World 'approaching the most dangerous point in human history,' says Noam Chomsky
dailystar.co.ukterminal nuclear war” if a peace treaty can’t be negotiated over Ukraine. Between the certainty of climate crisis and the renewed possibility of a nuclear war between Russia and America, Chomsky says, “we’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history… We are now facing the prospect of destruction of organised human life on Earth.” The 93-year-old philosopher whose family originated in what is now Ukraine, says that Vladimir Putin’s “criminal aggression” is “monstrous for Ukraine”.Chomsky has been critical of US leaders in the past and doesn’t spare America’s current president Joe Biden.
He says of a Bush-era US promise that NATO had no ambitions to expand eastwards that“there’s a good deal of lying going on about this now”.
Chomsky is supportive of Biden’s statement that Putin “cannot remain in power” although, in an interview with New Statesman he adds that America appears to have rather less sympathy for the people of Afghanistan who are also “facing imminent starvation” – a fact he blames on Western sanctions.
While most Kremlin observers blame the war in Ukraine on Putin’s desire to expand Russia’s borders to the limits of the old USSR, and perhaps even beyond, but Chomsky puts at least as much blame on the West.“In September 2021 the United States came out with a strong policy statement, calling for enhanced military cooperation with Ukraine, further sending of advanced military weapons, all part of the enhancement programme of Ukraine joining NATO,” he said.But regardless of the rights or wrongs of the political situation, Chomsky added: "What we do know is that Ukraine will be further devastated.
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