Oliver Stone won two Oscars (Director and Screen Writing) giving us a gritty, memorable anti Viet Nam war movie Platoon. His other Viet Nam movie – Born on the Fourth of July was pretty darn good too. But up until now, Stone has been a hard-core lefty – and admitted he did what virtually all media types have done for decades – vote for Democrats – like Obama or Biden – even though historically – Democrats typically start the wars: WW1, WW2, Korea, Viet Nam – and Republicans end them. But of course, little details about who actually starts these wars is not nearly as important to the illiberal left as it is to vilify whoever the Republican is in office during the end of said conflagration. Until the Bush Globalists came along – it was pretty much a monopoly that you needed a good progressive quasi-Marxist socialist Democrat in power to actually start a war in America since WWI.
Yes, even though Stone piled on like all good Democrats to trash Nixon – yes, it is true, Nixon ended the fiasco started by JFK, and most notably that Ford Motor Company “wiz kid” bean counter that gave us perhaps the biggest mistake in US Military History – Viet Nam – Robert McNamara. If there is a place in hell for American traitors and scum bags in Govt – McNamara would easily be at the top of the list of the vilest – extending the war when he knew it was going to end badly – simply to justify and rationalize the “Domino theory” that we had to stop Communism in Viet Nam to prevent it from coming here. The “Domino theory” sounds absurd today in hindsight – but the war mongers in the Democrat Party – pushed it – and for those of us who indeed buy the notion that some three-letter agency offed JFK to keep making money for the Military Industrial complex and prolong the war – yes, Stone and many of us are “conspiracy” nuts. If they ever open up the files – LBJ and some rather unsavory deep state folks like McNamara, I suspect, are responsible for contributing to the over 50,000 American deaths in Viet Nam and the assassination of JFK – at least in part because he dared to discuss ending the Viet Nam war. I reference a good article reasoning that indeed JFK was about to pull out of Viet Nam before he was assassinated – and that LBJ and the CIA spent quite a bit of effort to cover this up: “The main recommendations, which appear in Section I(B) of the McNamara-Taylor report, were that a phased withdrawal be completed by the end of 1965 and that the “Defense Department should announce in the very near future presently prepared plans to withdraw 1,000 out of 17,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Vietnam by the end of 1963.” At Kennedy’s instruction, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger made a public announcement that evening of McNamara’s recommended timetable for withdrawal.”
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/galbraith-exit-strategy-vietnam/
Back to Stone – he has changed his tune about the Democrat party. Stone must be reading my comments – or maybe he stumbled onto my blog – or more likely he simply wised up. I guess he finally caught on that the media and the colleges have failed us miserably – pushing unwinnable wars – and betraying our only real ally in the ME – Israel.
Anyone with a tiny smidgen of Russia-Ukraine history could see that there was NO way Russia was ever going to let an Independent Ukraine and Crimea join NATO/EU. Russia would never give up the Crimea Black Sea port to the EU and NATO. And no Russian nationalist – Putin or not – was going to allow EU to take over the most prosperous and populous of the former Soviet states. Stalin was willing to starve millions of Ukrainians to force them to privatize their farms for the “collective” – rest assured Putin has no problem seeing thousands die on the battle field to keep Ukraine a Russian proxy.
Only bad guys are benefiting from this unnecessary war – the military industrial complex – Oligarchs in Ukraine, EU and US – and everyone else suffers: an estimated 25 million Ukrainian men and women are left to fight 140 million Russians (about 12 million refugees of 37 million population left the building after Russia invaded in 2022, according to the BBC and NBC). So, tell me logically how this does anything but end badly for Ukraine given those numbers without NATO putting boots on the ground? And the war mongers are indeed pushing us closer to WW3 by confronting Russia – and speculating that once Ukraine runs out of cannon fodder – they’ll put US or EU boots on the ground. And instead of embracing Russia and changing the confrontational trajectory after the Cold War – there the illiberal locusts of the left and Rino War mongers go – pushing Russia into the hands of bad actors: China, NK, and Iran. These greedy megalomaniacs are indeed playing “Russian Roulette” – and we are all on the wrong side of that gun!