So Wimbledon has banned Russian and Belarussian players from the tournament. This is just crazy, quoting Novak Djokovic. This from a country that has invaded other countries all over the world, occupied them for more than a century, committing unaccountable number of crimes against humanity. The athletes are not making decisions for their national governments. Daniil Medvedev has no influence on Putin and yet the number two player in the world will not be able to play along with half a dozen men and half dozen women from those two countries who maybe seeded if they were allowed to play.
I can almost understand kicking Russia out of the World Cup. But even that is hypocritical. Saudi Arabia just qualified and they been bombing Yemen and causing way more civilian casualties than Russia in Ukraine. But the UK, like the U.S., is still happy to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. Individual athletes should not be banned, period. But then the UK is most hypocritical, as I learned from Hong Kong. Their press will be happy to ask Eileen Gu, representing China, about the Peng Shuai's alleged assault. But they would not ask British athletes to comment about Prince Andrew molesting underage women.
Britain is becoming less and less relevant in the world anyway. From being the most powerful country in the world, it is now just a lapdog of the U.S. Boris Johnson is a clown. Tony Blair kissed George Bush's butt and took Britain into a war over fake WMDs. For that he gets knighted. Isn't invading a country under false pretenses is what Putin is being accused of now? But of course, Iraq is much more dangerous to the UK than NATO being in Ukraine to Russia, right?
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