He wrote and spoke vividly about how US foreign policy had failed to live up to American values during and after the Cold War. But as my devotion to Chomsky the Cat grew, my attachment to Chomsky the polemicist waned. “The US accepted [Saddam] Hussein when he followed our rules and turned on him when he disobeyed,” Chomsky and Robinson declare. But Chomsky and Robinson ignore mass killings, protests, and rights if there is no US angle. For Putin’s historic assault on Ukraine, Chomsky and Robinson concoct a mix of distortion and disinformation to blame NATO for the invasion.