Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War | Lex Fridman Podcast  

Please interview Scott Ritter 🙏 thanks for all that you do Lex

Lex, kindly consider inviting John Mearsheimer for discussion about geopolitics and real politic.

When did you go to ukrain?

How long did you get to speak with him?

You are awesome Lex, keep doing what you do!

no, we can't. 93 and he still thinks profits are the problem.

93 years old and he still thinks the US is the root of all evil. When will he realize that the US is not that important.

I heard China’s oldest critic that lived there died recently. Man, he lived to be 32 which is a pretty good.

No. He's senile and never was insightful.

@@truthmonster3290 what is in your opinion rather the problem?

@@GlennC789 I think Pinker is clearly a very clever man and has some useful things to say on many important areas of debate. I do not have an opinion on McWhortner since I have not read his work.

Tankie wisdom shining through?

@Siłerka Well I'd hope so - vaccines of many kinds have been "enforced" for decades because doing so saves millions of lives.

​@@GlennC789I think Pinkers stuff is getting better book kind of misses the mark.

@Siłerka We accept risks without our consent all the time. We have literally sent people off to war to die, multiple times, without their consent. The idea that people should be able to consent to any risk is a literal impossibility in any working society. But more to the point, if you think the risks of the vaccines are anywhere near the risks of NOT having the vaccines, you've been consuming a bunch of propaganda instead of listening to actual experts who know what they're talking about. Everybody I know has had multiple Covid shots, none of them have had any serious negative consequences, and when a few people I've known did then get Covid -including me - it was mild as a result. That matches what the data experts and serious scientists have been telling us. It's amazing to me what people can be persuaded to believe, flat Earth, a man in the sky watching literally everything all the time, all the crap coming out of Russia, Democrats eating human babies, what an absolute cornucopia of bullshit.

How much meth do you smoke?

When ancient Greece began it's concept of democracy. demos are the people. The leaders insisted that a city council include elderly to add a long view historically. And please do not include Biden in that crowd.

Same here, but I'm in my 30s and fried my brain with methamphetamine.

He is summarizing offensive realism specifically the argument of John J Meirsheimer from the University of Chicago

He is highly intelligent, an elite scientist, of course. But to help him out, considering his age, he was surely given questions few days in advance. Don't make yourself small.

Noam a leftist insane ideolog

Me too!

There’ll never be another Noam. We *need* him for another 100 years.

He will be around long after he’ll be gone, his legacy for sure

Maybe Chopski would like to tell us what it was He and Jeffrey Epstein were talking about at their dinners..?

if hes so valuable at least u coulda gotten his name right XD

@@Danetto Gee, coming from a disputatious NYC milieu before being force-fed mellow vibes in my No Cal life at Berkeley I take the playful nickname Chompsky a term of endearment. Someone worthy of arguing with (and learning from). Guess cultural context shapes our perceptions. Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee

@@Danetto Yea, chomp on that.

@@ulpana You reminded me of Nim Chimpsky, chimpanzee trained to use sign language to test Chomsky's "hard-wired" language hypothesis. Some link following, and we get to parrot Alex, who can count, recognise objects and shapes and even ask questions. Very cool :) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)

*international

Yep. Much better than Rogan who brings on unfunny comedians and people who spread harmful information.

It's always a pleasant surprise.

@@harold3165 *misinformation

@@harold3165misinformation according to who?

@@harold3165 Don’t agree Two completely different people both with great skills so I enjoy them both

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Maybe it is better not to idolize people in position? I saw some other comments which comment on “how amazing” Chomsky is at his current age. But that almost sounds perverse when you admire someone for their alleged intellectual achievement. What if you had only limited amount of some kind of life saving medication and you had a choice to give it ti the 93 year old Noam Chomsky or to some person who may not have been as lucky or had the opportunity to be an academic. It sounds like you would save Chomsky and say “fuck you, die” to another person.

You can, my dad is 73 and full of life. He just stopped taking alcohol and spends his time with grandkids

Indeed, listening to him makes me think we might live longer than our society :)

To be so lucky, to live to 93 in this state, hell.. To live to 74 would be amazing.

Looks like you didnt listen to anything he said. You may end up as food.

@@dcbaumgarten4609 on the planet 🤨

I sent him an email with several questions which he took the time to answer in detail. An impressive and thoughtful human being.

