Noam Chomsky: Trump is The 'One Western Statesman of Stature' Pushing For End to War in Ukraine

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
May. 02, 2022

Leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky said in a recent interview that Donald Trump is the "one Western statesman of stature" pushing for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine rather than looking for ways to fuel and prolong it.

As Glenn Greenwald reports:

Noam Chomsky, in an interview this week, says "fortunately" there is "one Western statesman of stature" who is pushing for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine rather than looking for ways to fuel and prolong it.

"His name is Donald J. Trump," Chomsky says.

WATCH: pic.twitter.com/z3Cug8kFHS
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 1, 2022

Chomsky says he regards Trump as a deeply dangerous figure, yet he is "the one statesman in the West who has said it, and it's the right way out."

"Let's tell the truth," Chomsky says.

Full interview here:https://t.co/UXdbAd2FfT
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 1, 2022

Only 10 Republicans in the House voted last week against massively escalating the US proxy war with Russia through a Lend-Lease program with Ukrainian (to supply them endless weaponry on credit).

Ten Republicans voted against the Ukrainian Defense Land Lease Act, which passed the House, 417-10.

The 10, per @kristin__wilson:

Andy Biggs
Paul Gosar
Scott Perry
Dan Bishop
Matt Gaetz
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Tom Massie
Ralph Norman
Warren Davidson
Tom Tiffany
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 28, 2022

Those are the only representatives worthy of our vote. The Senate passed the bill unanimously.

"Every vote to provide military assistance to Ukraine draws us closer to a war with Russia," Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar (R) said. "This is not our fight. I reiterate my hope for immediate peace talks and resolution of hostilities. Sending more weapons of war is counter to peace and will extend the death and destruction."

There was another remarkable interaction around a week ago where Marie Yovanovitch, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine under Trump who testified against him during the 2019 impeachment trial, hilariously stumbled into admitting that if Trump was in office he would have averted the war diplomatically -- but then pivoted into insisting that's a bad thing.

Marie Yovanovitch -- the former US Ambassador to Ukraine under Trump who testified against him in the 2019 impeachment, and was lauded as a hero -- suggests that if Trump were in office, he'd have averted the war diplomatically. But she thinks this would've been a terrible thing pic.twitter.com/1Q4qp5cNOA
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 23, 2022

The fact the entire GOP establishment is backing this proxy war and seeking to extend it for as long as possible at tremendous risk to the US is an absolute disgrace.

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