“How pathetic it is that after two years of Putin’s all-out war on Ukraine, EU & US support wavers more than China, Iran, and North Korea’s for Russia. The free world has every advantage except will. Economic & military might to crush Russia in Ukraine 10 times over and it sits.” Garry Kasparov
by themimeofthemollies
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Trump and his band of merry idiots don’t speak for all Americans.
Kasparov only reinforces Oz Katerji’s point here:
“I think people dismissing the idea that Russia would attack a NATO state are woefully clueless. If Russia wins in Ukraine, and gets in Trump a President willing to abandon NATO, Putin will strike NATO.”
“This isn’t a low-probability event, it’s Russia’s explicit goal in Europe.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/7ESOm1iEer
Kasparov warns the free world so wisely:
“The cost will be far higher when NATO is involved directly. And why wouldn’t Putin do it, after its most powerful member states keep backing down now?”
“Remember, the risk isn’t if Russia can win, it’s if Putin thinks the West won’t fight. Same for Taiwan.”
“NATO is a piece of paper in the end, and without the collective will to fight, its defense promises are worthless.”
“When Russia increases hybrid warfare against Poland and Latvia, will the US and Germany rush to their aid or find more excuses? What does Putin see now?”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1742210670706188628.html
Kasparov only emphasizes this truth of matters in Ukraine now:
“If the West chooses to give Ukraine what they need to win, Ukraine will win this war.”
“This war is going to end exactly how Western policymakers want and desire it to end.”
Gen. Phillip Breedlove
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/cYQNbLgziu
The West can—and must!—ensure the future of freedom by using military might to support Ukraine to full victory.
THIS IS A WAR THAT CAN AND MUST NEVER WON!! ❤️☮️🌻🇺🇦
Because they know if Russia itself is ever threatened, Putin will pull out the nukes. We’re talking about a people that use their own dead comrades as barricades in trenches. I dont have any doubts that Putin will nuke crimea once he loses it.
The best thing the US can do for Ukraine is to not vote (R)(ussian) in November. All of our holdups regarding aid are directly because of them.
With all respect to Kasparov, I don’t quite agree with his diagnosis.
Ukraine’s friends and allies around the world are under intense political attack — a whole separate “front” in the Ukraine invasion that, like any front in any strategic conflict, must be faced and fought, and necessarily becomes a distraction for a time.
But these friends and allies have constructed defenses along this other front that have frankly served pretty well. Diversified multilateral support for Ukraine that cannot be easily stopped by attacking just one country. Massive cooperative effort to eliminate Russian resource leverage. Reserve sources of funding for Ukraine that have deliberately remained untapped until needed, so as to circumvent political interference.
It has not been perfect by any means. But neither have Ukraine’s allies been caught totally unawares by Russian activity.
And this political domain is one in which those of us far from Ukraine’s battlefields can fight. There Kasparov is right. That does take will — the will to face the reality of being under attack at home, and to react to that reality accordingly instead of finding more excuses not to oust the Putin sympathizers.
I am a Ukraine supporter , but he’s full of shit .
1. North Korea just got involved in this recently, they have not been sending Russia weapons for 2 years .
2 . most importantly, Russia is paying North Korea , China and Iran for those weapons.
Ukraine is getting theirs for free and the US has even paying the salaries of their government employees since the war started.
Not even counting the billions of dollars worth of free humanitarian aid Ukraine is getting
No one is giving Russia anything for free . Nothing .
It’s not the same thing.
Be mad at the UN , their toothless sanctions , have not done a damn thing, but show the Russians what a bunch of pussys they are .
These UN sanctions are like stabbing them with a thumbtack .
This shit got very serious very fast
That really can’t end bad for Ukraine it really can’t. Stakes in thia game are so high that it really saddens me that that people do not comprehend the seriousness of this situation
Kasparov has been a clear voice of reason through all of this as far as I can see.
We need to up our game in social media defence and attack capabilities. These autocratic states have honed mass population control through social media, and realised that the West’s and democratic world’s social media is just crazily open, unprotected, and waiting. A channel perfect for control of formerly liberal mass populations.
It’s not pathetic, it’s frightening. We need to get on top this, urgently.
Very True!
We do not have the economic might of China if it comes down to it. I mean if we don’t look strictly at money but at industrial production.
Yes, it makes no sense on the surface that the West drags out this conflict. Unless, the West has a hidden agenda of avoiding an overly heated war which spreads into a multinational nuclear conflict. Perhaps the West is weakening Russia slowly, building dissent within Russia until Putin can be ousted from within.
Couldn’t have put it better myself. Absolutely pathetic. The US Republicans, although by no means the only ‘weak link’, are an absolute disgrace to themselves, their country and the free world.
So fracking true it’s infuriating.
The problem with our democracy is that there’s absolutely no fail safes in place to prevent people like Trump or MTG from getting voted into government positions. The US itself isn’t the problem, the problem is that the cult of Trump got themselves voted into government positions and they are taking the US hostage which in turn is screwing over Ukraine. China, Iran and North Korea are dictatorships on the other hand so the acting government has full control over who is in what position which is something a democracy doesn’t allow.