Garry Kasparov - Breaking Point Article

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24-03-2022 (23:37)

breaking point [Translated from Russian]

Garry Kasparov: Arguments "we can't allow a third world war" sound absolutely meaningless when it's already underway
update: 25-03-2022 (09:34)

I cannot say with certainty that Putin will not use nuclear weapons. But we must answer the question: can concessions to Putin reduce this risk? Any concession to the dictator increases his impudence. Today, Putin is using nuclear blackmail as his last card in this game. And if this blackmail works, and it still works, then it means that he will use this card all the time. Only next time it will take place on the territory of Poland or Estonia. And then the West will face a dilemma: either dissolve itself and end the historical path of Western civilization, yielding to a Gopnik with nuclear weapons, or enter into a military clash that will take place in much worse conditions than now.

The arguments “we cannot allow a third world war” sound absolutely meaningless when it is already underway. But we continue to hear them from all sides. However, we must not forget that these statements come from people who have given wrong advice over the years about how to build relations with Putin. These are people who in business would have been fired long ago. They compromised themselves with absolutely incorrect assessments of the geopolitical situation, but now they continue to give advice on how to proceed.

I recently tweeted about the RAND Corporation. This is one of the leading research centers in the US, which deals with military issues and advises the US government. In January of this year, they released a large detailed article that explained why Ukraine should not be supplied with weapons. The article said that the Ukrainian army would collapse in a few days, this army had no chance to resist Putin, and the supply of weapons to it was money down the drain. I ask the question: are these people still advisers to the American administration? Do they still advise the White House? Did they apologize in any way for their mistake?

We have come to a point where everything must change. The whole world will change, the systems of relationships will change, but in order to save this world, we need to understand that in a war with Putin there can be no draw, unlike chess. Either he wins or we win. The victory of Ukraine will mean the collapse of the Putin regime. And this is the fundamental idea that must be brought to the consciousness of Western society in the hope that it will be able to influence its cowardly and corrupt politicians.