Noam Chomsky On The Russia-Ukraine War.
2023 ж. 9 Мам.
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Noam Chomsky shares his 2023 perspective on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, and where does he think this conflict is heading in the future.
Full interview here: kzhead.info/sun/lNqYYLSggZatbIU/bejne.html
Chomsky's 2022 perspective on the Russia-Ukraine War: kzhead.info/sun/lZSTZdeGeKRupIE/bejne.html
Download the full transcript of the interview: throughconversations.ck.page/74977804d7
full interview with Chomsky here - kzhead.info/sun/lNqYYLSggZatbIU/bejne.html
@Noam Chomsky is a Nazi creeper. @Noam Chomsky doesn't like Palestinians, @Noam Chomsky hates Jews
Can you post transcripts for every Chomsky video including this one. He knows so much about foreign affairs and policy that you have to have the transcript to verify it and research further on the individual events/topics/conflicts.
What gets me is he never says anything negative about Russia 🤔
:) only smart comment here
He is just a useful idiot playing on Russia’s side.
Reminds me of the soviet times. Same left-wing useful idiocy.
Yes because he understands Russia has been bullied for years and they stood up to the bully.
@@alexkondryuk7330 yes, one of the biggest bullies and bandits in the world Putin - was bullied. 🤣 You know what? Also the Nazi Germany was bullied. Pour people.
As old as he is, this man may live to see the end of humanity.
I rather doubt it, somewhow - given that he's 95 already, and quite clearly not long for this life.
well that's uplifting
Why do you call it a conflict when it's the full scale war.
It's not a war
@@Arfabiscuit where you at?
@@Arfabiscuit )))
LOL, Ukraine has proven that they can lose to just Wagner. Russia says their goal the the Russian speaking areas and demilitarization through a war of attrition. If it was a full scale war, there Ukraine's NATO style army would be wipe out within days.
@@Arfabiscuitit's a war of invasion.
Someone is paying attention. Yes it is the most dangerous time in human history
Jesus Comin back soon repent
Worse than in 1962.
Isn't is great to live in a country that enables you to say what you believe, or just troll , without being arrested.
That's not what Julian Assange told.
Isn't it great we live in a country where people ignore Chomsky's many meetings with Epstein and visits to Lolita Island?
I agree
@@christiandeleze7693 Assange was also arrested for the rape or attempted rape of two Swedish women.
@@christiandeleze7693 Julian assange was a Russian puppet who was only interested in rooting out American scandals .
“As the Khmer Rouge were about to take over, Noam Chomsky wrote that their advent heralded a Cambodian liberation, “a new era of economic development and social justice.” The new era turned out to be the killing-fields that took the lives of two million Cambodians.”
He was also an apologist for Slovadon Milosevic.
From Western biased ChatGPT - The US interference 1960-70s, particularly during the Vietnam War & the subsequent Cambodian Civil War HAD SEVERE & LASTING consequences: Bombing Campaign: From 1969-73, the US conducted Secret Bombing campaign in Cambodia, known as Operation Menu, to target North Vietnamese & Viet Cong forces who were using Cambodian territory for their operations. The bombings were intended to disrupt enemy supply lines & bases but resulted in Extensive CIVILIAN casualties & the destruction of infrastructure (AS ALWAYS by US/UK strategy of destruction). Support for Lon Nol Regime: In 1970, US-backed military coup led by General Lon Nol overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the then head of state of Cambodia. The US supported the Lon Nol regime both politically & militarily, providing financial aid, weapons, & military advisors. Incursion & Ground Operations: In 1970, US & South Vietnamese forces launched ground invasion into Cambodia as part of efforts to counter the Viet Cong & North Vietnamese presence. This incursion, known as Operation Rockcrusher, aimed to disrupt enemy bases & supply routes but faced significant opposition & encountered widespread resistance. Destabilization & Civil War: US involvement in Cambodia further exacerbated internal divisions & FUELED the growth of insurgent groups, particularly the Khmer Rouge. The war & US interference contributed to political instability, economic disruptions, & the displacement of large populations within Cambodia. SUPPORT for Khmer Rouge: While the US did not directly support the Khmer Rouge, their actions indirectly contributed to the group's rise to power. The bombing campaigns & military operations destabilized the country, creating conditions that allowed the Khmer Rouge to gain support & ultimately seize power in 1975
@@m_c5169 why did you not said that years ago when the ukrainiens were killing russians living in ukraine. the same for what US and UK invided Syria, Lybia, Iraq etc. there was a peace before the war which was broken again by the warmorging west and the US military complex. interestingly the more poeple die, the more money they make. is there anything the western media said is true? like the nord stream was blow by the Russians and so on
@@m_c5169 "the USA post-WW2 has not attacked a democratic country even if the democracy was wallpaper thin" -- except, you fundamentally undermine all that by ignoring those 'not attacked' because 'usually' the US didn't need to 'directly' attack; as there are more than one way of 'attacking'. The actual arguably 'real' (historically) 9-11 i.e. 1973 Chilean coup d'état, says everything about not needing to directly attack, but directly interfering, with 'advisors' et-al, to ensure the same outcome, in overturning a democratically elected civilian government, that the US didn't like. Then there's the US interference in Iran, supporting groups that could never be 'elected' so ensuring Islamofascism, i.e. what we have had since, and now; and the whole destabilisation of the middle east... where Iraq was, simply put, the main stabilising force; before the US completely destabilised the whole country; which never needed to be the case, even after the fall of Saddam...
@@Richard_L_Y The CIA ensuring the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953 was about oil, but it did not "(support) groups that could never be 'elected' so ensuring Islamofascism". It supported the Shah which, while a brutal authoritarian, brought Iran closer to Western values. If you want to talk about US supporting fascism, look no further than the blind support of today's Israel.
the very beginning, the question is intriguing, got me to watch it further
'Its the most dangerous time in human history' - sips coffee
It's exciting !
Cuz he knows he can't change it
Three letters: R-F-K
Repent and say Jesus im a sinner please Come upon my body and into my heart
When you are that age, why worry 🤷♂️
Paraphrasing: "We don't know why the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia broke down last year but I am going to blame Britain and the US anyway."
