1 - His Ukraine stance is simply that we have had a Cold War paradox in our American minds since the 50s, Russia is both too strong a foe to ignore and a paper tiger working off of shoddy USSR tanks and being beat by some farmers with lock-on missiles.
This article helps clarify his points, he absolutely calls Russia's invasion barbaric, but he has always vehemently stated the West's bloodlust and policing has never helped our case as peacemakers:
https://jacobin.com/2022/06/noam-chomsky-interview-russia-uk...
2 - Sometimes philosophy is about stating the obvious "well duh". Because if you can't establish solid axioms, then how can you try to prove a higher-level thesis?
And if the linguistic stuff is over your head, I'm not sure the philosophy stuff will be easy for you to grasp either. Unless you have a major/minor in dialectics I don't know about.
This article helps clarify his points, he absolutely calls Russia's invasion barbaric, but he has always vehemently stated the West's bloodlust and policing has never helped our case as peacemakers: https://jacobin.com/2022/06/noam-chomsky-interview-russia-uk...
2 - Sometimes philosophy is about stating the obvious "well duh". Because if you can't establish solid axioms, then how can you try to prove a higher-level thesis?
And if the linguistic stuff is over your head, I'm not sure the philosophy stuff will be easy for you to grasp either. Unless you have a major/minor in dialectics I don't know about.