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Garry Kasparov
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Co-founder of @WLCongress. Chairman of @Renew_Democracy & @HRF. Activist, author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion. https://t.co/CmCdvMlxMi
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Apr 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
When I bash the Trump-led GOP for blocking Ukraine aid I get criticized for not bashing the Biden admin enough for withholding weapons. When I bash the Biden admin, I get attacked for not blaming Trump & Johnson. I get it, but this is the partisan BS that Putin is exploiting. When casting your vote, yes, "who is better" is a relevant question. But in advocacy, you should speak the truth about all sides. It doesn't "help Trump" to point out the Biden DoD should be doing much more to help Ukraine and US security.
Apr 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Stop waiting for the history books, I'm happy to blame him now! But the President of the United States cannot blame a feeble Congressman from Louisiana for failing to defend US security & the entire democratic world order against a hostile dictatorship. The buck stops with him. Turning Ukrainian lives & global security into a domestic football is immoral and idiotic. Trump and his GOP are doing the Kremlin's bidding for election help and cash. Biden feigns helplessness to score points against them as Ukraine burns. Inexcusable.
Mar 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My WSJ op-ed on the Crocus terror attack, how Putin will exploit it in his total war in Ukraine, and how the Biden admin must take immediate action instead of blaming the American betrayal of Ukraine on the GOP. wsj.com/articles/mosco… Putin will escalate, as he always does when he senses opportunity and weakness. Ukraine cannot become a political football. Instead of telling allies like Ukraine what they can't do, give them the support they need to do what must be done.
Mar 24 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A new loyalty test has arrived from the Kremlin: blaming Ukraine for the Crocus terror attack despite no credible evidence or time yet to make up the usual fakes. Let's see who parrots this homicidal garbage for no reason other than that their master in Moscow says it. The deep historical connections between Russian intelligence and Islamic terror groups are well documented. There are also many shades of complicity, from collaboration and cover-up to ignoring warnings and delaying response.
Mar 23 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
You can tell it's AI because there is blood on all six of Putin's fingers... Image The worst terrorist of all is right there in the Kremlin, no need to search or make up convoluted stories that contradict each other more every hour. It's all bullshit, trying to gain sympathy, distraction, and time Russia will use to escalate its war on Ukraine.
Mar 22 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Attack in Moscow the day after Peskov used the words "we're at war" for first time and a big new mobilization was announced. Can't help but note this is the same formula Putin used when he came to power 25 years ago with the KGB apartment bombings.
reuters.com/world/europe/s… Russia is preparing to annihilate more Ukrainian cities and will continue to escalate in the face of allied weakness. It appears the Biden admin is okay with that because gas prices are more important to his reelection campaign. reuters.com/world/europe/u…
Mar 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Many years of German prosperity were built on cheap Russian gas. Putin used that money and lack of international pressure to destroy Russian civil society and build his war machine. Since 2014, Ukrainians have been paying for that German prosperity with their blood. Scholz & others are still hoping to get back to business as usual with war criminal Putin. Why else would they be so pathetic? The Russian $300 billion has been frozen but only the interest can be used? A few arms found here and there sent, but not huge NATO stockpiles? Absurd.
Mar 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Travel day, so a summary thread:
- Ignore Putin's "election". It's a joke and even pointing that out associates a dictator with a democratic process he has destroyed. However, it's useful to expose his sycophants in the West who love to say how popular he is. 1/5 - Putin again refutes his eager propagandists in the free world by stating his intention to destroy Ukraine as a people & nation because they don't deserve to exist. Talking about NATO expansion or saving Russian speakers should be humiliating at this point. 2/5
Feb 21 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Every time new sanctions on Russia are announced or new weapons sent to Ukraine, it gives the lie to the claims the West was doing all it could before. It's been two years of Russia's all-out war & Ukraine's allies are still holding back. Why? Hoping for a deal with Putin? Ukrainians are dying every day while the the most powerful militaries in the history of the world ponder what would be proportionate. NATO knows the threat is escalating but still treats the front line of Ukraine like a buffer instead of a vital interest.
Feb 16 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Putin tried and failed to murder Navalny quickly and secretly with poison, and now he has murdered him slowly and publicly in prison. He was killed for exposing Putin and his mafia as the crooks and thieves they are. My thoughts are with the brave man's wife and children. Putin is Navalny's killer, make no mistake, but there is blame enough to share. First, the Russians who failed to match Alexei's courage to end Putin's dictatorship and war. Some of us tried, and he marched with us in numbers that seem a fantasy now. But it wasn't enough.
