Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Saturday Russian and Belarusian athletes "were not welcome" at the Olympics being staged in the French capital this year.
If we want to exclude athletes from international competition just because the ruling class in the country they happen to have been born in undertakes military action, that’s fine. We just have to be consistent about it. I’d like to see athletes from the US, Isreal, UK, France, Canada, and many other countries treated the same way the west is currently treating Russian and Belorussian athletes.
Holy shit dude… even Israel is defending itself (although without caring for civilians), not attacking. Are you seriously comparing Russia to Israel or even countries more or less allied with Israel? How delusional are you?
Besides that: all pollings show that the average Russian is pro-war. Its not ‘the ruling class’.
Hamas attacked Israel, Israel is defending itself against it, by invading Palestine. I don’t think that they are doing the right thing there and Netanjahu needs to be stopped, but initially they actually had a casus belli, which is a lot more reasonable than what Russia had.
If we want to exclude athletes from international competition just because the ruling class in the country they happen to have been born in undertakes military action, that’s fine. We just have to be consistent about it. I’d like to see athletes from the US, Isreal, UK, France, Canada, and many other countries treated the same way the west is currently treating Russian and Belorussian athletes.
Holy shit dude… even Israel is defending itself (although without caring for civilians), not attacking. Are you seriously comparing Russia to Israel or even countries more or less allied with Israel? How delusional are you?
Besides that: all pollings show that the average Russian is pro-war. Its not ‘the ruling class’.
Israel is attacking, it isn’t the children Israel slaughters wholesale that are dangerous.
Hamas attacked Israel, Israel is defending itself against it, by invading Palestine. I don’t think that they are doing the right thing there and Netanjahu needs to be stopped, but initially they actually had a casus belli, which is a lot more reasonable than what Russia had.
Hamas attacked on oct 7th because Israel has been commiting genocide against Palestinians for decades prior.
Israel has no casus belli.