Why are the U.S., the U.K., Ukraine, and Israel not banned from the World Athletics Championships?
He who has the gold makes the backward rules, and also makes the missiles to protect their inconsistent enforcement
The short version: World Athletics has banned citizens of Russia and Belarus from participating next month’s 2023 World Athletics Championships owing to the sins of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.
Not only is this obviously an indefensible policy on its face, but if World Athletics applied this blinkered standard consistently, then athletes from the two other nations primarily involved in the offending war, the United States and Ukraine, would also be banned for their various war crimes and moral offenses.
So would Great Britain, America’s favorite longstanding on-call whore whenever the U.S. needs help bombing foreigners. So would Israel, another extension of American military might that operates a perpetual open-air human slaughterhouse on its edges.1
Strangely, no one seems eager to remark on this inconsistency. No one ever does when professional athletes from other countries are excluded from pursuing their livelihoods because they live under beshitted flags and regimes. And no one ever will, even though it is absolutely plain that the U.S. Government has done more damage to the rest of the world in the past sixty years than the rest of the world’s sovereign nations added together. I’ve never left the Western Hemisphere myself, and it appears that I never will, but I’m confident that if honest citizens in nation-states all over the world were inclined to hold everyday Americans accountable for the actions of Uncle Sam, the less accommodating would simply want all of our throats cut so that we would stop messing with other people’s lives for no defensible moral reason.
On Independence Day, the U.S. national holiday most openly devoted to the idea the United States is not merely wonderful but uniquely, explosively so, it was hard to not notice how few American citizens do anything resounding of spiritual or philosophical independence these days. We certainly don’t think for ourselves in large numbers anymore, if we ever really did. Owing to the systematic corruption of the nation’s systems of information delivery, this isn’t really our fault, but we seem especially eager to double down with maniacal pride on a multitude of shared idiotic convictions.
On the other hand, the U.S. still has the most robust laws guarding free expression of any planet on Earth, even if its current actors are busy working around whatever portions of the First Amendment they aren’t openly defying. That’s why I used some of the national holiday to ponder things worth freely expressing about the one thing Americans are simply not supposed to do no matter what: Question whatever the Pentagon is busy wrecking, invading, poisoning, stealing, of killing, all forever framed as “protecting democracy,” whether this label is applied to the U.S. Military and CIA destroying Middle Eastern countries in the name of oil, enacting the overthrowing of elected governments in South America, pilfering precious metals from African states with no other resources, or peddling heroin in Southeast Asia.
Proud American morons sporting a Ukrainian flags in their yards—and Boulder, Colorado, where I inexplicably live, in rich in these misguided jerk-offs—could have at least lowered them to half-mast for the Fourth of July. With all due condolences to all victims of war, Volodomyr Zelensky and his sacrificial white-nationalist goons in Ukraine's murderous government should be shot, burned, and forgotten, only to be remembered occasionally and given worldwide AI burnings-in-infamy, only to be humiliatingly forgotten again for a spell. Anyone who knows anything at all understands this, and it takes little effort to know more than nothing about this rapidly unraveling boondoggle-megafailure.2
The thing about Ukraine that pisses me off the most is its security services pestering the Federal Bureau of Investigation to censor Americans on social-media platforms for opining negatively about Ukraine, the U.S. support of the war, or otherwise being critical. We’re already having a free-speech problem here without swastika-waving pasty-white Eurotrash involving its septic self. The very idea actors from another country would even go there makes me want everyone involved to wind up dead, not so much of natural causes as of shelling raids that leave them in inelegant pieces and chunks under uncountable tons of Cold War-era rubble. Meanwhile, libtard America thinks it’s the Russians who are messing with our minds on sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
A significant number of Americans also believe a fiction that is logically incoherent as it is false: That Putin has designs on marching across all of Europe a la the Axis powers in the 1930s and 1940s, and the only thing standing in his way is a tiny country that until a little over thirty years ago was part of the same country Putin now controls. The reasoning seems to be: In terms of military strength, R is greater than E, which is clearly greater than U, yet U is greater than R. Squaring these mutual relationships requires the belief that limitless U.S. funding of, and direct involvement in, military action can sufficiently increase the value of U to make the math work.
Believing this idea is on a dark-fantasyland par with continuing to believe that the covid shots, or any of the forced interventions driven by the protracted and planned coronavirus scandal, were or are either safe or effective. Since most readers of this bloglike production either have a solid and strengthening idea the media and the government have been feeding the public straight-up donkeyshit since the onset of hostilities in February 2022 or will never admit—at least openly—to the very possibility that all cable news is propaganda of some sort, and because I’m not a foreign-policy expert, I defer such discussions to people such as Glenn Greenwald and John Mearsheimer.
