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Noam Chomsky on Ukraine and nuclear armageddon

The Owen Jones Podcast

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Is There a Negotiated Peace Settlement Along Those Lines?

I suppose peutinism would accept a negotiated peace settlement along the lines you've suggested. There is exactly one way to find out. At's to shift policy from undermining negotiations to tolerating and facilitating them. The other possibility is to continue to reject diplomacy, to carry out policies which you know will lead to increased violence and aggression. That's saying, good let's go on and destroy everything. You can even make yourself feel heroic about it. I inded, we call for fly zone, which was parroted by many liberals, who apparently hadee pretty blase about the prospects of nego armagedon. It should be saidfortunately, we have the pentagon to

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