Noam Chomsky - Opening Remarks for the International Peace Summit for Ukraine 2023

Prior to the June 10 & 11 International Peace Summit in Vienna, Joseph Gerson recorded Noam’s brief and cogent remarks, which opened and framed this conference with participants drawn from 32 countries. Noam was clear that for peace and to prevent escalation, it is essential to win a ceasefire and begin diplomatic negotiations for a just and peaceful end to the war.

[@charliegrant6327]

More people need to listen!

[@Draconius1984]

Thank you Noam Chomsky ❤

[@annemcmenamin3668]

How the mighty have fallen. Not a mention of any preconditions for "peace" negotiations. Contrast this with what Chomsky said in 1971, about the US invasion of Vietnam. I have replaced with "Vietnam" with "Ukraine", and "US" with "Russia". It seems that Chomsky only supports self-determination and resistance to invasion to countries invaded by the US.
"As to negotiations, there is, in fact, very little to negotiate. As long as a Russian army of occupation remains in Ukraine, the war will continue. Withdrawal of Russian troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian government was a unilateral act in the first place. Those who had been calling for “negotiations now” were deluding themselves and others, just as those who now call for a cease-fire that will leave a Russian expeditionary force in Ukraine are not facing reality..."

[@rock801]

Thank you, I find Chomskys beating around the bush and his implied stwnce that we need to comply with Russia's bullying. Sure appeasement saved Jewish life 80 years ago, right?

[@rock801]

China's proposal was a shame to China itself.

[@rational-public-discourse]

@@rock801 Um, the U.S. defense industry needs to have an enemy, or if not an enemy, a reason to spend big money on defense. The U.S. have been prompting Russia to do this for quite a while. We could have ended it very quickly with negotiations, but the U.S. wouldn't even listen to it. If you want to get educated, get educated. You can do that by listening to all of the interviews and lectures of Noam Chomsky. Learn about our U.S. imperialism starting with the slaughtering of 200,000 Filipinos in order to expand our trade route to Asia back around 1900, and go on from there. Please don't leave out the corporate coup to remove FDR in the Thirties.

[@defenstrator4660]

@@rational-public-discourse Yeah, you should get educated. The Russian imperial ambitions to have a land bridge to Crimea has been evident for some time. Read a history book and try and understand how Russian Imperialism has been dominating this area for centuries, with its height being under Soviet rule. Instead of running cover for imperialist's, try and understand why a people wish to be free.

[@rational-public-discourse]

@@defenstrator4660 I would rather trust what Noam has to say. He not only read quite a few, but he also wrote them.