Kasparov is a great guy and a very learned man. But he is really exaggerating the danger of Putin for reasons I don't understand. Putin did not emerge in a well established democracy and stable economy, Russia was devastated when he came to power, and yet he succeeded to improve the lives of Russians at the expense of using more power to stabilize the country. Putin is not Stalin or Hitler.
I'm not trying to be a troll here. I'm from the us. on the news here they talk about human rights abuses such as violations of expression, press assembly, privacy, and the list goes on of crimes committed by putin. he may not have the death toll of stalin but he's still one of the most powerful oppressors in the world. exaggerating? eh . from a western perspective I have to say I agree with kasparov. but I also don't live there.
+john pratt And using drones to kill thousands all over the middle east and using NSA to record phone calls of millions and monitor the internet doesn't make Obama the most powerful oppressor in the world? I am not anti-US, but the same argument can be used against the US administration.
With that argument any executive that is involved in a war could be an oppresor. It's kinda up to us to figure out what's what. Drone strikes do kill innocents. It happens I'm sure and it sucks but how else do u suggest we do it? Just take battalion in there, mortar the place for three days then conduct a full assault? I wonder how many innocents would die then? As opposed to Putin funding the group that shot a civilian airline out of the sky that killed 300 innocents in one day. I don't agree with everything Obama does but come on man... there is definitely a difference in how they go about leading. Are electronic correspondence montored for terrorist activity and probably a lot of stuff that isnt? Probably. But that is a freedom we willingly gave up after 911 by electing the official that did it. We had a choice. Although it's something I don't agree with. Putin had the presidential term limits lengthened so he could stay in power. Big difference. And I'm not trying to be sarcastic. I'm actually curious about how people outside the US view us. Some of us actually care about it.
The great speech!
Garry is better educade than historians . Awesome.
The full text of Kasparov's speech (not the Q&A yet) is here: www.kasparov.com/the-courage-to-continue-by-garry-kasparov-at-fulton-mo/
Why is it that Russians end up convinced of the Bukovsky analysis and nobody listens?
Let's talk about chess! Not BS
Kasparov is a great guy and a very learned man. But he is really exaggerating the danger of Putin for reasons I don't understand. Putin did not emerge in a well established democracy and stable economy, Russia was devastated when he came to power, and yet he succeeded to improve the lives of Russians at the expense of using more power to stabilize the country. Putin is not Stalin or Hitler.
I'm not trying to be a troll here. I'm from the us. on the news here they talk about human rights abuses such as violations of expression, press assembly, privacy, and the list goes on of crimes committed by putin. he may not have the death toll of stalin but he's still one of the most powerful oppressors in the world. exaggerating? eh . from a western perspective I have to say I agree with kasparov. but I also don't live there.
+john pratt And using drones to kill thousands all over the middle east and using NSA to record phone calls of millions and monitor the internet doesn't make Obama the most powerful oppressor in the world? I am not anti-US, but the same argument can be used against the US administration.
With that argument any executive that is involved in a war could be an oppresor. It's kinda up to us to figure out what's what. Drone strikes do kill innocents. It happens I'm sure and it sucks but how else do u suggest we do it? Just take battalion in there, mortar the place for three days then conduct a full assault? I wonder how many innocents would die then? As opposed to Putin funding the group that shot a civilian airline out of the sky that killed 300 innocents in one day. I don't agree with everything Obama does but come on man... there is definitely a difference in how they go about leading. Are electronic correspondence montored for terrorist activity and probably a lot of stuff that isnt? Probably. But that is a freedom we willingly gave up after 911 by electing the official that did it. We had a choice. Although it's something I don't agree with. Putin had the presidential term limits lengthened so he could stay in power. Big difference. And I'm not trying to be sarcastic. I'm actually curious about how people outside the US view us. Some of us actually care about it.
@@picklerickrickpickle do you still think he was exaggerating?!
Please, repeat your words again. Now.