UEFA review of Russia-Ukraine situation (football impact)
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Premier league footballers continue to kneel for BLM /racism so how on earth could they take the pitch against a team owned by one of Putins closest allies .
Half of me wants it to go ahead and for Chelsea to reach the final
That would be interesting...
We've imposed sanctions on five Russian banks and frozen the UK accounts of three individual oligarchs who don't live in the UK and who the USA have had sanctioned since 2018 Exactly, it would be very interesting to see how they would explain it
Truss does what she's told. The Tory party is up to its necks in Russian money and they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them
Brief historical analysis of Ukraine/Russia relationship.
I don’t think we’ll see sanctions on Russia as a whole and I hope we won’t. Russian people don’t need to suffer for what Putin is doing.
As for Chelsea , what player who knelt for blm/racism could take the field against a side whose owner was very closely linked to Putin who has just started a war. It would be massive hypocrisy in my view.
https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/5-polls-contextualize-russia-ukraine-crisis
Those polls don’t make Russian people deserving of having to live without enough to eat or access to medicine, which are the types of issues sanctions bring up. They don’t necessarily have access to the full story. Russian media has been showing that Ukraine has been shelling civilians in Donbas, presenting the image that it is responding to Ukrainian aggression so it’s not that surprising that polls show Russians don’t believe their government is to blame.
Betis vs Zenit still going ahead.
Hope Betis finish the job off.
Do you support teams boycotting Israeli teams? That’s more of a direct reference. Has Saudi Arabia been boycotted at any of the international tournaments for its war in Yemen? Should have America or the British teams have been boycotted for invading Iraq. Those are far closer comparisons before you accuse players of hypocrisy for a protest against racism.
Putin has a very close knit team around him, mostly ex KGB, but all other officials woul£ be afraid to step out of line.
Anti war protests in St Petersburg and many other cities despite police arresting people. One group said its 900 arrested.
Putin and his friends come up on a lot of places I work on in very damaging ways - Syria, Mozambique, Sudan, Mali, Central African Republic etc.
I really do think he needs to be stopped. But a blind sanction might just double the amount of civilians suffering. They can’t easily get rid of him. The toughest possible sanctions on everyone around him is more likely to have an impact and cause less suffering but I don’t know if any type of sanction is enough, to be honest.