That’s his usual way
We definitely know it was the US
We know for sure that Ukraine was defeated, that Ukraine was admitted defeat in that negotiations, that terms of surrender was in process of negotiating and Russia was very compliant, and then came first Boris Johnson and then other western politicians with order - not surrender, we are taking lead here. And they did, continued war with Ukrainian soldiers with several dozen polish and romanian nato soldiers, many western officers and crews, huge amount of ammunition, weapons, new air defense, communications and all what was already destroyed by Russia. And war continued as NATO - Russia war.
Nonsense, why do you feel the need to lie? We know Boris Johnson flew down immediately and demanded Ukraine cease peace talks saying "Ukraine should negotiate from a position of strength"... Those words are not going to age well in the history books, will you flag waving idiots ever admit to being duped? Probably not, you just wouldn't be able to mentally handle the fact this war wasn't a "noble west defending freedom", as laughable as that even sounds people like you actually believe that pompous nonsense don't you?
Im sure the most powerful country in the world the past 80 years who's known to influence world afairs either directly (literally) or indirectly had nothing to do with it. Are you that thick?
So let me guess......It's all our fault??
Yep… trying to expand NATO to Georgia and Ukraine, despite the warnings (2008) from France (Sarkozy) and Germany (Merkel) that this was a terrible idea, was a big fat mistake.
You are not the government, and the government is not the country. But you can only have a government for the people if they are perpetually pushed from below
@@javiermiranda5769 Oh yes, of course- It’s not the aggressor’s fault. The Ukrainians should’ve sat back and let Putin’s tanks roll in. Poor ol’ Putin, meant no harm by it. Lets blame ourselves while his thuggish mercenaries and brutal military rampage. How silly of me, how naive of the Ukrainians. Remember that - if your country ever faces a massive invading force bombing its infrastructure and murdering its civilians.
Yes. The greatest threat to humanity is humanity.
Noam how is Epstein?
It's not a conflict. It's an Invasion, a War. Mister host.
So the United States invaded Iraq for the right reason? Yes or not?
He's omitting a key point. There is one party that could end the war straight away. And return to their borders. Inconvenient truth.
USA should leave Iraq and Syria then!
@@HungaryBased what about Syria? What about the USA? What about? What about?
As you over look, that the party that you support has come to be in a coup d'é·tat and the EASTERN PART HAS BEEN IN REVOLT SINCE 2014. Ukraine has been at war in the east since 2014 and instead of their Army, they send 'volunteers' from their west, promising them land in the east. There are no heroes here.
What would the US do if China persuaded Mexico to become a member of a China-Russia-India military organization? It would blow Mexico to dust. But to you only Russia is evil.
Mr. Chomsky was asked about the war yet gave a rambling diatribe on America. A far safer topic than to talk about Ukraine.
He's been doing that his entire career.
He IS talking about Ukraine. He's e is putting the Ukraine War in Global Context, and the motives of the United States, position on the Ukraine War, motivation for supporting it, in context of US global objectives relative in Europe and Asia, etc. . Broaden your parasigm.
@@carladehaas7866 well if he didn’t say this is Russia’s fault and theirs alone, then he’s flat out wrong
He answered. It is the West who is continuing and perpetuating this war. Which will soon backfire on them. The west will soon push for their own militaries to be directly involved. Very sad that most Americans are to busy watching their sports and entertainment
@@sifunmon What makes you think that ?
Chomsky is a great example of how one can be clever and stupid at the same time.
He is smart and also an absolute a$$hole. He got wealthy in the United States, and yet he spends his time slamming the United States. I suggest he move to Russia right now. Or China.
Underrated comment
Right… I assume you place yourself in the ‘clever’ category? Well, with this comment of extraordinary hubris and delusion, I assure you, you are firmly in the ‘stupid’ camp.
It is revealed that he was a client of that one guy who "killed himself" and had that particular island.
All encompassing dunning-kruger's effect.
If the fear of nuclear war prevents the U.S. from taking necessary action, then you've incentivized every aggressor to become nuclear capable.
are you dumb bro? Why would you risk nuclear certainty?
that was the case when the US was the only nuclear power as well.
@@11235but Yeah, the CCP has thrown Xinjiang Uyghurs into concentration camps because of US hegemony 🙄
You can't answer valid arguments?
@@jamesgo2014 Doz100 didn't make an argument. He attempted to put words in my mouth. I used the word "aggressor" because that's what I meant. I don't presume every nation state that opposes US hegemony is an enemy. If he does, then that's his problem; but don't try to strawman me.
Strange how there's no blame or wariness of Vlad Putin in Noam's views.
It's not Putin's fault!
@@mariaadelecagna3540 - when You're right You're right , Chomski's blatant 'onesidedness' is Not Putin's fault - the war INSIDE Ukraine howevver , a couple of hundred dead and/or maimed CHILDREN are most-fuc.... certainly NOT Zelenski's "fault"
yeahh ...not strange at all explanation is in video
@@kinidiosodlosios6892 Well most of the world thinks he's full of garbage. You might be as well.
Because Putin isn't American.
Only 0:48 seconds in and Chomsky is on about "What about Iraq?". His first sentence in fact. Well done.
Santa regifting coal
He’s a Russian asset.
@@Pekka.Pekka.1296 no he's not, but he seems to like "what about-ism" that said he's just at the ripe age of maybe quitting commentating geopolitics in some kind of a descent way.. he didn't say much that resembles reality, maybe time to retire from these interviews, he gave much appreciated alt insights decades ago and shouldn't kill his legacy by trying to comment on today's geopolitical mess..
Of course he his, if Russia started wailing like little btches about how another country was doing an "illegal invasion and that was so evil it could never be accepted and the evil monsters must be stopped" and so on, then everyone on earth would turn around and say you just illegally invaded Ukraine... what are you talking about? And guess what... that's exactly what the world says to the US and NATO! Welcome to reality. Those who go around illegally invading countries don't get to hold the moral high ground, shouldn't need explaining. Unfortunately Russia is not doing anything exceptional and is doing it to nowhere near the extremes the US and UK have been over the past 20 years, if you can't see that and understand why its relevant you are wilfully blinding yourself. I'm sure the 24 hour propaganda telling your race and culture are superior and represent "freedom, morality, reason" and the "foreign other" are "evil orcs who must be destroyed" plays a part in that wilful delusion. It always works for the weak-minded, it makes them feel like their insignificant lives are part of something bigger and not just gristle to be ground for the cynical interests of the tiny ultra wealthy, all powerful oligarchy
@@Pekka.Pekka.1296 Smooth brain
This guy is in his own world.
