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Many politicians in the west cling to the notion of a partnership with russia. they want to include [vladimir] putin, make compromises and constantly negotiate new deals with him. but history has taught us that the longer we pursue appeasement and do nothing, the higher the price will be later on. dictators don't ask "why?" before they seize even more power. they ask: "why not?"
-Garry Kasparov
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Many Politicians In The West Cling To

Garry Kasparov
Many politicians in the west cling to the notion of a partnership with russia. they want to include [vladimir] putin, make compromises and constantly negotiate new deals with him. but history has taught us that the longer we pursue appeasement and do nothing, the higher the price will be later on. dictators don't ask "why?" before they seize even more power. they ask: "why not?"
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Vladimir putin hates america, he wants to hurt us. suddenly vladimir putin is a good guy, russia is okay, no it's not. russia is evil, russia is our enemy.
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People take the lazy way out, and do not regard putin and the kremlin as the real enemy. they create a long but erroneous chain in their heads. putin is the leader of russia. putin does x, therefore russia is doing x, and russia is our enemy. and so, we introduce sanctions, for example, against russia.
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Vladimir putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: he smells weakness. to quote winston churchill's definition of appeasement: "an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
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I had a chance to talk with president [vladimir] putin and he clearly said to me very directly, "i will think about that. i will think about this challenge of how we win." look, this is not easy for putin. everybody says, "oh, putin's made a big move." well, putin is [in syria] now; and if he wants to fight isil alone, that's a challenge, folks.
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So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. the cold war was two competing visions of the future. i was always anti-communist but it was an idea at least, an alternative idea. we do not have a competing vision for the future because the ideals of these dictators are in the past. they are time travellers. they need confrontation and destruction to survive. the problem is, many people in the free world are sympathetic to vladimir putin.
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