Garry Kasparov: ‘The Root Cause of this War Is the Very Existence of the Ukrainian Statehood’

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KASPAROV: “I don’t know what Trump is hearing. I can tell you what Putin means, and I’m simply translating from Russian to English. The root cause of this war is the very existence of Ukrainian statehood, period. The Putin goal was, is, or will be, according to Putin, it’s not my speculation, simply following what Putin has been saying over years. Russian propaganda keeps repeating 24/7, to destroy Ukrainian statehood. Ukraine doesn’t belong to the map. The Ukrainian people must be assimilated into the Russians. That’s the policy.”