Russia and US were close to World War III – Oliver Stone
Russia and the US came close to nuclear war during the three years of the Ukraine conflict, Oliver Stone has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Apr 30, 2025 - 07:28
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Tensions between the two superpowers reached Cold War heights during the Ukraine conflict, the director has said
There was a point during the last three years of the Ukraine conflict where Russia and the US were teetering on the edge of nuclear war, according to acclaimed filmmaker Oliver Stone.
Speaking to Russian students at the ‘Knowledge.First’ event in Moscow on Tuesday, Stone spoke out against the US role in the Ukraine conflict, as well as its biased coverage in Western media.
The Hollywood legend suggested that over the past three years, Moscow and Washington have relived the Cold War spike in tensions that previously culminated in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and said he hoped a corresponding wind-down would follow.
The United States and the Soviet Union came close to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War after the USSR positioned medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba, partly in response to the earlier deployment of American nukes in Turkey.
”I want to emphasize to you students how very close we came to World War III because of this awful leadership,” he said.
”We bring a great waste of our resources, and the height of this futility was a war which [former US President Joe] Biden recently dedicated to weakening Russia,” Stone said. “It is a retrograde war.”
Western media coverage of the conflict and Russia has shocked him during the past three years, the director admitted.
”Even at the height of the Cold War, we didn’t treat Russia like this,” he said. Whereas now, the media has trained people in the West to equate Russia with President Vladimir Putin, Stone added.
This is a tragic substitution of hatred for intelligence.
“The propaganda state in the West is an incredible empire. Far further and stronger than I ever imagined. You are unable to see the inside of the matrix,” he said.
Straight out of the works of George Orwell.
While the anti-war filmmaker has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, he has criticized Biden and the US “neoconservative movement” for the Ukraine conflict.
Stone produced the 2016 documentary ‘Ukraine on Fire’ showing the role Washington played in the 2014 Maidan coup that overthrew Kiev’s democratically-elected president Viktor Yanukovich.
