The well-known and controversial American film director Oliver Stone, who ruffled Establishment feathers with his 2017 four-part, four-hour interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was interviewed by the Washington Post on May 11, in which he denounced the ongoing “war against Russia” by the U.S. and NATO. He argued that, instead of this “suicidal path” of confrontation, the U.S. should “get along with China. Let’s get along with Russia, Iran and so forth.” The relevant section of the interview follows:
“Listen, there’s been a campaign, a war against Russia going on for a long time. It started again in the United States around 2006, '07, when he [Putin] made that speech in Munich [at the 2007 Munich Security Conference; http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/24034], but I think there’s no evidence really of the aggressiveness of Russia. The aggressiveness is truly coming from the NATO forces that have encircled Russia and that are also, by the way, encircling China. You know, this is a big policy point, huge, of huge importance, and if my life has any importance, maybe I’ll come to a place where I can deal with it, confront it….