[WonderMomma]

A pedofile and a racist biggot who has his lips on Putin's tip. Of all the sources you have to choose from.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Waste of typing all those words by people that can't behave themselves in a forum thread and get deleted in 12 seconds so leave all the personal shit in pm's or block the other user as next time thread bannings will follow.

Yes, sir!

[SDI]

I don't really understand politics in the US. Just 30+ years ago US Republicans where the spearhead of anti-communism (which was literally anti Russia). Rep administrations spent billions over billions for their military and supported anti-rus factions and countries like Afghanistan. If neccessary almost 10 years to fight them off. Even publicly denounced Russia as empire of evil and took opportunities to confront them whereever it was possible without escalating into a hot war.

And now? Pretty much a joke. Republicans somehow lost their edge.

US have the opportunity to severly weaken the russo-chinese block by just spending some billions, similar like they did it with Russia in Afghanistan during the '80ties...

[WonderMomma]

Politics in America are a pissing contest. Nothing more. One side trying to fuck the other and all in the name of [conditional] freedom.

As an American who was raised by republican parents in the later portion of the cold war, I don't even recognize their political convictions anymore. When I make any kind of argument I become a liberal, which has become a four letter word.

I don't like the democrats either.

Both sides just pit the American people against each other. Bring in mass media cable news, the internet and social media and shit is just beyond ridiculous. And frustrating.

Most Americans are just too far embedded in one side or the other for me to believe I will see any kind of change in my lifetime. Depressing.

[ljubodrag]

Oliver Stone explains that the United States nuked a Ukraine-Russia peace deal in March of 2022 because deep state warpigs don’t want the Donbas to be free.

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by ljubodrag ↗

Oliver Stone explains that the United States nuked a Ukraine-Russia peace deal in March of 2022 because deep state warpigs don’t want the Donbas to be free.

Your on a roll, Douglas Macgregor, Scott Ritter and Oliver Stone

[ljubodrag]

Diane Sare, an independent candidate for the US Senate from New York told that the current US policy towards the Ukrainian crisis is insane.

[ljubodrag]

Ex-CIA Analyst Larry Johnson: "This is part of the Western propaganda that knows that Zelensky is going to be killed or eliminated one way or another. Therefore, they would like to blame Russia for this. Again, they don't want to take responsibility for what they will do themselves. To be honest, I don't think Zelensky will be in power for long. I think his days are numbered."

[Guns N' Coffee]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/...iews-will-now/

Between 2015 and 2017, Oliver Stone spent 20 hours with Putin, discussing family, Ukraine and annexing Crimea. The footage has not aged well


“I just played ice hockey… and [yet] you’re the one who is tired!” jokes Russian President Vladimir Putin to a sleepy Oliver Stone. “Your muscles must hurt,” the soft-spoken filmmaker replies, flashing a toothy smile. It is episode three of the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s fawning four-part documentary series, The Putin Interviews, and I feel like I’m caught in the middle of a blossoming bromance.

Released on June 12, 2017, while the United States was still digesting the idea of a Trump presidency, The Putin Interviews were marketed by major network Showtime as an “unprecedented event”. With its All The Presidents Men-style typeface and snappy trailer that hinted at Frost vs. Nixon-style revelations, there was hope an Oscar-winning Stone might just make Putin sweat a little, especially around corrosive issues like rebuilding the Soviet Union (and what this might mean for Russia’s neighbours) or hacking a US election.

With 20 hours of footage that stretched from 2015 to 2017, there had to be something meaty in there, surely? This wasn’t the first time Stone had interviewed a divisive political figure. However, just like previous Oliver Stone interviews with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, the narrative of The Putin Interviews is more preoccupied with making a warm, fuzzy human being out of a dictator than pressing them on their indiscretions.

There is one particular scene that feels like a teenage fanboy getting the chance to meet their favourite pop star. “Do you ever have a bad day?” Stone wonders, open-eyed and dizzy with optimism. “I’m not a woman, so I don’t have a bad day. That’s just the nature of things,” answers Putin while walking through the golden corridors of the Kremlin. Of course, this casual male chauvinism is passed off by Putin with a shrug of the shoulder.

Each subsequent episode feels like sitting through a live reading of a LinkedIn page, as Putin lists inflated achievement-after-inflated-achievement and voices audacious conspiracy theories (including America being the primary investor in Middle Eastern Terrorist groups) that are greeted by Stone like absolute truths. In an interview with Stephen Colbert to promote this Showtime series, Stone argued his extremely laid-back approach to dealing with Putin was based on the idea that “you don’t make butter with vinegar”. As the studio audience laughs hysterically at Colbert’s joke that Stone’s puppy was probably being held hostage by the Russians off camera, the JFK director looks like he wants the ground to swallow him up.

Nearly five years on from its release, and amid Russia launching a widely condemned invasion of Ukraine, The Putin Interviews look even more embarrassing for the legacy of Oliver Stone. From the very first frame of this documentary, the film comes across as if it were commissioned by a Putin apologist, with a carefully selected Trump voiceover exusing his Russian counterpart’s murderous streak. The suggestion that Putin is misunderstood, and America has been the real aggressor all along, is delivered so bluntly it feels like you’ve just been slapped in the face by a KGB agent during a 3AM interrogation.

Like a Wikipedia page that has edited out all the bad bits, Putin talks gloriously about the old Soviet Union, his days as a spy, and even the war in Crimea. He is framed as a working class folklore hero. “America prevents positive rapprochement between Ukraine and Russia,” says Putin. Stone doesn’t disagree. The memory of Ukraine signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement with the EU in 2014 leaves Putin looking disgusted, as he complains about imports coming through “Russian territory”. Perhaps a director less concerned with hagiography might have pushed Putin a little harder on these viewpoints, but Stone just nods along like the Churchill dog.

