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by ajuc 1024 days ago
If Ukraine was accepted into NATO in 2008 then none of this would happen. Chomsky was against that, i.e. his views are worsening the situation.

> Just let yourself think about what his counterparts in US were saying

Timothy Snyder for example? He's saying that Ukraine should be admited to NATO and EU, and that Russia needs to lose this war. What's wrong with that?

> Only now there is more people who start saying clearly that the war is not going to stop

All wars stop.

> Ukraine is going to be completely destroyed in the process

Already is. If you let Russia settle for peace on their conditions - they will rebuild and invade Ukraine again. Like they already did 2 times. So it's better to deal with that now than to give them more time to harm Ukraine.

> "The Art of Diplomacy" by Francois de Callieres, about 17th century european politics, which is talking about how to do international relations

There were no nukes, NATO, EU, UN. No relevance whatsoever.

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> If Ukraine was accepted into NATO in 2008 then none of this would happen. Chomsky was against that, i.e. his views are worsening the situation.

This isn't the only time that this war could have been averted.

I also believe this war is partly because of the worlds weak response to the initial 2014 invasion, if the response to that was stronger then I think there was a decent chance the 2022 invasion would of never happened.

Again Chomsky and other tankies were arguing we should appease Russia :)

How many times can you be wrong before you realize your assumptions are wrong?

> Again Chomsky and other tankies

Chomsky is literally an anarchist.

Anarchist that supports a dictatorship :)

But it's ok, because it's a dictatorship far away. Other people will be opressed.