winner chief-editor Dmitry Muratov, Nevzorov was persecuted out of country) The ridiculous idea that Ukraine would somehow attack Donbas with 120 000 troops whith 230 000 Russian troops at its borders is out of this world. Stone himself said that Ukrainian forces were amassed there in response to the Russian build up. And another question is: with what? Bayraktar and Javelin ?Our president has spent the last three months asking from the very basic sorts of millitary equipment to tanks and artillery. We litteraly had a bunch of old Soviet tanks , modern drones and NLAWs. And against us were the army with Iscanders, missile cruisers , supersonic missiles etc. If we WERE to attack than why just don`t let us do it and make culprits of ourselves and retaliate? There would be a much less public support to the Ukrainian aggressors if we were ones. What`s infuriating to me is Mr. Stones sentiment about how Russia cares about the Russian speaking population in the Donbass region. You can find Nataliya Zubarevich( Professor at the Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University) about how Russia cares about the people who already are its citizens. To believe that Russia cares about Ukrainian Russian-speaking citizens is the same as to believe that the US cared about Afghanis or Iraqis . The mere fact that after three months of war Mr. Oliver hasn`t bothered to read about Ukraine-Russia relations is appaling, I`ve listened to many of his interviews before and can confidently say that his perspective wasn`t altered or upgraded at all. So how do you expect me to change my views, which believe me, have changed dramatically, if you don`t even care to get a more deep understanding of the topic? Thank You for reading this and please let me know what`s your opinion on this.

@AndyMiron

Жыл бұрын

After you’re naming Medusa an “independent media” I could proceed reading this bullshit… I know personally these ppl, met them I live in riga as they do!

@edwinurey4927

Жыл бұрын

You're so right. Deeply dissapointed.

@darthsebio1726

Жыл бұрын

Respect that you can reflect intellectually...I’m 45 min in this interview and need a break from this Putin fan club...

@SnakeHelah

Жыл бұрын

Well said! I am not even Ukrainian and it was appalling even to me how much excusing he is doing to Russian Imperialism altogether, all the while, criticizing the US for the very same thing...? If you're looking at both sides, why not criticize both sides of the imperialism coin? And then somehow drawing loose parallels, that it is in fact, US imperialism that is somehow responsible for Russian imperialism? Absolutely laughable. The interview is good, and I'm glad Lex did it, but all in all, if I was Lex I would have challenged him more and pressed him to explain his positions and exactly what he means and why he means as he does. It just feels he's insensitive to all the people who were oppressed and suffered under USSR/Russian imperialism. The topic is UKRAINE invasion. Not Iraq etc invasions???? Seriously...

@xMartyZz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment and I hope you are, and will continue to be, alright despite the shelling. Knowing that Oliver Stone is most likely a smart man, due to his amazing films, many of which I adore to death, one must wonder what the reasons behind him peddling Kremlin propaganda could be.

One of the rare free- thinking people in this chaotic world- Oliver Stone! Great respect to you, sir! 🙏❤️

@XerxesGammon200

Ай бұрын

Stone is a charlatan

@vknfriendly

19 күн бұрын

@@XerxesGammon200 A charlatan because the government told you so in their media? Don't smoke propaganda, think with your head, not your ass.

Would love to hear a conversation between RFK & Oliver Stone

@mariekuijkenhistoricallyaw2598

5 ай бұрын

sure, me too! they actually know each other, and live close to one another

@greg.peepeeface

4 ай бұрын

That's a good one.....make it happen Lex

@henryelectronics

2 ай бұрын

Oh god please no

Take note, this is how you interview a guest. You actually let them speak and let them finish their thoughts. Excellent work Lex. A+++

@uncannyvalley2350

Жыл бұрын

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@911Kongen

Жыл бұрын

Let them speak, but ask hard questions that show you have understood the situation yourself and not just a bullhorn for the extreme.

@dagjohansen8641

Жыл бұрын

So just let people lie?

@dennisrodman8997

Жыл бұрын

@@dagjohansen8641 whats he lieing about

@911Kongen

Жыл бұрын

@@dennisrodman8997 It is easier if you just tell us all what Stone is saying that is a proven truth.

"The real President is the one in control of the teleprompter."

@priyeshpandey1076

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@ssuwandi3240

Жыл бұрын

Yup. Elon's "Anchorman"

@SPDATA1

Жыл бұрын

Biden loves his teleprompter... too much.🤣

@puffdaddy69

Жыл бұрын

Speech writers are trash too

@BUSI_88

Жыл бұрын

If your going to quote someone you should write the person's name from who your quoting below the quote. In this case your quote is from Elon Musk.

Platoon was such a great war movie, me and my dad, watched it probably 100 times together

@beausie-woesieherewegoesie2548

5 ай бұрын

If Dad is still alive, watch MERRILL'S MARAUDERS, BIG RED ONE, THE STEEL HELMET, and FIXED BAYONETS together.

@d3maccus

5 ай бұрын

@@beausie-woesieherewegoesie2548 no

@wimgrundyearth5753

4 ай бұрын

So sorry. I miss my dad too.​@d3maccus

@TheAudinator

3 ай бұрын

Russia during Gorbachev - peaceful relationship, peace dividend, Russia had sovereignty. Then he says US is denying Russia sovereignty when Putin is in charge. Problematic. Stone is on an island .

@user-mr3ny8om4b

3 ай бұрын

I miss my papa

Would be very interesting to repeat this interview with Oliver Stone, 2 years into the Ukraine war and find out if any of his views have changed since

@redmed10

21 күн бұрын

Wouldnt think so.

I love the way you let OS speak. I fundamentally disagree with his position, but it is good to hear him articulate it without opposition or interruption. You see more of the man this way. Well done.

@jelkeaco88

Жыл бұрын

Can you please point out with what you disagree and why. Thank you...

@jameshayes9932

11 ай бұрын

You don't believe Ukraine is full of Nazis... and they attacked the Donbass for 8 years before the invasion.

@daniellarsson2106

11 ай бұрын

Yeah. Please explain why you disagree with he's way of seeing things

@cablebrain9691

11 ай бұрын

I also disagree with much that Mr. Stone espouses, but I found the interview interesting. He doesn’t acknowledge that Communism is, at its core, a system that creates a society of servitude. Compare that with the founding principals of the US, which fundamentally gives each individual the right to choose his/her own path, to prosper, or not. Stone seems to gives less governmentally-moral countries a pass, but doesn’t do so for his own. He has always made his living off of pointing-out what he believes to be the flaws of America. I also think that he mischaracterizes Putin, as if he were someone to admire. In reality, I believe that Putin is a cold-blooded killer. Just ask the great majority of Ukrainians.

@neiljamessloan

11 ай бұрын

I feel that Mr Stone has an unbound capacity for introspection and that that is worthy and admirable - to better understand the need to express humanity at every juncture.

The fact that he's not interrupting is just awesome as fk

@SerbanTV

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate Lex for that!

@jackieann5494

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@tinfoilhatter

Жыл бұрын

yeah, does he usually interrupt his guests then? because i don't appreciate that sort of so-called-journalism or info-tainment, haha...unless it's alex jones, that is:: alex doesn't need guests unless they're superduper powerful, and that happens fairly seldom... owen shroyer's apparently taken over now, which is a bit of a drag, tho he's good, he's no-alex-jones, but nobody is, man...

@tinfoilhatter

Жыл бұрын

@@jackieann5494 well dang, jackie: {sorry, i say that to almost everyone, and they never appreciate it, ha ha, isn't that funny?}

@tinfoilhatter

Жыл бұрын

@@SerbanTV i guess i don't get it tho: why would we expect him to be interruptin' folks: even lex luthor, had really good manners, y'know? oh, hey: i might ask, if you don't mind, do they not behave so well, then, in hell? {dang, jackie, ha ha}

The best way to know one's position is to shut up and listen. Thank you for not interrupting him.

Ollie and I are both University dropout Vietnam Combat Infantry veterans. I love and pray for my brother.

