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Harry Kasparov and Alexey Navalny. Photo by Nicky Maksimyuk

Harry Kasparov sharply criticized the position of Alexei Navalny, who opposed the supply of American weapons to Ukraine. This position “plays into Putin and his accomplices,” says Kasparov's article .

“Today we find ourselves in a situation where only a well -armed Ukrainian army, ready to repulse the Russian invasion, is the only chance to stop further aggression and thereby save thousands, if not tens of thousands of lives of citizens of both Ukraine and Russia,” Kasparov writes.

“The Ukrainians in the heroic struggle against the puppet of Yanukovych’s puppet regime won their own freedom and did not allow their country to turn into the periphery of the Kremlin dictatorship,” the chess player and politician notes. “Against this background, nothing but amazement can cause an encroachment on the part of the Russian opposition, who missed their historical chance to protect their fatherland from enslaving Russia of the fascist regime.”

Kasparov reproaches Navalny in "imperial thinking", which diverts the role of "a second -grade state, the fate of which should be considered as a continuation of Russian politics." “It is no accident that in his famous gastronomic passage about Crimea (in October, Navalny explained that Crimea is not a“ sandwich with sausage ” , in order to return it to“ back and forth ”. - Ed.) He emphasized not on the need to restore the roughly violated norms of international law, but relied on the results of polls of Russian public opinion,” Kasparov writes.

He considers the position of Navalny "immoral" and "politically unpromising": "It is impossible to achieve freedom for his people, denying the right of other peoples to freedom."

This week, in an interview with The Washington Post, Navalny expressed the opinion that the supply of weapons to Kiev will not change the situation dramatically , since "the military victory of Ukraine over Russia is impossible." Unlike Navalny, Kasparov considers this measure effective. “If the Ukrainian army is equipped with modern weapons, the price of military aggression for Putin will increase sharply, which is today the most important restraining factor in a full -scale invasion,” Kasparov writes. It recalls the experience of the war in Afghanistan, where the Soviet Army was not defeated, but the "endless stream of" cargo 200 "was unbearable even for the Soviet propaganda machine."

In addition, the refusal to provide Ukraine even anti -tank weapons will serve as a “unambiguous signal for all countries in the zone of existing or potential conflicts - the only guarantee of sovereignty is only the possession of atomic weapons,” Kasparov believes.