No threat to Belarus as Putin needs enemies from without – Russia's oppositionist Kasparov (ENG video)
Vladimir Putin has no common ground with a free world, Russian chess Grandmaster and political activist Garry Kasparov told journalists at the Forum of Free Russia in Vilnius.
“Even Politburo tried to keep some kind of stability. Imagine, you have ten gangsters… or ten members of Politburo. It is still more balance than one man’s dictatorship. One man, a dictator, does not care about stability. All he needs is to survive,” Mr Kasparov said.
In his opinion, Putin’s regime is doomed to be aggressive because finding enemies becomes the only way for its leader to stay in power.
The former expressed confidence that Russia’s incumbent president is capable of anything: “He has no limits. If he thinks it helps him to survive today, he will do it.”
According to Kasparov, Vladimir Putin entered the war in Syria to demonstrate how strong he is. “His message is the following: if you stick with me, I will not let you down,” the politician said.
“I do not think Putin is looking for a territorial conquest because now his goal is to destroy institutions like NATO, EU, etc. He wants to destroy them just to show they are weak. It is not about conquering, it is about causing trouble,” Kasparov stressed.
In his view, Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka should not be afraid of ‘Russian threat’ because Vladimir Putin is not going to annex Belarus:
”I do not see what Byelorussia [Belarus – Belsat TV] offers him. He needs an action which will give him more time [in power], he wants to buy more time from Russian people: look, I destroy enemies! Belarus is not among enemies.”
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