{"id":5513,"date":"2014-11-07T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T00:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2014-11-07T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T00:04:27","slug":"chomsky-to-rt-us-and-its-nato-intervention-force-may-spark-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"Chomsky to RT: US and its NATO intervention force may spark nuclear war"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US linguist, philosopher and political activist, Noam Chomsky (AFP Photo DDP \/ Sascha Schuermann) GERMANY OUT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How dangerous is the current confrontation between Russia and the West? Noam Chomsky believes that NATO expansion and US quest for hegemony has put the world in a situation so unstable where any accidental interaction could result in a nuclear war.<\/p>\n

\u2018New NATO aims to control the world\u2019<\/h2>\n

The \u201cnew NATO\u201d<\/em> that emerged after the Soviet Union collapsed is basically a US-run intervention force, with a completely different mission as compared to the original, Chomsky tells RT\u2019s Sophie&Co.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, one might ask why NATO even continued to exist,\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cThe official justification for NATO was that its purpose was to defend Western Europe from Russian hordes who might attack Western Europe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

With no more \u201cRussian threat\u201d, the natural conclusion in the 90s would be to disband the alliance, but instead the opposite happened \u2013 against all agreements NATO expanded all the way towards the Russian borders.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts mission changed. The official mission of NATO became to control the international, the global energy system, pipelines. That means, to control the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2018World ominously close to nuclear war\u2019<\/h2>\n

In the worst case scenario the current international instability, especially with tensions between US and Russia resembling a new cold war, could result in a nuclear war, in which all parties that initiate it would be eliminated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s come ominously close several times in the past, dramatically close. And it could happen again, but not planned, but just by the accidental interactions that take place,\u201d<\/em> Chomsky said. \u201cThere have been many cases, not that serious, but pretty close, where human intervention with a few-minutes choice has prevented a nuclear war. You can\u2019t guarantee that\u2019s going to continue.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt may not be a high probability each time, but when you play a game like that, with low probability risks of disaster over and over again, you\u2019re going to lose. And now, especially in the crisis over Ukraine, and so-called missile-defense systems near the borders of Russia, it\u2019s a threatening situation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018West can\u2019t isolate Russia, will drive it to the East\u2019<\/h2>\n

With its efforts to isolate Russia through confrontation and sanctions, the West instead pushes Moscow closer to the East, towards closer relations with China.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrent Western policies are driving Russia towards closer interaction with the Chinese-based system. In this interaction Russia is actually the weaker partner, so it\u2019s making concessions, but the US is openly creating a system of power, which could significantly diminish US domination in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a Trans-Pacific Partnership, so-called, a huge commercial treaty, designed to incorporate the Asian countries, not China, but the other Asian countries, crucially not China,\u201d<\/em> Chomsky said. \u201cBut that\u2019s the plan and it\u2019s the kind of economic counterpart to the military pivot to Asia, and the sanctions on Russia are helping to create a counter-course based on Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or an extension of it, which would include Russia, and may begin to move across Eurasia, the whole Eurasian region.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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