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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Fundamentally, I don't see the banning of Russian athletes as contributing significantly to solving today's problem, but I do see it as more likely to make tomorrow's problems unnecessarily worse. Tomorrow's problems will have roots in today, just as today's problems have roots in yesterday.
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Dude. What world are you living in right now? Your takes are so detached from reality. We are literally living in a world where Russian soldiers are going into Ukrainian homes, shooting the men and raping the women over and over. Some of these women are aged 13 - 14. Can you try to put yourself in those shoes. Who the f*** cares about tomorrow at this point when we need to solve the atrocities that are happening today.
We get it, you are an idealist and want to stop these things from happening in the future. It is far more complicated than that for reasons far beyond any of our understanding. Beat the tribalism drum all you want but at the end of the day a dictatorship with a small handful of elite made this decision and are responsible. The only way out is to make it so difficult for the people of Russia that get so desperate they enact that change themselves. That is the only way when the rest of the world is being held hostage by nukes. So forgive us if some of us couldn't really care less if some professional athletes are barred from events with the current state of the world. Any and all pressure should be used in a time of war. And this is the closest its been to a time of war in a very long time.