Hosting the Olympcs & World Cup: Business, Distraction, and Sportwashing
Game Theory
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Russia's Invasion of Crimea
Soshi: Russia has a history of using major international sporting events to cover up or like to coincide with actual hostile military operations and take sovereign territory. Two days after the Olympics ended in Beijing, Russia invaded Ukraine. And so like this persistent pattern, it's like fully one strike one, fully twice strike three and then Vladimir Putin is gonna take another swing anyway in 2022. Soshi: I think for Russia it has a lot to do with a feel fucking cocky. They're like, this is our time. We're good as shit now. Look how good we are. It's like, Soshi, that's like was also like the biggest doping scandal in the history of ever
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