{"id":17992,"date":"2022-06-17T14:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17992"},"modified":"2022-06-17T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:32:38","slug":"17992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17992","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/welcome-to-a-science-fiction-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noam Chomsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Can we try to bring this horror to an end? Or should we try to perpetuate it? Those are the choices.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one way to bring it to an end. That\u2019s diplomacy. Now, diplomacy, by definition, means both sides accept it. They don\u2019t like it, but they accept it as the least bad option. It would offer Putin some kind of escape hatch. That\u2019s one possibility. The other is just to drag it out and see how much everybody will suffer, how many Ukrainians will die, how much Russia will suffer, how many millions of people will starve to death in Asia and Africa, how much we\u2019ll proceed toward heating the environment to the point where there will be no possibility for a livable human existence. Those are the options. Well, with near 100% unanimity, the United States and most of Europe want to pick the <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">no-diplomacy<\/span> option. It\u2019s explicit. We have to keep going to hurt Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>The security of the population is simply not a concern for policymakers. Security for the privileged, the rich, the corporate sector, arms manufacturers, yes, but not the rest of us. This doublethink is constant, sometimes conscious, sometimes not. It\u2019s just what Orwell described, hyper-totalitarianism in a free society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Chomsky: Can we try to bring this horror to an end? Or should we try to perpetuate it? Those are the choices. There\u2019s only one way to bring it to an end. That\u2019s diplomacy. Now, diplomacy, by definition, means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17992\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}