Garry Kasparov

I lived through the bizarre whipsaw of Republican Russia hawks like McCain pushing back on Obama’s ideological distaste for US power to Dems supporting aid to Ukraine out of opposition to Trump’s support from Putin and ‘America First’ nationalism. My constituency flipped while I stayed the same!

How American Power Should Be Deployed America’s retreat and its threat to democracy

US power, including hard power, has been a force for good in the world. Yes, I said it. My latest Autocracy In America guest Amb John Bolton also says it, with plenty to back it up. From Iran to Russia to Hamas, what Trump's isolationism gets wrong.
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Trump’s appointees are all competing for the Nobel Prize in kissing ass.

🇺🇦🙏 The number of injured of the Russian attack on the capital has increased to 82. At least 10 children were injured, 5 of them in hospitals. The Russians killed six people.

‼️ Russians damaged the mosque of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine "Umma".

How Scientific Empires End And what it means for America

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

Trump says sharper tariffs to take effect in a week, including 35% for Canada The Trump administration changed its tariff regime late Thursday night. Canada will face 35 percent tariffs but Mexico got a 90-day reprieve from higher rates.

The real Liberation Day will come if the courts liberate us from all these tariffs imposed without congressional authorization. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I think of this whenever I hear that Trump is going to take steps against Russia “soon”.

Russia's new mobilization law yet another sign Kremlin is preparing for war with NATO, analysts say Increased spending on defense and a new Russian conscription law are signs of the Kremlin's increasingly aggressive posture and preparations for future conflict with Europe and NATO states, according ...

Increased spending on defense and a new Russian conscription law are signs of the Kremlin's increasingly aggressive posture and preparations for future conflict with Europe and NATO states, according to analysts.

🎯 And only then.

It’s war.

This Is What Standing Up to Dictators Looks Like How to be a dissident, with Masih Alinejad

The new episode of Autocracy in America is out and my guest is the remarkable Masih Alinejad, a fierce fighter for rights and democracy in Iran who can help Americans stop taking their own rights and democracy for granted and fight to defend them. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

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The Nero of Jamaica Estates The Founding Fathers did not account for the possibility of someone like Donald Trump.

"When chief executives start accusing their opponents of treason, it is time to throw them out." --Kevin Williamson

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Anti-Woke Americans in Russia Follow a Path Paved by Communists If you’re fortunate enough to be born in a democracy, there’s a lot you can do before uprooting your family to an authoritarian state.

As a Russian living in the US, the story of Derek Huffman—an American who moved his family to Russia—got my attention. This anti-woke crusader followed in the footsteps of American Communists who once flocked to Stalin's USSR. Now as then, a bad choice! www.thenextmove.org/p/anti-woke-...

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Masih was targeted for assassination by Iranian agents in New York City for her prominent women’s rights campaigns against the Islamic State. Today, if masked men jumped out of an unmarked van and grabbed her, would you call the police or is that the secret police? We must all be dissidents now.

This Is What Standing Up to Dictators Looks Like How to be a dissident, with Masih Alinejad

The new episode of Autocracy in America is out and my guest is the remarkable Masih Alinejad, a fierce fighter for rights and democracy in Iran who can help Americans stop taking their own rights and democracy for granted and fight to defend them. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

When asked why Trump is so bizarrely loyal to Putin, I say we'll probably never know. He has an affinity for dictators as an aspiring one himself. Putin helped him get elected so can't be bad. Etc. But considering his lifestyle and the KGB's practices, it would be shocking if he *wasn't* cultivated.

I'll allow the dubious chess metaphor in this case! But no matter how bad whatever is in the Epstein files is for Trump--and clearly it's bad--I'm sure whatever Putin has on him is worse.

Do you think they will have trouble producing new documents? They don’t have to convince everyone, or anyone at all. Unless the other branches of government step up, it’s over when they say it’s over. Welcome to autocracy.

Every day.

Why—and How—Ukrainian Boxers Keep Shattering World Records In the early hours of July 20, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk defeated Britain’s Daniel Dubois and once again became the undisputed world ch…

How Ukraine’s boxers crushed legends and took over the world stage.

If the Trump admin continues to follow the Russian authoritarian scripts he loves, Maxwell will exonerate Trump, incriminate Dems, get a pardon, and fall out a window. Not necessarily in that order.

Online jokes, or "jokes", about abhorrent acts are ironic and clever until it happens. Normalizing fascism, racism, antisemitism, violence, and other publicly unacceptable beliefs with jokes is an old method, intentional or not. And from the President, it’s no joke at all.

It’s All Fun and Games Until Trump Has Obama Arrested Then it’s authoritarianism.

My latest, on Trump’s AI-fueled Obama arrest fantasies: Surrounded by sycophants and with the two other branches paralyzed, the operative question should not be *why* would Trump arrest his opponents, but rather, *why not*? Read and subscribe to The Next Move. www.thenextmove.org/p/its-all-fu...

One can certainly debate the degree to which the Trump campaign knew about or encouraged Russian operations to influence the 2016 election, or the relevance they had to the outcome. But the evidence that such operations were real is overwhelming and widely attested by non-US intel agencies.

As the saying goes, just when you think he can't get any lower, there's a knock on the floor!

Why is it often so difficult to listen to people who literally know what they are talking about because they have lived through it?
Read Kasparov's "Winter is coming" (www.kasparov.com/winter-is-co...).

Fair enough, as sending poor and ignorant people to the front lines is a traditional Russian value!

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