From: Roman Sheremeta (Professor of Economics, Board Member, Founding Rector of American University Kyiv) — Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster and a russian dissident, is one of the very few russians actually gets it.
“The war in Ukraine has shown us that when we celebrated the fall of communism in 1991, we failed to grasp that communism was merely a facade for an underlying imperialist matrix.
Whether it’s the tsars, the Bolsheviks, or Putin, this imperialism always finds a way to emerge. I’ve been saying for the past three years that there’s only one way to dismantle this imperial matrix: the Ukrainian flag has to fly over Sevastopol again.
What they fail to recognise is that you cannot negotiate with this kind of evil for a simple reason: Putin views this as a war of destruction, not a war for territorial gains. Giving him a piece of Ukrainian territory won’t change his calculations — it will only whet his appetite. His ultimate goal includes the destruction of Ukrainian statehood because Ukrainian statehood is one of the pillars of this world order he seeks to dismantle.”
Source: Kyiv Independent
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