Regis Tremblay: A Filmmaker’s Candid Reflection on America, War, and Hope for Change 

Regis Tremblay, Head of the Friends of Crimea Club In the USA delivered this address at the International Scientific & Diplomatic Congress In Yalta on March 28^th, 2025. This speech challenges the notion of America’s historical and current "greatness," urging reflection on its contradictions and ongoing struggles. Here is a transcript of the speech.

Today, I've been listening to you talk about my country. And today, I want to talk to you about making America great again. You will be surprised what I am going to say.

We have a wonderful Constitution in the United States. It's been an inspiration to millions of people and many countries around the world. What is most inspiring of these words? We hold these truths to be unalienable, that every man has a right to life, to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But you know, when they wrote that Constitution, they were not thinking about Native Americans, Indians. They were not thinking about slaves. They were not thinking about common poor working people.

American people had to fight a hundred years later to win these rights. The right for women to be able to vote, the right for slaves to be able to vote, the right for common working people to be able to vote. What we hold sacred, I say the American people, is the First Amendment. And the First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech. It also guarantees the right of freedom of assembly and protest. And it guarantees the right to bring our grievances to the government. That is not the America that I left five years ago to come to Russia.

I have asked myself the question, when Donald Trump says, "Make America great again," I ask, when was America ever great?

 

You know our history? When the Europeans, the white Europeans, came to America in the 15th century, they began a genocide of maybe a million Native American people, who had been there for thousands of years. And then of course there is the legacy of slavery. You know, I think all but five years, the United States has been at war with somebody. For my entire life, the United States has been at war every single year.

We have known nothing but war. You know the history from World War II on? You know that the United States is the only country to have ever dropped atomic bombs on another nation. I kept a record about how many times the United States has invaded other countries. It's over 500 times.

And that doesn't count the coups, the political assassinations, and the overturning of governments. The United States of America has broken hundreds of treaties, beginning with the Native Americans. It was the United States that broke unilaterally the nuclear treaties with Russia.

All of us here remember the Minsk one and Minsk two agreements. Make America great again?

Your government, President Putin and Sergey Lavrov have said that America is a regime agreement incapable, not capable of keeping agreements. They never have.

When Donald Trump was running for president, he said, "If I'm elected, I will stop the war in Ukraine on day one." Really? He could have, you know, he could have stopped sending money and weapons to Ukraine. He could have stopped the Europeans in NATO from sending American-made weapons mostly to Ukraine. He did not.

And Trump now is engaging with Russia. The diplomatic, the phone calls from Trump to Putin, from Marco Rubio to Sergey Lavrov. The meetings in Jeddah. Words, it's only words.

The one good thing that has happened so far is America and Russia are again talking to each other. And for that I say humanity can take a step backwards and thank God the threat of nuclear annihilation has been reduced significantly because they're talking.

Trump said, "I want to be the peace president." I have to laugh when I hear that, because he's continued to support the war in Ukraine. And now, the war in Ukraine is on the second page. It's what's happening in the Middle East, the Israeli genocide of thousands and thousands of innocent men, women and children in Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. And now, he wants to bomb the hell out of Yemen.

Is that peace president? Does he want to get the peace prize like Barack Obama did for talking about peace?

America is no longer a free country. We do not have fair elections. They're all rigged. You cannot even run for president in America unless you are selected by very powerful wealthy money people.

We are not a democracy. We are not free. People today and Donald Trump is doing this every day. He is suppressing anyone who supports Palestine. He is putting in jail American people who fought and protested against Israel's genocide.

Okay. I cannot return to my country. I have been living here for five years. I'm a filmmaker. I've made over 650 videos, broadcasts and films trying to show the truth about Russia to American people. I have also contradicted my government and exposed the lies.

My advice to you is to be very cautious about your optimism that somehow the United States will change. I would not get too excited about Donald Trump. And I would keep in mind that it is not just the United States of America that is at war with Russia, it's the UK.

God bless Russia and victory will be Russian.

 

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