
American film director Oliver Stone and American historian Peter Kuznick, who is also the director of the Institute for Nuclear Studies there, used Kosovo and the NATO intervention in 1999 to advance the Sino-Russian agenda against the US and NATO.
“Kosovo is a gangster state,” Oliver Stone said on an X network podcast with journalist Tucker Carlson, with Peter Kaznik also present, trying to portray Kosovo as a failed state harboring gangsters, an agenda that Serbia is constantly pursuing. trying to advance Russia.
Stone said the Kosovo war was “at the deepest level a violation of everything we’re talking about.”
“They held a somewhat dubious referendum … But we said they are free, they are no longer part of Serbia.” Kosovo as such is a gangster state with a big goal. “I was there and I can tell you what happened was terrible,” Stone said, disputing the fact that NATO had intervened to stop the ethnic cleansing.
Meanwhile, Kaznik emphasized that Russia has a completely different view of what happened in Serbia compared to the West.
When Carlson asked what the purpose of the bombing of Serbia in 1999 was, Stone replied that despite the West’s justifications that it was about “catching a dictator”, the real goal was to destabilize and disintegrate Yugoslavia.
“We bombed a city in Europe in 1999, Belgrade. Think about that,” Stone said, noting that this was ‘an example of an American policy based on ’divide and conquer,‘ ’divide and conquer.’”
He added that “about 96 percent of Russians believe that what happened was a war crime. The United States is in the process of building a rules-based international order, which means they have to go through the UN. But when they couldn’t achieve that, “they just did it militarily.”
NATO only intervened when Slobodan Milosevic, then president of Serbia, refused to sign an agreement in Rambouillet, France.
But who are Oliver Stone and Peter Kaznik?
American University professor Peter Kaznik spoke on the propaganda channel Russia Today before appearing on Carlson’s podcast, where he also spread Russian agendas.
There he said that “the strategy pursued by the US in the Ukraine conflict risks provoking serious reactions from Russia.”
In an interview with a Russian media outlet, he warned against assuming that Russia’s red lines could be crossed without consequences.
“Russia continues to draw red lines and the US continues to cross them,” assuming that Russia is ‘bluffing’ and that President Vladimir Putin ‘will not make good on his threats,’ Kuznick said.
He described this approach as a “fool’s game” and warned that it could have serious consequences.
Kuznick tried to stir up fear of a “possible Russian reaction” and gave the impression that Russia would remain passive. He called it “madness” and emphasized that such assumptions “put global security at risk”.
In December, according to Kaznik, Putin accused the USA of fueling the escalation by supplying Kiev with weapons and pushing Russia to a “red line”. He claimed that the West was using these provocations to instil fear in its population.
Referring to Donald Trump’s policies, Kaznik noted that Trump “does not see Russia as an irreconcilable enemy”, despite his administration offering aid to Ukraine in 2019 and tightening sanctions against Russia.
“I don’t see Trump as a friend of Russia. Unlike many people in the West, I don’t think Putin is responsible for this. “But I see that he is willing to make a deal,” he said.
“Trump doesn’t have strong values or strong convictions,” meaning ‘he could either go worse, dramatically worse, or he could go dramatically better,’ Kuznick added.
Kuznick warned that crises in Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan or the South China Sea could quickly escalate into major conflicts, including nuclear war. This view is also held by the regime in Russia, which is constantly threatening nuclear war.
Kaznik called on the United States to adapt to a “multipolar world” and emphasized that diplomacy is more important than unilateral action.
The term “multipolar world” is used by both China and Russia in their efforts to combat US dominance.
He also criticized outgoing President Joe Biden’s administration for its “aggressive foreign policy and unwavering support for Israel’s actions in Gaza, which he said undermine Washington’s global standing.”
A few months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kaznik suggested in one of his analyses that China should act as a peace broker in the war.
One of the reasons he gave was that China respects Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, thus refuting Putin’s claims to the contrary.
He also referred to Putin’s statement that Xi is his dearest friend in the world and that China is Russia’s most important trading partner and “an important ally in the fight against American hegemony and global unipolarity”.
He also stated that it was in China’s interest to maintain the relative peace and stability (despite the numerous wars in the US) that had allowed the country to “grow economically on a scale that is completely unprecedented in human history”.
In addition, he pushed the agenda that China wants to pursue as a mediator in the war in Ukraine and tried to portray Xi as a peacemaker, which would be far more useful to him as a dictator.
Oliver Stone believes that America has missed the chance to be a partner to Russia and China, “who are now our main enemies”, as he said on British presenter Russell Brand’s podcast “Stay Free” in July 2023.
The American director believes that “American propaganda” is the main culprit in the distorted portrayal of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“He (Vladimir Putin) is not the monster that the American propaganda machine portrays him as, and that is an unfortunate tragedy,” the director said, denying the reality of the killings that occur almost daily as a result of Russian attacks in Ukraine.
Stone noted that he had asked the Russian president direct and honest questions while filming a documentary about Vladimir Putin in 2017. However, he did not recognize a “warrior” in the Russian president, Stone said.
Putin refers to American politicians as “American partners” and always advocates constructive cooperation.
Stone had previously made a documentary about the Russian president, which was based on a long conversation with him. In 2016, he produced a film about the events in Ukraine in 2014 entitled “Ukraine in Flames” together with Ukrainian director Igor Lopatenko.
A few years later, the two directors made the documentary “Discovering Ukraine”, which also included an interview with the Russian president. Both films were shown on Russian television.
In an interview with the portal MuviWeb at the end of 2023, Stone accused the USA of wanting to take away Russia’s sovereignty in order to seize its resources.
According to him, Russia became stronger after Vladimir Putin came to power at the beginning of 2000, which in no way corresponds to the USA’s goals.
The American director emphasized that the USA does not want an independent Russia, but rather wants to take away its sovereignty in order to gain access to the Eurasian continent, which is very rich, like Russia, which has great natural resources. .
In May 2024, he declared at the Cannes Film Festival in an interview for Belgrade Politics that he loved Serbia and that Serbia was pursuing an “intelligent policy”.
“I love Serbia, you are pursuing an intelligent policy. I know that you have not imposed sanctions against Russia and I respect your principles. You have smart policies and you have friends,” Stone told /The Geopost/.