Garry Kasparov, rare voice of reason in modern sport, chose once again to describe the Russian aggression of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s manoeuvres as anything but chess. The Russian Grandmaster, former world champion, political commentator, instead likened it to poker. “Not chess,” reiterated Putin’s harshest critic, “Putin is a geopolitical poker player, maybe, more like Russian Roulette,” he said, speaking via video at ET Now’s India Economic Conclave 2022 on Friday.
Kasparov said the Russian aggression “would not have a two-two draw,” as it happens in chess. “No draws, no compromise,” he said, reminding the audience that war crimes were being carried out in Ukraine “on an industrial scale”
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“Such demolition of Ukraine, I last saw in World War II movies,” he said, adding that it was a state-backed genocide of Ukraine pushed by Russian propaganda.
But Kasparov was confident that the war was talking a different turn than what Putin had ever imagined. “Everybody thought Ukraine will fall in three days. That did not happen. Remember that with the arms push from Europe, the Ukranian army is currently bigger than the Russian, and with eight years of fighting (2014 aggression in Crimea), more experienced,” he said. “Putin had not envisaged this, he has been forced to rally his soldiers from the far east,” Kasparov said.
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