Or we could just decide to respect the decisions of other sovereign nations to govern themselves as they see fit. We have as much right to tell Putin how to run his country as Putin has to tell us how to run ours. The kind of change that matters has to come from within, and it has to happen naturally. Pressuring people to change only gets external results while seeding internal resentment and hostility.
How about, for the sake of all the men and women who have dedicated their entire lives to get to these events, we allow the Olympics to just be about the people competing in them.
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