This is quite the interview. I found it challenging because it undermined so much of what I understood about the current state of play. That isn't to say I haven't become (or previously been) more aware of the highly polished propaganda of the west and more so over time, but that Oliver Stone talks about the west and his own country's politics and policies as scurrilous and underhand is revealing. It is also a measure of our relative freedom of speech that he can do so, so we need to bear that in mind when we get all antsy about freedom of speech, it's only really marginalized from mainstream media, but if you look (and not too hard) you will find sensible counter-narrative and those all-important alternative facts (it's a shame the phrase `alternative facts' got so buggered up as it was born).
There is a truth to this interview that is jarring. Some time ago I happened to look at some stats on Our World in Data (I fell down a rabbit hole of looking at military expenditure, population, conventional forces, land mass, capital, reserves, playing a game of mental Top Trumps if you like) and I came away thinking, that if Russia ever got out of its pram and decided to go first strike, that it would be crushed like a bug. The point was that having been down the rabbit hole and having this mental calculation glaring an answer at me I still clung to the notion of ... well it was once the Evil Empire, and the light of Glasnost was extinguished fairly quickly. So, I ignored my instinct and my own calculations answer, and now I have to sit here and feel disjointed and uncomfortable about things I held truer than not, and know I was probably wrong not to listen to my inner voice.
Oliver Stone's take on nuclear is very clear, we need more of it, simple fact. Our World in Data will help again.
https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy
https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy#what-are-the-safest-sources-of-energy
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