Oliver Stone
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314 appearances
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4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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that's part of it too the media is in on it and they're very very critical of people who who differ in this country you've noticed the censorship has gotten far where you you suffered from it yeah well certainly i suffered from it i mean it's you're you're insulated because you're epic tenure but uh how many oscars have you won uh i won three you've won three a long time ago right
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is Asia and Europe and South America. This is a gigantic empire. Do you realize how busy they are every day trying to run this thing?
everything is coming i personally i believe there's an invasion coming up it's either going to be iran or but i hope not israel is a proxy army for us certainly trump supports them you know that trump supports trump is very zealous about israel scary but also don't overlook venezuela which is still the one of the richest countries in the world with all its oil
Some people believe that is an easy target for Trump to knock off. I pray not, because it's going to be a battle. But this doesn't end, is what I'm saying. They plot every day. Imagine the world map. You've got the China challenge, right? Sending ships constantly stating our supremacy, right, in the seas, freedom of the seas. Freedom of navigation. And China... It's crazy.
I mean, I understand economically, take it on, be competitive with China, fine. But we can be economically friendly. In other words, we can be competitors. I don't see why we can't be in business together, as with Russia. Russia was a capitalist country. It's no longer a communist country. So as much as we hate communism, it doesn't make sense to antagonize Russia.
They can be our partners in climate change in so many ways. Their nuclear energy industry is one of the best in the world, as is China. They can teach us. We can build SMRs in quantity if we wanted to. We can really solve climate change. We don't have to sit here victims of it. But this is all, this is Kennedy thinking. This is what we need. We need leadership.
We need a de Gaulle, somebody who has a vision of the world. Trump, to some degree, has a vision.
Condemned the NATO expansion for sure. In 99, Clinton expanded NATO. Yeah. And Kennan was horrified, horrified.
No, I say that was the original reason we were antagonistic to Russia. Yes. It wasn't military. It was economic. Because we had strikes in this country, and we were trying to control labor. And the large corporations were in a deathly struggle with labor. Up until the end of World War II, Taft-Hartley, that was a big issue.
There were so many strikes during the war, people don't even take that into account. There was huge strikes in Detroit, cars, steel. And after the war, it was continuing. And until Taft-Hartley came along, which allowed them to close down any strike that was dangerous to the national security, I think, But in the 30s, that's what motivated Roosevelt's turn to the left.
No, it's very hard for me. I mean, a military-type theme, these kind of things I'm talking about with you, I couldn't do this as a movie now. I could do the Putin interviews because that was a documentary. Yes. And I could do nuclear energy because I cared about that. That was a documentary, pro-nuclear energy. So I'm interested in ideas, but in terms of drama, I have to curb it.
I can't go to where my imagination wants to go. Why? Well, they say to you, they never tell you the truth. They tell you it's too controversial, too political, too this, too that. I don't think I've lost my touch. I have to live with it. It's okay. I live with it. I'm writing a book, another book. I wrote a book or a memoir, a first part of my life.
I'm going to write another one from 40 on, the age of 40 to wherever I am now. So,
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