Thus, Karjakin still cannot play in the candidates' tournament because he publicly approved the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Karjakin, in turn, writes (in Russian on his Telegram channel "Карякин. Zа спорт!") as a response that he is proud that his grandfather was a great soldier, and he complains that there are Nazis in Ukraine.
Karjakin criticises Kasparov.
Kasparov demands that Russian chess players who want to play in international tournaments should publicly disapprove Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I am also worried about Kasparov's demand that only those Russian players should be allowed to participate in international tournaments who publicly disapprove Russian invasion of Ukraine. This demand seems extremist, like Lenin's and Stalin's slogans.
"Everyone, who is not with us, is against us!"
First, not every Russian sportsperson can have the luxury of being a dissident.
Second, Kasparov is notoriously inconsistent (outside of the chessboard). From his logic, it follows that FIDE should have banned all the US chess players who did not publicly disapprove of invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
If the Ukrainian war is unjustified (see the notion of "just war"), the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were even much more unjustified. Iraq did not have stores of chemical weapons cited as the reason for invading Iraq. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq posed any military threat to the US mainland. The US is on the other side of the planet.
PS Evidently, Lichess blocked my corresponding blog post, I cannot share it, the text "Page not found" will appear.
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