4 ms·

Russian nationals and teams have been removed from FIFA, IHL, and many other competitions. It isn't fair, but it isn't fair that Ukraine has had its sovereignty

Russian nationals and teams have been removed from FIFA, IHL, and many other competitions. It isn't fair, but it isn't fair that Ukraine has had its sovereignty violated by an unprovoked invasion. It is intrinsically biased to vet individuals based on their personal political beliefs, that seems like it would be worse. So the alternatives are to allow Russian nationals / national teams or to not allow them. These are extraordinary circumstances so I reluctantly support exclusions, and am deeply saddened by them. It would be so beneficial to everyone if this horrible invasion ceased and the Russian army withdrew from Ukraine. They should stop killing innocent people for the goal of territorial expansion, and then the world can renormalize as quickly as possible.

lionkor 5y ago
It wasn't an unprovoked invasion, and rarely any invasion is. I dont support it at all, but I want to point out that this was an avoidable and certainly provoked war.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > It wasn't an unprovoked invasion, It was under the usual meaning of that phrase, which doesn't merely refer to anything that bugs the invader, but something rising to the level of a legal casus belli such that the invasion is not the crime of aggression. (It also occurred in 2014; the current crisis is an escalation of the invasion, not the initiation of the crime against peace.)