--- TimeStamps --- 00:00 - Introduction 02:54 - Nuclear power 15:52 - Russia and US relations 21:07 - JFK and the Cold War 26:24 - Interviewing Putin 50:02 - Invasion of Ukraine 59:20 - Why Putin invaded Ukraine 1:13:44 - Propaganda 1:21:02 - Interviewing Putin in 2022 1:28:17 - Nuclear war 1:34:28 - Advice on interviewing 1:38:09 - Interviewing Hitler 1:41:30 - Putin interview language barrier 1:42:41 - Love 1:44:36 - Advice to young people 1:47:42 - Mortality 1:48:44 - Regrets 1:50:41 - Meaning of life

@nsik2785

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@MotivationClipsChannel

Жыл бұрын

Timestamps were available since the upload

@mcnally211

Жыл бұрын

Nice job. Ty. You should send this to the Duran email & maybe they can implement you're handy work. 💁‍♂️🍻

@evetree1

Жыл бұрын

and 31.45

@margaretcaine4219

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

It’s refreshing to see an interviewer allowing Oliver Stone to talk without interrupting, I just discovered this guy I subscribed it.

@pumahuhu365

Жыл бұрын

it is nice to let ppl talk, however it would be great to confront ppl with truth and Stone obviously is not able to understand the problems in their complexity and thinks that there is a easy solution for everything, but imperialistic US government holds everything back. Good as cult religion but obviously far from reality.

@vladimirthenailer2035

Жыл бұрын

@@pumahuhu365, the only reason Oliver stone sees Putin that way it’s because he always gets the blame in the west, Putin move in Ukraine is purely defensive you need to know what happened 4 months before Russia moved to Ukraine.

@brunox3042

Жыл бұрын

Interview would have been more interesting with some tough questions and rebuttals. He basically brought him on to spew Russian propaganda. Pretty much nothing Oliver said was news. This is what you will hear in Russian State TV. He is just parroting most of it. Funny he has such a problem with propaganda and corruption, but not on the Russian side. Completely dishonest individual.

@vladimirthenailer2035

Жыл бұрын

He started one thing that is important about Putin and if you pay close attention to Putin you will see Oliver Stone is right he said Putin always comes with fact contrary to what we have in the west.

@TheNoxmage

Жыл бұрын

@@vladimirthenailer2035 In Russia we feel a world a little bit different. i dont know why it leads to war with europe every 100 years LUL

I would be very pleased if mr Stone interviewed regular people in Ukraine.

@tenk548

8 ай бұрын

He would love to do that but he was banned by their government

@AnthonyBlamthony

6 ай бұрын

No, he wouldn’t because I would require him to get both sides of a story, men like this, or not interested in that they’re only interested in reinforcing their own bias believe.

@birdofprey108

6 ай бұрын

putin puppet doesn't like to face reality

@ddal3998

6 ай бұрын

@@AnthonyBlamthony I don't think you're right here. Mr Stone has very specific view on the American government and politics in general. He has a bit of communists views as far as I can tell. In fact, communism is not a bad thing at all, it is, however, very prone to corruption and dictatorship. That is why he took interviews of several dictators. But what I think he doesn't realize is that these dictators are extremely charismatic and persuasive. In combination, these 2 qualities can make you believe that a cow is a rat.

@jamesbaker3153

5 ай бұрын

​@@ddal3998You just poorly explained why the person you were responding to was right.

Mister Stone you are a leading filmmaker in Hollywood. Full of humanity.

While our view of Putin may not be anywhere near as complimentary as Mr Stone's, he speaks from his experience of meeting and spending time interviewing him. I also don't necessarily share his views and perspective in some things, he gives a very open and honest perspective. I really like Lex's way of allowing his guests to express and explain their views freely in a non-combative and belligerent way. A lot of people in the comments prefer the aggressive and critical approach, debates and arguments but this is a very refreshing approach to hearing different views and perspectives and allowing listeners to form their own views. Thank you, Lex. Strength to you and your work.

@lanija19

8 ай бұрын

What has shaped your views on Putin? What Putin himself says and does, or what the Western media say about him and how do they "interpret" what he said?

@kevindeklerk7401

8 ай бұрын

@@lanija19 On Putin or anyone - it is what they do. There may be some truth in his accusations of NATO expansion but Eastern European countries have chosen to join NATO because of his aggression. He invaded Ukraine and is the aggressor. In human history there has been no other person that has threatened human existence as he has. Western countries like the US have blood on their hands but he has threaten use of nuclear weapons which has always been a deterrent and assured mutual and global destruction. If Putin were to launch a nuclear attack even a so-called tactical use, that would be suicide and if it resulted in mass extinction - he will become the most infamous human that ever lived. I really don't have much regard for any form of media. There is a very thin line between what we have called media and social media. There is such a radical polarization of views, we have lost the moderate and logical center and the fringe of lies and conspiracy theories is now the air people breathe. Earth is not flat and there is no flat political spectrum, it is a sphere - you go far enough left or right and you end up in the same place and most people left and right are on the dark side of that political moon.

@TheSteinbitt

7 ай бұрын

@@lanija19 perhaps the fact that he invaded Ukraine and killed tens of thousands of people?

@lanija19

7 ай бұрын

@@TheSteinbitt It is the Kiev regime that had killed more than ten thousand civilians in Donbass before Russia intervened. The war there started in 2014.

@TheSteinbitt

7 ай бұрын

@@lanija19 Russia “intervened” in both Donbas and krimea with their “little green men” annexing krimea and creating a rebellion and separatist movement in Donbas. What would Russia have done if Ukraine started helping opposition “liberate” Kaliningrad? Stood by idle? Lol

"Censorship is a way of life when democracies also feel threatened. They're much more fragile than they pretend to be. A healthy democracy will take all the criticism in the world and shrug it off. And say okay that's what's good about our country." That's a good point. Whether you agree with his opinions or not.

@burn435353

Жыл бұрын

The US and other Democracies are criticized ad nauseum, I have no idea what Stone is on about here.

@rdalge

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t it funny how dictators can be so honest and gentle with a star film maker and yet have jails filled with political prisoners and dissidents?

@amisgohome

Жыл бұрын

You mean like Assange?

@pancake6685

Жыл бұрын

in belgium they censored Russia Insight, Russia Today, and a lot of people support censorship.

@gracialonignasiver6302

Жыл бұрын

@@rdalge And what do you think the Democratic Party tried to do to Trump? Just because they failed doesn't make them different from any autocracy or dictatorship.

I started listening to this interview thinking I would have to cut off at some point and attend to some chores - but kudos to both of you. Oliver Stone is a gem of a person. May there be more people like him in the West.

@techniciansinc6048

10 ай бұрын

Yup. Same thing with me

@IsntTheInternetGreat

9 ай бұрын

Great director, blatant putinphile and propagandist.

@alexanderwelch9009

8 ай бұрын

Except for him praising Putin, which is a complete load of shit.

This man embodies wisdom and intelligence . Great American

There is more value in a 10 minute clip from Lex interviews than the average person will gain from watching MSM for a year.

@thomaschan8205

Жыл бұрын

LOL!

@GS-kj6ur

Жыл бұрын

1 minute clip will get you a lifetime of fox news

@astralisranger517

Жыл бұрын

It's depressing how often "stop mindlessly accepting everything the MSM tells you" becomes "start mindlessly accepting everything this alternative media source tells you".

@zneusenrunus7395

Жыл бұрын

When you redirect the humid CO2 rich exhaust from burning methane gas… into a greenhouse growing facility… everything starts to grow exponentially faster. And methane gas can be eternally produced by organic waste and your own 💩 and of the mix. So seriously 😐 how fake is the premise for this interveiw? Even in the movies he is claimed to be a controlled opposition (tjeck mil gibsons resume fx) All methane gas (that is produced whether you want it or not from your leftovers/garbage of Living (organically)) when burned is reduced to 1/10th of the “greenhouse effect) .. and on low ground (not airplanes fx) it’s absorbed quickly by plants 🌱 growing directly from it. Burning methane to run electricity generators can run the DeFi crypto verse and if you like… like all the flares from excess harvesting natural gas on the oceans asf.. can drive hydrolysis and produce hydrogen fuel og the leftovers. It’s the biggest curse in human history to repeat the fallacy that methane is bad! Serious WAKE UP ⬆️.. it’s our biggest back into the cycle of organic life that we got. The more methane burned and exhaust to plants and mushrooms the more and bigger fruits and edibles you’ll get. Unfortunately my IP address is known by the system.., and probably almost no one will even receive to read this. So where does that leave you… if You do? Remember no organic life can exist without CO2. It’s the fundamental building block for all plants 🌱 🌳 and what you eat 🍎 🌰

@joeharvie8362

Жыл бұрын

Well said. Great voice for a podcast. Great interviewer . A pleasure to listen and learn.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever." George Orwell

@kelvinlewis3947

Жыл бұрын

That's a sick quote. Depressing though haha

@theotheo7241

Жыл бұрын

Oliver Stone blaming neoconservatives for the war in Ukraine and other USA war "operations" around the world is laughable; as if is wasn't Joe Biden signing for the $40 billions to go to Ukraine, as if is not Pelosi and the company pushing for this war, as if the Democrats are no running the USA right now, as if it wasn't Obama and Hillary waging some of the wars in the Middle East and Libya . And what is wrong with Oliver Stone ? How nuts can he be , voting for the demented Biden? He did not see that Biden was senile? Trump has not gotten in any war but Biden is going to take USA to war with China , next.

