![]() ![]() ![]() Trump, Kasparov says, “operates in really a short-term environment. “You can lose the war even if you have overwhelming advantage-militarily, economically, technologically-if you don’t recognize you are at war,” Kasparov says. But on some level, they also understood the strategic threat Putin posed-something he doesn’t think Trump grasps. Bush and Barack Obama got Putin wrong, and inadvertently helped the Russian president expand his power. That’s a change from prior administrations. “But in any game of wits, I would bet on Putin, unfortunately.”įor the past 10 months, Kasparov has watched Trump’s interactions with the Russian president, and he thinks Trump is playing exactly into what the Kremlin wants while apparently refusing to understand Putin’s goals. “Both of them despise playing by the rules, so it’s who will cheat first,” Kasparov told me in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast.
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