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1. … the war could happen very easily now<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Excerpt from remarks by American film director Oliver Stone in an interview with Roger K\u00f6ppel for Die Weltwoche, August 14, 2024 : <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We’re fighting over nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’re fighting over pride and fear of Russian and Chinese ’empires’\u2014BRICS taking over the economic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, that’s happening, and it will happen, and nobody’s going to stop it unless you go to war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfortunately, America should not go to war for trade, ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Economically, we may end up as number two, we may end up as number three, we may end up dropping back, but we’re alive and we’re part of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t see what’s wrong with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t have to be the bully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t have to be the dominant factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We talk about a hegemonic world where the United States is in control\u2014that’s not realistic anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world is multipolar, and unfortunately, we haven’t been able to accept that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t understand why we can’t accept it unless you’re some kind of frozen conservative in this country who sees any foreigner as a danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the problem is the United States has got to educate itself.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. “When you talk to American media, they don’t have a sense of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They don’t recognize that we made a deal\u2014America made a lot of deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We made deals with Russia on NATO, on intermediate missiles, and on ballistic missiles back in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And we broke both those agreements\u2014those nuclear agreements, the INF and the ABM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We broke both of those deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia is out in the cold, and we said, ‘Fuck you! That’s it, we’re ripping it up.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the way, Russia has a huge nuclear arsenal. It may not be as sophisticated or precise as ours, but it certainly is heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What bothers me deeply is that the United States doesn’t seem to understand what war is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A war could happen very easily now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What the United States has done for the last four years under the Biden administration is provoke Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poke the bear. Why? Because, apparently, we want to weaken Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What strategy is that? It’s basically a state of war\u2014saying we want to weaken you. That’s like trying to destroy you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We want to get rid of Putin and replace your administration with our guy, like Yeltsin used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve even heard talk about dividing Russia up into three or four zones. It’s crazy talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It makes no sense because we can’t do anything about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And on top of it, we would be blown to pieces if we tried to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If America thinks it can get away with poking Russia and not get hurt, they’re dreaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where does this come from? It comes from the neoconservative movement that started up here in America, which has always been anti-Soviet, anti-Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You know the people involved\u2014they were the ones who got us into wars in Iraq and Libya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They’re the expansionists who want a strong America that’s always challenging the Russians and the Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But you can’t challenge someone who’s got the goods\u2014they have the goods, and we don’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t even have a military that is ready to go to war, but we’re certainly ready to use the Ukrainian military as cannon fodder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s sad what’s going on because the idea of a Ukrainian nation as the beacon of democracy in Europe is something we’ve created in our heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is not, and never has been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a corrupt state.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n