@HD-ud1dy

Жыл бұрын

@@kelvinlewis3947 Emotional discharge you have.

@jameshodgkins559

Жыл бұрын

From The Ministry of Truth War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength - George Orwell 1984

@honesty3440

Жыл бұрын

@@kelvinlewis3947 Yes, depressing but true.

Please get Professor Stephen Kotkin together with Oliver Stone for a conversation. Mr. Stone would embarrass himself, as he is in this meeting with Lex Fridman.

@adb007........2

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

Wait.. did I hear that properly? Did he say that Poland kept attacking Russia?

@loddiecamomileparrot

22 күн бұрын

Peddling Russian propaganda

No wonder that Vladimir Lenin was calling this type of people "useful idiots". I think if he had had a chance to talk to Vladimir Bukovskyi, maybe he might be able to see a little better that kind of "honest man". It is amazing how even smart people are happy to see what they hope to be the truth....

@DuhCrnihBrda

Жыл бұрын

I am shocked by his lies and excuses. Besides, nothing, absolutely nothing that Oliver said about Donbass is true. He only quotes Russian propaganda as if it was programmed. On the contrary, Ukrainians in Donbas, where they are in the majority, have been discriminated against, killed and raped since 2014. Also, the number of dead he mentions is the number of soldiers killed on both sides in that conflict since 2014.

@vinkywink

Жыл бұрын

He was the creator of Ukraine, he took a part of land which was called " Kievan Rus' " to create Ukraine, in that process he has killed the whole Russian royal family Romanov including their six children , burned and looted more than 1000 of churches and killed 11 millions of people, that is how Ukraine was created.

@oslickbarn3077

Жыл бұрын

@@vinkywink Lenin did NOT create Ukraine. That is Putin lies. And Ukraine as a name for that region existed from at least around 16th century, way before Russia existed as "Russia".

@vinkywink

Жыл бұрын

@@oslickbarn3077 You should read about Romanov family, Kieven Rus and etc and please enlight me in which document before 1922. Ukraine was mentioned as independent state and not as part of imperial Russia.

@Overlord734

Жыл бұрын

@@vinkywink In Fourth Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council, for example.

Stone: "Poland has always been attacking Russia as far as I remember back to another century I mean the two world wars that occupied Russia".. interesting lol

@anotherfreeroller

Жыл бұрын

Yup, that's how that all went down. Poland attacking Russia. Definitely.

@Danno971

Жыл бұрын

There is ‘something’ wrong with Stone

@kenboyd2779

Жыл бұрын

Oliver “ Stoned” is how Gerald R. Ford viewed him, I tend to agree.

@Vardeth805

Жыл бұрын

I found this statement confusing as well. He clearly had a warped view of world history. He must have forgotten how many times Poland has been invaded and occupied in just last couple centuries.

@mks6674

Жыл бұрын

It's true they were constantly in war. He meant the Lithuania Poland commonwealth up to 19 century, Poland and Russia were 2 powerhouses in those times in Europe. There were many clashes, especially in 1609 and 1792.

I have great respect for Stone andhave followed much of his work. In fact, I have great appreciation for Oliver Stone's political analysis. However, Stone is sadly mistaken on Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine. This interviewer is Outstanding ❤

Stockholmsyndrome comes to mind when i listen to this.

I never felt inclined to and never bothered leaving any comments at anything anywhere, however I've only just discovered Lex Fridman. Aside from his guests' personal views and opinions, I'm very impressed with his interviewing skills. The angle from which he drives the conversation, his manner and tone when asking his questions. It is always respectful and curious which in the end always translates to very insightful conversations. Great job.

@Brave_New_Tube

Жыл бұрын

He gives me market researcher vibes, except he gets to ask questions about genuinely interesting things and have more of a real insightful conversation as opposed to having to rush through certain talking points.

@AvengerIl

Жыл бұрын

Apart from letting Roger Stoned uninterruptedly give a warped Putin centric view of the world, sometimes even when letting people speak you should call them out, it's healthy.. But Lex himself seems biased towards Russia anyway so maybe he just quietly completely agrees with this whacko.

@paulineprice9534

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree with you. Lex Fridman was as mesmerising as Oliver Stone. I will certainly follow Lex from now on.

@AvengerIl

Жыл бұрын

Very hypnotic those two toads... Wonder if theyre on LSD

@rustalisin8950

Жыл бұрын

Russia takes $720,000,000 / day from EU for gas supply There is no other choice but nuclear, to stay competitive, which means most advanced. No future as a world leader without nuclear, unless u own all the oil.. Ukraine is target for oil / gas reserves, easily dominating EU delivery once on line. Methane may be catalytically converted to H, is a preferred fuel in SpaceX rocket launch, who exactly is in control of US ..those same who led all wars.. Ballot box ? Ha

All countries are sovereign in Oliver Stone's eyes. But some countries are more sovereign than others.

@Meloncholymadness

Жыл бұрын

What makes you say that?

@yuzhonglu

Жыл бұрын

@@Meloncholymadness 28:44. Oliver Stone mentions that sovereignty of nations is crucial for international stability. He mentions Venezuela, Iran, China, and Russia as sovereign states. But he doesn't mention Ukraine. So my question is this: in Oliver Stone's eyes, is Ukraine also a sovereign nation? Apparently, all countries are sovereign in Oliver Stone's eyes, except for the ones he doesn't like.

@Meloncholymadness

Жыл бұрын

@@yuzhonglu He does say at some point that is is, Ukraine and America have antagonised this war in my opinion and it's becoming more and more clear.

@MrVomikron

Жыл бұрын

@@Meloncholymadness Your Honor, that woman forced me to rape her. I had no choice.

@contrarian8870

Жыл бұрын

What's your opinion on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Granada, Nicaragua, Chile etc invaded or interfered with by US actions. Are they sovereign nations?

Thank you for a great interview. The fact that Oliver Stone was able to speak without much interruptions really allowed me to realize to what level he lost touch with reality. He is obviously smart and some of his opinions I agree with, but a lot of it is so shocking to me that I wasn't really prepare for it. Thank you Lex for your work.

@bengaisford3304

9 ай бұрын

You're account is 3 weeks old.

@maximilianthiel8485

9 ай бұрын

@@bengaisford3304ad hominem attack doesn’t add to discussion my friend

@kbud3659

9 ай бұрын

Sorry you must be brainwashed because everything he said was true

@nataliavasluian7747

9 ай бұрын

Totally agree, please don't talk about Donbas crimes from 2014, a disillusioned rhetoric

@kbud3659

9 ай бұрын

@@nataliavasluian7747 you are disillusioned and indoctrinated clearly

This couldn't have aged any worse

@benjamingladinathor686

7 ай бұрын

How so?

@ghoffmann821

7 ай бұрын

​@@benjamingladinathor686Get real.

France never actually left NATO, per se. DeGaulle downgraded France's membership in NATO and withdrew France from the U.S.-led military command to pursue an independent defense system. In 2009 France rejoined NATO's military command.

@starkfaktory6920

Жыл бұрын

Precisely. There were talks during Jacques Chirac's presidency for a comeback of France to the "integrated commandment" (which implies resuming its annual financial contribution to NATO budget) in the 1990s. Chirac was ready to come back, but he asked for the removal of the US sixth's fleet ships from the Mediterranean sea. The US refused, and thus it was postponed to 2009, four years after Sarkozy succeeded to Chirac.

@oldhollywoodbriar

Жыл бұрын

Was it because the CIA tried to kill DeGaulle?

@datmesay

Жыл бұрын

Yep, and some French people, count me in, does not see our involvement in the military command as a good thing. There's one country leading the command and all others forced to follow. There are some discrepancies between the Atlantic alliance interests and the UE interests.

@alexanderpapadopoulos2383

Жыл бұрын

I thought after Libya France wanted to step down from Nato leading role in Europe or at least not be forced to send troops on "democracy" missions.

