430. Garry Kasparov - US and German Micromanaging of How Ukraine Conducts the War Risks Failure & Defeat.

The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB
- to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the
country was headed away from democracy. In the intervening years Putin
has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat, but for
too long the US and the world's other leading powers have continued to
appease him. Now it’s clear Putin is at the centre of a worldwide
assault on political liberty and the modern world order. But will the
Western allies mobilize too late to halt the rise of the authoritarians?

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Garry Kasparov is a Russian pro-democracy leader, global human-rights
activist, business speaker and author, and former world chess champion.
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union in 1963, Garry Kasparov
came to international fame at the age of 22 as the youngest world chess
champion in history in 1985. He defended his title five times, including
a legendary series of matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov. His
famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were
key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the mainstream.
In 2005, Kasparov retired from professional chess to join the vanguard
of the Russian pro-democracy movement. In 2012, Kasparov was named
chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, succeeding
Vaclav Havel. He is now considered to be Russia's leading dissident.
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LINKS:
https://www.kasparov.com/
https://x.com/Kasparov63
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov
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BOOKS:
The World After Ukraine (2025)
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World
Must be Stopped Hardcover (2015)
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity
Begins (2018)
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ARTICLES:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-arrests-former-world-chess-32669346

https://www.politico.eu/article/chess-garry-kasparov-russia-extremist-list-honor/

https://rdi.org/articles/garry-kasparov-the-real-reason-putin-killed-navalny/

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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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