Filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick’s interview with Tucker Carlson, released Jan. 10, has as of now 2.8 million views across social media platforms. The nearly two-hour interview, recorded in December of last year, has 2.5 million views on X, 140,000 views on Rumble, and 392,000 views on YouTube.
Stone, who has in recent years been constrained by the post-9/11 shift in Hollywood toward ever-greater control over writing and producing propaganda product of one sort or another for the military-monetary complex, has created a series of documentaries, including “Ukraine On Fire,” “The Putin Interviews,” “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” and “Revealing Ukraine,” both singularly, and in collaboration with several others, including director Igor Lopatonok and historian Peter Kuznick. The January 10 Carlson interview will be the first time that many Americans and other English-speakers will be exposed to several challenging formulations about current history that Stone and Kuznick, authors of the 2012 book and 10-part documentary series “The Untold History of the United States,” first explored and presented over a decade ago. More importantly, since Oliver Stone has spent as much or more time with Vladimir Putin than any other American, and Tucker Carlson, one of the closest supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, conducted an exclusive interview with President Putin that premiered almost a year ago on February 8,2024–the first, and still only such interview that Putin had held with any Western journalist since the February, 2022 Special Military Operation began, and which boasts 400 million views—this two-hour exchange among Carlson, Kuznick and Stone provides access to the best-informed evaluation of how and what Vladimir Putin thinks about “the present circumstances” that an American audience is likely to encounter, completely opposite to the U.S. State Department’s line.
During the interview, after a brief discussion on Annie Jacobson’s book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, Stone recalled that during his 2015-2017 interviews with Vladimir Putin, he introduced the Russian President to the 1964 Stanley Kubrick satire Dr. Strangelove: “Kubrick didn’t know anything about nuclear winter when he did the movie, but he had the underground system being described by the Dr. Strangelove, remember? By the way, you should show…I did a clip. I showed Strangelove to Putin. Dr. Strangelove. I showed it to (him!) I wanted him to sit through that climax, too.
TUCKER: Had he seen it before?
