Noam Chomsky said the news stories about the Trump presidential campaign somehow "colluding" with Russia were "a joke" and "not a major issue," but they a
re tearing away at a positive element of the Trump administration -- the drive to reduce tensions with Russia.
Chomsky, the author of more than 100 books, said, "It’s a pretty remarkable fact that -- first of all, it is a joke. Half the world is cracking up in laughter. The United States doesn’t just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn’t like, institutes military dictatorships."
"Simply in the case of Russia alone—it’s the least of it—the U.S. government, under Clinton, intervened quite blatantly and openly, then tried to conceal it, to get their man Yeltsin in, in all sorts of ways," said Chomsky. "So, this, as I say, it’s considered—it’s turning the United States, again, into a laughingstock in the world."
“So
why are the Democrats focusing on this?" he said. "In fact, why are they focusing so much attention on the one element of Trump’s programs which is fairly reasonable, the one ray of light in this gloom: trying to reduce tensions with Russia? That’s—
the tensions on the Russian border (Cold War 2.0) are extremely serious. They could escalate to a major terminal war. Efforts to try to reduce them should be welcomed."
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