@7KingCobra7

Жыл бұрын

@@datmesay right, you guys just hide while US AMERICANS pay for and fight for the rest of the world's freedom... all good we got this

I appears to me that he applies different standards to America and Putin's Russia.

@Rohonin

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's really annoying, considering how much I respect Oliver Stone. He hardly criticizes Russia for anything. I get it , US is not perfect. I would still pick getting invaded by the US over Russia any day of the week.

@nikolaishmelev7837

Жыл бұрын

And he is right about doing it. Very wise. Bringing American standards to Russia or Russian standards to America is a recipe for disaster.

@vivianms3721

Жыл бұрын

Now think about how mainstream American media applies different, sometimes polar-opposite, standards to the US and any other country it sees “unfriendly” or potentially a competitor (hence a “threat”), on a DAILY basis. Then think about how the majority of American people form their world view almost entirely on that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@ronin1648

Жыл бұрын

@@vivianms3721 Putin is unfriendly and a threat to any free thinking Russian

@lucascqp

Жыл бұрын

@@Rohonin If you knew how absurd your comment is you wouldn't have posted it. 'US is not perfect' is the most ridiculous understatement i've ever heard, and it could only be uttered by someone who doesn't actually know the history of this young nation. The US has been responsible for more death, destruction and conflict than any other modern nation and the deep-state, CIA and military-industrial complex are rightly considered by most of the world to be completely evil scum. I don't use the word 'evil' here lightly.

Would be nice to make this interview now

1:40 "Hitler did not go after Britain when he had France." Yes, he did. The Brits stopped his plan at the Battle of Britain.

"The line between good and evil runs through heart of every man. And who is willing to cut the piece of his own heart?" To me the next sentence is even more powerful.. don't know why.

@Cindy-up2oj

Жыл бұрын

Who is willing to cut a piece of his own ❤? Way to many, to include women. Women are rising and taking male roles in many powerful leadership positions. Greed, money, and power has overtaken humanity. It is not working and it will never work. It's unfolding right before our very eyes in real time.

@hatmobile4399

Жыл бұрын

Second that. Such a powerful line

@pite9

Жыл бұрын

Most ppl try to cut out the evil part in others hearts instead, or their perceived evil.

@Cindy-up2oj

Жыл бұрын

@@pite9 Hurt people, hurt other people.

@gariochsionnach2608

Жыл бұрын

@@pite9 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7: 3)

I went from (irrationally) disliking Lex to absolutely loving the man within two weeks. His humility, intelligence and grace won me over. My favourite podcaster of all time at this point.

@theresahanford179

Жыл бұрын

I completely adore Lex Fridman -- have spent Days listening for every available hour of the days, and cannot Get Enough. Btw, Lex, I give Magnifient Massages. Just FYI.

@martinda7446

11 ай бұрын

@@theresahanford179 Theresa, I think I'm smarter and better looking than Lex. What are you doing on Friday?

@srb998

9 ай бұрын

​@@martinda7446😂😂

@songsofalifetime8508

5 ай бұрын

Important point from Lex,, he doesn't interrupt much, he let his guests talk...

"Brzezinski (advisor to the U.S. president) was a Pole. [...] Poland has always been attacking Russia. [...] The two world wars that occupied Russia, tragically - entry points were always through Poland and Ukraine." (22:40) ... what an utterly weird perspective.

@filmat22

Жыл бұрын

This is making the whole interview not worth listening to. This guy has absolutely no idea about history. Later on just repeating official russian propaganda. So sad...

@emjay9688

Жыл бұрын

Can't agree more! during WWI, Poland didn't even exist as an independent entity (and neither did Ukraine). During WWII, Nazis and Soviets were best buddies until '41 and split Poland together, so when Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, occupied Poland happened to be the territory where the two totalitarian regimes agreed to have border. Stone's phrasing makes it sound like Poland and Ukraine somehow had something to say about where the attack on Russia/Soviet Union was happening from...

@milesteg8627

Жыл бұрын

Ironic that Trump gets a pass. I wonder why

@bjornpersson895

Жыл бұрын

Noticed the same but wasn't surprised. Stone is the biggest Russia apologist in the west. Earlier in the pod he said that nuclear is safe (true enough, sure) because only 50 people died in the Chernobyl disaster, which is a hilariously stupid Soviet statistic that is only true in the narrowest possible sense.

@kmier2000

Жыл бұрын

Bonkers. Incoherent ramblings at this point. He made some good movies at his time though.

So at 1:11:00 he asked about Zelensky fighting for sovereignty and he kind of just brushed it off. Bit weird because it's a very central and powerful argument in 2023. Probably since 1945.

@captaintight

11 ай бұрын

he’s way too biased to have an honest discussion

@Raymoiful

11 ай бұрын

Zelensky is not fighting for sovereignity. Zelensky is a trapped puppet. You have no idea what is going on here.

@thegalaxylab

11 ай бұрын

feel free to explain how "sovereignty" is a blank check license to pursue with impunity any policy that has major implication on the geopolitical level and not provoke a response from other impacted nations? where is that written? sounds like you're describing unilateralism, not sovereignty.

@MargaritaKatrenko

10 ай бұрын

He didn't brush it off. He answered plain and simple that you can't be fighting for something you haven't had since 2014. Ukraine lost it's sovereignty the moment it accepted a foreign backed cue. And I'll add even more. What sovereignty you can be fighting for, when all the money you have received for your "fight" you will have to pay with your land, natural resources and public held companies?? You won't have sovereignty, even if you "win" the war.

@vyhozshu

9 ай бұрын

@@MargaritaKatrenko and zelenski just announced the sale of what is left of his country to blackr0ck and g0ldman-$achs

You are a solid individual. Thank you for your podcast Lex.

@brankastupar7101

5 ай бұрын

Lex is super unlikely, man!

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@computemusic5905

Ай бұрын

you ended up in the wrong comment section ?

I wonder what would Mr. Stone say nowadays. A discussion between him and Stephen Kotkin would be something spicy to witness eventually. Lex, you or Joe... Make it happen

@joeholbrook5630

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY!!! That was what I was referring to in my second from the top of the page overly lengthy post! Stephen Kotkin has devoted his entire lengthy ‘political history professional career’ to the ‘study of Russian leaders’ and has huge amounts of fact from huge amount of other experts that have ‘much closer long time close associates of Putin and the direct ‘result’ of Putin’s action, not his talk. It sounds it sounds trite, but REAL-TIME “actions speak louder than words”! Stone’s accretions that Putin’s statements, and Stone’s belief that if Putin said it so convincingly, it must be right and therefore all the U.S. intelligence experts were wrong, sounds so similar to former President Trump’s statement at their Helsinki, Finland Summit during the first year of the Trump presidency! For anyone to have an unbiased opinion on Stone interview, it would only be prudent to listen to the same interviewer interview lifelong soviet/Russian leadership expert Stephen Kotkin re: Putin! Additionally, I have witnessed many others that have studied Putin, with all agreeing with Kotkin extremely closely and absolutely none with Stone! Again, Stone is an extremely gifted filmmaker, but we can see what an extraordinarily skilled electric automobile & spacecraft expert can do to destroy a top internet company with Mr. Musk. Being an expert in one field of endeavor does not translate to all other fields of endeavor!!! Again, apologies for my composition and grammatical errors, as it is difficult for me to push a grocery cart and dictate coherently at the same time! Hell, l can’t even chew chewing gum and walk at the same time!😊

@tomdouglassicks4748

Жыл бұрын

Of course....Mr. Kotkin would run circles around him of course and Stone would have to have the capacity to listen really listen and be prepared to have to revamp his entire thinking about the Soviet Union...its history and its crimes.

@marcuslarsson9548

11 ай бұрын

@@tomdouglassicks4748 lol kotkin is a historian stone is a filmmaker. Put him up against Alexander Mercouris, Mark Sleboda or Brian Berletic and they would absolutely slap him across the room lol

@MarkoGordi

11 ай бұрын

@@marcuslarsson9548 -Stephen Kotkin is a populist and defender of America which is not and never was - he is what the fascists were

@mcheatle8270

11 ай бұрын

You don’t get what get he is trying to say.

The problem with Oliver stone is not what he says. Its what he doesn't say. He doesn't answer direct questions.

