Wimbledon Contamination

@smiler2012 Sport is politics. Those athletes represent their violent and criminal countries.

@helenS 🤔nothing has altered in nearly a century where countries went too the 1936 munich games

@smiler2012 Yes, and when Western leaders opted for appeasement or negotiation or simply pretended there wasn't a problem, or if there was then they had plenty of time to change things... much as we see now

@helenS If that is the case, most if not all countries should be banned from Wimbledon and other sports tournaments.

@emiliya You can, of course, criticize Western leaders any way you want, but French president Emmanuel Macron, or British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, or German chancellor Scholz are not warmongers. They do not violently attack foreign countries, they do not kill or abduct children. They do not bombard cities.

@helenS All attacks are violent in some way. Why do you think that western attacks are nonviolent? Do they not destroy infrastructure and kill civilians? USA and UK both support Israel, and the estimated death toll in Gaza since the start of the war in October last year is 40,000 civilians.

Do you recall the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? They happened in recent years, and the combined death toll is hundreds of thousands of civilians. Some estimates suggest millions. At least 300,000 civilians were killed in the war in Iraq. USA and UK said they needed to invade due to the existence of nuclear weapons, but these weapons were never found. What did these people die for? Did you express the same hatred toward these countries at the time, helen?

Moreover, what do the actions of the Russian government and military have to do with athletes who no longer reside in Russia and do not appear to support the war? If they support Russia, why aren't they living there?

@emiliya I
Good question, and exactly the point... they denounce russia's barbarism, or we send them back to their beloved russia.

Works for me!