Vladimir Putin & the Struggle Against Democracy
Why We Should Stop Putin
“The best reason to stop Putin today is perfectly simple: it will only get harder tomorrow” (Garry Kasparov)
Vladimir Putin, the President of the largest kleptocracy in the world is still actively invading Ukraine, through their eastern region, Donbas, in what is “one of the most heavily-militarized areas on Earth” (according to Vox). As of now, this war displaced more than 1.6 million people and killed more than 10,000.
The corrupt nature of Putin is simply undeniable. His fans are as blind as the German Church was to Hitler’s atrocities in the 20th-century. Anyone rightfully calling out Putin’s kleptocracy in Russia is the modern-day Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and should be championed as such. Garry Kasparov, Chess GM , and active critic of Putin, actually compares the seeming ambivalence of the West (NATO, and the UN) to Neville Chamberlain’s pacifism before the start of WW2. In Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped, Kasparov writes,
“The failure to defend Ukraine today is the failure of the Allies to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938.”