@zneusenrunus7395

Жыл бұрын

When you redirect the humid CO2 rich exhaust from burning methane gas… into a greenhouse growing facility… everything starts to grow exponentially faster. And methane gas can be eternally produced by organic waste and your own 💩 and of the mix. So seriously 😐 how fake is the premise for this interveiw? Even in the movies he is claimed to be a controlled opposition (tjeck mil gibsons resume fx) All methane gas (that is produced whether you want it or not from your leftovers/garbage of Living (organically)) when burned is reduced to 1/10th of the “greenhouse effect) .. and on low ground (not airplanes fx) it’s absorbed quickly by plants 🌱 growing directly from it. Burning methane to run electricity generators can run the DeFi crypto verse and if you like… like all the flares from excess harvesting natural gas on the oceans asf.. can drive hydrolysis and produce hydrogen fuel og the leftovers. It’s the biggest curse in human history to repeat the fallacy that methane is bad! Serious WAKE UP ⬆️.. it’s our biggest back into the cycle of organic life that we got. The more methane burned and exhaust to plants and mushrooms the more and bigger fruits and edibles you’ll get. Unfortunately my IP address is known by the system.., and probably almost no one will even receive to read this. So where does that leave you… if You do? Remember no organic life can exist without CO2. It’s the fundamental building block for all plants 🌱 🌳 and what you eat 🍎 🌰

@KarlisGrinvalds

Жыл бұрын

Could you give examples as to which questions he didn’t answer? I’m halfway through and there’s either answers as he understands them or “I cannot answer that” if he doesn’t know. Personally, I have no complaints

@pa9904

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlisGrinvalds He defends dictators by comparing them to the american system. For him Chavez and Putin are not any different then the capitalist system.

@KarlisGrinvalds

Жыл бұрын

@@pa9904 Comparing them to American examples isn’t defending him, more so pointing out pretty blatant Western hypocricies. Also, would you not want to understand the thought process of your “enemy”? Or are you just here for more “Putin bad” content?

@pa9904

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlisGrinvalds I understand the difference but i think Oliver Stone picked who he prefers to align his ideology with. He respects power and rejects hypocrisy.

It's intriguing to observe that both the extreme left and extreme right share a very close perspective on the Ukraine conflict.

@gfys756

11 ай бұрын

Horseshoe Theory

@alexanderwelch9009

8 ай бұрын

And they’re both wrong. Stone just called Putin honest. Come on now.

@bratbrat4473

2 ай бұрын

It depends. For instance, here in my country extreme rightwing people support ukraine because of their alliance with the azov and right sector nazis in ukraine, while extreme left supports russia of course.

Mr.Fridman, way you drive interviews, calm try to understand the issues, present not your ideas, but really, intelligently, polite and also calmly "push" your audience to "think by themselves" is remarkable, no doubt, remarkable

Oliver Stone wrote on March 3 about Putin's "mistakes": 2) "Overestimating the military's ability to achieve its objective." - He doesn't say what the objective was and Lex doesn't ask him.

@cooldudecs

Жыл бұрын

Taking eastern Europe

@draka1051

Жыл бұрын

@@cooldudecs lol what? another western media shit

@cryptoeconomics2847

Жыл бұрын

Stone is merely parroting the Kremlin, note that no one knows what Russia's objectives are, hence you know who the propagandists are from this statement alone

@sj4632

Жыл бұрын

It was subjugating the whole of Ukraine.

@AvengerIl

Жыл бұрын

World wide conquest. Bolshevism from Vladivostok to Lisbon. Always has been their stated goal.

The interviewer doesn't confront Stone in any way. He just keeps asking new questions.

@anonymous.youtuber

Жыл бұрын

That’s the whole point. Don’t interrupt the interviewee and hear him/her out. Discover what’s in there without interrupting the flow. This is what makes Lex such a great interviewer.

@TheKrankHead

Жыл бұрын

@@anonymous.youtuber the point is to challenge the person who you interviewing. He doesn't do that at all.

@triggerwarning5762

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheKrankHead That's a debate, not an interview.

“What do you think of the invasion of Ukraine?” “Let me tell you about the invasion of Iraq” lol

@bratbrat4473

2 ай бұрын

Its important to refer to Iraq as a precedent in international relations established by Usa and GB for justifiying war and aggresion.

@juliap172

2 ай бұрын

What do you think about Ukraine killing people of Donbas and Lugansk since 2014?

Mr Stone- THE LEGEND! Thank you Lex for inviting him and for conducting this meaningful conversation

As a historian Oliver is an enraging person to listen to. What interesting and valid points he makes are layered behind misinformation or even just subtle mistakes of fact

@WilkinsMichael

Жыл бұрын

Yes, quite disappointing.

@johnsometimeswrong8742

Жыл бұрын

Yes he seems to have drank the cool aid on Putin. His thinking seems very skewed by his genuine issue's with his own country but he seems to ge lost down a rabbit hole of his own making.

@Lexomm1

Жыл бұрын

If you had refutations, you would present them.

@oliverastankovic7009

Жыл бұрын

I am not sure you know the world history very well. You must see who wrote the books you read.

@byronhotchkiss3254

Жыл бұрын

@@oliverastankovic7009 a fact is incontrovertible, no matter the person who wrote it. To take your assertion to its logical conclusion, you would not be able to trust anyone's recollection except for those with *exactly* the same biases as you.

Stone seemed to back Putin/ Russia more than I would expect. Interesting...

@margaretklassen172

Жыл бұрын

That's probably because he has some understanding of the Minsk Agreement, and the history of US reluctance to support.

@daniel_960_

Жыл бұрын

You know about his documentary and Putin interview series? The documentary Ukraine on fire, you can find it on rumble. Everywhere else it gets taken down.

@oldhollywoodbriar

Жыл бұрын

It’s nice to hear a stable voice on the matter. Oliver knows the facts so he gets it right.

@peterhardie4151

Жыл бұрын

Objectivity.

@donkykon2094

Жыл бұрын

well he cannot bite the hand that feeds him, he need putin in his future docs

Thank you for such an amazing interview, it is very inspiring!!!!!

Great interview. Thanks from canada.

I am honestly disturbed buy this level of spin from someone I thought had insight. Great interview Lex

@vatri357

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean "spin"? Hes telling you what u cant hear on west propaganda media, and you call it SPIN? God damn it... theres no hope for ya...

@Remeeeee1

Жыл бұрын

@@vatri357 all the while saying the east propaganda is blown out of proportion, he rolled his eyes over Putin poisoning people among other oversites in Putin's motivation for invading a sovereign country. Get a frigin grip on reality please.

"I believe the moment we draw lines between good people and evil people, we lose our ability to see that we are all one people on the most fundamental of ways"

Mr Oliver i wish this tipe of interview will be tramite in every school in the USA, you are a great man with clear honest thoughts Good bless you ❤

I'd love to see another interview now a year later... What a wonderful, thoughtful, talented and highly intelligent man, Mr Oliver Stone.❤

28:25 Sovereignty for everyone except Ukraine. Sounds legit.

@albertplumer

Жыл бұрын

Ukraine wheat Russia can feed Yemen population and in return get the Aden position to regulate shipping toRedSea /Suez . Dijbouti? No.

@johnsnow9887

Жыл бұрын

Ukraine lost its sovereignty in 2013 following it's right for existence in following 8 years

@levernallanbowles4093

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Not a word about the 1994 Budapest Memorandum signed by Russian guaranteeing Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity in exchange for the transfer of the substantial nuclear weaponry Ukraine inherited from the Soviet Union. No mention of any of the international agreements to recognized all nations rights to territoritorial integrity, political sovereignty and right of all nations to form alliances and associations with whatever states the so chose. No recognition that NATO is solely a defensive organization, and their was no coersion to have Ukraine join. In fact, Ukraine freely sought to join the EU and NATO but met with hesitation. The European Union told Ukraine they had to clear up the corruption in their government first and make some other changes before they could be admitted into the European union. Russia's intrusions into other neighbours, its history of occupation of Eastern Europe, and attracted Eastern nations to seek union with NATO, and the same goes for .. Clearly Clearly Russia wasn't honouring its commitment with its annexation of Crimea after seizing Sevastapol. This is why Georgia sought to join NATO as there were signs the Kremlin was stirring up trouble in Georgia and likely to annex portions or all of Georgia. Russia did indeed invade and annexed two regions. NATO never was aggressive. Russia was. It doesn't respect its neighbours. That's why they have a huge force in Trinestria, the Eastern strip of Maldova and were seeking to link up with it and possibly annex that territory. The Russians tormented dissentian in that region, and armed rebels and Russian agents that started an insurgency. The Russians then in 1992 sent in the XIV army to stabilize the region and protect ethnic Russians from alleged persecution. Familiar story to Ukraine and Georgia?

