From the Dialog, Dec. 28, 2025:
"Kasparov explained what's "unique" about Russia's aggression against Ukraine: "It was supposed to be a signal..."
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov recalled events of past years when Putin "hinted" at his aggressive plans.
The attack on Ukraine is different from any other war in that essentially no one warned of their aggressive plans, said Garry Kasparov. On the other hand, long before this, Putin had publicly declared his intention to restore historical error and recreate the Soviet Union, but his words didn't alert anyone.
Garry Kasparov discussed the unique features of the war in Ukraine in an interview for the YouTube channel "Free Russia Forum."
"The 2014 annexation was completely unprepared. Moreover, in 2013, it looked like no one would touch the borders, so the unique thing was that it was completely unexpected. I understand that the Americans thought: we'll just sign the document and that's it, but that's what intelligence agencies are for, by the way, there are analysts, there are a huge number of experts. What could you expect from them if they missed the collapse of the Soviet Union?" the politician opined.
Kasparov then recalled the historical events leading up to the attack on Ukraine: "So, in 2005, on April 25, at a joint session of the Federation Council and the State Duma, Putin uttered the words he was looking for: 'The collapse of the Soviet Union is the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.' This was supposed to be a signal to Bush. So that Bush would hear it, Putin would repeat it in Munich in 2007, looking at Bush and all those Western leaders. He also said that the West must take Russia's interests into account and, please, return NATO to its 1997 borders, that is, give us all of Eastern Europe under our sphere of influence. What could have been more straightforward? What have they done? They did nothing.""
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