And not in a good way .
Everybody is in it's own world!
yep
Quite a scholar !
The guy knows what he is talking about and a very well informed intellectual.
"what's your opinion on Rus-Ukr war?" "sure, lemme talk about anything else"
What is your opinion on Hiroshima and Vietnam, Uncle Sam ? "It has been done to save lives...."
But the US was attacking IRAQ, and is defending UKRAINE, so to compare American leaders going to their capitals is not an equal comparison. It’s incredible that Chomsky has nothing bad to say about Russia, the physical instigator of the violence. He used to be my idol.
Never ask: - a man his salary - a woman her age - Noam Chomsky's opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian war
the "never ask" comes from exploitive dishonest system. Friends share
Then what are you doing listening to this? Did you not read the title before you opened it up?
@@lah6739 Immature US/UK indoctrination :(
@@DimitarBerberu Ironic
@@marw9541 Yes, ironic & confused West. Wants "Freedom of speech" but not the inconvenient Truth ;)
Amazing. Pure drivel from start to finish (and we know why negotiations broke down: the Bucha massacres. Predictable he'd not mention those)
Bucha was obviouely staged for dramatic effect
What you don't know and refuse to accept is that "Bucha massacres" was fake. Organized by Ukraine and the USA with exact intention: break down negotiations. The USA NEED the war.
Bucha is a dramatization of the SBU from the bodies of those killed during shelling in mutual confrontation, the evidence base is not presented that it was done directly by Russian troops when they were on this territory.
He lost me there, too. Ukrainian anger is real, Noam.
Bucha massacre and Ukraine is winning in Bhakmut. That's what Ukraine tells us. And you believe.
People in comments saying Chomsky is some kind of Putin apologist. Did we watch the same video? He explicitly condemns "Putin's war of aggression", says there's no justification for it, and that the US should be helping Ukraine defend itself. He's repeatedly called Putin a brutal dictator.
Him calling it a proxy war by the US is more than enough to designate him a pathetic fraud. What a fucking ridiculous thing to say. Just because the US is involved doesn't automatically make it bad.
lovely to see him looking this old. soon he will be gone and forgotten
And in his place there will be utterly ignorant people.
One of the major differences I have with Chomsky is he fundamentally believes people are intelligent, I don't. They traded it all for just a little bit more......
Not at all. He's counting on people to be dumb and believe the disinformation he's helping spread, literally from Imperial Russia disinformation propaganda roadbook, copy-paste. Not one original idea, it's all copy-paste from Dugin&friends.
I agree wt you.
That is why all attempts to build a better new world from above end in despair and a sea of tears
Americans are idiots but if you travel many countries have a intelligent population.
I fundamentally believe Chomsky is an idiot.
Keep in mind while listening to this interview that Chomsky praised Pol Pot's regime in the 70's.
from the Western biased chatGPT: - No, Noam Chomsky did not praise Pol Pot's regime in the 1970s. Chomsky is prominent linguist, philosopher, & political activist who has been vocal critic of US foreign policy, particularly its interventionist policies in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In the 1970s, Chomsky was critical of the US-backed military regime in Cambodia, led by Lon Nol, which he saw as responsible for human rights abuses and the killing of civilians. Chomsky also criticized the US bombing campaign in Cambodia, which he argued had contributed to the rise of the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot. However, Chomsky has been criticized for his comments on Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge regime, particularly for downplaying the extent of the regime's atrocities and its responsibility for the deaths of millions of Cambodians. In particular, 1977 article by Chomsky & fellow scholar Edward Herman, "Distortions at Fourth Hand," has been criticized for its defense of the Khmer Rouge regime & its criticism of media coverage of the regime's atrocities. Chomsky has since acknowledged the extent of the Khmer Rouge regime's atrocities & has expressed regret for his comments at the time. He has also argued that his criticism of US foreign policy should not be seen as support for totalitarian regimes."
@@DimitarBerberu Interesting. Maybe if Chomsky lives long enough he'll " ... express .. regret for his comments at the time (and) ... argue .. that his criticism of US foreign policy should not be seen as support for totalitarian regimes ... " in the Ukraine context too.
Wow! He did?? Its fucking insane. I thought he just old but really he's bastard
@@DimitarBerberu How nice of him to finally come back to the correct opinion after basically being forced. He was aware of what they were doing, he just liked it, and none of his friends will accept him if he kept supporting them. He actually would probably still be supporting them if it was a capitalist country that stopped them rather than Vietnam.
He does deny the genocides in the Yugoslav wars.
Understandably, existential threat has its repercussions and counter measures in words and actions!
There were many of them.
The nuclear powers do not realize that global warming is destructive to all life on "the whole earth," The proxi war in Ukraine is an abuse of human lives. Whom does it Gain; certainly not western Europe. The Nato to realize that we are interdependent with the oceans and our biosphere. They have to listen to the warnings of Albert Einstein and learn to negotiate and disarm.🌻 I experienced the last four month of the 2-nd World and believe in a worlfederation. Do not repeat "The March of Folly,"we experienced in the 20th century🌻
And how are those countermeasures going? Pretty hilarious to faceplant immediately and turn a 3 day excursion into your and your people's doom.
I strongly oposed the iraqi war. Same thing goes for the russian aggression in Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands russian soldiers on ukranianan soil. That’s escalation for you, mr Choamsky....
The Iraq war is based on Americas fear of a Gold backed Currency and thirst for Oil. The Russo Ukraininan Warbis basicaly the Outcome of Nato Expansion and the USA bankrolling a pro Western Revolt, that lead to the killing of ethnic Russians by Nazis. Its the perfect War for America, the Politicians can funnel Gouverment Money to Privat Corporations and they can weaken Russia.
