Garry Kasparov, world chess champion and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, has called the Obama administration’s handling of Putin “pathetic” and “dangerous,” and now with Iran in the mix things are getting worse:
Obama declares “Peace for my term!” and hopes the dictators and terror sponsors he’s making deals with keep relatively quiet until 2017.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 6, 2015
Obama does Putin & Iran a huge favor by promoting "the only alternative to appeasement is war!" line. He is doing their bluffing for them.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 6, 2015
So of course Putin will threaten "WW III" over anything now, large or small. Why not? It works great when no one will stand up to him.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 6, 2015
Protect Ukraine? WW III! Finland join NATO? WW III! Worse, the Western isolation/appeasement crowd is chanting the same thing as Putin.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 6, 2015
As I wrote weeks ago, the alternative to appeasement isn't war, it's deterrence, isolation, & not bowing to threats. http://t.co/ZYVosaH5Uq
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 6, 2015
Dictators start wars when needed for domestic support & when they think their rivals are too weak to stop them. Not "failure of diplomacy".
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 6, 2015
@Kasparov63 The next president will have to deal with a lot of problems left behind.
— Sasha (@AVechera) August 6, 2015
Exactly, although sooner is possible. The bad guys can't count on the next US president being so helpful. https://t.co/VSc6s4ojym
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 6, 2015
We’ll find out soon enough.