In the third episode, Putin once again blames America for the Ukrainians seeing Russia as the enemy. “There is no threat from Russia!” he says matter-of-factly about the two countries’ future relations. “Some mistakes were made,” Putin offers of his ally Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria. Stone looks completely satisfied with these answers, perhaps still high off an early sequence where Putin showed he had recently purchased one of the documentarian’s books.

Given everything that has transpired during Putin’s bloody Ukraine invasion, these moments of silence feel particularly uncomfortable when watched in 2022. Stone uses stock footage of late Senator John McCain calling Putin a “KGB colonel and butcher”, but he is confronting the Russian leader with other men’s words and it feels like an obvious aversion tactic. You are left with the nagging feeling that you’re not witnessing a balanced political interview, but Stone trying to make besties with a de facto dictator.


Perhaps the most bizarre moment – well, aside from Stone forcing an unimpressed Putin (“It’s make-believe!”) to sit through Kubrick’s classic nuclear war satire Dr. Strangelove – is when Stone asks Putin about his grandchildren. “Do you play with them in the garden?” Stone beams, likely conjuring up images of Brando’s Don Corleone stumbling around an orange tree chasing a terrified toddler. “Very seldom,” says the Russian leader, revealing he gets in at 1.30AM and wakes up at 7AM.

Suddenly, poignant violin music rises into focus and a stock image of Putin riding a horse appears in the centre of the screen. It feels like pure propaganda designed to celebrate a tireless, sympathetic leader who is “too busy” to play with the kids. Goebbels would have been proud.

To be fair to Stone, he does start to find his teeth a little by the fourth episode. The idea of Russian interference in America election is covered, with Putin looking a little twitchy before reverting to his usual company line of “It was America, it wasn’t me.” As Putin repeatedly talks about reinforcing Russia’s strength in the face of NATO aggression, Stone boldly proclaims: “But, those who abuse power always say it is a matter of survival.”

Yet this rebuke is almost instantly traded for sickly pleasantries. “You’ve done very well by her,” says Stone of Putin’s impact on Russia. The Russian president warns the filmmaker that he will “suffer”, hinting that the Western media won’t be happy Putin has been given such a spotlight, and, without a hint of any edge, Stone replies: “Well, it is worth it if it brings peace and consciousness to the world!”

In the years since The Putin Interviews, Stone has continued his journey as a seemingly non-confrontational political interviewer. In 2021, he released an eight-hour film series about Kazakhstan’s former president Nursultan Nazarbayev. Just like his Putin film, it has been attacked by critics for being toothless and basking too much in the glow of an alpha male subject.

Wherever the 75-year-old film veteran’s career goes next (and a Trump interview is surely an inevitability), The Putin Interviews will mark a full circle moment where Stone completed his journey from creating anti-establishment films like Born On The Fourth of July and Wall Street, which smartly stood up to abusers of power, to being someone who appears to indulge those same abusers with endless warmth. “Next time it will be more relaxing!” Stone promises Putin towards the climax of the fourth episode, despite the fact his interviewee has barely broken into a sweat and looks like he’s just finished laying in a hammock. Let’s hope there isn’t a next time.

The Putin Interviews are available to watch on YouTube

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by ljubodrag ↗

Oliver Stone explains that the United States nuked a Ukraine-Russia peace deal in March of 2022 because deep state warpigs don’t want the Donbas to be free.

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

Your on a roll, Douglas Macgregor, Scott Ritter and Oliver Stone

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-b2302081.html

Steven Seagal declares himself ‘one million per cent’ Russian and lashes out at US ‘disinformation’

‘Over half of the people in America actually love Russia,’ actor claimed

Steven Seagal has declared himself “one million per cent” Russian after receiving an award from president Vladimir Putin.

The former Hollywood star was given an Order of Friendship medal after supporting the country following its invasion of Ukraine.

Seagal pledged his allegiance to Russia during an event held by International Movement of Russians in Moscow on Monday (13 March).

The group consists of non-Russian supporters of the country who want to shine a positive light on Russia in an attempt to have EU sanctions against the country lifted.

During the event, he also accused the US of spending “billions of dollars on disinformation, lies”, which he said was an attempt to “try to discredit, demoralise and destroy the emerging morale of Russia”.

He said: “Over half of the people in America actually love Russia and love Russians and know that they’re being lied to.”

Seagal, who was born in Michigan, said: “My father was pure Russian, and I was raised in a pure Russian household, because my mother was completely immersed in the Russian culture and she did not have parents.”

“So I grew up with Russian culture. I grew up loving Russia and loving all of what I learned about it from a very early age. And for me, I am on million per cent Russophile and and one million per cent Russian.”

Seagal’s comments come as relations between Russia and the US were branded “lamentable” after a Russian aircraft conducted what has been described as an unsafe intercept of a US Air Force surveillance drone.

The Pentagon shared footage of the collision, which occurred over the Black Sea.

The United States has thrown its support fully behind Ukraine since the war began and has provided Ukraine with $34bn in security aid since 2014.

During the last Congress, Democratic majorities in the US House of Representatives and the Senate, aided by more establishment Republicans, poured money into supporting the country.

Seagal was previously named the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special representative, acting as a go-between for Russian-American humanitarian relations.

Putin awarded him the Order of Friendship medal, which was introduced by former President Boris Yeltsin in 1994, for his “great contribution to the development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation”.

Seagal has also called Putin “one of the greatest world leaders, if not the greatest world leader, alive today”.