I agree with you. History is going to judge how NATO responded to this thug, Putin. There are costs and there are priorities, and Ukraine has decided, along with the West, to deny Russia their plunder. I believe the right thing is being done, in fact if NATO wants to join the fight it would be over sooner. Though I also understand that Putin has been sabre-rattling with the nukes (all the more reason for a regime change in Russia, but as an American I should be cautious about presenting the tactic).
Billions, billions! 😂 you idiot
It is not the same, no, the Iraq war was totally unprovoked. The Minsk agreements were blatantly violated and Russia reacted doing the unthinkable, whose fault was it?
No thinking person doubts US hypocracy but it's pretty hard to pin this one on America
Pin it all on America. Always tge same.
Honestly, the US is what sparked this war in 2014. The more you know about it, the more you will realize we are global leader in carnage and terrorism
seriously? had the usa not led the coup, selected the new leadership, looked the other way as azov committed war cimes, the indiscriminate shelling etc then i doubt we would be at this juncture. the usa needed a war to create a schism between russian and ukrainian peoples, the usa wants to surround russia with weaponry to nullifiy its nuclear deterrent, zelesnsky wanted to be part of nato and the eu and a war would make this a priority for western europe. lets not forget merkle stating outright that the minsk accords were never taken seriously and were simply used to buy time to arm ukraine. so really now there is no one in the western camp that has any credibility for negotiations which ultimately will once again be used to re-arm ukraine. so we are left dancing along the razors edge of war between nato and russia as the incidents escalate and increasingly get out of control. Just remember Nato has already shot down a sukhoi in syria resulting in the deaths of the crew members, it has deliberately armed ukraine with offensive weaponry which was initially ruled out , it has supplied assistance and intelligence to target the generals assassinated ostensibly by ukraine but more likely by american irregulars, and it provided the drones and intel which led to the sinking of the moskva. the fact is it is the russians showing restraint while the americans seem to think they can push and push with no consequences.
You are deluded.
The hypocrisy of never calling out Russia or China is the failure of those on the far left.
This guy cheered on the Khmer Rouge
Better title: "Noam Chomsky still doesn't like the USA".
Should he ?
@@tozrimondher4250 No, but he is stuck in a time frame (post ww2 era) and are basically not keeping up with the world anymore. Chomsky has been a very important person, and his criticism of the US foreign affairs(during 1960-2000s) is hugely important and well put. BUT what he says on the Ukraine topic is just embarrassing, it's totally out of touch with what actually is happening in Russia in regards to their own population and the war happening in Ukraine.
@@tozrimondher4250 The thing is that not everything happening in the world is about the US. The war in Ukraine is purely about Russian imperialism. In this context, Chomsky's whataboutism comes across as justifying Russian aggression.
@@tozrimondher4250 Well he is 94 years and with clear mind but not very objective, tells a lot about US healthcare and quality of life. In russia people barely make it till 75
And until the US stops beeing ran by warmongering mobsters, not him and not the overwhelming majority of the world
The only winners in any war are those who remain alive and in reasonable health at the end. The losers are the thousands or millions whose lives are lost or otherwise destroyed due injury, displacement, destruction of homes, means of earning a living and just the sheer trauma of war and it's effects on people. My parents both went through the second world war. Both were very deaf in old age; my mother perhaps from the bombing of her hometown...my father perhaps from being transported around the world in noisy ships/perhaps sometimes being close to artillery too( he was in Royal Signals, so didn't actually participate in the fighting, but was at times fairly close to front lines.). My father informed me that disease (through living in unsanitary conditions, unfamiliar tropical diseases..much dysentery) killed as many as those lost on the battlefield. This is the human cost of gaining a temporary economic advantage of resources/territory. Meantime, humans are ultimately destrying their own ecological niche and heading for self-extinction.
And corrupt dictators - people like Putin and Chi - are at the head of that effort.
A lot of countries did not fight the Nazis and then were killed and/or their nations bombed anyway. It would have been better to stand up to Hitler together earlier. Less destruction and loss of life.
@@Applecompuser so we all need tl stand American hegemony then, spot on
@@Stoynov666 tl?
This very common statement about "nobody winning a war" is flawed. Most of those who actually fight it are losers in many ways but they are not fighting for themselves they are fighting for the billions of people who come after them in freedom. You are I are the winners of the 2nd World War as we live in a free world where we can post what we wish on KZhead. The Ukrainian soldier likewise is fighting for the billions of Ukrainians who will come after.
Seems to me that he strayed off topic early in his comments. With regard to the actual war, I detected nothing about Ukraine's right to get back all of its territory, which includes the Donbas region.
Ukraine has all the right to take back both Donbass and Crimea. Russia signed several commitments vowing to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and post 1991 borders. Girkin and others confessed to have provoked the conflict, including armed conflict, in 2014. There's footages, evidences everywhere, testimonials, of Russia's waging the war in Eastern Ukraine. We can even go back to 2004, when Putin ordered the assassination of the pro-ukrainian presidential candidate Yushchenko, in order to elect his pro-russian candidate Yanukovych. Yushchenko survived the poisoning, barely, and got elected. Ukraine was clear in its 2004 Constitution: no more bullying by Russia, yes to the free world of Europe. Putin has been boycotting Ukraine since 2000. Well... Russia has been bullying Ukraine since 300 years! Forbidding ukranians from speaking the ukranian language, forcing russian on them, for over 200 years, ethnically cleasing all the territories around Russia, expanding its colonial empire, which is what Russia truly is: a Colonial Empire. Complete hypocrisy when criticising other former colonial empires, when those ended decades ago, and the only old Colonial Empire still standing, and still expanding, is RUSSIA. 🤨
what if those people don't want to be part of ukraine like ukraine doesn't want to be part of russia ? Or does the right to self determination doesn't apply there because it's not convenient ?
Dear the US, please, leave us alone, do you own business. Ukrainian woman.
Would staying with the TTP have helped avoid this outcome? Is this partly trumps doing?
Wishful thinking about Russian economy.
Which is?? He said russia doesn't have much of an economy.. He is spot on about that 6:36
@@mattyboy59 I guess thats why western sanctions failed
@@ad5792 he never said that russia's economy is a failure.. But it's the size of not much bigger than Mexican economy.. Just do a Google search and see for yourself.. In terns of gdp, both economies are very similar.. That's what he said.. He also mentioned russia being a powerhouse of natural resources.. Which is why the sanctions failed.. Don't just make hasty comments without realizing the whole scenario..
