Oliver Stone
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um no but essentially i got cut off because i did the putin interviews didn't help me in in hollywood but you've been cut off before then i think hadn't you no my my ability to make films was choked a little you know there is a after 2000 things changed in the united states because we became the victim. We were suddenly the patriotism of the soldiers. We started Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down.
um no but essentially i got cut off because i did the putin interviews didn't help me in in hollywood but you've been cut off before then i think hadn't you no my my ability to make films was choked a little you know there is a after 2000 things changed in the united states because we became the victim. We were suddenly the patriotism of the soldiers. We started Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down.
All the films were different mentality than what I was presenting, which was a reality, I thought, to the American public, that this military has to be Why are we doing these military expeditions overseas? This is like in Vietnam. This was my main point. I kept going at it and going at it. And I guess all of a sudden it became okay. But the people never voted. There was no candidate.
All the films were different mentality than what I was presenting, which was a reality, I thought, to the American public, that this military has to be Why are we doing these military expeditions overseas? This is like in Vietnam. This was my main point. I kept going at it and going at it. And I guess all of a sudden it became okay. But the people never voted. There was no candidate.
All the films were different mentality than what I was presenting, which was a reality, I thought, to the American public, that this military has to be Why are we doing these military expeditions overseas? This is like in Vietnam. This was my main point. I kept going at it and going at it. And I guess all of a sudden it became okay. But the people never voted. There was no candidate.
There was no election that said, I'm against any empire. I want to bring it back like back in William Jennings Bryan's back in 1898. I don't want empire. We never got the choice.
There was no election that said, I'm against any empire. I want to bring it back like back in William Jennings Bryan's back in 1898. I don't want empire. We never got the choice.
There was no election that said, I'm against any empire. I want to bring it back like back in William Jennings Bryan's back in 1898. I don't want empire. We never got the choice.
Nor Robert Kennedy, nor Lyndon Johnson.
Nor Robert Kennedy, nor Lyndon Johnson.
Nor Robert Kennedy, nor Lyndon Johnson.
Connolly. Jackie Kennedy. So many people. Hale Boggs. Friedel Castro, Charles de Gaulle, various British leaders, Harold MacMillan. Did you ever talk to Castro? You knew Castro. Yeah, sure. What did he say about it? He was so sad because he really was like Kennedy and he was hoping for a deal. They were in backdoor negotiations.
Connolly. Jackie Kennedy. So many people. Hale Boggs. Friedel Castro, Charles de Gaulle, various British leaders, Harold MacMillan. Did you ever talk to Castro? You knew Castro. Yeah, sure. What did he say about it? He was so sad because he really was like Kennedy and he was hoping for a deal. They were in backdoor negotiations.
Connolly. Jackie Kennedy. So many people. Hale Boggs. Friedel Castro, Charles de Gaulle, various British leaders, Harold MacMillan. Did you ever talk to Castro? You knew Castro. Yeah, sure. What did he say about it? He was so sad because he really was like Kennedy and he was hoping for a deal. They were in backdoor negotiations.
Kennedy understood the Cuban Revolution and he said eloquent about it. He understood why the people were, that Cuba had been the most corrupt island in the American empire and the Caribbean since the platinum in 2001, 1901. But a lot of this is economic. Let's not lose sight of that. You see what they got after World War II was an economic empire, which is, it was working.
Kennedy understood the Cuban Revolution and he said eloquent about it. He understood why the people were, that Cuba had been the most corrupt island in the American empire and the Caribbean since the platinum in 2001, 1901. But a lot of this is economic. Let's not lose sight of that. You see what they got after World War II was an economic empire, which is, it was working.
Kennedy understood the Cuban Revolution and he said eloquent about it. He understood why the people were, that Cuba had been the most corrupt island in the American empire and the Caribbean since the platinum in 2001, 1901. But a lot of this is economic. Let's not lose sight of that. You see what they got after World War II was an economic empire, which is, it was working.
People were investing in the war economy and they were prosperous. Yes. But you saw the budgets grew and grew and grew. Here we are now with a trillion dollar defense budget, right? Which is insane because we have how many bases abroad? 800 bases? That was never the intention of Eisenhower or any of those people to control the world, to dominate every place in the world.
People were investing in the war economy and they were prosperous. Yes. But you saw the budgets grew and grew and grew. Here we are now with a trillion dollar defense budget, right? Which is insane because we have how many bases abroad? 800 bases? That was never the intention of Eisenhower or any of those people to control the world, to dominate every place in the world.
People were investing in the war economy and they were prosperous. Yes. But you saw the budgets grew and grew and grew. Here we are now with a trillion dollar defense budget, right? Which is insane because we have how many bases abroad? 800 bases? That was never the intention of Eisenhower or any of those people to control the world, to dominate every place in the world.