US scholar urges Europe to exit 'US-dominated system' to escape decline, deindustrialization
American left-wing scholar and activist Noam Chomsky has advised European nations to free themselves from the US sphere of influence.
Get out of the "US-dominated system" or you may face decline and deindustrialization, Noam Chomsky, a renowned US academic and philosopher told European nations as quoted by Sputnik on Wednesday.
"Europe has a major decision to make: Will it stay within the US-dominated system, facing likely decline and even, some predict, deindustrialization? Or will it accommodate in some fashion to [Russia] its natural economic partner to the East, rich in mineral resources that Europe needs and a gateway to the lucrative China market?" Chomsky said.
Chomsky said European leaders have been asking themselves these questions in one form or another since the end of World War II left the countries divided between the Washington-led Western Bloc and the Moscow-led Eastern Bloc.
Asked whether he thinks the world is on the threshold of a new order and if the tensions caused by the Ukraine war can be a catalyst for major global geopolitical development, Chomsky replied saying the final shape of a new world is still uncertain and there are contrary arguments in this regard.
"There are many uncertainties as to how these tensions will be resolved," he said.
"There is much controversy about the shape of the emerging world system," Chomsky explained, adding that the basic alternatives are a multipolar United Nations-based system or a unipolar "rules-based" system, where the United States sets the rules and as the record reveals, disregards them when it chooses to.
"The former is largely supported by most of the world. The latter is adopted by the Anglosphere, Europe, Japan, and a few others," Chomsky noted.
He warned that the United States had not only breached its post-Cold War security pacts with Russia by expanding NATO forces eastwards and encroaching on Russian territory in Europe, but also, with NATO recently expanding into the Indo-Pacific region, Washington is attempting to enlist Europe in its challenge with China.
Russia's special operation in Ukraine "provided the United States with a most welcome gift, driving Europe into Washington's pocket and thus strengthening its demand for a unipolar ‘rules-based’ order," said the US-based scholar.
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