@@mattyboy59 If you go by real purchasing power and don't rely on financial and service sector, then Russia's economy closer to a German one. US and EU are printing paper like there is no tomorrow causing inflation and turning themselves into paper tigers. Currently, Russia alone outproduces US and EU in military equipment
@@ad5792 russia out producing US and EU militarily is something that Scott Ritter and douglas mcgregor colonel would say.. Maybe true to some extent For now as US is not on full war mode.. But USA has over 50 rich and developed/developing countries ready to do its bidding and produce massive amounts of ammo.. USA can easily keep up with an endless supply of military equipment.. Even Economic powerhouses like japan, south Korea and Australia are there too. During ww2, USA had just a few allies.. Now it has around 50 powerful ones who can switch to full war mode.. So there is no scenario where Ru will come out of it with a positive result
Including his much beloved analysis of Skinner's "Verbal Behavior", Chomsky sometimes displays biased and superficial reasoning. "Si hay gubierno, soy contra" - si hay establishment, soy contra... This is not to deny that Western powers have also committed horrible atrocities, and that Western powers did also have a role in the development of Putin's paranoia. But reality is more complex than Chomsky`s explanations.
In German there is the saying "unsere Leichen leben noch" ("our corpses are still alive"). NC is a "living" example for this statement. another intellectual of old days, crawling out of his coffin, to warn about the end to it all.
Noam Chomsky somehow manages to ignore the actions and goals of Russia in his analysis.
Especially that if he was in China or Russia he would have been imprisoned or killed a long time ago for having any opinions that were out of line with his government.
He tends to add global south "keyboard warrior" talking points after applying grievances of Iraq and decades old unrelated connections. If the "Global South" assumes that not having a reasonable attitude to what Putin is up to invading his neighbor, as he has is directly connected to the USA than he's abstract as all the crap Putin installs in his state ran propaganda, and those "Global South" nations buy in conveniently, just to serve their oil price manipulation financial structure. Somehow I don't see it shaking out in their favor and no amount of their bitch about "hypocrisy will make this war's outcome reward them. America other than helping the Kurds, after Trump abandoned them in Syria, has been reducing it's footprint in the Middle East and as long as the Democrat Party holds the Executive wing of American government that will continue to be the way things are. I personally wish by some miracle Iran would give up on their trouble making, but that's unlikely and that will soon be the next "escalating" conflict Noam will have to be shaken by. I doubt the US will get involved, because they are aware that China would use it to berrate the country as they are looking for popularity in keeping the Taiwan Strait open and thus Taiwan govt from CCP overthrow
What are Russia's goals in this conflict?
To invade a sovereign nation illegally
Read Putin's address to russian citizens I think on 22nd Feb 2022, read Mearsheimer's "why the west is at fault for Ukraine", look up ambassador Jack Matlock, there's loads out there to prove the world's population are being lied to
Speed 1.75 makes the listening better.
I'm surprised you don't need a speed faster than 1.75.
Poor bastard looks like he's about 5 minutes away from dying. I genuinely pity him.
@@Dennis-nc3vw Yeah, gotta agree with you there. I really don't understand why the guy doesn't just retire. I'm sure he's smart enough to have saved enough money for retirement... oh wait ... maybe not?
I have hard time finding out who attacked whom ?
The US attacked everybody. Putin had no choice but to murder all those people because they were American stooges. Every single one of them. Capitalism is bad, but sometimes it is useful to know someone like Jeffrey Epstein because he helps you move money around.
It’s almost as if Chomsky doesn’t think hypocrisy is everywhere. Countries who may profit from joining in will. What country is not positioning for its future , often at the expense of others? This is not a meaningful revelation.
Negotiations broke down (4:59) in march of 2022. Chomsky: We don't know exactly why. Also Chomsky: US and Great Britian prevented negotiations from going forward.
What he means is why not who stopped it. You cannot assume for sure.
Look this up. In the beginning of the Vietnam war. The president of South Vietnam wanted to make peace with the Viet Cong. He was assassinated en route😮🤔
Russian did never have to start the war. They can stop the war any day. Don't blame ukraine or The west. That's ridiculous. Putin is a war criminal.
It stopped because the Ukrainians aren't willing to give up land. Which means they are typical members of the human race. How much of your country would you be willing to give up to foreign invasion?
People who say negotiations were prevented or stopped are being dishonest. A more reasonable take: US/UK said you don’t have to surrender we will support if you choose to fight you but we won’t intervene directly. Ukraine chose to fight. It’s a bit different.
Hey... Isn't this guy a good fren to Jeff E?
“The war must continue in order to severely weaken Russia” - key 🔑 “Britain and US were clear that they don’t want any negotiations between Ukraine and Russia” - another key 🔑
He is giving a green light too Putin
Luckily here in the West only half the people are so narrow-minded as you are.
When asked about the war in Ukraine, Chomsky answers about the war in Iraq.
hes using bidens script writer
Just listen man
Yes, the media in Ukraine today says absolutely nothing negative about the US, either now or its historical past (like during the Iraq War). And, Americans think the US media is slanted? Ha! In Ukraine it's almost as if the Ukrainian media think God himself dwells in Washington.
Yes, this is called "example"!
@@c-4839 ... You see, people make judgements before they even listen, particularly when their heroes make blanket statements ... in this case about Chomsky. ... When Chomsky said, he'd vote Democrat over Republican in the last presidential election that was all they heard. None - no one finished what Chomsky actually said. ... Even Glenn Greenwald didn't finish what Chomsky said. ... This is true despite Chomsky has always, for decades, repeated the same message about voting for decades: Voting is a trivial insignificant part of what we should be doing all the time .... Like Chris Hedges has repeated again and again: if we really want change there's only one way "organized sustained mass civil disobedience"
This appears to be a much older interview but says released on May 8 2023.
The human species has been in the business of killing each other since the beginning of time. We, in recent times, are always, it seems, in precarious times with the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over us. The Cuban missile crises brought it home to my generation and on it goes, repeating the same threats, the same gamesmanship, the same paranoia. It only takes one incident/person to realize the end of the human experiment. The odds are not in our favor.
