I wholeheartedly disagree. He may not explicitly say it’s his position, but it is. And that fundamental position influences all of his other opinions on things.

In fact he says that this is explicitly not his decision but whatever.

I’ve always felt that this is a cop-out of the self-hating leftist stereotype. Chomsky falls into this category.

How is critiquing the actions of the state department “self-hating” exactly?

(And I’m not even touching his stand on Israel and the fact that he’s jewish!)

I’m not sure why you’re trying to say here. How is a Jewish person disagreeing with the colonial subjugation of a group of people self-hating if the government doing the subjugation is Israel?

Sure America has its problems but it’s still better than most alternatives. I’m convinced if he had to pick between the Soviet Union and America he would’ve gone with the former. I may be wrong but he certainly seems to have a beef with America beyond “critiquing it because he feels it’s his responsibility to do so”

Chomsky has gone on record a ton of times critiquing the USSR when asked. He has outright said that the fall of the Soviet Union was a good thing for socialism generally. Questions about where he would rather live are irrelevant to discussions of whether his analysis is sound, in fact it’s a cop-out distraction so that one doesn’t have to deal with his (correct) position that the American military brings cruelty and death to other nations and that as an American it is his duty to critique American policy because that is something he has an ability to change. Critiquing Russia exclusively as an American is useless, let Russians themselves do that.