The US has been deliberately molding Ukraine into an “anti-Russian” country since 2014, and that is where one should look for the root causes of the present conflagration, American film director Oliver Stone has said.
"Who are we to point fingers at anyone?.. We're telling Russians what to do. I mean it's ridiculous, given what we've done," Stone said in an interview with Serbian media, published on 5 December.
The West is characterizing the present developments in Ukraine as "Russians invaded", Stone said, as he weighed in on Moscow’s ongoing special military operation which started on 24 February. However, there is no mention in the West of anything that has been happening in the Donbass since 2014, or how many people were displaced because the US was arming Ukraine.
"Since 2014, Ukraine was no longer neutral but anti-Russian, and that's what disrupted the balance," Stone underscored.
The Ukrainian crisis began in February of 2014, when the country's government was overthrown in a US and EU-sponsored coup d'etat, which led Crimea to break off from Ukraine and rejoin Russia, and sparked uprisings across Ukraine's south-east. Kiev's efforts to quell armed revolts in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk sparked a civil war.
Washington rushes to condemn any country it labels as supposedly violating the "rules-based international order", the film director who produced two documentaries about the events in Kiev, 'Ukraine on Fire' in 2016 and 'Revealing Ukraine' in 2019, which have faced bans and boycotts. However, as Stone insisted in the interview, "America breaks all the rules whenever it wants and you know it."
Stone also regretted having voted for the Democratic POTUS, Joe Biden.
America’s oldest sitting president has turned out to be very “dangerous”, said Stone, nurturing a "dream" of regime change in Moscow so the US could wield the kind of control over Russia that it did in the Nineties.
The choice by former president Barack Obama of Biden as his running mate in 2008, to appease the establishment Democrats, was "a huge mistake", Stone believes. He added that as both the Democrats and the Republicans are "beholden to the military-industrial complex", the only remaining hope is for a third party to emerge in the US.