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Noam Chomsky: Don't underestimate the risk of nuclear war

Ido Vock speaks to the American linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most prominent commentators on international politics since the Vietnam War. A trenchant critic of American foreign policy, Chomsky explains what he thinks the US is getting wrong in Ukraine, the prospects of a conflict over Taiwan, and why Finland and Sweden sought to join Nato. Read more: Ukraine is not a <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/ukraine/2023/01/ukraine-proxy-war-russia-vladimir-putin-nato" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">proxy war</a><a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2023/03/after-iraq-great-unravelling-peter-ricketts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">After Iraq:</a> the great unravellingThe <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2022/04/the-dual-atrocity-of-rape-in-the-war-on-ukraine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dual atrocity of rape</a> in the war on UkraineLetter from Kinmen: <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/china/2023/03/kinmen-taiwan-under-attack-china" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Taiwan</a> is already under attack Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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