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Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
VP of @WLCongress. Chair of @Renew_Democracy, board of @HRF. Activist, author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion. Telegram: https://t.co/TYTIn7DdyS
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Nov 28 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
America, this is your next four years, or longer. Oligarchs protected by Trump accusing former public officials of the gravest crimes without evidence or even pretense to provide any. Trial by social media, which of course is owned by said oligarch. Russia in the Wild West 90s. Naturally, this is the sort of garbage produced by the Kremlin–and in fact was solicited by Trump emissary Giuliani & Co against Biden ("I would like you to do us a favor though"), leading indirectly to Trump's impeachment. Vindman blew the whistle & now the payback escalates.
Nov 21 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This disgraceful ICC decision is the last nail in the coffin of the international order based on Yalta-Potsdam arrangements. Politicizing & criminalizing self-defense against terrorism also discredits previous judgments against real war criminals like Putin. I'm no Netanyahu supporter, but like any sovereign nation, Israel has the right to defend itself from existential threats. The ICC, like the UN, would like Israel to just disappear, which is exactly what would happen if it stopped fighting for its survival.
Nov 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Exactly. Escalation has come from Russia for over 10 years because the West has not provided Ukraine with the weapons to deter, to halt, and to win. We have the benefit of hindsight now but still pretend to be blind. If you think the nuclear threat is greater now than 5 months or 5 years ago, your case against Western arms has been refuted. Russia has escalated, bombing Ukrainian civilians daily. Iranian weapons, NK troops, Chinese supplies. Due not to Western arms, but the lack of them.
Nov 13 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
From Russia with love. Gabbard would be too much. Hesgeth may not be typically qualified but he's not a cheerleader for mass murdering dictators and I doubt Trump wants to pick such an bad fight with the Senate.
Nov 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It’s not that they think they wouldn’t be confirmed, at least not in most cases. It’s that they want to plant a big flag early that there will be no transparency or oversight of Trump's wishes and power. Everything will be like this. Putin steadily reshaped Russia's fragile democracy with the willing aid of the Russian Duma (Congress) and courts who didn’t want to cross him. Power is voluntarily ceded to the president and an autocratic vertical is created. Federal over state power next.
Nov 6 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I’ll be writing on the election soon, but a few thoughts. Beyond the tactical, the resounding result is more evidence that far-right success follows far-left overreach. The media normalized Trump, but also downplayed how strongly many Americans disliked leftist agitation. 1/7 I.e., the prevailing tone was that leftist social agendas were simply progress, and anyone who didn’t embrace them was a fascist or dinosaur. But even if that’s an argument to be had on a talk show, it provokes moderate resentment and is a losing proposition electorally. 2/7
Nov 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
American elections vote for people, not parties. This isn’t complicated. I supported GOP candidates almost exclusively before Trump, even meeting with some of their campaigns. Trump and the MAGA GOP have nothing to do with those good men or their policies. If you had bothered to learn anything about me, my background, and my decades of public writing and speaking on politics, or even read my article you replied to, you would realize how dangerous Trump must be for me to endorse Harris. But Trump makes it obvious and necessary.
Nov 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
When I was forced to escape Putin's crackdown in Russia and made my home in America, I never imagined I would be warning my new home about the threat of authoritarianism. But thanks to Trump, here we are. My article: thedispatch.com/article/us-des… My endorsement of Harris is an endorsement of democracy, of institutions, of the country I grew up admiring from afar. America must not fall into the corrupt oligarchy that MAGA wants to build, one modeled on Trump's idol Putin, btw.
Oct 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Like the Russian oligarchs, Musk sees himself as part of a shadow government—outside and above, unaccountable. It would be far worse with him inside Trump's government, operating with great power but no transparency. I’m sure Putin is a valuable mentor. I called the Putin system an unholy mix of Adam Smith and Marx; they nationalize the costs and privatize the profits. They loot the state and then turn the state into a looting machine. Look at how Trump runs his campaigns, his foreign policy. Friends & family for profit.
Oct 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Dictatorships export sabotage, murder, and terror into the free world, and not only against dissidents like the brave Masih. Unless there are real consequences, such campaigns will only spread. It’s the democratic world that often downplays and covers up these attacks against their citizens, residents, and sovereignty. To avoid "escalation," of course, meaning having the courage to actually do something. This creates impunity and escalation by the terror states.
Oct 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
More stories about Trump sending scarce Covid tests to Putin than about his secretly staying in touch with a dictator hostile to the US after leaving office. Another reminder that the "Russia hoax" was never a hoax at all, and what we don’t know is even worse than what we know. Image Like Putin and other autocrats, Trump is not primarily a political figure in that he cares only for himself and all political calculations are 100% self-serving. Attempts to justify his personal loyalty to Putin as US or GOP interests have always been transparently ridiculous.
