“Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war.”<\/a> I’m not an academic, just a public school bus driver, but I have had a lot of time to read up on the unjustified US proxy war with Russia. I’m concerned as a working class American on the propensity of the US government to use regular Ukrainians as cannon fodder. I’m concerned about the US foreign policy goals, it would seem, of controlling the world despite most of the rest of the world saying thanks but no thanks. I am finally concerned about the totalitarian media hammer banging away on our brains every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFrankly, I stopped believing in the brainwashing machine years ago as have most Americans. Unfortunately most people haven’t the time or the energy to dig for the truth. Plus there has been a rise in disinformation campaigns and counter disinformation campaigns with less and less outlets for radical investigative journalists and academics. In their place are endless echo chambers for the mainstream narrative with a twist. That’s where these authors come in with a classic rendition of propagandistic tropes and enforcement of their framing of the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously, I think very little of this smear attempt but sadly, I’ve seen this sloppy article shared too many times. I’ve been wanting to write a response to one of these cookie cutter hit pieces anyways. The poorly written one taking a swing at Chomsky seems perfect for a working class guy like me to stand up against. So here goes it, hold my beer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First off, these patterns the authors are laying out are lazy strawman arguments. Out of all seven in which they insinuate a knowledge of Chomsky’s position, they quote him only once. This is typical of smear campaigns and weak arguments, two things that go hand and hand together. Show some respect for Chomsky, quote him fairly. Show some respect for academic debate and make well reasoned arguments to advance us all towards truth. It’s obvious they don’t care about truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chomsky said in the one quote they gave, “the fact of the matter is Crimea is off the table. We may not like it. Crimeans apparently do like it.\u201d They list this as “Pattern #1: Denying Ukraine\u2019s sovereign integrity,” and go on to speak about Crimea, leaving out an impressive amount of unsavory and important details, such as the 2014 overthrow of the Ukrainian elected President in a violent US backed coup facilitated by Nazis. I’d also like to add that pretty much everyone, including Henry Kissinger, knows that Crimea is off the table. Zelensky is the only fool who says it and he lives and breaths nonstop lies for a living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seriously, in “Pattern #1” they mention the Budapest memorandum, the Treaty on Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation from 1997, how the Tatars were deported by Stalin in 1944 and the referendum of 2014 which they counter by saying the Crimeans voted for independence in 1991 from the USSR, but they don’t mention the fascist coup that overthrew their democratically elected government in 2014? It’s actually the most important aspect to know and they purposefully bury it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In doing so it makes it seem that Russia was engaged in a conflict with Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 for no reason. Like Putin woke up one morning and was like, “what am I going to do today, let’s see, finished the crossword puzzle, took the dog for a walk, how about I invade Ukraine?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is their position. They stated it at the beginning in one word. Unjustified. And they really spend no time bothering with backing that claim up. What bothers me is not so much that these propagandists would do such a thing, but that so many people just accept it on face value. And with that acceptance they lose all threads of reason and the why becomes a question of feelings. That Putin is simply evil. A classic propagandistic trope, the whole good vs evil that the west is so fond of in all it’s movies and tv shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well it’s hard to sum up Russia’s justification succinctly but let me try in my own words as a person who lives in the belly of the beast the United States and has watched my country murder millions for US profits. As a person who understands how absolutely monstrous our foreign policy has been in overthrowing governments in something like 53 nations. That looks at 850 foreign military bases, the dozen aircraft carriers, the nuclear weapons, the trillion dollar defense budgets and understands that those are the tools of domination of the world. That has watched the US march it’s NATO east in five waves towards the Russian border. That has listened to the war drums beating here louder and louder for years. That I have expected the US to box in and attempt to destroy Russia for many many years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I saw the writing on the wall why wouldn’t Russia? It’s not like we were being sneaky about it. We attempted a color revolution in 2004 and then we succeeded in 2014 with the help of Bandera fascists that the CIA has had deep connections with since literally WW2. We installed a President. He appointed foreigners to top secretary positions in the government. We started a NATO training base there in 2015. We spent something like $7.5 Billion on this project of controlling Ukraine, building up their military and re-establishing Ukrainian nationalist control. All this is true. Since there is no winning against this evidence they ignore and bury it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which brings me to \u00a0“Pattern #2: Treating Ukraine as an American pawn on a geo-political chessboard.” Yes. I’m denying the agency of regular Ukrainians that they say want to be part of the west just like they deny the agency of the millions of Ukrainians who want to be part of the east. But more importantly, what agency? It’s a corrupt, poor, authoritarian country ruled by