Listened to the first few sentences Chomsky had to say and gave up on him. Iraq is Iraq, the US did harm there to put it mildly. But it has ZERO to do with the need to halt Russian expansionism in Europe. If his first comment about Ukraine is a comment about Iraq you know he's lost the plot.
Oh yes,Russia is so small that must go in Europe,in Bosnia,Kosovo etc. No body didnt talk about that shit of nato will come to payment,if you can attack Serbia,and cut Serbia"s part like Kosovo,why Russia cant do same thing in Ukraina?I saw hundred times when hundred people from around the world talk about that,but youin nato cant see this?We see.
Man, he’s really looking like Gnome Chomsky these days!
I wish you could arrange a debate between Professor Chomsky to Dr. Francisco Gil-White
Much respect for Noam, however this perspective seems to give no agency to the will of the Ukrainian people. We need to have our ears tuned to what they are asking for, and it seems clear...help to push out the aggressor. I fully agree regarding the hypocrisy, Iraq and many prior US led wars.. however this one is on Russia.
Well they don't have it, the agency that is. There is like maybe 10 countries who can say that they have true autonomy in their decisions. Even big and rich countries like Germany and France or Japan aren't really autonomous in their decisions, so while Ukrainian people may want something and we can't really know what they want, we hear only what CNN tells us, they are going to get what USA and Russia agree between each other and that will be it. Shitty position to be in like many previous countries who were used for sparing between these 2. What I can tell you as a person who grown up in a country in a war is the desire to escape from there and never look back. You have your life and your families life everything beyond that is just some bullshit that newspapers and angry rich people are telling you that you should care about.
Since the 2014 coup there is no more ability for the Ukraine people to enact their will.
Except it isn't on Russia. Obama 2014 instigated a coup in the country. Start there.
But you are not mentioning the will of Russian speaking Ukrainians whom for ten years the Kiev regime massacred. No, I am not a Russian troll, in 1992 I fled political persecution from a murderous neo-Nazi gang in my native Argentina, like the Azov Battalion in today's Ukraine. These Nazis massacred Ukrainians in the East for ten years, this financed from the US and the UK.
I've respected Chomsky as an intellectual for a long time. This time it seems like he's not getting it. Maybe it's about time to get rid of the "America is responsible for all the shit in the world". Ever considered that, Dr. Chomsky, with all due respect? What about applying the same moral standards to any other country invading another one?
The war had been going for 8 years prior to the Russian invasion. Start there instead of 2022 ffs.
The British have made their Mea Culpa for all the wrongs of their empire. We have not, nothing we do is wrong and you come up with some moral reasoning?
War pleases the greedy & brings disasters to the people & environment, but greed is an illness that will destroy the greedy eventually.
Unregulated greed . Like the American capitalists have dismantled the laws and made legalised corruption the norm .
Also capitulation of Ukraine (Chomsky hopes so much for) means genocide, as was planned and partially executed by Ruzzia
The greedy ones and probably everybody else...
Not the humane ones.
Gandalf straight up giving interviews now
Wow. Were these things not fully researched and trialled?
I am watching this and agree with some of the things he says, But so far I haven't heard hin say how this can be resolved.
bc there is no path to that - it is not profitable so that is not an aim- that i think is his point
In fact it would be easy, he left it as an open question: For how long is Europe going to take this? “Western” Europe, at least, I would point out (Eastern and Northern are gone for the moment). He mentioned Germany and Netherlands, I would add Italy, France and perhaps Spain. Without these countries’ cronyism US would be reduced in time to a regional power.
Noam is an appeasement monkey, the west should always give in.
peace negotiation
@@vincenzolia6685What do you mean by "gone"?
the older chomsky gets the faster i put the playback speed on youtube
I do that when listening to Elon Musk
yes, it helps a lot with MANY people, lol!
Still faster than biden
It's amzaing this guy is still alive and talks nothing meaningful to the poor people in the world.
Hooooorrrrrray!
Of course Russia could just pull out and go back home... But that would undermine these conspiracies 😂😂
You are funny, so you just wage war to lose it? I never heard of it.
Bully’s can not be bullying for ever. Well what goes up must come down.
Hopefully, this happens with the US after their criminal invasions of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya etc. And their criminal sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, Syria etc. And their terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. This has to stop hopefully.
yes it's called fallout.
It's not entirely clear who the bully is!
@Patrick C actually it is RFK just told us who killed his father. There is court testimony linking the 911 terrorists to a 3 letter org. John Mershiemer layouts out in a video whonis to blame in Ukrainian. Seems pretty clear Ukraine is a neocon op.
@@StompingRabbits no its VERY clear to anyone who is not a PUTN PUPPET
Hey noam, what was your business with Jeff epstien?
Who cares 🙄?
@@herrgolf Judging by the comments....a lot of people.
Listen to this man folks! He is talking clear facts with alot of knowledge, wisdom and years backing it.
I'd love to hear Noam's view on Putin and his psychopathic failings, but I can't find anything out there??
He called Putin stupid for invading Ukraine and cutting gas to Europe, rather that allying himself with Europe to counter US's control of it. Just listen carefully.
Need a villain sketched out for your child's worldview do you?
You won't. In his worldview, US leaders are all psychopaths and everyone else is either a US puppet or wise and intelligent people standing up to US aggression.
@@agiftfromdracosfather3490more like need some actual balanced world view instead of this Lacy what about ism
@ilusha2007 ah yes, whataboutism the hypocrite's mantra
Money , war is money and who gets it. People do not want war only politicians and corporate interests. What always astounds me is the readiness parents have to send their children as soldiers into death without challenging motivations of nations leadership.
Believe Ukrainians and could give a shit about " resources" right now. The STALIN bear ghost is rampaging again in Ukraine. Kiev founded 500 AD Moscow founded 1100 AD RUSSIANS STALIN/PUTLER LOVING RUSSIANS NEED WHAT GERMAN NAZIS GOT .......THEIR ENDING.
So in order to fight Big Pharma should we close hospitals? or should we do something productive?
