Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday slammed a plan to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics and called for the “complete isolation” of Russians from the games.
The plan, put forward by the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, would allow Russian and Belarusians to participate but not under their countries’ flags or colors. For allowing Russia to launch the initial part of its invasion from Belarusian territory, Minsk has been included in Western sanctions and efforts to ban Russia from international events.
The plan would add restrictions that were imposed on Russia over a doping scandal, which barred Russian athletes from using their country’s flag in the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
But the restrictions aren’t good enough for Zelensky, who told the International Olympic Committee President that the only option is “the complete isolation of the terrorist state on the international stage. In particular, this applies to international sports events.”
Zelensky has a history of calling for the collective punishment of Russians in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. He previously demanded that Western countries ban all Russian travelers, saying the “whole population” of Russia was responsible for the war. The EU never agreed on travel bans, but some eastern European countries obliged with visa restrictions.
“Zelensky Wants ‘Complete Isolation’ of Russian Athletes from Olympics”
By 2024 Ukraine will not exist and as for Zelensky no telling where or what may happen to him!
Perhaps on a prison planet somewhere outside the solar system…
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. Eventually, those who insist that there are no Nazi’s in Ukraine are going to have to explain Zelensky and his closest associates.
I’m not denying that there are rightwing extremists in Ukraine and Russia as well as pretty much any other country – but can you explain to me what makes you think that Zelenskyy a person of Abrahamic descendance – an ethnic Russian and Russian speaker is somehow Nazi?
Zelensky may not be a Nazi, but he is using them to achieve his ends. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Well that sounds more plausible though I still have a huge problem with people calling both the Azov and the Wagner Nazi – as Nazi is a fairly special variant mixture of ‘rightwing’ extremists white supremacists and antisemitism – given that they believed that the Slavic peoples were of a lower order (sub human) the idea that any person in either Ukraine or Russia would be a true Nazi is somewhat absurd.
Sure some of them even are self confessed neo-Nazis but questioned about what this means they nearly always default to describing what is an ultranationalist stance (with the odd racism added) but that is not the same as being a Nazi – without the racial theories and the desire for a special kind of redistribution of the resources of the nation you just do not qualify.
More importantly there being very few people who actually are supporting this wing of the political spectrum in Ukraine they have to represent a very meager power base (getting less than 5% of the votes in 2019).
So while we should not be blind to the fact that there are especially were very unsavory elements in Ukraine – the notion that they play a very special role (as in more special than that played by the equally ‘Nazi influenced Wagner group) is not likely to be true.
When (not if) Ukraine starts forcing its ethnic Russians to wear identifying marks on their persons will you be satisfied?
If the Ukrainians do that then I will be convinced – given that a lot of Russian speakers are actually fighting for Kyiv I do not see any reason that this would ever happen also seeing as Zelenskyy is a Russian speaker himself – but perhaps by Russians you meant soldiers from Russia who fought for Russia?
Nah, by “Russians” I mean the people whose church, for example, was just disallowed and whose religious leaders have been arrested … those Russians. Thankfully, many of those Russians are already protected in the areas controlled by Russia, but some are not (yet) …
No they will not be forced to ware badges – as pointed out a lot of them are fighting for Ukraine against Russia.
Zelensky has steadily sought to silence all opposition, and is now trying to cancel entire populations wherever he can find them. If he thought that Jews could be blamed for his problems, I have little doubt that they would be added to his list of enemies. You may have noticed that he has no problem criticizing Israel. But your point has merit iff the only thing that defines a Nazi is hatred of Jews. Another point that could be made is that he hasn’t organized any concentration camps… yet.
Volodimor is just following orders from his masters.
I actually think he might be freelancing at times. He seems to have started to think the hero worshipping from idiots near and far is actually driven by fact instead of propaganda.
What a POS…
We have realy reached the height of modern barbarism that only a society like an American can produce. Zelenski is only the liberated mouthpiece of out elite of elites — the essence of their viciousness, pettyness and sadism.
Back then in the midst of wars, athletes were travelling often on foot to participate in the Olympics even through enemy terrritory. It was understood that war and hatreds were suspended for the act of humanity, a proof we all beling to the same human race regardless of our conflicrts.
Americans as people should not take offence, for being ruled by someone is annaccdent of history. But as a minimum — we should br AWARE of this.
How quickly have the faked doping charges used previously against Russians forgotten! Now tgere is a new excuse to legitimately hate. We just do not get it. Hatreds by some of our elites intoxicated by power and intent to reverse history — is not our burden. Instead of laughing at thrm, we seriously folllow their petty lead.
But not everyone is blind. In Italy, season opener at La Scala this year was opera Boris Godunov by Modest Musskgorski. The composer is known for
his heretage going to Rurriks, the founders of Russian state and its capital, Kiev. And his composing style steeped in Romaticism that produced Russian greats, is known for breaking Western cinventions and relying on unique characteristics of Rusdian music. In attendance was the new Italian prime minister Meloninand who-is-who in Italian political and social life.
A message?
Our boy Zel seems unaquainted with the Olympic ideals of brotherhood and peace. The original games were a way for the often warring Greeks to get together and see each other as humans and brothers in honest athletic competition. But perhaps seeing Russians as human beings same as anyone interferes with the preferred programming …
As well they should be. I remember in 2004 when our athletes were barred because of our illegal brutal invasion of Iraq in 2003. Wait, what? That didn’t happen? And no sanctions? Never mind.
Zelensky The Demander
Zelensky this ages Churchill.
Zelensky saw how we brought peace and democracy to the middle east, the southern Americas and now Americas latest slog for PaD, Africa. Now he wants the same for his, and ours Ukraine. You can believe he’s going to get it. And since he blew his chance for a peaceful ending of this in March, he deserves it.
How can an alliance of democratic, advanced nations be taken over by idiots? The biggest nations in the NATO alliance, USA, UK, France , and Germany, are governed by lunatics, and the leading nation has a demented old man as president. Then there is the Ukrainian clown making demands and getting what he wants like spoiled brat. It is a nightmare come true.
https://www.rt.com/business/568297-eu-russia-goods-sanctions-putin/
EU buying more Russian goods despite sanctions – Putin
The bloc has been boosting purchases from Russia while banning their own exports to the country, the Russian president says
Zelensky wants and he wants and he wants ….
“Zelensky Wants ‘Complete Isolation’ of Russian Athletes from Olympics”
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