I love Chomsky. Cool to hear this

Can you perhaps also send Chomsky a message regarding his blatant genocide denialism during the Balkan wars, in support for fascist Milosevic regime in which thousands and upon thousands of Bosnians were killed? See maybe if he has changed his view or he is the same old lapdog for Serbian chauvinists.

@@Noone-th2co Sure, there's a $10,000 convenience fee for the service but I'm happy to do so if you'd like me to send you an invoice. You could always go write that in your journal instead, scan it on your iphone, and send it to him that way as well. Prob a lot more economically efficient. Just a thought!

Thank you Lex Fridman and Noam Chomsky for this wonderful encapsulation in what had been a hopeful time in my experience of global politics. Gorbachev was an opportunity lost. Ultimately the results were sad. How can we mitigate the current disaster? Young people deserve better. But where to begin? Noam is of course correct in pointing out the hopeless state of American politics. Good luck to us.

Time stamp?

@@megustavophoto 25:14

Spot on. Excellent comment dude. Noam Chomsky is a thinking man's esteemed global elder. A truely outstanding thinker. I am preparing myself for his passing I'll be devastated. In 500 years there will be statues of him.

@@martinpollard8846 it will be like when Yoda died. he has inspired so many and continues to work tirelessly. the world will lose a great one when his time comes.

Where they still let Russian propaganda to be expressed....said with a straight face and everything What an hideous old pig

@Relax Sounds Hegemony or Survival

Said by someone who doesn’t know his history of interviewers

@@user-qx9zn2cj4e I feel your mald and I am sorry for you. Good luck loving yourself

helps to be a member of the tribe

Lol dude. 99.9% of famous people of any given era will be forgotten 30 years after their deaths. Don't make statements like these. It shows lack of education

Properly interviewing Chomsky is a case of asking any random question and then allowing him to talk for as long as possible.

Search RU-vid . ' Why Is Ukraine rhe West's Fault . '

Lmao

@@rezakarampour6286 Better search “Why Noam Chomsky is garbage” and ignore all the Western tankies excusing atrocities as long as they’re not committed by the US..

I guess what is equally relevant is questions about human psychology. I would say a political leader's state of mind affects the decisions he makes. A very fundamental question is whether individuals who make such decisions as leaders are 'bad apples' or are there certain political, social situations that make individuals act in evil ways. Not to mention people who obey such orders or fall prey to brainwashing. As to Yemen, a lot of other countries (such as my own country of origin) are involved in the commitment of atrocities there.

He hs such a podcast about yemen

You speak of the outer layers which are all leaves on the river that is the human/subconscious layer that Lex typically inquires on.

@@hammedmousavi2297 Yep I do agree that psychology of leaders can be a relevant factor in understanding the political actions that they take

It is also about Human things like Pride, Humiliation, Grandiosity, Legacy etc so it is not only about money, Putin maybe right now richest man on the world but he doesn't care about that he uses money to control people and he uses the money for Power. Human beings are the most vain species in the entire universe, most people will chose Pride and Respect instead of money hence you see in country after country the poor will repeatedly vote against their own interest because they feel disrespected when they feel powerless you can see poor giving power to people like Jair Messias Bolsonaro, Modi, Trump etc who are completely corrupt and would be against their self interest if it was only about money but these people give them something else they give them feeling of respect, power over other enemies (those who look down on them). Hell we are apes, even an ape would go violent and kill it's owner if it thinks it's been disrespected even though owners feed it constantly, there are experiments on that. Putin is no different he is thinking about his legacy he want to be immortal a great leader, money is secondary to that. The CCP gains it's power because it constantly tells people in China that they have been humiliated over centuries by the west by Japan and CCP has promised to get revenge for that humiliation so the people of China will accept anything to get that revenge hence they keep CCP in power. Germany felt humiliated after world war 1 that is how Hitler rose to power, money maybe involved my dude but in the end Humans want status, importance, respect and Pride more.

Why is it that you Americans think that a person of Noam Chomskys age has to be senile?

@@tomchirillo1663 it's just a fact of life. I'm comparing him to my father at 83 and he can not communite with this level of clarity. His cognition is going. "You American"..is that a slur your projecting? Lol

@@mirapilates It is not a slur at all unless you consider a fact a slur.

