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Anyone who tells you that you need to be concerned about Russian athletes, is distracting you for their own political or financial gain. Don't fall for it.
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Please, enlighten me with your thinking?
Russians haven't attacked US soil and we're not rounding them up and putting them in camps, and it's also not the US government deciding these athletes are not allowed to compete.
Hate to say it, but this War will continue for awhile and sadly enough his Pro career will be over, as they won’t remove that rule or simply put a big finger to the FIM and let him line up at the Nationals.
The first company to start doing business or not be publicly 100% opposed to Russia is going to get eviscerated worldwide so that country will inevitably become an isolated country doing business with worse actors around the world. I'm not sure why after the Soviet Union fell that the west still despised them and made them out to be the bad guy of the world. Would we be in the same situation today? Maybe, but it seems less likely. The whole point of NATO is to flex and show strength toward Russia. Why wasn't it disbanded in 1991 after the fall? It's a pact of aggression. I'm not that well versed in Russia geo politics but I've never understood some of the narrative I've grown up with in regards to Russia.
If you’re trying to implement a regime change, the best way for that to occur, is from within. That’s done by “sanctions” that inflict pain on the general populace.
Let’s take Afghanistan for example. The Russians controlled their land for 24 years, but couldn’t effect change on the culture or what they believed. The United States did the same thing later, for about the same period of time. True liberation, freedom if you will, is only going to occur from within, by the people with “skin” in the game.
We’re not even discussing the past. We are talking about current affairs. Russia invaded a sovereign nation, with no other intent, but to occupy and control that nation.
It’s not as easy as saying, but so and so is a good guy let him race. Or we need oil, so we’ll buy that. Olympic athletes have boycotted games also. Others haven’t been allowed to compete because of their nations actions.
Unfortunately, we all love MX and want to see the best riders all compete together. The sad truth is though, in the grand scheme of things, real people are dying, and MX really isn’t all that important.
Relating back to EB, the FIM are a bunch of virtue signaling pussies, and it is ridiculous what they have done. Not much more to say than that. FIM has always been a complete pain in the dick. They don't care about the war, they just want cool kid points.
Yes, government/politician/CIA meddling has never worked out real well. Iraq, because we hated Iran more. Nicaraguan Contra scandal. Panamanian Manuel Noriega, the Mujaheddin/Taliban et al;.
Now, innocent Ukrainians are dying! That’s what sucks.
I’m going to duck out of here before my friend, ML512, has to sideline me because I forced his hand!
Pit Row
Are you unaware that shit happens in war? There are mistakes and things go awry. Russian troops are targeting civilians, not by accident, shooting down, men, women, and children like dogs.
We’ve actually got some members giving real life, first hand accounts, not what the media is spoon feeding you. Here, go look for yourself:
https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Non-Moto,21/UKRAINE,1400783
The main thing we can take out of this conflict is that the powers at he want it to escalate badly. Hard to believe anything. So much disinformation.
While I hope I’m wrong, my prediction remains, “Batten down the hatches”. I’m not trying to speak in riddles, just scared of getting my membership revoked, again.
“Anyone who tells you that you need to be concerned about WMDs / climate change / White Supremacy / C19 / Ukraine, is distracting you for their own political or financial gain. Don't fall for it.”
If the American media wasnt so compromised, that incident in Afghanistan along with many other Biden blunders would’ve gotten JoBama ran out of office. In fact, he never would’ve even gotten elected in the first place because the Hunter Biden / Ukraine scandal wouldnt have been buried during the election campaigns. Which if we’re being honest, the Biden business dealings in Ukraine are the ONLY reason the public are being programmed to give a rats ass.
And the media wont double back because they’re already pot committed to the Biden administration, no matter how ugly it gets.
This is what we get for electing a president the CCP wanted. Whom by the way, those commie bastards are way worse than Putin and they openly hate America.
We got so many issues in this country more important than what the MSM tells us we should care about. I figured the last 2+ years would’ve made that obvious by now.
When we no longer have public school teachers teaching kids to hate America & the Constitution, I MIGHT care about the freedom of some far away eastern euro nowhere. And when our media & politicians can answer basic questions like “what is a woman?” Then maybe I’ll assume they got their heads in the right place when it comes to far more complex issues like diplomacy & sanctions.
just google what countries are at war, or check back what happened the last 10 years. why limit what the normal guys from russia can do over this? they got nothing to do with it, and should all countries who start a war receive the same sanctions moving on? good luck usa
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