Better than Prigozhin, who seems to be positioning himself to swoop in if there's a sudden power vacuum

Garry Kasparov would make a great US president except for the unfortunate requirement of being US-born.

Hmm...

yes yes yes

In the late 80s when Kasparov was still a full fledged Russian and a challenger to the chess championship he already had a small war against the soviet union authorities. He's a real McCoy

The world needs him as president of Russia.

Unfortunately, he is unpopular in Russia

he’s a big a dummy i beat an ai version him

He should throw his hat into the ring as a possible replacement for Putin, and restore democracy Nd credibility to government in Russia.

Ukraine is cannon fodder provider The Anglo-americans decided to fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian.Then they,ll s**t ukraine out and flush like they did with Poland in 1945.and with many countries later.

Wonderful conversation. Without rancor, the great Kasparov highlights the •failure• of Western nations to understand the desperation of Russia, causing them to fall back of, essentials, "appeasement" or "constructive engagement" - good intentions, but not in dealing with despotism & ruthlessness. Significantly, he reminds us that Putin's hero is not Peter the Great (an internationalist) but Ivan the Terrible (an imperialist).

I have been wondering which policy-makers and policy-making influencers listen to Kasparov, and whose views he is influencing. It's very complex, though, because someone (just to take one such example among many others) can listen to a video or read some of his writings and then process it in his or her or their own way, and then put the resultant viewpoint into their own words (which often happens), without necessarily attributing them to Kasparov, and then go on to say something in a cabinet meeting, or to the President, or to a leading military strategist or to someone at an influential thinktank, or to an influential writer or thinker who is writing something in the WSJ, which is then read by a number of people who go on to share the takeaways (from Kasparov, directly or indirectly) in their own ways. He certainly deserves to be listened to and read by people involved in making decisions related to Ukraine strategy and overall goals and outcomes in the situation. Personally, I think the Russia-Iran nexus is recognized as a serious emerging threat - to Israel. It is also a threat in other ways, not just to Israel; but the threat to Israel is in itself a huge red flag, and an incentive to be proactive in stopping the emerging threat, and preventing it early before it becomes stronger. The Israelis in particular have recognized the importance of stopping emerging threats before they get out of control - a lesson they learned all too well from the rise of Hitler, the Nazis and the holocaust. There are those in the US who also see this. There are also other potential threats long-term to the security of the United States. If the Russian Federation (/Empire) can be further broken up and reduced, it will pose less of a threat in the long run to the US and to Russia's European neighbors, and lower the threat of nuclear war. The ending of the Russian Empire is a rational goal.

I've heard Putin's favorite Tsar is in fact Alexander III.

@@Gorboduc Counter Reformer Par Excellence

If they did, there would have been NATO intervention and WE ( as in you and me if served aswell) would have a "chance" of being drafted. And ofc our cities could have been targeted by russian missiles. If you are not ready to risk that, dont say our leaders should have listened to Kasparov. He was in the absolute minority with his stance on how to handle this invasion. He is "just" an exile russian. It's not his european cities that would be at risk but ours.

you are aware of how many members of the "outside Russian opposition." ? You are welcome. He is the most intelligent of the 1 can think of. Some of the best opponents are in prison in Russia. Give me the name of 2 other opponents outside of Russia if you would.

@@donofon1014 Ponomarev, Schulman, Sobol.

@@shupingwang3392 thank you !!

I scrolled, at length mind you, the comments section searching for a mention of the "Freedom of Russia Legion" pin. Whilst it is great to see Putin's regime being targeted, I would be highly cautious about the essence of this entity, and I urge everyone to do their research as always. Cheers.

I admire his haircut, but what he says is just evil dreams.

No

Dictatorship-style systems always end up with bad dictators. Look at ancient Rome with all their crazy dictators. Hitler, Idi Amin, Maduro, WW2 Japan, and on and on and on throughout history. Nobody with intelligence should still be advocating for "big-man" governments. Early or later, they go bad.

Glory to Ukraine. From Blue States of America.

@@DSAK55you just had to didn’t you 🙄

Ukraine is cannon fodder provider The Anglo-americans decided to fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian.Then they,ll s**t ukraine out and flush like they did with Poland in 1945.and with many countries later.

