Marco Rubio really bragging that Russia had to pay for jet fuel in cash like it’s some Cold War victory. Bro, you sound less like a Secretary of State and more like a 7/11 cashier flexing: “Ha! They didn’t even have Visa, had to pay in cash, no points, no cashback!” Meanwhile, Putin just dropped $85,000 like pocket change to keep a flying fortress in the air. That’s not “consequences,” that’s basically an oil tycoon paying his morning Starbucks bill. Rubio acting like America just bankrupted the Kremlin nah fam, you just turned Anchorage into the world’s most expensive gas station.

OLIVER STONE: “When you talk to American media, they don’t have a sense of history. They don’t recognize that we made a deal—America made a lot of deals. We made deals with Russia on NATO, on intermediate missiles, and on ballistic missiles back in the 1970s. And we broke both those agreements—those nuclear agreements, the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987) and the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 1972). We broke both of those deals. Russia is out in the cold, and we said, ‘Fuck you! That’s it, we’re ripping it up.’ By the way, Russia has a huge nuclear arsenal. What bothers me deeply is that the United States doesn’t seem to understand what war is. A war could happen very easily now. What the United States has done for the last four years under the Biden administration is provoke Russia. Poke the bear. Why? Because, apparently, we want to weaken Russia. This is the strategy. What strategy is that? It’s basically a state of war—saying we want to weaken you. That’s like trying to destroy you. We want to get rid of Putin and replace your administration with our guy, like Yeltsin used to be. I’ve even heard talk about dividing Russia up into three or four zones. It’s crazy talk. It makes no sense because we can’t do anything about it. And on top of it, we would be blown to pieces if we tried to do it. If America thinks it can get away with poking Russia and not get hurt, they’re dreaming. Where does this come from? It comes from the neoconservative movement that started up here in America, which has always been anti-Soviet, anti-Russian. You know the people involved—they were the ones who got us into wars in Iraq and Libya. They’re the expansionists who want a strong America that’s always challenging the Russians and the Chinese. This is what they want. But you can’t challenge someone who’s got the goods—they have the goods, and we don’t. We don’t even have a military that is ready to go to war, but we’re certainly ready to use the Ukrainian military as cannon fodder. It’s sad what’s going on because the idea of a Ukrainian nation as the beacon of democracy in Europe is something we’ve created in our heads. It is not, and never has been. It’s a Corrupt State.”

7:59 PM · Aug 17, 2025 · 80K Views