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”- Frank Herbert

@fauxguyfawkes6156

Жыл бұрын

How to make institutions that are vulnerable to this more stringent on vetting personnel?

@2Uahoj

Жыл бұрын

@@fauxguyfawkes6156 Checks and Balances

Oliver Stone is a very intelligent and interesting man.

A phenomenal interview. Thank you

"The environmentalists have played a huge role in doing good things, many good things. But also confusing and confounding the landscape." ~ Oliver Stone

@Trip4man

Жыл бұрын

Yeah we did! And there's a lotttttt to do more.... Environment is not only about Nuclear, Coal or Oil. They only talk about this stuff because that's where the big $$ is (speculating.. a bit). There's many many other variables to take care off. And I'm still not buying this nuclear energy deal! I don't know those Green Political parties because they all seem like puppets of big corporations or something. They never say anything right, their level of knowledge is dubious at best, I don't see credentials, I don't see their work anywhere, etcetcetc. Actually it seems more of the oil business rhetoric that has been fed to us for decades... Nuclear is not exactly clean and not exactly safe. Yeah for the most part is clean and safe but then there's the other opposite... And that's a BIG opposite. People barely speak about Fukushima and Chernobly for example... Fukushima was close to the Ocean... You telling me that the disaster didn't contaminated the water? Chernobly is STILL under disaster management... Nobody talks about the range of the disaster. Is the water clean?? Is the land safe?? What's the range of the contamination btw?? Last time I was educated on the subject, radiation can last thousands of years and spread veryyyy far. And Oliver Stone here saying that the world should go nuclear.... Yeah that's like dousing the world in gas, expecting that we don't get hit by a solar flare or something... Flammable. And with this war atmosphere.... Who can tell that madmen don't target Nuclear power plants just to gain an advantage over the enemy. Or a simple terrorist attack! Hell, even in 1st world countries there's people that shoot someone or blow up buildings. So, there's NOTHING "completely safe" even if it gives the appearance to be safe

@marythompson4654

Жыл бұрын

Please help protect Thacker Pass Nevada

@molliestanton2869

Жыл бұрын

Nuclear power plants are problematical- especially on earthquake faults, or near them. Case in point: Fukushima-3 nuclear meltdowns, their robots melted/ malfunctioned to even be able to see/ monitor the exploded landscape. There are so many huge vats of radiated water, that they have to start dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of the radiated water into the Pacific. They hope to have it under control in 40 years. These were only nuclear power plants for energy.

@coreycox2345

Жыл бұрын

That is sometimes required, LibertyMatrix. As an urban planner, I met many types of environmentalists, from the geniuses who thought up the Citizens Growth Management Initiative to the guy who offered us getting his environmentalists to go away for a fee. Even my favorite had a taxidermized desert tortoise that he carried in a bag to pose in the foreground of his slide presentations. I thought that was smart. There are risks to any energy source. If one zooms out and looks at all the factors that influence the future, the risks in disposing of nuclear waste are minimal compared to stopping these wars over energy or global warming. We might develop a better way to do things someday but appear to be on a speeding train.

@zneusenrunus7395

Жыл бұрын

When you redirect the humid CO2 rich exhaust from burning methane gas… into a greenhouse growing facility… everything starts to grow exponentially faster. And methane gas can be eternally produced by organic waste and your own 💩 and of the mix. So seriously 😐 how fake is the premise for this interveiw? Even in the movies he is claimed to be a controlled opposition (tjeck mil gibsons resume fx) All methane gas (that is produced whether you want it or not from your leftovers/garbage of Living (organically)) when burned is reduced to 1/10th of the “greenhouse effect) .. and on low ground (not airplanes fx) it’s absorbed quickly by plants 🌱 growing directly from it. Burning methane to run electricity generators can run the DeFi crypto verse and if you like… like all the flares from excess harvesting natural gas on the oceans asf.. can drive hydrolysis and produce hydrogen fuel og the leftovers. It’s the biggest curse in human history to repeat the fallacy that methane is bad! Serious WAKE UP ⬆️.. it’s our biggest back into the cycle of organic life that we got. The more methane burned and exhaust to plants and mushrooms the more and bigger fruits and edibles you’ll get. Unfortunately my IP address is known by the system.., and probably almost no one will even receive to read this. So where does that leave you… if You do?

Wow, I never realised Oliver Stone wrote Scarface. Another excellent episode Lex.

@filprocter7318

Жыл бұрын

Say hello to my little friend

@davidbanner6230

Жыл бұрын

Any Western media, or spokes persons are found to have been receiving payments from Russia to sow discontent and undermine Western support for Ukraine, should face trial as traitors when the war in concluded

@channelname1700

Жыл бұрын

Different man back then. Now Oliver Stone is a nut.

@1985truthseeker

Жыл бұрын

@@channelname1700 Telling truth seems crazy to ignorant

@channelname1700

Жыл бұрын

@@1985truthseeker what truth? This interview was just speculation. Point to one part of the interview where Stone give evidence to his claims. You can’t

THINGS CHANGE IN A YEAR.. WOULD LIKE TO HEAR HIS OPINION AS OF JUNE 2023

Best approach on life terms, great respect for the courage to speak openly! May your years be long and filled with happiness!

Thank you for bringing up France and Germany. I point out this case study every time the green energy conversation crops up.

@MathieuDuponchelle

Жыл бұрын

@@cneuhauser1 deservedly so, on account of them starting two wars WITH THE WORLD

@kwanarchive

Жыл бұрын

@@MathieuDuponchelle They blamed Germany for WWI, but anyone who's studied it will understand that Germany was just scapegoated for it. The bloody thing started in Eastern Europe. Germany is only responsible for starting WWII. But unlike the Japanese, they've apologized for it, and they've made Nazism and Holocaust denial illegal. Germany today is not a threat.

@tarakmaammar214

Жыл бұрын

@@MathieuDuponchelle are you really sure about that though ?

@Dan-sw8tg

Жыл бұрын

@@MathieuDuponchelle how did my country start World War 1? Care to explain?

@MathieuDuponchelle

Жыл бұрын

@@Dan-sw8tg Formally, Germany did declare war first. My comment was however a Norm MacDonald reference so just chill your horses you misguided patriot.

It is important to realise that this is Mr. Stone's perspective on the situation, and not necessarily absolute truth with regards the situation in Ukraine.

@davidminnesota4050

Жыл бұрын

Yep, he is too comfortable hanging with Putin and his pals. His obit my be: he did some great movies, but then he got fat.

@Coconautify

Жыл бұрын

That's quite right, and the great thing about Western democracy is that he has the right to express that opinion, which is a far cry from the authoritarian regime he professes to love.

@vw6751

Жыл бұрын

What do you know about authoritarian? Just repeating west propaganda? It would be very democratic if we could hear his and others opinions on main news stations. Alas. We only hear one narrative. Wonder why….

@Coconautify

Жыл бұрын

@@vw6751 You can get whatever narrative you want in the West... you only get one in that country - why don't you go live live there if you love it so much.

@vw6751

Жыл бұрын

@@Coconautifywhat are you, five years old? That is what little kids do: you don’t like the way I play in this sandbox, go to your own sandbox. You have not learned in kindergarten.

Him calling medvedchuk medvedev is just hilarious

@mariebukht1554

5 ай бұрын

Time code?

I’ve fought for Ukraine while Russian killed civilians with reckless abandon. I can respect Oliver Stone but he doesn’t understand what’s happening because he hasn’t been there. Whatever the reasons and politics Oliver Stone talks about the truth is that Ukraine is defending itself. Zelenskyy visited us on the front lines which gave us strength to fight on. Slava Ukraine ! 🇺🇦 Stone is confused and needs to speak with the people of Ukraine to understand the invasion. The people are full of fear but a wonderful and intelligent people. They desperately need help in this fight for freedom.

@LiberalinOregon

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for fighting the just fight. Slava Ukraine, may UKR be free of the neighboring overlord terrorizing it’s ppl. Stone is brainwashed, he think Putin wants peace. What a pathetic joke of a man.

@hlwanmoe1981

Ай бұрын

No one ain’t buy your bs. Majority people of the world know what caused the war. Of course, NATO aggression and Zelenskyy is NATO’s lapdog.

@fandomkiller

Ай бұрын

How do you explain AZOV brigades ties to Neo-Nazi's? They also killed Russians after 2014.