No this war is about a people known as ukrainians trying to defend themselves against brutal aggression.
Don't kid ourselves. So long as there is awar going somewhere far away from home, our economy is sustained. Our affluent lifestyle is brought about at the cost of having some countries killing people. The fact is we only talk about war and the tragedies, so long as they are not fought in our land. NATO = No Action, Talk Only. Scholars can comment and explain the war, but they have no action to stop it.
eat, drink, and be merry ... repeat ... the american way
The question needs to be asked…when is enough enough?How much wealth and power is actually needed.Unfortunately it’s the good little people who always suffer.
Capitalism knows no limit and does not believe in "enough".
Capitalism is the very definition of cancer. Cancer happen when cells keep multiplying in a finite system (your body) and some cells are malformed due to constant growth in their number. Capitalism expects constant growth in a finite system (earth) and is bad for long term sustainability. It doesn't care about sustainability. Result, death.
Power corrupts absolutely,
Say that to Putin, you gullible parrot.
@@lah6739 ofc lets blame the capitalist, what do communists do when they run out of capitalists to kill? they start killing each other.
Found this, at least: "NATO is, and will, remain, a regional alliance for Europe and North America” as recently underli ed by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “There is no way that NATO will move into the South China Sea” he also explained. Similarly, China’s rise should not be seen in a purely binary way. As Europeans often say, Beijing is altogether a systemic rival, a competitor, and a partner." -CSIS
Uhm... this is an old video. Why is it uploaded for a second time?
Because maybe people didn’t hear it the first time because it’s hard to find anything that the professor says anywhere because he censored almost everywhere.
Noam has obviously lost his marbles.
Satire ?
Or at least the marbles are rather ordinary …
Never had them to begin with
No, these were always his marbles: Start with the premise America is wrong, work backwards to prove it. That's basically how the mind of every big name leftist worked prior to Trump.
But he's probably gained a lot of rubles.
Sadly he speaks of what we do not want to hear . Our lives are changing globally and not in a good way. The good times are over for a long time.
What can he disclose about his friend Jeffrey Epstein.
@@lindasutton4014e’s a creep and his views on covid really exposed him.
@@lindasutton4014 and expose Chomsky's sex, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle that that association benefitted....Guffaw! Guffaw!
New dark ages , advances in technology , science, and human behavior have no bearing when man seeks to go into a cultural night .
I'm wondering how he would feel if he was in Ukraine. Would he still talk about US and Iraq?
well that wouldn't be a neutral perspective now would it?
@@dstfno it's not neutral now
It's very scary this war....it may ends up. To 3rd world war...it's not funny. So dangerous...they west must find solutions very fast.before took late..I pray it end soon. Thanks for this interview...Mr chomosky.. great Man with big heart. God bless him and give him health and longevity. 🎉🙏
Noam got me to sleeeeeeep. I got a book from him but now I think I will never actually open it.
I have several. They have a ton of detail but basically the idea is always as follows: it’s the USA’s fault
Devastating. Right wing dipsht refuses to read. More news at 11.
@@move2003nyit normally is, however this war of aggression is because of Putler. Now that they have seen the US for the past three quarters of a century try to strong arm countries with military capabilities, Russia, China, middle eastern powers see that and pry think why can’t they. After all it’s us poor people who fight them for the powers at be.
Video title: Russia-Ukrainian war Video content: Chomsky - "I hate the US."
Some of us who are just realizing certain things: "Yeah, I kinda hate the U.S. now, too." I would hate any country/person who would hurtle the world heedlessly towards nuclear war, be his name Vlad or Joe. A pox on both their houses, and may all of ours still be standing a year from now. People seem apathetic about how close we've come to destroying ourselves before, and how easy it would be in times of heightened tension like this.
So Vlad is hurtling us toward nuclear war by trying to destroy a sovereign country and Joe is doing so by not standing by and letting him?
Who doesn't?
Good people hate the USA as the embodiment of the evil power
pretty predictable. Chomsky has towed the Kremlin line for decades. He was and still is a Soviet agent of chaos.
Hey jeff
What does Noam Chomsky suggest as the solution?
Nothing, of course. He has no solution.
The solution is: Trump. We will elect it, has promised to end the war in 24 hours.
This proxy war is 100% a choice of Russia, if they decide to leave Ukraine alone nobody else will bother them, so any support for Ukraine is the right think to do and should be fully supported by all of us period.
No, they would invade Donbass when ready
Victoria Nuland and companys was the war
Great comment, I absolutly agree.
It's a proxy war between Poland and Iran.
Honestly, if Russia would leave then what would happen to the Russian speaking people in the regionss of the Russian concern? Uh. This is a one of the two reasons the Russian came in the first place.
"As to negotiations, there is, in fact, very little to negotiate. As long as an Russian army of occupation remains in Ukraine, the war will continue. Withdrawal of Russian troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian government was a unilateral act in the first place. Those who had been calling for ‘negotiations now’ were deluding themselves and others, just as those who now call for a cease-fire that will leave an Russian expeditionary force in Ukraine are not facing reality."
Peace only benefits the occupier.
You so right!
The mistake is the idea that there's nothing to negotiate, other than Russian withdrawal. The other side has to be an end to the persecution of Russian speakers in the Donbass (which was a real phenomenon, despite media silence on the conflict) and a general end to Western interference in Ukraine (like the clearly American-backed coup in 2014). Unfortunately the ideological war has gotten so heated that the only question is how severely Russia will be punished for their unparalleled (and obviously "unprovoked") act of aggression. Too bad the same permanent pariah status hasn't applied to the many equally-bad or worse acts by Western powers in the last century.
Does he propose any solutions?
Epstien.
From my memory, casual and/or hyperbolic talk of nuclear war has been going off and on since the 1950's.
