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Frank wrote on May 3 rd, 2022 at 12:26pm: thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 28 th, 2022 at 12:31pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Mar 28 th, 2022 at 10:34am: How many Chomskys are there in the US compared to the likes of you? 1 in ten million? It's clear what Chomsky's stance on (non-existent) international law is. Noam Chomsky: Well, there is, fortunately, one statesman in the United States and Europe, a high political figure, who has made a very sensible statement about how you can solve the crisis. Namely, by 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 was something like George H.W. Bush proposed in the early-90s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Proposed what they called a partnership for peace, which would be open for Europeans generally, Eurasians as well, it wouldn’t eliminate NATO, but he would live to the promise that NATO would not expand to the east. Firm promise to Gorbachev. Keep to that. Allow NATO there, but kind of deemphasize it so other countries could join, including Russia, for that matter, and move toward a Eurasia with no military alliances. I think DeGaul had a similar vision. Emmanuel Macron, in his initiatives trying to contact Putin, suggested something similar. So, going back to the one Western statesman, he didn’t mention all of this, but he suggested something similar. Move towards negotiations and diplomacy instead of escalating the war. Try to see if we can bring about accommodation, which would be roughly along these lines. His name is Donald J. Trump.https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1520751923355398144Trump - legend. I had high hopes for Trump in 2017, who - if he was really a man of vision) - could have made a deal with both Xi and Putin (both of whom he was on good terms with at the time) re eliminating the UNSC veto, and saved everyone -and the globe - a fortune in avoiding a nuclear arms race. But Trump is no man of vision, only a believer in his own capacity to manage the " Art of the Deal"... Unfortunately it all went pear-shaped. owing to his survival of the fittest mentality.
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