I would value the opinion of an average person who has lived in either Russia or one of the other governments mentioned and had to maintain themselves and then lived on the other side over Oliver. It’s very different sir, interacting in presidential offices and being shown the facade, no objective opinion can be formed then. Much respect to Oliver but he seems very far from objectivity.

@johnoconnor2561

Жыл бұрын

Your point is well taken, the irony is that LF came to the US via Russia and Ukraine. I don’t understand how he allowed OS to say some of the nonsense he said about Putin etc

@vadim921

Жыл бұрын

As a Russian I can assure you that the guy is completely out of touch with reality or is deeply into putins pockets

@missoliya

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Russia for a half of my life and then spent the second half in the US, as well as travelling around the world, and I can tell you that I agree with pretty much everything Oliver Stone said. It’s pretty entertaining to watch how western media talks about Russia, its culture and people, with such confidence, when in fact, they have a very limited knowledge of how things are in reality.

@tg2535

Жыл бұрын

@@missoliya Thank you for your comment✌️

@vadim921

Жыл бұрын

@@missoliya he needs to speak to Ukrainian people about poor misunderstood pootler and how evil west is misrepresenting the glorious Russian world. The majority of criticism towards Russia is completely justified, I say this as someone who has been living in the country for 30 years

Thank you for doing this interview. Oliver Stone was the one who introduced me to Jimmy Dore's show, for that alone I am eternally grateful. To say nothing of the body of work he's done and the courage with which he's gone against the strongest of grains throughout his career whether it was Fourth of July, the Putin Interviews, the Snowden movie, the 'True History...' his military service, his outspoken speeches when receiving awards and on and on...

@VladK-1

Жыл бұрын

Jimmy Dore is a brilliant man. Isn't it funny that we have to listen to a comedian to hear the news? Recently I've also started watching The Duran as their coverage of Ukraine conflict is strictly no-bs and expands on what's Jimmy reporting.

@yossarian1633

Жыл бұрын

@@VladK-1 The Duran eh? I'll have to check that out. Been watching TJDS since 2017 or so and he's one of the best, esp. now with most things. It was thanks to looking up Oliver Stone interviews one day that I came across his channel as he interviewed Stone once back then.

@oswarz

Жыл бұрын

@@VladK-1 Yes!

@lindaalvarez426

Жыл бұрын

Yes& amen,me too! Both men are straight shooters,patriots,Jimmy& Oliver! Thank you ,Me Friedman,I enjoy your shows so much.😇🙌👍👏💕💋

@loverofbeers

Жыл бұрын

I love Jimmy. Cheers from Texas!

We all must unerstand real power isn’t just controlling what happens but controlling what people think about what happens.

Talking about protest music.. Nothing better than Katie Halper and Daniel Mate, based on a 1985 Starship hit. JUST THE BEST EVER.

it was really a privilege to find this interview and to be able to watch many thanks from the Netherlands

@Max-ww7iz

Жыл бұрын

Now go to #289

@hello-mynameis

Жыл бұрын

hugs and kisses from Italy xo

@emilyhutjes

Жыл бұрын

@maria martin: please watch "Ukraine on Fire" by O. Stone on youtube

@ericanssems6933

Жыл бұрын

#289 Watch it. Its good

"Poland has always been attacking Russia as far as I remember" "the two world wars, occupied Russia" - did he mistake Poland with Russia? Honestly I find it really difficult to follow his way of talking.

@wcorn88

Жыл бұрын

It's almost like he took a different version of history class

@theyaregone

Жыл бұрын

He is right polish army as i know once occupied Moscow en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_occupation_of_Moscow

@adamgroszkiewicz814

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, turned this one off at that point. Big fan of Lex, but Stone is so focused on "America bad" that he's making up his own alternate world history.

@CodeCal

Жыл бұрын

He was talking about poland being anti russia.

@Ian-nn1fn

Жыл бұрын

He's acting in bad faith. I'm just happy it's so easily recognizable this time. Practicing critical thinking requires exposure to dumb propaganda so you can catch out smarter approaches.

The things he spews from his old head are unbelievable.

As a decent human being I would be interested to hear Oliver Stone’s view on Gaza. Could you interview him again?

10:04 "50 people (died) at Chernobyl" I was kinda surprised that you let him get away with that without any pushback.

@derbigpr500

Жыл бұрын

There's a difference between people who died AT the Chernobyl plant as opposed to the aftermath.

@Kelkschiz

Жыл бұрын

@@derbigpr500 I thought of that. And that may cut some grass in a very narrow sense. However, Mr. Stone was clearly using this figure in a much broader sense, as in he was clearly comparing the total deaths caused by several different methods of electricity generation. And in that context you can't use the figure of 50 deaths at Chernobyl.

@paulusminor

Жыл бұрын

Vice verca with the number of civilians killed in Donbass. He puts it, I believe, as high as 14000, though most of these are military from both sides. So when he needs he puts figures as low as possible, in other case exaggerates enormously.

@glennpeterson1357

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I thought this was a very obtuse statement and very telling

@OldTeaMate

Жыл бұрын

… and no mentioning of the waste.

I really appreciate these long form conversations. You really get to see alot of the person being interviewed.

The meaning of life: to discover the preciousness of life & honor its beauty. A answer that is beautifully circular - a struggle amid many shades of powerlessness & disappointment, but one that rings true.

You introduction was moving - may we some how find a path to peace and leave war as a horror in our past. God bless you Lex. Thanks for doing what your doing. Xx

What makes Oliver an expert on Russia?

@juliap172

2 ай бұрын

And what makes you an expert on Russia?

Interesting perspective from Mr Stone. He’s essentially blamed every Russian show of aggression across their history post WW2 on US cloak and dagger moves behind the scenes.

@alexanderpapadopoulos2383

Жыл бұрын

damn I missed the part where of the aggression from Russians in Yemen, Kosovo, Lybia and Syria. can you add time stamp.

@Lucky-sh1dm

Жыл бұрын

Read more guy

@ClownCarCoup

Жыл бұрын

He’s become a Putin stooge. Always making excuses for that authoritarian. He should do a movie on Chechnya. He might learn something.

@olekkuvppl

Жыл бұрын

@@alexanderpapadopoulos2383 He also missed how Russia has invaded and occupied half of europe after 1945

@imaginemetoo

Жыл бұрын

Is Oliver stone russian?! 🤨

Lex I feel your guests really warm to you through an interview. You have a great gift and it’s so great to hear you get to the heart of matters because of the trust you build. Really well done.👏🏼👏🏼🙏

@simeonreynaud7352

10 ай бұрын

What are you talking about, all I see is someone hating that Putin is a good man

I really appreciate the hell out of this man...Nothing like a honest man. Thank you sir...

What a fantastic person. I thought I would listen just a bit and just couldn't stop listening.

Stone's expression after commenting on Bucha - Lex obviously gave a "don't go there" look...

@dimegobt

Жыл бұрын

I would love to see the Lex camera there....

@Driada0830

Жыл бұрын

1:07:08 😜

@SinsiAlpha

Жыл бұрын

Very suspicious!

@funkygreenscreen3029

Жыл бұрын

yeap

@cjpj72

Жыл бұрын

Stone is right.

Mr. Stone is completely detached from reality when it comes to Europe and it's relation to Russia although his work on covering what US is doing in many places in the world is second to none.

@lifesjustanillusion246

Жыл бұрын

I take it your not European?

@8JFJK8

Жыл бұрын

What did he say that made you think that?

@johncarrigan9352

Жыл бұрын

True enough

I have watched president Putin as a Polish citizen, watched his speaches and press meetings. I have totally different view than MSN media nad militant nato

What a brilliant journalist .No breaks , good questions from borh side .I never saw this man before .Milions of subscribers has proved rank of this program .