Posting truths about the war in Ukraine—its origins (i.e., etiology), its progress (or pathophysiology), its small number of powerful beneficiaries (that is, parasites), and its malignant financiers (the glucose-and-ATP supply)— is even more forbidden on prominent websites than posting truths about covid-19 is. This was perhaps true even before the inevitable cracks in the Gates-Fauci-Walensky narrative began to fail and the whole charade was laid bare after Peter Hotez refused to back of any of his claims, a predictably dickless retreat he made at the same time various video compilations were exposing him as yet another psychotic fraudster on the payroll of Fauci, Inc. and Bill Gates.
Soon after the U.S.—which of course played a major role in instigating Putin’s invasion—“became involved” in the war in every way besides agreeing to peace talks, the warmongering freaks ay PayPal’s sarin-gas core began zapping the accounts of journalists writing stories that both undermined the “Putin did this out of nowhere” narrative, revealed how poorly things were going on the ground, and, perhaps most offensively, highlighted the rank immorality of the major Ukrainian players being championed for their valor and grit on CNN and MSNBC.
As James Howard Kunstler’s latest piece reviews, Ukraine—in addition to being perhaps the primary source of the Biden family’s enormous well of grifting-cash, a problem distinct from but related to the war and a grave national-security issue in its own right—has been bombing dissident ethnic-Russian citizens in its own country for nine years, sometimes with cluster bombs, a lovely type of munition banned on over one hundred countries because their results are too inhumane even for this bellicose and blood-drenched monkey.
I have mentioned running in a particular neighborhood east of Boulder proper owing to its wide, low-traffic streets, access to open space, and views of the Baseline Reservoir. The large individual property lots with expansive lawns assure lots of rabbits and other animals for Rosie to covet, and you will not find another neighborhood where women look 40 from behind at fairly close range only to turn around and reveal themselves to be well into Boomerhood. (Most of the younger hotties in Boulder don’t live in this part of town—yet.)3
Because this neighborhood has these and other desirable attributes, and because Boulder has an unusual real-estate market, it is loaded with homes valued at between around two and five million dollars. In a city where at least 80 percent of voters still call themselves Democrats, this ensures an almost blinding and deafening level of virtue-signaling.
I passed one home yesterday on a street in this ‘hood that had the largest neo-pride flag I have ever seen, high on a pole but below a similarly mammoth American flag. Across the street from this one, someone had placed what might have been a blue-and-yellow-pained peace goose, or peace flamingo, on the front lawn. Not a real bird, a metal model. It looked expensive, but I couldn’t tell if the bird itself had been there at the beginning of 2022 and given a paint job or of the whole sad bitchrig resulted from the special “I SUPPORT UKRAINE” mission.
The weird thing about these people is that with very few exceptions, only these people’s own virtue-signaling neighbors even see these displays. I rarely see other runners on these streets. I see a lot of Amazon and Fed Ex vans, which is true of any neighborhood filled with wealthy seniors who understandably don’t feel like bouncing around on the pothole-and-groove-peppered roads around here. I see people walking with dogs that are off their leashes more often than not, which is somewhat understandable but still illegal. But it looks weird to have a political message situated mostly behind a tall privacy hedge and sliding gate and therefore not only regularly visible to around six people, but only then from strategic angles.
I guess this is a way for rich people whose “news” comes exclusively from propaganda outlets to feel like they are contributing somehow. I really don’t get it. Maybe they haven’t noticed what most of American’s bridges and highways look like even as the amount of dough pumped into the Ukraine mess rises above $150 billion (most of that will flow back into the hands of investors).
As for why Russians and Belarussians are a special target whereas no one would dream of banning American athletes from anywhere, it’s not a mystery. It boils down to the fact that the U.S. Secretary of Defense would happily call in a drone strike on World Athletics’ headquarters if it started to look like a seriously problematic gnat. This is how the United States has always gotten its way. I’m glad I spent most of my life in only partial awareness of this embarrassing and frightful reality.
Alexander Haig, U.S. Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, flatteringly described Israel “the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.” Imagine how much of an asshole you have to be to even think that, let alone say it, even if it’s true.
U.S. President Joe Biden, Jr. has reportedly begun dumping a load in his pants whenever he gets angry at reporters’ questions—and these have been coming at him more frequently, not because the media wants the war to stop but because the signal has been given that Biden is on the way out—or merely feels like leaving a public situation, he drops a load in his pants if he literally has a single shit left to give. I’ve heard this is common among demented people placed in stressful situations, with the inevitable incontinence of the elderly playing an evilly hilarious catalytic role.
I recently learned that the city’s only confirmed billionaire has a shack in this neighborhood that I run by all the time. He has another one just up the street valued at $10 million and keeps photos of the property off Zillow and Trulia.