Noam Chomsky said earlier this week that former President Donald Trump is the “ Western statesman” who has laid out a “sensible” proposition to resolve the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

In an in an interview with Thijmen Sprakel on Tuesday, Chomsky said that the proposed solution included “facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe…in which there are no military alliances but just mutual accommodation.”

Wildest case of "strange new respect" I've seen in years!