Posted on 09/23/2014 3:22:25 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
US film director Oliver Stone said in an interview published Tuesday he admired Russian President Vladimir Putin and understood his actions in Crimea and Ukraine.
Stone, a Vietnam veteran turned polemicist filmmaker best known for his movies "Platoon", "Wall Street" and "JFK", called Putin a "strong person" who saved Russia from the "hands of bandits" in the 1990s.
Speaking of the Kremlin's actions in Ukraine, Stone told the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government newspaper: "In my view, Putin occupies a defensive position, protecting Russia's key geopolitical interests."
"I understand why Putin could not abandon Crimea," he said, noting that Russia's Black Sea fleet was based on the peninsula which the Russian president annexed in March.
Stone also said he recently met Edward Snowden in Moscow as preparation for a film he is doing on the fugitive ex-NSA analyst.
"We plan to start filming in the early months of next year and finish the film by the end of 2015," he said.
Stone added that he is not taking any moral position on Snowdon and his revelations about extensive US snooping at home and abroad. But he he praised Russia for giving him political asylum.
Russia wants to show that "there should be an alternative to a world completely controlled by the United States," he said.
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If I was a totalitarian loving control freak, I’d agree.
Doesn’t Oliver Stone have reason to hate Putin?
He was always a Fascist Sympathizer.
Thanks again, Oliver Stoneheart.
I’m sure he’s shooting for one that would even make the leftists say he’s giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
MAN all that coke he did on the set of 1983 remake of Scarface really rot his brain which I have agree Scarface is good remake of 1932 Paul Muni version
Putin is a strong person. If he wasn’t he would have never made in anywhere in the Soviet Union or The Russian Federation.
Stone is a commie and enemy of the United States, always has been, always will be. Yes, I know that he served in Vietnam, but he came back embittered by the experience and embraced the ideology of the New Left wholeheartedly.... no matter what the US did, it was wrong.
Actually I can understand Putin’s motives.
They are, in effect the actions of a classic expansionist empire. It is possible if the Russians handle it right that they can, should they ever relinquish their empire have fairly good relations with these ex-colonials as the British and Indians seem to get along well together
I realize this sound horrid but if the Russians were to go in there and convert all those South Siberian Muslims into Orthodox Christians it might even be a good thing in the long run
Russians are not carriers of Christianity.
LOL! Stone supports Putin. Go figure!! /s
I certainly don’t back Putin but he is more of a leader than we have and Russia has a flat tax and isn’t cowing to social liberals. I used to hope for the defeat of our enemies. Now I’m thankful we have strong enough enemies to keep the enemy within and the UN (enemy without) from totally taking over the world. Also America becomes stronger when it has strong opponents. The problem is I’m not sure that more power in Washington DC over the world benefits us at all.
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