@@tomchirillo1663 yes a reference to my person based on geography.

You can find your answer using google.

exactly,noam spreading russian lies.

I do not know of anyone who can replace Chomsky , who cannot live forever.

What we all should be talking about is how an average criminal gopnik like Putin managed to fool the Western intellectuals and politicians for decades and get away with genocidal wars in Chechnya, Georgia, and annexation of Crimea, until he broke his neck against Ukraine's iron fist, while everything the US could do was to offer Zelensky an evacuation. Shame!

@Ronald Reagan as smart as you are, only two options?

@@gregwang8628 smart people only think in absolutes 🤣

Omg Mr noam has lost it. First he said that all unwaxxed people should blame themself for not taking the "clot shot" and now he is on the line of that Russia is the bad guy. I am not gonna say more, the guy is to old to comprehend logic anymore. Remember who started the most wars these last 100 years with false flags and it put things in perspective. Yea offcourse, put all "Nator" millitary on the border of russian, then corrupt the goverment to in ukraina so US can control every move. In the meantime let mr Claus take over the cabinets of all european countries and deprive them of all control. Guy is spoon fed these days.. no offence but this is the second time he is out of it

I hear he's a genocide denier.

lol- privilege, completely useless and wrong-tomato, tamato

It's impressive for a nonagenarian. But at the same time his views are simply outdated.

​@WilliamParkerer based on what? I'm not in lockstep with Noam but I'm genuinely curious what you man.

@@rezakarampour6286 The Ukraine conflict was instigated by the West but Russia is clearly using it as an attempt to expand and annex a country that has been very vocal about how little it wants to be annexed. The CIA operations there are integral to the story, but don't change the base idea of what Russia is doing.

​@@rezakarampour6286Fuck Russia and the ChiComs, We like our freedom.

well said

This was the comment I was waiting for. You said it better than I would have.

'Least favorite people ever encountered?' What on earth could make you say that?

Just a reminder that Noam was chomping at the bit to have people who didn’t want to take the jab sent to a camp.

lol not quite how i would’ve phrased it but i think i resonate with something of the sentiment. I disagree with him on some very fundamental stuff, and I think he's overly critical, pessimistic. I think for all his intellect he fails to embrace certain elements that simply define the way nature works, the way humans evolved, the way society inevitably must function. I think it results in a bit of arrogance or hypocrisy, in which he pretends there is a better alternative without really detailing how to pursue one in a realistic manner. I think he focuses on the negative of today's age and utterly ignores the positives, which empathy and an accurate understanding of the immense difficulty of human history would bring into glaring light. I think there's a sort of 'pseudo-spiritual' or 'moralistic' ideology running through the foundation of his thought which is quite rigidly unrealistic and idealistic. He expects the universe to be other than it is, and its laws to produce completely different outcomes.

Least favorite people ever encountered? Strong words for a man who speaks facts.

Phenomenal tip sir 👏

oh good idea

I prefer 1.5

Man you are a genius watching ok x1.25 was so much better

Noam Chomsky: Unvaccinated should 'remove themselves from the community,' access to food 'their problem' 🤣😂😅🤣🤣🤣 I would say he is brain dead

Yet he never asked why Noam rode the Lolita Express to Epstein Island? Does Noam like little girls or like most Commies lil Boys?

I'm sorry.

Poor you

I thought that myself. He's looking and sounding fine. Good audio helps.

@@kauphaart0 you're a clown sit down and go away

So well said. And I am 61

Meh, i’m 127

That’s awesome

You had me with “meh”

@@timhendrix414 Sir, go to sleep.

🙏🏼🙏🏾🙏

He's a commie who pushed the global warming scam on people.

Until RU-vid shuts him down for not following the narrative and Agenda's.

Not really. Chomsky wanted the un-jabbed to starve. He is a tyrant and always was. Just like Rage Against the Machine and all the other commies; they pretend to be anti-authoritarian. But what they really want is to be the authoritarians wielding the power.

Lex is a Gentleman and Scholar.

Well, did you find "truth and wisdom"?

@@user123qweqw3 do we ever?

