'He's been fiercely critical of the west's "failure" to effectively take on Putin. He likens the Russian leader's political tactics and power to Adolf Hitler's in the years leading up to the Second World War.'<blockquote>'Chess champion Garry Kasparov outplayed nearly everyone in the world for 22 years. Today the Russian grandmaster is taking on his most formidable opponent, President Vladimir Putin.
"Putin's Russia is a virus. You don't engage the virus, you have to contain it," he told me.
Kasparov is one of four debaters Friday night in Toronto questioning the West's response to Russia: 'engage or isolate?'
He's been fiercely critical of the west's "failure" to effectively take on Putin. He likens the Russian leader's political tactics and power to Adolf Hitler's in the years leading up to the Second World War.
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"Regimes like Putin's do not allow robust opposition to function," he says. "At the end of the day, it's all about the middle class in Moscow recognizing Putin's rule brings Russia to a dead end and there is no other choice but to rise up."
But he has no illusions about when that might happen, if ever.'
- Susan Ormiston,
Kasparov: Vladimir Putin's Russia a virus that must be contained, April 10, 2015</blockquote>
Context Winter is coming<blockquote>
(Ukraine) - '..Russia’s aggression in eastern Ukraine grinds on. In blatant violation of a Feb. 15 cease-fire agreement .. By remaining passive now, they make that offensive more likely.''..Russian troops are still on the territory of Ukraine..' - '..the annexation of Crimea.''..Putin-of-1936 moment..' -
'..On March 7, 1936, the German army violated the Treaty of Versailles and entered into the Rhineland .. We ignore Putin at our own peril.'</blockquote>