From my memory, the only savage that did it is the biggest hyperbolic propagandist :(
Only takes f****** once.
only a idiot would think that russia has anything to "escalate" they already used everything they had and are being humiliated, how could russia still have any reserve of weapons not used yet and not use it to be constantly humiliated against a much smaller country? also the idea that ukraine is only fighting because the west insist in giving wepons is idiotic t best, US gave ukraine 70 tanks ukraine had 1000 and captured another 500 from russia, i dare anyone show me footage of ukranians using american weapons on the front lines, its 99% ukrainan/soviet wepons then the only explanation a "intellectual" can give is that we should stop the ukranians from fighting with their own weapons for the fear that putin will use nukes, again , only a idiot would think he can use those, but i dont think chomsky is a idiot, unfortunally i have to dimit he is probably on russian payroll
It has, because it is a relevant subject. It won't stop until there aren't nuclear weapons. So, never.
The West is the Techno Feudalist (going backward) via FB, Google, Apple, Media, Hollywood, etc. & that's their biggest achievement to exploit the world. Luckily, the Non-West is taking over. -BRICS++ ;)
We are not going to support Ukraine just because we live in the Western world our leaders believe in sending armory to Ukraine but a lot of us citizens do not... We like Russia and we like the Russian people we're not going to go against Russia
All those weapons are past their used by date , we have to do something with them....
Usually wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone
Noam is compromised. He was good friends with Epstein. You've got to wonder what "favours" were/are being exchanged.
I think Noam still trusts what he reads in the NYT.
Excellent proof of somebody with no wisdom whatsoever at his/her age.
yeah i disagree with 80% of what he said here, especially about Europe. As a European my self i can say we are not doing bad at all, in fact pretty good given the circumstances.
@@MissMan666 I agree that Europe is is good shape, except for the UK given their idiotic Brexit move. Furthermore, no major European state faces the fascist-dictatorship threat that the US desperately needs to avert in next year's elections.
It took people THIS LONG to realize that Chomsky lost the plot?
Empty, vacuous soundbite.
@@jamescarr4662 The same Chomsky that stood by the Khmer Rouge...
He’s just lost period. He’s babbling like an old man on the edge of dementia.
The man has more clarity and perspective than you'll ever have in this life time.
@@gfys756 Show me proof Chomsky stood by the Khmer Rouge.
Epstein Island....and Santa Claus was there, too🤮
I was hoping someone else besides myself who would drop that bit of info in the comments! Salute!
Beware of the sheep under the wolf skin.
@@zaffvideos5688vice versa no?
@@zaffvideos5688 huh??
🤢 🤮
Mr. Chomsky, you are a person who has very deep and wide political knowledge, and conveys it honestly and openly. Unfortunately nowadays there are very few people who like truth and honesty like you.
"The Ukrainian army has been virtually destroyed"!?! If they've been destroyed then how are they about to launch a counter offensive?
they've been "about" to launch it for months.
Ukraine is kidnapping men off the streets to man the front. They are sending teenagers under 18. That sounds pretty desperate to me
NATO is preparing to do that on their behalf
@@MsLS8 Really? There are thousands of NATO troops preparing to attack Russia? Where did you find out this information? Even the Russians don't seem to know this
Update a month later: the counter offensive has started recently but we managed to recapture some (small so far) pieces of land that were under occupation since 2014. Hopefully, we will be free.
Chomsky says "your not allowed to talk about it" strictly speaking isn't this false when Noam is talking about it freely on KZhead and which is available to the public who want to find it ?
Noam ? Russia has weakened ITSELF. It's like saying Nazi Germany was at war with the U.S because America wanted to weaken it . Putin invades and is losing , but this somehow a conspiracy to weaken Russia. What does Noam expect . ? Are we supposed to STRENGTHEN Russia??. C'mon Noam.
How about MSM talking about it. Lonely voice is not free speech
Noam says " Your not even allowed to talk about it ' this is what Carlson tucker says all the time yet he had 100 million viewers . Noam is free to share his thoughts and words freely on KZhead and isn't hauled on to TV to apologize for it like in God forsaken Russia
@@emailaccount4240 are you saying Noam isn't free to share his words and thoughts freely with whom he chooses.? Strictly speaking isn't he wrong ? Not being allowed means not being allowed. He is not breaking the law . Not getting covered on the major networks might be unfair but he has the freedom to share with those people who look him up. U say it's not free speech . If he was breaking the law I'd agree with U but he is not . Chomsky is getting sloppy
He means, or mostly means, generally not allowed to talk about it in Western corporate media such as CNN and MSNBC.
How can one be thought to be very clever and be really a complete opposite to that. Well, morals matter, maybe.
Great address but difficult to follow due to the poor but very necessary needed subtitles. Hope they can do something here
How's Noam Chomsky doin? lol Damn man he is looking and speaking rough. I wish we could all get along without war, but for fucks sake we need to beat the bullies before we can have peace my man.
He's still doing remarkably well for his age.
@@archyology Are you kidding me? He looks 5 minutes from death! He makes Joe Biden look like he should be a new mascot for Red Bull. Thomas Sowell is 96 and he looks 20 years younger than Noam!
@@Dennis-nc3vw I hope when I am 96 my mental faculties are as sharp as Chomskys
reading all these comments was really refreshing, thank you guys
This old man is such a sad picture. What one may become in his old ages(((
Wow this guy really had nothing to say. Only anecdotal discription of past events
Poor guy must be hurting inside knowing Russia can't even beat Ukraine head to head.
And you obviously need some education and some history classes
ukraine couldn't beat donbass civilians for over 8 years, must be hurt to know that inside? bust be hurt to know that ukraine has streets and monuments for ww2 hitler friends? ok
Depressed Gandalf needs a hug.
Crazy how all the attacks on Chomsky never take into consideration how, even at 93(4) yrs old, this guy could run circles around the ass-hats condemning him. That is beside the fact he has nailed each fact uttered with 100% truth.
It’s interesting that he only talks to young people who may not be as well informed of history and geopolitics if he had to debate a seasoned historian or commentator he would look very foolish
I used to have a high regard for him. How did his thinking become so abject? I wonder if old age hasn’t precipitated a kind of narrowing and atrophy of his once brilliant mind… these things do happen sadly.
@@scottharrison812 He is just exposing himself badly this time for being unaware of how we are witnessing the most documented war in the history without any support from msm.
@@scottharrison812 What do you have against it? Why is it abject?
@@bogusmcbogus2637 Because he doesn't offer a solution of how to deal with Russian imperialism...
@@user-bl4oq7fd8d That would be inventing a solution for a problem that doesn't exist