Madmen are at the top and often only listen to their own tune. Maybe just maybe RFK can fix this, but we'll see. would be a 180 switch in 4-8 years. very unlikely, but good hope

the world would end in a day. He thought pol pot was better than goerge bush .

during my childhood, I was fortunate enough to see what the cnn was saying and seing the real thing with my own eyes asnato bombs were a normal part of evryday life, so I never ook the mediand world leader's word just like that..The Ukraine conflic was certain by 2014 and it was something that was just about to happen

Meanwhile he keeps on denying the last genocide that happened in Europe by downplaying its severity and alluding to conspiratorial media setting up fake photographs. I think it's a sad state of affairs when someone like this can openly state this kind of stuff without being called out on it. Baffles me to no end that I didn't even know about this until very recently. His platform and his focus is the U.S. so who cares what detrimental inaccuracies he spouts about this historically defining moment in Europe. I urge anyone to do some research on his position around fall of Yugoslavia.

@Ronald Reagan Shut up with your fake insights

So bloody true, right!

5 replies. I see, 1.

Trump managed it

Norman Finkelstein

There is no equal. But Chris Hedges is quite prolific.

Ure on ya own, young American minds…

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I reckon this has more to do with Noam, in this case. He’s heard of hearing, it looks like he’s reading the questions. He’s very busy. Being interviewed seems to be physically tiring for him. I haven’t seen more than an hour from him in recent years.

Lovely sister ❤️

It's going to be a sad day when he's gone. Can I get you a biscuit? Tea? Salad? How can I pay you back for what you have tirelessly given all of us?

@@billlets5460 Ur words appreciating more worth than biscuits salad tea in response of paying off what was conveyed to u including others around globe in respect of knowledge by Chomsky.. knowledge is such a charity which can't paid off. U too can share in Ur capacity same charity to pay off it to Chomsky..

Noam Chomsky is a nitwit. Or, to put it more kindly, a senile old man. He does not understand what is happening in Ukraine.

@@rezakarampour6286 .. exactly,, if this war was to prevent Russia from taking over a part of Mexico I could understand it but obviously this is a war right on Russia's border... And the West still seems to be talking this idiocy like they are in the right somehow... even Chomsky calling The invasion an illegal act of aggression seems to miss the fact that this is a war of the Russian state trying to maintain its integrity against an illegal alliance of military adversaries otherwise known as NATO... I don't see how Chomsky can honestly say that it's okay for the United States to send weapons to kill Russians but yet that we're not at war with Russia... I'm not saying that these military actions are right but I am saying is that in the world that the United States has created what else can you do? Somebody threatens you militarily, you deal with the threat... So that applies to the United States, when all it wants out of Iraq is for investors to get rich, but it doesn't apply to Russia when Russia is fighting an existential crisis on its own border? See anything wrong with this picture?

did you like it when he called for the staving to death of the un va xxe d? Funny how he didn't understand that having big pharma pay for 75% of ALL advertising in 2020 shaped his opinion. Funny how Chimpsky can't recognize obvious propaganda.

not to forget about his tremendous contributions to linguistics!

Chomsky was being polite ,too polite perhaps, because those with fixed minds will choose to be deaf to what he was saying .

TOTALY WRONG THERE IS NO COMPARISON WITH THE WAR IN IRAK HE DOESN'T SAY THE TRUTH AND IT'S FOOLISH TO SPEAK ABOUT A WAR BETWEEN CHINA AND THE STATES IT'S JUST A FICTION HE IS NOT A PROPHET

its depressing to know that this guy is the only one left debunking American MSM war-baiting Narratives. Its ridiculous how much misinformation and propaganda there is in America on topics about China and Russia. As an American myself, traveling the world and actually living outside the US changes your views and quickly makes u realize how much bullshit Americans believe in. The way America has painted countries like China/Russia and its people is absolutely disgraceful and borderline RACIST.

@@hermineleboutte1176 You're wrong.

That’s fair. I’d say his value is in reminding us of the bigger picture. His focus is material and political need and much analysis seems to *avoid* that (not seeing the wood for the trees) because it’s not an ‘angle’ or ‘hot take’.

His comments on the unvaccinated really knocked the wind out of me; I could barely believe what I was hearing. But it's glad to read that others maintain the ability to not throw the baby out with the bath water.

what comments did he make around 911 and unvaccinated?