And yet the lazy, incompetent leaders of the West did nothing.

Wow! The more I read such comments the more I realize that you westerners are as gullible as the russians. It's not the guy at the top that needs to change, it is the russian colonial empire must break up. You don't cure symptoms, you eliminate the root cause of the sickness.

Sorry, I don't agree with you, Putin is not a leader, he is criminal, thief, bully and all the other words you could find to describe the worst kind of person on earth!

Russians told me back in 2020 that Putin was dangerous to the country i had many educated russian friends at that time, they were good people i travelled often inRussia from about 2020 across most of the country many western people are clueless about the ethnicity of russians it is an Asian country with greedy eyes on Europe was always jealous of Europe they even spoke French there and brought in Italians to build an italian city of stpetersburg

More importantly he has some kind of a positive vision for the future of Russia.

Dinosaurs, we thought they were extinct

Also, suggest: Check out Timothy Snyder - I think you’ll get a lot out of a listen

Can you please tell me, what flag he (and you) is wearing ? Maybe even, the context ? 🙏✌

@@antoonvanmaris58 It's a new Russian anti-war/anti-Putin flag with the (blood-)red colour swapped with white in order to resemble the flag of free Belarus.

@@antoonvanmaris58 @observersum1180 1 second ago @antoonvanmaris58 I assume that his flag is Russian without the red color in the context of Bilgorod, the efforts of Russians to be free from this ruling set with grandfather Putin. Those partisans perform under that banner. The chess king very concretely helped Croatia in its fight for the independence of Yugoslavia, that is, Serbia. During his exile he lived also in Croatia. I am a grateful Croat and my "heraldry" is the jersey of the Croatian football club from the city of the same name, Rijeka. I love grand master Kasparov not only because he is a brave activist and a sincere friend of my homeland, but also because he is a brilliant chess player, and also because he wrote a fantastic book about chess and life: "How Life Imitates Chess".

The "free world's" negligence? Excuse me.. thirty-some years ago, we in the US handed Europe the USSR's head on a platter! And what did the Euro-crats do with it? F-all! It was yours for the picking and you did nothing but sit back and give yourselves the credit.. pretending that the bears would quietly retire to their c aves now that the park was closing.

Ukraine is cannon fodder provider The Anglo-americans decided to fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian.Then they,ll s**t ukraine out and flush like they did with Poland in 1945.and with many countries later.

@@drlegendre "we in the US handed Europe the USSR's head" ? lol, I haven't seen you there.. btw USSR collapsed because of the planned economics, it simply didn't work, and in the end everyone got hungry.. sure the cold war efforts contributed heavily, but it was mainly about how inefficiently the state was managed (similar to what you see in RU army now), the Chernobyl accident giving it a final cut. And then of course the growing anger of people wishing for freedom and opportunities that they've seen more and more in content smuggled from west. Just when these two conditions were met the revolution could be started and not oppressed by kremlin like so many times during the decades.

What is the "free world"? USA that charge Julian Assange for telling the truth, or for punishing the people in Guantanamo? Free world is just a propaganda phrase.

What free world?

The USA will only get more arrogant if China and Russia are weak. America needs a strong Russia to remain humble.

@@chrisrishermn Nonsense. The US is disgusted with all the foreign problems. It just wants to get on with business. Eg. Haiti is begging for the US and Canada and etc. to come in and restore order. The US (and Canada) don't want to do it, because they recognize a sinkhole. Putin would jump at such an opportunity, and simply kill millions of people to restore order.

@@chrisrishermn the USA is humble? LOL! No, the USA needs a strong Russia for it’s military industrial complex. Otherwise, it might just divert a little cash into something unthinkable like universal healthcare (like all other developed nations of the world).

@@bbdj2779 USA doesn't need enemies to keep it's trillion a year military, they will just go after Afghanistan again

Nobody needs strong russia

So much more knowledgeable than the pablum that other commentators spout.

Super intelligent insider

God forbid!

@@chrisrishermn what god?

@@chrisrishermn So you doubt change? What a noob!