Where do I even begin? I have immense respect for Oliver Stone as a film-maker and as a tireless critic of American and Western imperialism, but why is it that opponents to the latter (Chomsky, Varoufakis, Lula, Stone...) feel obliged to defend the author of the very same crime when it is not the USA? As the Kenyan ambassador to the UN eloquently put it shortly after the invasion began, what Russia is doing in Ukraine is very reminiscent of colonialism. Mr Stone, you praise President Chirac and Chancellor Shröder for condemning the invasion of Iraq by G. W. Bush, and rightly so. Can't you see that when Macron and Scholz denounced Putin's invasion of Ukraine, they were doing precisely the same thing: opposing the aggressor? Your narrative that this is proof of Europe's increased loss of sovereignty since 2003 is not only sloppy but null and void, since it ignores the key factual element: whose territory is being invaded... Similarly, while on the topic of sovereignty, Russia's was not under threat in any way. Its geopolitical status as a superpower was, as it has been steadily losing influence on the global stage since the end of the Cold War (with some exceptions as in the Syrian crisis). No Ukrainian (or German, or Finnish) tank was going to cross the border into Russia and kill Russian citizens. As for the hypothetically imminent attack on the Donbass by Ukrainian forces, need I remind you that these (as well as Crimea) are technically rebel provinces, not sovereign states? Now I happen to have been in favour of the Minsk Accords and some or even total autonomy for these regions (Crimea only became part of Ukraine under Khrushchev and so its return to Russia following the collapse of the USSR does make sense). However, the invasion of Ukraine changed my perspective entirely. At the very least, you should acknowledge that the attack of one sovereign nation by another and the "retaking" of lost provinces are very different matters. On the topic of Mr Putin's intentions and character, I obviously do not have your experience of face-to-face conversation with the man. However, you seem to be deliberately ignoring several aspects of his methods of government. If it is true that his direct commissioning of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal for instance has not been established, you know better than me that this is no argument. By the same logic, you could never prove that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered Jamal Khashoggi's murder. The fact remains that Putin's opponents like Alexei Navalny are in prison following political trials, that Russian media dishes out increasingly blatant propaganda (in comparison, western lies, which of course also abound, are almost cute) and that laws have been passed in Russia to suppress any criticism of the regime. NATO is undoubtedly guilty of many crimes and has been relentlessly pressuring Russia since the nineties, making sure that it could never again threaten US supremacy. Its enlargement may have been a cynical, hypocritical (especially following the reassurances that had been given to Yeltsin on this topic) and even ill-advised policy, but it was by and large victimless. There is a difference between cornering a former enemy, even by means of forming a military alliance against it, and putting boots on the ground. In the latter, people get killed as in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Ukraine... Mr Stone, I would urge you not to choose the wrong side of history on this occasion. Denouncing Russian imperialism doesn't mean condoning that of the US (or other Western powers). In fact, the best you and other Leftist leaders can do is to propose a third way: a humbled Russia, one that has accepted its true status of regional power (like France and Germany have), could become a major player in a revitalised and genuinely sovereign Europe. This I believe is our only hope for the future, one that doesn't confine humanity's choice to the bleak alternative between the capitalist pseudo-democracy of America and the nationalist neo-fascism that has been developing in Russia and China over the last decade.

@maxovgrom

Жыл бұрын

Great comment! Thank you!!!

@nikolaishmelev7837

Жыл бұрын

The Kenyan ambassador probably needs to educate himself that Russia began as Kievan Rus with the capital in Kiev. The Viking tribe Rus gave its name to the country. If there is colonialism, it must come from the Vikings. Please forward this to the Kenyan ambassador along with my regards.

@svenhanson398

Жыл бұрын

@@nikolaishmelev7837 Nah, the Vikings were invited, even asked to rule over the different groups along the rivers that was constantly in war with each other. That is at least according to the chonicles of the monks. And the word Rus is more to do with Men who rows, and not a tribe from Scandinavia. Its basically the same as Viking, which is not a word for a people but for an action, to go viking. And my beginning was a bit ironic, invaders are always invited, always has been, or come to save....

@brandonmay3094

Жыл бұрын

@@nikolaishmelev7837 the Kenyan ambassador is nothing more than a coattail rider trying to take advantage of a situation

@nikolaishmelev7837

Жыл бұрын

@@svenhanson398 bear in mind that those medieval chronicles were written centuries after and were comissioned by the ruling princes (the Ryuriks) who has to justify the onset of the dynasty. So, i am not sure if we can take the invitation claim seriously. The origin of the word Rus is contested, there are many theories. Naming a tribe or a group of people by their main ativity was quite common. Many Slavic tribes bear such names.

22:50 Did he just say 'Poland has been attacking Russia'? That's funny.

@WABRECORDS

Жыл бұрын

They did sometimes in history though, they even managed to occupy moscow

@ToriZealot

Жыл бұрын

@Myname Isunavailable NO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War#:~:text=The%20Polish%E2%80%93Soviet%20War%20(late,and%20the%20Austro%2DHungarian%20Empire.

@julius43461

Жыл бұрын

@Myname Isunavailable It was invaded, but most of the territory that Soviets annexed was basically a reconquest of the territory that Poland took from the Russian empire previously.

@marguskiis7711

Жыл бұрын

@@xmyxymx Bullshit. Russia have had wars btw 1000 -- 1900: dozen times with mongols, dozen times with Lithuania, several times with Baltic germans/estonians, ca 5 times with Sweden, ca 6 times with Turkey. In 17th century Polish kings were asked by russians to govern Russia but there were internal struggle between Poles, so it did not work. Poland has never claimed lands from Russia, thats bullshit.

@marguskiis7711

Жыл бұрын

@@julius43461 what territory?

For the people who think Putin was wrong to invade Ukraine. Measured in miliseconds. How long would it take for the US military to march on Ottawa if Canada entered into a military alliance with Russia, China, Iran, Syria and North Korea?

@alexanderwelch9009

8 ай бұрын

Not the same thing. None of those countries are democracies, therefore they would be wrong to form an alliance. NATO is perfectly legitimate because the countries involved are democracies, end of story. Russia and Putin need to get with the goddamn picture and democratize or be a pariah, as they should be.

@nickhumphreys3160

8 ай бұрын

@alexanderwelch9009 not only are you almost completely wrong with everything you posted, but it doesn't even address the point. Lack of democracy has nothing to do with it. Canada is a democracy, at least in theory, but if they joined into, or were even trying to join into, a defensive alliance with all of our enemies, they would be invaded so fast that you would experience time travel.

@nickhumphreys3160

8 ай бұрын

@alexanderwelch9009 all buy one of the countries I named, have some form of democratically elected governments. The last one has elections. They are just sham elections. Like the ones increasingly prevalent in the "democratic" west. Shows how much you know.

@alexanderwelch9009

8 ай бұрын

@@nickhumphreys3160 I’m assuming you’re using as Canada an analogy for Ukraine potentially joining NATO. 1) If Ukraine wants to join NATO, they’re perfectly entitled to do so. Russia should have no say if its neighbor wants to join into a legitimate alliance. 2) Ukraine didn’t even join NATO, and Russia invaded anyway-proving Kiev’s point about their security concerns and pushing them closer to the West 3) As for the analogy, if Canada joined with all those countries, it would considered a legitimate threat because those are all hostile, authoritarian countries. NATO is only a threat to Russia if Russia acts aggressively. All the condemnation Russia has received is well deserved. I’m starting to think you’re the one who has no idea what you’re talking about

@nickhumphreys3160

8 ай бұрын

@@alexanderwelch9009 1) Just like Canada would be free to join a military alliance with Russia and China and whoever else they want. It wouldn't stop the US from invading them though, just like it didn't stop Russia. They wouldn't tolerate an openly hostile country on their border anymore than Russia would. 2) They were only trying to, begging to... with plenty of people in a position to know, saying it was eventually going to happen.... NATO had been arming them for almost a decade before Russia ever invaded. But sure, they totally weren't going to join... 3) Any opposing alliance is just as valid, if not more so, than NATO. You people act like world history started in 2021...Nato's borders have been encroaching on Russian territory for 30 years. Russia invaded in a pre-emptive military action to stop a genocide of Russian speaking people in the Donbass. 16k+ people, mostly civilians had already been killed(with weapons' and training supplied by NATO) by the NAZI's. Russia finally had enough and put an end to it. They are absolutely the good guys in this conflict. It isn't even debatable.

Did Stone say even one bad thing about Russia in this interview? He tries to appear to be giving a balanced view of world politics, but he's omitting the fact that Russia is dictatorial police state.

@LiberalinOregon

3 ай бұрын

Brainwashed like trump’s MEGA’s. They just love Putin and he can do no wrong.

@rodneybjornstad9016

Ай бұрын

Maybe not. I get that. And I believe here’s why: We have so boogie manned the Russian that as a correction Like a pendulum He’s swinging back the other way. But I know exactly what you say. Also. As bad as we are at it on the west we can somewhat handle criticism. In Russia. That don’t fly. Never had. Tzars / Lenin/ Stalin …. Most of rest. Very dangerous game to speak up in that world. And now it’s getting that way here

@fandomkiller

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America and Canada aren't Police states?

@Tommii38

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@ErkkiPalmu - Your view of Russia is what your corrupt media has made you think. Look closer to home if you want to see a fascist police state.