@@clebphlips He said that those who didn't want to take the experimental mRNA vaccines should be removed from society and that acquiring food would now be "their problem". Apropos Sept. 11th, I'd suggest his book 9-11: Was There an Alternative? and his correspondence letters with Christopher Hitchens.

The great guy who want to starve the unvaccinated? Give me a break he is a propagandized fool.

I wish he hadn't changed so much since he was younger. He has become the enemy

@@CB-os4lf yea when he was younger he did great things like denying the Cambodian genocide

He wanted to commit genocide just a year ago.

he's been consistently wrong in the field outsife of his expertise. His fetishization towards marxism is also disgusting

@@GIGACHAD-xs6wj He is a widely respected professor outside of politics which makes him probably one of the most interesting guests Lex Fridman has ever had

@@GIGACHAD-xs6wj He is not even a marxist dude, either you haven't done your research or you don't know what Marxism is, or both.

@@GIGACHAD-xs6wj Chomsky calls himself an anarchist, so your characterization is wrong. Everyone is wrong sometimes. Get it? All big government is core erupted. Especially Americas version.

Still banned on corporate media and even PBS. Mr. Dangerous.

Gnome

You wrote this under chomskys interview

Respectful eastern European roots: respect for your elders. Everywhere but in anglo countries are the elderly addressed as "uncle" or "aunty" or "grandfather" or "grandmother" by younger people. I grew up calling my elders aunty and uncle (South African mother).

@Aqua Fyre Towards the end Chomsky answers Lex's question about is America tearing itself apart. Thanks for you question though I added a time stamp to my post.

Bobby Fischer wasn't crazy, people just refused to understand him.

Neoliberalim

Insightful comment! I was born in 1982, so I didn’t see those same changes. Although I’ve certainly seen plenty for myself in my lifetime, including growing sprawl in my town

@Aqua Fyre It fits in with the growth of globalization and the centralization of power generally. And these forces drive the Ukrainian War and geopolitics overall.

Not me this guy is a total looser. argued for things that lex's grandparents suffered under 60 years ago.

We still need the Putin episode.

Have you seen the film by Francis Ford Coppola called, “Rumble Fish “ ?

😂😂😂

@Ronald Reagan With all my respect the professor Chomsky had told about a diplomatic solution. The importance of having diplomatic solutions in a bloody war are not working against any sense of How many money are probably produced.With all my respect I wish you a happy new year.

in what grade?

@@xWingzTV in th

@@xWingzTV all of 'em or none, apparently

@@TheDustyShed yeah you’re right man idk how i didn’t see that..

@@shaft9000 true 💯

Just like his old mate, Hugo Chavez.

@@geneharrogate6911 Crap logic.

@@fazbell Inconvenient truth.

I saw the transcript for the first interview. Where did you find this one?

Well you missed the experience of the interview.. You could have had it in the background while doing stuff and listened..

did you listen to the bitter, and i mean, bitter end?

One of extremely few great minds of our time.

@@MikBak1814 very true 👍

@@thecount1001 sure did

@@allanhindmarch7323 So how did you first stumble upon Chomsky, Allan?

...and yet he still advocated for full blown authoritarianism during the pandemic.

@@clicheguevara5282 white dress, blue dress moment 👗 complex views require deep understanding.

@@clicheguevara5282 You're an actual fool. Did you pass grade school?

@@amymarieZ I guess you and Noam are just on a totally different level of intelligence.

Search . ' Why Is Ukraine the West's Fault . '

Pretty much anything available on the subject by Chomsky will definately shed light to the situation at hand. If not it exactly, then at the very least, the buildup to it. It is a sea of information that you need to immerse yourself into just to get a proper view on it.

If only he was as concerned about intent

I feel similarly about George Carlin- wasn’t till decades later and I was older that I really understood it

I still don't understand him, listened alot in my teens (in the 2000s) and thought he was a libertarian, but then he went full commie during the lockdowns so I'm not sure he even knows his intent anymore

Chomsky called for the starving to death of the un va x xed until they obey the mandates. He was clear about having them die or obey. He seems like a real psychopath . You don't have to struggle too hard really to understand him do you?

@@JamesOGant George Carlin has an album focusing on fear of viruses. he jokes that he never washes his hands and he calls people p**sies for being so paranoid. he would've truly hated this age.