@@NoTengoIlusiones Exactly! The West is full of atheists and Catholics. That's enough reason to support Russia.

Russia needs to be destroyed. Then rebuilt and destroyed again.

Yes, we need to see details of some possibilities.

This is a risky and arrogant bet.

@@williekp1 It's the one Putin has to do, because his alternative is a Coup, followed by the death penalty. I'm sure he sees that option as much worse.

Blinded by the obvious, are we?

Me too -

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Liberation of Ukraine must happen. I suspect war reparations and war crimes won't occur, as part of negotiations to end the war, unless Ukraine agrees not to join Nato which I don't think they will agree to. It would be better for Europe to be the main architects of rebuilding Ukraine, within the European Union.

@@shaughangould2647 either they pay up or it’s decades if not centuries of isolation from the civilized world for them, they won’t get away with these atrocities.

@Pat The baker centuries may be a bit of a stretch. Some sanctions will remain dependent on what type of regime is in control. Of course it would be better for Russia to pay reparations, but do we really want help from the Kremlin. It will be ordinary Russians that pay, not the Elites, unless it's to their advantage.

With self-proclaimed Nazis leading the charge? Your beloved homoerotic dancer Zelensky banned all political opposition and all independent media. Plus, Zelensky's regime has been busy burning books by Russian authors. Too much Woldsangen in your life?

That's what they said about the Soviet Union.

@@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 Soviet Union was an amalgam of states, formally countries, that were forced into a union that Russians (leading ethnic group) purported to represent.

all are unite-able or divisible...and we know what are the forces that unite qnd what are the forces that separate.

To give the lands to the self-proclaimed Nazis? The Jewish Lobby calls Badneirtes "freedom fighters." “From the roof of the world’s largest Dnepropetrovsk synagogue, Jews are already openly singing that Ukraine is their land.”

Ideology can be a bad idea, if the ideology is wrong. Putin's ideology is the same old world domination. For no good purpose except he wants it. He has no intention or competence for actually improving the world.

Are you talking about Biden or Zelensky?

@@cerenaseawell5753 Here is how you can tell the difference between a dictator and a president: only one of them can be unelected. As for those two... what is the answer?

@@grandrapids57 Ask Mrs. Nuland-Kagan

All the man in the street interviews in Moscow/St Petersburg I’ve seen show folks who back Putin but consider themselves European and don’t particularly want to go with China. Some Russians ARE a wee bit racist too, so there’s that. The further east one goes in Russia, though, the more attitudes toward China may differ as Kasparov hinted.

It would be so poetic if China took advantage of the Russian preoccupation with Ukraine to snatch back Vladivostok and rename it back to Haishenwai. I can dream, can't I?

@@war-painter Well I know for sure the Kazakhstan people and gov are very aware their people do not trust China. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan the gov has been more open, and there's a decent footing of power players/businesses who have taken the money and are pushing Chinese agendas. The Mongolian people too are very wary of China. And in fact the US and other Western countries especially over the last year have started making overtures for Western investment. And I think overall there have been pretty positive experiences. Because most of these places are only pro Chinese on the surface for lack of alternatives. Since this war, new doors are within sight of opening to them. This was never something that could even be dreamed of before, it just wasn't something anyone could ever imagine. Due to the war and new horizons being within the realm of reality, there's been ever increasing softening of sentiment towards the West, especially as truths continue to be revealed. If they have a choice, many will choose Western dollars over Chinese all day long. I think this is of particular concern now to the US, bc for better or worse Russia was the check on China in those parts. But as I said new doors are opening and I hope that we see that come to fruition as this part of the world has been pretty neglected, just treated as buffer states. I also think the Russian refugees are helping bridge some of this gap as many had business connections with the West. So you have many Russian people who are educated, business owners, entrepreneurs etc, who are building new lives. And these countries are benefitting. And yes Russians are very wary of China lol.... one more time very wary, wary.

It would also make China a neighbor. Much, much easier to transport troops into North America.

China will take over Russia's east. We will see more and more chinese people populating Russua's East and they soon will have larger and larger business interests. It may bot fly a Chinese flag, but it will be chinese by all other means. China wants the resources.