Vladimir Kara-Murza: “This is crazy. And, you know, just as I mentioned earlier that domestic repression and external aggression usually go…”

And we know from history how the appeasement of dictators ends. It always ends the same way.

If you are a dictator, an aggressive autocratic dictator like Vladimir Putin, if somebody compromises with you, to you, that’s a sign of weakness, and that’s an invitation to grab more and more.

This is what they would want me to do, to flee, to get scared and to flee. And I will not give them the satisfaction.

Putin does this because he keeps getting away with it. He got away within Syria. He definitely got away with it in Chechnya.