I watched this Chomsky video a while back and at first was incensed. Talking about it with a friend, he mentioned that there are plenty of subject matter experts who disagree with Chomsky, and that Chomsky is speaking out of his field of expertise. Since then I realized that a long list of complaints without context is also a potent way to argue even when wrong. Again I’m not saying his conclusions are wrong, just that those two possible issues being present in the video had been gnawing at me for a while. So I asked GPT what people who disagree with Chomsky say to try to add some nuance to the conversation.

Any international relations folks on the thread want to attack or defend Chomsky’s reading of events? I read up on the Wikipedia version at least of one of the issues.