Feb 15 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
If you're going to worship a dictator, you must then worship the dictatorship. MAGA adoration of autocrats like Orbán and dictators like Putin may begin with "we need a strongman in America" but it logically progresses to advocating advocating for despotism. 1/5 Tucker is a propagandist, and the comparisons to Western leftists from Duranty to Bernie to Michael Moore visiting the USSR & Cuba in gullible awe are fine. But this is a concrete campaign on behalf of Putin's murderous dictatorship, not credulous ideology. 2/5
Feb 14 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
😂 "Ukraine can’t win!" BS makes a comeback when Kremlin stooges get desperate. It was used even before the 2022 total invasion. But at least that was before the world knew of the butchery & terror Russia unleashes in occupied territory. Calling for surrender now is moral idiocy. Ukraine doesn’t have to "defeat Russia" beyond making its invasion & occupation unsustainable. This requires a combination of economic sanctions, military successes, and the political will to isolate Russia & its partners. It’s already happening and must continue.
Feb 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When you are too pro-Kremlin and anti-American to keep a job in US propaganda mills, go to the source! Nothing surprising, but, as with Trump's treasonous embrace of Russia, watch who normalizes it. That real American journalists are, at this moment, sitting in Russian prisons on Putin's orders makes this spectacle even more grotesque.
Feb 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As I’ve warned for years, it doesn’t matter if you think NATO would win; what matters is if Putin thinks NATO would fight at all. As Ukraine's allies cower and betray, the risk keeps growing. Putin and his pals know that NATO could destroy the Russian military in a month, but that they choose not to. They even refuse to help Ukraine do it. They are afraid of the unknown, of losing business, of nuclear blackmail, of their own shadows.
Jan 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🎯 Inconstancy is deadly. It also further exposes the futility of defense-only support. A nation cannot long survive under constant barrages even if they shoot down 90%. They have to be able to go on offense, to destroy the launchers, to raise the costs for Russia. Allowing Putin to murder Ukrainian civilians daily for "as long as it takes" is unacceptable. If its allies want to war to end, Ukraine must be armed to win. If this doesn’t happen, Putin believes he can wait out Western aid.
Dec 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In print tomorrow, but if you can’t wait, my new op-ed in the @WSJopinion is up now. American partisan politics are costing Ukrainian lives, while Biden seems to be looking for another costly defeat. wsj.com/articles/victo… Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela have all seen the Biden admin retreat or offer deals and concessions while getting nothing in return but more aggression. That’s what weakness always gets from dictators and thugs.
Dec 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Maduro is eager to solidify Venezuela among the axis of autocracy led by Russia and Iran. Invading a neighbor is a popular way to do it. If the free world, the expiring Pax Americana, is too weak & corrupt to stop them, might makes right will continue to make a comeback. As I wrote a decade ago, nobody likes a global policeman until they have to live in a neighborhood without a cop on the beat. Nor do the effects of war and destabilization stay in that neighborhood for long, not in the era of globalization.
Nov 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For 10 years, Ukrainians have shed blood for the values and freedoms other Europeans take for granted. Their brave people have defended Europe against Russia while the world's most powerful military alliance looks on. We can never repay them, but we must do everything we can. 🇺🇦 Ukraine refused to bow down to the Russian mafia state that was making pipeline deals & political alliances with the EU leaders who dared lecture Ukraine about their best interests. Ukraine is now the conscience, the leader of what Europe is supposed to stand for.
Nov 20, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This is what I mean about losing a war you refuse to admit you’re already in. The "not our fight" appeasement crowd conveniently ignores years of Russian onslaught on their elections, businesses, economies, etc as if the only aggression is tanks—which Russia is also using. Ukraine is the rarity, a battlefield on which hostile Russian forces can be seen and destroyed. No so simple with Russian oligarchs making donations, energy company acquisitions & IPOs, hackers and propagandists manipulating candidates & elections. But those are also Putin’s war.
Nov 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It’s what I called them looking for their lost keys where the light is better instead of where they lost them. Hamas doesn’t care. Iran won’t listen. Assad will continue to slaughter. So, pressure Israel and the US. Eventually you lose your moral compass entirely. Same with those calling for ceasefires and negotiations in Ukraine, even though Russia doesn’t want any such thing. So they write op-eds criticizing Ukraine and its allies. Because Putin, the aggressor, doesn’t care what they say & just lies to tell them what they want to hear.
Nov 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Upcoming report by @WLCongress EE/CA Group on Russian sanctions is an eye-opener. In 2022, Kyrgyzstan exported 115,920 detonators to Russia, the kind used in landmines, up from zero in 2021. Also 2022, Kyrgyzstan imported 193,536 detonators from Canada. Sanctions, @JustinTrudeau?
Image Will the Russian bombs and mines used to kill Ukrainians still have "Made in Canada" on the parts? Kyrgyzstan is small, and the report shows much more similar "middleman" activity from Kazakhstan, despite Toqaev's photo-ops with EU leaders denying helping Russia break sanctions.