oligarchs and the US. Therefore the Ukrainians have little actual agency. Even in the eastern part where they separated after the fascists came to power, they had little independent agency as well since they were recognized by no country for 8 years. Crimea also, agency denied despite their resounding vote to join Russia and peace since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The authors really milk the classic propaganda tropes for “Pattern #2” though don’t they? Saying that Chomsky’s position “is a slap in the face to millions of Ukrainians who are risking their lives for the desire to live in a free country,” made me tear up a little. Look I’m aware that the Russian terrorists hate our freedom, that we must tame the Russian savages and it’s just when the Ukrainians look at our US Constitution it shines like a beacon of light for these Ukrainians, like a lighthouse calling them home or some shit. I understand that Russia is pure evil, that the devil literally took a dump and it was Putin. But why do the authors also categorically ignore the millions in the Donbas that were being shelled constantly for the past 8 years because they wanted their freedom? Because they can’t have it both ways can they? Oh wait! People want to believe bs propaganda so it hardly needs to make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I already addressed the authors on “Pattern #3. Suggesting that Russia was threatened by NATO,” but to reiterate, they definitely are. Like the main point of NATO is literally to threaten Russia and kick the ass of smaller countries the US doesn’t like. So many people just won’t understand this very simple point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now we get to my favorite argument, ” Pattern #4. Stating that the U.S. isn\u2019t any better than Russia.” This is where they call Chomsky on whataboutism, a ridiculous concept meant to crush comparative analysis which of course is a critical component of any reasonable perspective. The weird thing is that the authors say that they are, “not in a position to correct your historical metaphors and, needless to say, we condemn the unjustified killings of civilians by any power in the past.” Like wow! These authors aren’t leftists like Chomsky are they? Who am I even reading? These folks are what? Ambivalent about Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and on and on? I mean these authors don’t even take the opportunity here to say that maybe the US was wrong in the Vietnam war, just not one mention of the US issues. They literally give us nothing. Then they sand on that nothing as moral thinkers. Just the straight up position that the US past doesn’t matter and that they basically support the US as leader of the world. As Zelensky said in front of the US Congress, that Biden was the President of the World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chomsky is blamed for rationalizing Putin’s goals in “Pattern #5. Whitewashing Putin\u2019s goals for invading Ukraine.” Then they go in and just make up evil demonizing goals on behalf of Putin and try and sell us that that is the truth in one paragraph hitting all the push button words: Genocide, purging and re-education. These brilliant academic authors explain to us simpletons that Russia’s long-term goal is destroying Ukraine. Ummm\u2026 ok. Well they didn’t do it when they were both part of the USSR, or the past 30 years afterwards, so maybe this dumbed down “destroying” hypothesis needs some working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This one is full to the eyeballs with poop, “Pattern #6. Assuming that Putin is interested in a diplomatic solution.” So clearly I am with Chomsky. The US is using Ukraine in a proxy war with Russia and doesn’t want it to end. Russia was offering Peace Talks on day 5, they wanted to free the Donbas and get out after a lightning campaign that immediately weakened the Ukrainian army so that Zelensky would surrender. The Russians figured out pretty quickly that Zelensky wasn’t the person who made these decisions, the US was. But worst of all, these authors elevated their hypothesis from destroyed to “Russia\u2019s goal is erasure and subjugation of Ukraine.” Wow! So that’s pretty scary if it were true, but if it’s a total lie then, well the authors are just propagandist war mongers on behalf of the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their final point, ” Pattern #7. Advocating that yielding to Russian demands is the way to avert the nuclear war.” So again, obviously it is a way to advert nuclear war, which is something everyone should want, even bs propagandists for the US unless they are totally insane. Here they elevate Russia’s goals even further, if you can imagine it, to the “elimination of Ukrainians off the face of the Earth.” Wow. Yeah, like if this stuff were actually true, damn. But unfortunately for the insane propagandist authors it’s raging lunacy of a dangerous and unprecedented variety. That these folks are sending this nonsense as an open letter to Noam Chomsky and that anyone who reads it doesn’t understand how much ridiculous propaganda is filled in these remarks doesn’t bode well for averting nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like I draw the exact opposite conclusions than this paranoid insane drivel concludes. Who are these people? They certainly don’t seem to have values similar at all to mine. They’re basically making the argument to crush Russia now because “China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea are watching,” and they have nuclear weapons too. They might as well throw in some racist comment about how these dumb savages need to be afraid of the US or there is no telling what these foreigners will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally they finish by threatening Chomsky and calling him a Russian agent. No, not really, but basically. This whole thing sounds like it was written by Bandera Ukrainian expatriots the CIA has been funding for decades. I can’t believe that so many people are reading these authors’ open letter and nodding along with it. Just stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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