How America Enabled Putin's Atrocities, and Democracy's Retreat, with Garry Kasparov | Ep. 294

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Garry Kasparov, Chairman of Renew Democracy Initiative and former chess champion, to talk about his correct predictions about Russia, Putin's next move, the true cost of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's revenge, how America's leaders enabled Putin's atrocities today, how the 80s and 90s led to the invasion of 2022, how Obama's foreign policy led to democracy's retreat, Obama's failed "reset" with Russia, Ukraine's economy and elections, how the lack of American response to Assad's use of chemical weapons helped Putin, the status of America's current response to the Ukraine invasion, what happens if Putin wins, why the Biden administration doesn't want to deal with foreign policy, how Kasparov became a chess champion at a young age, his rise to fame, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.0	Today we are excited to welcome Gary Kasparov back to the program.
0:19.2	We're going to get his thoughts on the awful situation in Ukraine, but how things are going
0:22.8	overall there.
0:24.6	Also new sanctions just announced moments ago against Russia in the wake of what's happened
0:29.6	there this week, but we're also going to touch in more depth on his remarkable, remarkable
0:35.4	life and career from chess prodigy to freedom fighter.
0:40.2	And by the way, he has predicted what would happen in the Soviet Union, then Soviet Union,
0:46.1	what would happen in Russia, what Putin's next move would be correctly for the better
0:50.9	part of Putin's entire time and office and prior to as well.
0:55.5	I mean, so you really might my overall impression and preparing for this interview is we should
1:00.9	be listening to Gary Kasparov when it comes to what Putin's next move is, I don't know
1:05.4	that there's a better person to listen to.
1:09.1	So I just a bit about Gary before we bring him on, he was born in the former Soviet Union.
1:13.9	By 12 years old, he would be the top child player in all of the USSR, the world under 20
1:20.2	champion at just 17.
1:22.6	Look at him there.
1:23.6	He's got a question on YouTube is like this little boy sitting there against grown men.
1:28.7	And the best player in the entire world by age 22, he would remain at the top of his game
1:33.2	for two decades.
1:35.4	His matches were like something out of the movie Rocky, but in this case, the Russian almost
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