WASHINGTON – US linguist Noam Chomsky believes that the US militarystrategy under US President Donald Trump is moving toward world destruction.
“With Trump, it [US military strategy] is becoming weaker, less effective,more disintegrated and loses all this authority and weight in theinternational arena, which it previously had. And also it has a courseon the destruction of the world. The most important component of the policyof President Trump’s administration is its attitude to the real crisisof existence on our planet, namely climate change,” Chomsky told FormerPresident of Ecuador Rafael Correa in an interview, as quoted by RTbroadcaster.
He noted that the United States, led by Trump, had gone against the wholeworldlink>in thematter of climate change, and was aggressively pursuing a course that onlyexacerbates the danger of climate change by putting a priority on theextraction of hydrocarbon fuel on the US territory.
Moreover, according to Chomsky, an exchange of bellicose statementsbetween the United States and North Korea could lead to a war. At the sametime, the crisis can be eliminated with the help of the double freeze plan.
In January, the Pentagon released the new US National Defense Strategy.Among other issues, the document listed Russia and China as securitythreats to the United States, while long-term strategic competitionwith Beijing and Moscow was among the key priorities for Washington.
In June, Chinalink>proposeda so-called double freeze plan, which was supported by Russia, providingfor the cessation of North Korea’s nuclear activity in exchange for haltingthe US-South Korean joint military drills.
The plan would have created the conditions for negotiations between Seouland Pyongyang, during the course of which the two parties should set up thebasic principles for interstate relations, including the non-use of force,the renunciation of aggression, peaceful coexistence and determinationtoward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. However, the plan hasbeen rejected by the United States as “insulting.”- Sputnik