Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #286" video.

@ralphzoombeenie2330 Freedom of speech isn't the issue, it's who's signing the checks. I'm not denying you the right to speak, I'm just saying I'm not interested in hearing from you if your son is getting a cushy job related to the topic. It's a conflict of interest.
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1) There's other fuels like Thorium. Also, we toss out most Uraniun unused. Spent fuel rods can be reprocessed back, so the Uranium stocks we have can last a lot longer. 2) With a surplus of energy, you can afford to use energy inefficient processes to create non-fossil oil. 4) Nuclear is only not economical because the power is so cheap. Electric cars also create CO2 emissions when being built. The point is making up for the emissions by reducing them over decades of operation. You'll also generate CO2 emissions building houses. Should we stop living in houses? 5) Nuclear waste disposal is a solved problem. Where are we going to dispose of them? No offense, but do some research. That's like asking "a diesel engine? where are we going to get diesel fuel?". It's not our fault you don't know how things work. Nuclear disposal exists. You people will keep asking where it will go until the end of time.
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@worthit4493 Nice to upvote your own comment, it was just minutes old. Being consistently a stooge is not a good thing. If your crusade against hypocrisy just leads you to rally around people who have been consistently on the wrong side, what good does it do?
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@ralphzoombeenie2330 Okay? The father in this case agrees with his son, considering he's also been an occasional guest on RT and even personally interviewed Putin. Their opinions can be treated separate, but the family finances are an easy way to pay someone off. If I support the Iraq war and my wife was getting paid off by Haliburton, that would ring a few bells.
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The movie director was a regular guest on RT. You know, a "source of information" and "news".
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@muffzy They're trash.
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@Steve Mc Carron McCarthy was partially vindicated as he was looking for spies and lo and behold, there were Soviet spies. How did you think they got the A-bomb? "McCarthyism" nowadays usually refers to the Hollywood blacklist but McCarthy did not participate in those hearings.
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@LuiSharPei What kind of question is that? Why would you assume I defend those people? Also, it's "applies" not "applys".
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@sumerrose88 That doesn't even make sense. An entire country is millions of people. One person getting paid to do a job is corruptible. If you're getting paid by an American think tank I have to check your biases. It doesn't mean Americans can't be trusted.
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@831lance They aren't. They create fake news like the Putin Burger.
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Preventing WW3 by supporting saber rattling, clashes, instability. Seems to me we're closer to WW3 than ever before.
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@AlexP-jz9sg "Eastern expansion" is just an excuse, countries join because they know they need protection. The 2014 "coup" was just the president fleeing and his own party disavowing him, and Victoria Nuland wasn't a puppet master. There was no crackdown on "Eastern Ukrainians" it was a conflict against Russian-armed and lead rebellions. Right Sector lost the 2014 elections. Follow the timeline? 2014. Russia invades and arms separatists to carve up Ukraine. That's the timeline. The Minsk Agreements were violated by DPR forces assaulting Debaltseve the day after they were signed.
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Opportunities to deescalate? Yanukovych banned free speech, the free press, freedom of assembly, paid thugs to beat up protesters, had riot police shoot steel slugs meant to disable vehicles at crowds, then had the Russian-trained Berkut special unit snipe at protesters. How is this deescalation? His own party disavowed him. He fled the country fearing prosecution. The parliament voted to remove him from power since he abandoned his duties. So much for a "coup". Slaughter in Donbass? 18 people died in total in 2021. That's not a slaughter. It's a mild conflict with ceasefire violations. The Minsk Agreements were broken the day after they were signed by DPR forces when they launched an assault on Debaltseve.
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Seems to me they pocketed the money rather than prepare.
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@sebastiandeisel There's a two billion year old natural nuclear reactor in Gabon. The "waste" has been there all this time. It's fine. Finland is finishing the construction of their geological deposit. If you want to solve it, it can. The problem is NIMBYs.
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@TK-ev Russia pulls all the strings to have another go at the usual pattern of carving out territory with separatist forces and then crying genocide to invade. People say "it's complicated".
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