Is Chomsky still on DU's "approved" comentator list?

[KingCharlemagne]

141. I only wish that discussions of Ukraine and what is happening there

could begin from this excerpt of Kissinger's remarks:

We have to remember that Russia is an important part of the international system, and therefore useful in solving all sorts of other crises, for example in the agreement on nuclear proliferation with Iran or over Syria. This has to have preference over a tactical escalation in a specific case. On the one hand it is important that Ukraine remain an independent state, and it should have the right to economic and commercial associations of its choice. But I don't think it's a law of nature that every state must have the right to be an ally in the frame work of NATO. You and I know that NATO will never vote unanimously for the entry of Ukraine. (Emphasis added)

In this one brief passage, Kissinger exposes and deconstructs the Russophobes' agenda, thereby nullifying their entire raison d'etre. While he has much to answer for before the bar of history, here at least Kissinger speaks like the sole adult in the room. That it fell to him of all people to re-assert the primacy of the post-Westphalian system is irony taken to an art form (IMHO