Garry Kasparov@Kasparov63
Dec 10, 2024
8 tweets
This post provokes strong reactions, least of which is the difference between the Russian and English, with content for the respective audiences. Lamenting RU expenditures & casualties in Syria in the Russian version plays politics when there are no politics in Russia today. 1/7
Russians dying in Syria isn’t the problem, Russians killing Syrians is. We should not express regret over Russia showering Assad’s regime with money, but over Russia showering the Syrian people with bombs. For generations they will curse the Russians who murdered so many. 2/7
As in Ukraine, it's demeaning to say only Putin is responsible. Putin never pulled a trigger. It was Russian soldiers, pilots, bombs & bullets. I didn’t hear of Russian mass desertions or protests. They targeted civilian infrastructure, schools & hospitals, razing cities. 3/7
We Russians have to recover the honor of our people, of any country of Russia that is left—and that can only be done by facing the truth. To become the “free, peaceful country” of which Alexey so often spoke, we must confront Russia’s imperial past and its terrorist present. 4/7
Syria was Russia’s murderous training ground for Ukraine. Criticizing Russia’s activities in Syria solely as a matter of corruption, as a waste of money, may be a practical way to provoke “average Russians” against Putin, but it’s also part of the larger, longer problem. 5/7
To rejoin the civilized world, morality has to matter. Russians must be confronted with their culpability. Russia can and will be defeated on the battlefield, in Ukraine as in Syria, and only good can come of that for the world, including Russians. 6/7
But only Russians can clean out the moral Augean stables of the pollution that we have created and allowed to accumulate to lethally toxic quantities. It starts with honesty, and that should not be a Herculean task. 7/7
...на русском языке: t.me/garrykasparov_
Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
VP of @WLCongress. Chair of @Renew_Democracy, board of @HRF. Activist, author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion. Telegram: https://t.co/TYTIn7DdyS
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