‘Vast
stupidity’: Oliver Stone slams ‘dumb’ US sanctions against Russia
Published
time: 4 Aug, 2017 15:34
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Fred Thornhill / Reuters
US
film director Oliver Stone has written a scathing Facebook post over
Washington's passage of the Russia sanctions bill. He suggested that US
intelligence agencies aren't doing their job and are misleading the public in
the "false-flag war" against Moscow.
The
post, which Stone titled 'Mid-Summer Anger,' begins by slamming Congress for
passing the bill.
"I
guess 'American Exceptionalism' includes the vast stupidity inherent in having
two giant oceans to distance us from the rest of humanity," he
wrote.
"With
all the Apples and Microsofts and computer geniuses we have in our country, can
we not even accept the possibility that perhaps our intelligence agencies are
not doing their job, and maybe, just maybe, are deliberately misleading us to
continue their false-flag war against Russia?
"Or
for that matter, that Russia itself may not be that invested in screwing up our
vaunted democracy with such sloppy malware as claimed?"
He
pointed to a "strong statement" put out by the
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), a group of former US
intelligence officers are challenging the
assessment that Russia hacked the Democrats during the 2016 presidential
election.
Referring
to a report issued by VIPS, Stone said that "with
this report alone...much less the overt lying and leaking that’s been going on,
both James Clapper (‘We don’t do surveillance on our own citizens’) and John
Brennan (‘Drones and torture? None of our business) should be investigated as
thoroughly as Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son, etc."
Stone
also slammed the 'Brennan-Clapper Report' which was given to former President
Barack Obama in January, during his final days in office.
The
report claimed that US spies cited intercepted communications
between Russian officials who called Trump’s victory a geopolitical success for
Russia, as evidence of Russian interference. It also said that US intelligence
identified the ‘go-betweens’ who allegedly handed over stolen Democratic Party
emails to WikiLeaks.
He
went on to accuse those in Washington of not thinking independently, and
instead blindly relying on mainstream media.
"Somebody
out there in DC, please explain to me this omission of common sense. Are the
Washington Post and the New York Times so powerful that no one bothers to read
or think beyond them? It seems the TV stations in this country take their copy
from them."
Stone
said he hopes Europe can "independently judge and discard" the
sanctions against Russia, which "are as dumb as giving out medals
to Generals who keep losing wars."
The
renowned film director went on to accuse Congress, the media, and the
military-industrial complex of "literally dying"for a
war.
"I
now fully realize how World War I started. People in power never really thought
it would happen, and when it did, thought it’d be over in weeks. You should
know the rest of that history. It doesn’t end well," Stone
concluded.
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