Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Well, the Ides of March are 12 days away... — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Asking what benefit Putin would get from a nuclear plant catastrophe in UKR misses the point. He always wants chaos, doubt and danger to keep raising the stakes because he believes he can exploit such moments better than his opponents. — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Perhaps the UK would accept more Ukrainian refugees if they said they were Russian billionaires and offered to make political donations and play tennis with Johnson. — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

@KJTorrance It could be a good deal if she stays there! — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Thank you. I am an optimist by nature, and even though I am depressed by the lack of more forceful action by the West, I try to be at my most positive when talking to Ukrainian media, for obvious reasons. — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

I discussed this during the Trump presidency, when he kept surprising people with the "unthinkable". Autocrats operate with a pure selfishness that normal people cannot predict. Putin bombing a nuclear plant is simply logical to someone who doesn't care about human life. — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

I don't think Xi is in my group chat, sorry. Dictatorships are not sentimental. They support each other up to the moment it is inconvenient. Xi approved Putin's war, but seeing the world turn against him so completely may alter his calculations. But he is watching closely. — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

RT @sextaNoticias: El mítico ajedrecista ruso Kasparov carga contra Putin: "Es un dictador" https://t.co/cutDHmgc2u — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

"Technological" Stone Age! It's Putin who is the risk of ending civilization if he's not stopped now. Putin and other dictatorships exploit tech created in the free world to attack it. No more. Shut it all down. Russians have to see Putin is a dead end. — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Of course. The West has spent a dozen years thinking Putin would just go away if they did as little as possible. But dictators must always find a way to get attention, and murder & destruction is the time-tested method. — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Suddenly the impossible is possible. To gird yourself for the battles to come, every time you see a new sanction, a new front opening against Putin, ask why it didn't happen last month or last year. There are reasons and they must be rooted out. — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

RT @ChesscomLive: "Stop the war." Forty-four top Russian chess players published an open letter to the President of the Russian Federatio… — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

RT @TarjeiJS: Another story by @chess24com on the consequences of the Ukraine invasion for the chess community. https://t.co/4ym7YsdOOU — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

RT @kasparovchess: Subscribe for a yearly PRO membership on https://t.co/RIG2yRrddD and get a signed copy of @Kasparov63's book: How Life I… — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

My interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: https://t.co/pxXYuOhhnT — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Putin vows to exterminate Ukrainians while we watch. Ukraine did nothing wrong but try to join the democratic world that is now witnessing crimes against humanity in real time. Not unable. Unwilling. #CloseTheSky 13/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

As I said in 2014 and a fateful week ago, the price of stopping a dictator always goes up. What would have been enough to stop Putin 8 years or 6 months or 2 weeks ago is not enough today, and the price will rise again tomorrow. Fight. Find a way. 12/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

If your answer is no, that if a wing of a RU jet crosses Polish airspace, of course NATO will engage immediately, ask why thousands of Ukrainians civilians dying first matters less than a treaty, and what that says to Putin. That you're honorable, or a fool? We know. 11/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

The corridors to get weapons, food, and medicine in and refugees out are narrowing and can be closed. Putin can bomb the trains, close the borders with NATO nations. The odds of Russian forces hitting a NATO asset are increasing, and then what? Still watching? 10/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

There is no waiting this out. This isn't chess; there's no draw, no stalemate. Either Putin destroys Ukraine and eventually hits NATO with an even greater catastrophe, or Putin falls in Russia. He cannot be stopped with weakness. 9/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Risk and costs are higher now because the "reasonable" people in the West always choose lower risk today to guarantee higher risk tomorrow. Clearing the UKR skies after a warning period is risky. Letting Putin destroy Ukraine is riskier, & a human and moral disaster. 8/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

If this sounds familiar, it's the same argument from 2014, when Putin invaded E Ukraine and annexed Crimea. It was too risky to stop him, I was told, as I pleaded for intervention and warned he would never stop there. Here we are, with bombs raining down. 7/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Biden & others insist NATO would retaliate should Putin attack Baltic members. Watching Ukraine, I am not sure of that at all, and Putin won't be either. If the calculation is about nuclear risk, it's no different over Estonia than Ukraine. Don't say "Putin would never". 6/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

This is already World War III. Putin started it long ago & Ukraine is only the current front. He will escalate anyway, and it's even more likely if he succeeds in destroying Ukraine because you have again convinced him you won't stop him even though you could. 5/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

If they care so much about the fine print and think Putin does too, ask Zelensky to issue Ukrainian passports to any volunteer to fly in combat. Sell jets to Ukraine for €1 each and paint UKR flags on them. Do you think Putin will care? Is it worth the lives lost? 4/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

No treaty forbids NATO nations from fighting to defend in Ukraine. It's a choice based on the risk of Putin going nuclear, many say. That arming Ukrainians is an acceptable risk of WWIII & the citizenship of the pilot or soldier changes Putin's nuclear calculus, or NATO's. 3/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

Putin once again told Macron to go to hell, no surprise. NATO/EU has already told Putin they won't touch his forces, so why should he listen? Russia is lifting target limitations and the death toll is rising every hour and lack of water & electricity is critical. 2/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

We are witnessing, literally watching live, Putin commit genocide on an industrial scale in Ukraine while the most powerful military alliance in history stands aside. It's impossible not to be emotional, but let us also be rational and focus our rage on the facts. 1/13 — PolitiTweet.org

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

RT @UrielEpshtein: The only way freedom survives is if we unite against tyrants! The road ahead won't be easy, but it's critical that we st… — PolitiTweet.org