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Mr. Kasparov is using what seems to be a very fatalist viewpoint (WWIII has already started) to demand we accelerate the timeline. Is there a version of WWIII
by terracatta 5y ago
Mr. Kasparov is using what seems to be a very fatalist viewpoint (WWIII has already started) to demand we accelerate the timeline.
Is there a version of WWIII where nukes are not lobbed around the world? I don't think so. If that's right, then Gary is asking us to accelerate a timeline toward the end-game, mutually assured destruction and our modern world ending as we know it.
Mr. Kasparov implies that cratering the Russian economy with sanctions, isolating the country, ruining the lives of the Russian Oligarchs, are the actions of weakness. In my very western view, they are not.
If there is even a slim chance Mr. Kasparov is wrong and the non direct military pressures being exerted upon Russia will ultimately erode Putin's ability to exert authority on his slowly starving, battle weary, and drained military, then we have to do everything we can to increase that chance.
We need to take as many bullets out of the gun as we can before Putin pulls the trigger.
There isn't going to be a World War IV.
- panarky 5y agoEither Putin is a madman willing to trigger mutually assured destruction, or he's not. From your post, it appears you believe he's not a madman in the face of economic strangulation, and he's also not a madman when the West supplies weapons that kill his forces. If the sanctions and the weapons work to lose him the war, does he retain his sanity? Or does he only remain sane if the sanctions and weapons fail, and he prevails in Ukraine?