Sep 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Trusting a KGB thug like Putin out of optimism was forgivable once. But only once. He’s broken every deal, exploited every concession and agreement, and the West keeps lining up to be conned again, this time with Ukrainian blood on the line. They know, of course. Some are corrupt, happy to sell out Ukraine and Europe. The others are just hoping to pass the buck on Russian aggression like their predecessors did, which is how we got here. And Putin knows it. This is the price of appeasement, and it always goes up.
Sep 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Uncertainty is better than dictatorship, than terror, than war and invasion. There is opportunity in change, never certainty. Hope, not impossible guarantees, not a failing status quo, but hope. You must take chances to change the world. Those safe in the halls of power and wealth in the free world tell the people of Iran and Russia and Venezuela that they must live with their dictators. They tell their victims in Ukraine and Israel and Syria and Lebanon that making deals is less risky than taking action.
Sep 23 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Providing a platform for authoritarian regimes to have equal status with democratic nations has turned the UN into a cesspool. It was designed to freeze the Cold War between nuclear superpowers, and it mostly worked. The model became obsolete & toxic when the Cold War ended. It may not be worth the effort of disintegrating the UN, as corrupt and worthless as it is becoming. But there must at least be an alternative organization where dictatorships aren't running human rights committees & authoritarian regimes can't gang up to condemn democracies.
Sep 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I treasure my own Chess Olympiad memories & would love to just enjoy this Olympiad in Budapest. But politics and the value of human life come first. The Russian Federation is banned, as from most international events, due to Russia's genocidal war in Ukraine. It must be upheld. As I know from long experience in the USSR and Russia, there is no "just chess," or "just sports" when it comes to propaganda. It means allowing Russia to promote its image on the global stage while murdering Ukrainians in an unprovoked war of conquest.
Sep 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I can’t vote in the US but I am honored to live here and have always admired it. I don’t much care for Harris or many of her policy positions. But even more after seeing Trump tonight, I look forward to vehemently disagreeing with her for four years as US president. Trump is unfit and always has been. He proved it in office and is only worse now. I’m pretty conservative, but he’s not. He’s the clearer and greater threat to America and American values than the progressive mush that Harris has in her baggage.
Aug 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Emphasizing that part of this WH fallacy is the idea there is a "Russia" at all on a strategic decision-making level. It’s a one-man dictatorship. There are no core interests except for Putin's. Only when he sees leaving Ukraine as better for his survival than war will he stop. You cannot negotiate out of a crisis with someone whose survival depends on the crisis continuing. Either Russia destroys Ukraine with massive material and strategic gains, with NATO next, or continuing becomes a threat to Putin’s grip on power so he declares victory & leaves.
Aug 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ukraine is again proving they know how to fight a dictatorship—with surprise & aggression that creates doubt and fear in the dictator. Meanwhile, its allies continue the failed model of appeasement and diplomacy, which only emboldens the dictator. Read: Novelty & attack are key. They force decisions all the way up to the dictator & paralyze the power vertical. In a dictatorship, everyone from conscript to general is terrified of making a decision. If it’s business as usual, the behemoth can function. Anything novel is crippling.
Aug 12 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Putin has been looting Russia for over 20 years; this is just doing it on a more personal level. Societal apathy and corruption are useful for sustaining a dictatorship. Civil society is erased and the people collectively have no power, no stake, no interests beyond survival. But that lack of resistance applies to everything, including foreign invasion.
Aug 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My thoughts on the Harris VP choice haven't changed now that it's been made. Walz may be charming, but not picking Shapiro reflects tactical & strategic misjudgment. Locking up PA was critical, as was having a fighter who could go toe-to-toe with the vicious attacks to come. 1/4 The honeymoon is over & it's not a primary. Shapiro would counter Harris's woke ballast. But Harris wasn't comfortable with his abilities, another poor indicator. You can't be comfortable and beat Trump. He lies, cheats, and steals. It's a street fight. 2/4
Aug 1 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It's a wonderful day when friends and allies are released from Putin's gulag and able to see their families again. But do not forget that exchanging regime murderers & spies for innocent hostages & political prisoners promotes Russia's production of both. 1/6 I'm especially happy to see my friend @vkaramurza again, and for @ekaramurza, whose work and dreams are coming true. That good people like Volodya and journalists like Gershkovich are turned into subjects of torture and pawns to trade by Putin's dictatorship is abhorrent. 2/6