We have seen one of the greatest living theoretical physicists rip Donald Trump and his ideology apart as if Stephen Hawking were a black hole devouring some wayward light or matter that got past the event horizon.
Now how about one of the greatest chess masters?
Garry Kasparov sees Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in much the same light.
Here's the tweet.
http://www.newsweek.com/putin-and-trump-...rov-436556
Oh by the way -- Russian can be a very beautiful language. How good? I once heard the opera Yevgeny Onegin, and it sounds like a great Italian opera except for being sung in Russian.
I doubt that Trump's speeches would sound good translated into French, either.
Now how about one of the greatest chess masters?
Garry Kasparov sees Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in much the same light.
Here's the tweet.
Quote:I’ve heard this sort of speech a lot in the last 15 years and trust me, it doesn’t sound any better in Russian.
Quote:Historical comparisons involving Russian leader Vladimir Putin are usually directed toward the distant past. A one-man dictatorship invading and annexing a neighboring country on specious ethnic claims while rallying his people with hateful and vengeful propaganda, well, it doesn’t leave much to the imagination. When I referred to Putin’s invasion of Crimea with the term Anschluss it was not done casually. I was criticized for exaggeration at the time and hailed as prescient a few months later, a painful pattern in my life regarding the dark events in Putin’s Russia over the last sixteen years.
Lately the Putin comparisons have moved in the other direction—into the present and across the ocean to the United States. The presidential candidacy of celebrity millionaire Donald Trump has caused chaos in the American election cycle. His campaign of constant outrage has drawn a solid minority in the GOP primary, and combined with massive media coverage he has transformed from an alarming joke into a legitimate threat to reach the general election.
When equating political figures and movements past and present, it is easy to go off the rails. Superficially, Putin and Trump have little in common. A KGB spook who quietly rose to power versus a bombastic tycoon. Putin has little of Trump’s showmanship. A dictator with total control over every aspect of society has no need for that sort of populism. Russian television is obligated to fawn over Putin 24/7—while American networks do the same for Trump by choice.
http://www.newsweek.com/putin-and-trump-...rov-436556
Oh by the way -- Russian can be a very beautiful language. How good? I once heard the opera Yevgeny Onegin, and it sounds like a great Italian opera except for being sung in Russian.
I doubt that Trump's speeches would sound good translated into French, either.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.