[Peace-discuss] Views on the war

[Mildred O'brien]

YEAH, BUT... Trump can't be trusted (any more than Biden or other politicians); and G. H. W. Bush is the one who introduced the "NEW WORLD ORDER" after crowing about being victorious in Iraq War #1.
Midge  

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From: J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
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C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Noam Chomsky said earlier this week that former President Donald Trump is the “one
> Western statesman” who has laid out a “sensible” proposition to resolve the
> Russia-Ukraine crisis.
> 
> In an in an interview with Thijmen Sprakel on Tuesday, Chomsky said that the
> proposed solution included “facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them
> and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe…in which there
> are no military alliances but just mutual accommodation.”
> 
> “He didn’t say it, but it’s something like what George H.W. Bush — the first Bush,
> not the second — proposed in the early 90s, when after the collapse of the Soviet
> Union, proposed what they called a partnership for peace, which would be open for
> Europeans generally or Asians as well,” Chomsky continued, going on to stress that
> in his view, limiting NATO’s expansion and eliminating military alliances in
> Europe is key.


Noam Chomsky also recently said in an interview with "The Young Turks":
> Politics is the daily activism that is teaching people why Trump is one of the,
> fact of the matter, is the most dangerous figure in human history. Literally,
> there has been no one else -- Hitler, anyone else -- who is dedicated to
> destroying the prospects of human life on Earth in the next -- in the short term,
> and that's exactly what he's doing.
Chomsky said this while trying to convince people to vote against Trump.

Source:
https://rumble.com/v13bl4f-050222-3-chomsky-praises-trump-on-ukraine.html
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OVesAq7eQyk

Those are the same Jimmy Dore Show clip which features the above quoted Chomsky clip.


C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ‘Barking at Putin’s Door’
> https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-says-nato-started-war-in-ukraine-by-barking-at-putins-door
>
>  [The pope has the better of the argument.  —CGE]

Related:
https://www.rt.com/russia/554166-international-law-military-operation-ukraine/ -- 
Daniel Kovalik: Why Russia's intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law
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