Kasparov is a world champion chess player but a lousy politician*. Putin is a lousy chess player but a world champion politician who got to the top of the greasy pole (as Disraeli put it) in the cutthroat world of Russian politics where losers end up dead. Whatever you might say about his ethics, Putin is a formidable personality, one who will be remembered, for better or worse, long after Kasparov is forgotten. And I mean no disrespect to Kasparov, who is obviously one of the great champions in the game he has taken up as his life’s work.
* He tried his hand at politics in the year of Obama, and crashed in flames.
Putin is a master politician?
Please.
Putin is a stupid gangster who controlled the KGB ... anyone who got in his way he could easily get quietly arrested or shot
He’s even had opposition politicians and critical journalists assassinated
that’s not a master politician, that’s a thug killing his way to the top just like any Mafia crime boss ... and that’s how we should look at him
Putin is a coward and a bully