Chomsky | Let’s Focus on Preventing Nuclear War, Rather Than Debating “Just War” | interview published March 24, 2022
"The [Sept 1, 2021 joint] statement was another purposeful exercise in poking the bear in the
eye. It is another contribution to a process that NATO (meaning
Washington) has been perfecting since Bill Clinton’s 1998 violation of
George H.W. Bush’s firm pledge not to expand NATO to the East, a
decision that elicited strong warnings from high-level diplomats from
George Kennan, Henry Kissinger, Jack Matlock, (current CIA Director)
William Burns, and many others, and led Defense Secretary William Perry
to come close to resigning in protest, joined by a long list of others
with eyes open. That’s of course in addition to the aggressive actions
that struck directly at Russia’s concerns (Serbia, Iraq, Libya, and
lesser crimes), conducted in such a way as to maximize the humiliation."