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Lädt ... Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Werk-InformationenWinter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped von Garry KASPAROV
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I read this after the second invasion of the Ukraine. Kasparov is bang on the money for where Putin was headed. And I’m ashamed to say that I may have been duped by some of Putin’s rationalizations although I’ve never agreed the resort to brutal invasion was ever justified. If only more western leaders had read this book before we got to where we are now, Putin may have been prevented from going as far as he has. Now we’re faced with a much more intractable problem. My one complaint with the book is that Kasparov seems to repeat some of the same messages over and over. Makes it tougher to get through. ( ) While not the main point of the book, I found myself more and more infuriated with not just our recent 3-4 Presidents but world leaders of the last 20 years. A lot of people saw Putin coming, and weren't silent about it. And we did nothing. Reading this while the invasion of Ukraine rages was extra.... extra. One thing I found particularly poignant, having been scolded on social media more than once. "Do you want a nuclear war?" Putin of course threatens the use of Nukes because he knows that the west has grown so lazy and timid that even the idea of them makes us turn a blind eye to his transgressions. This book is about an important topic, and makes a credible argument, but as a book, it's not particularly good -- essentially a long-form rant. The core message of the book is that the world (Russians, but especially the West, and especially George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Tony Blair) dropped the ball with Russia in the 1990s, slamming shut the brief window of potential lasting Russian democracy and reform. Rather than doubling down on forcing reforms, the West essentially caved in to Russia and didn't press their advantage fully. The only fault with this argument is that Russia was a nuclear power and the first priority of the West was the safety of their own citizens (and the world), by building whatever relationships with Russian power structures were necessary to secure nuclear weapons and limit both proliferation and direct authorized or unauthorized use of those weapons. In any case, it does seem clear the 90s were a unique opportunity in Russia, and that the opportunity was largely squandered. I can't say to have enjoyed it, as the topic is quite sobering, but I learnt a lot, especially since I've been reading "Il Libro Nero della Lega" at the same time and found the ties between Putin's regime and the raise of the far right in Europe (and in the book in particular, in Italy). What horrible times we're living in...and then there's Covid-19. Bingo! Kasparov writes very well, the narrative is captivating, and it covers some gaps I had regarding to the history of Modern Russia. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML:The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship-and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen. 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. Yet in the intervening years-as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him-Putin has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat. With his vast resources and nuclear arsenal, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty and the modern world order. For Garry Kasparov, none of this is news. He has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition to him in the farcical 2008 presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra-like prophecies about Putin's intentions fulfilled have left Kasparov with a darker truth: Putin's Russia, like ISIS or Al Qaeda, defines itself in opposition to the free countries of the world. As Putin has grown ever more powerful, the threat he poses has grown from local to regional and finally to global. In this urgent book, Kasparov shows that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not an endpoint-only a change of seasons, as the Cold War melted into a new spring. But now, after years of complacency and poor judgment, winter is once again upon us. Argued with the force of Kasparov's world-class intelligence, conviction, and hopes for his home country, Winter Is Coming reveals Putin for what he is: an existential danger hiding in plain sight. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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