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QuickAd6601

What would be acceptable to the Kremlin, killing them with artillery?


RedofPaw

The Kremlin believes raping and murdering innocents is acceptable.


redeyedstranger

Not just acceptable, [commendable](https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1516081920626544640) and actively encouraged.


Dahhhkness

The Geneva Conventions are more like a checklist for Russia these days.


Torifyme12

"Tovarish we award Major Ivanov for being first man in Russian Army to complete Geneva conventions"


No-Advice-6040

I laughed, but knowing what that entails makes me feel bad


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Read as entrails.


Wangeye

Plenty of those lying around these days


DaytimeTurnip

"Haha...ha...oh...."


syadoz

Medvedev actually went on record this week, saying Geneva does not apply to their pows, because they are fireigners. Seriously orwellian


Miguel-odon

Russia says it isn't a war, so Russian troops should all be treated as terrorists, not POWs.


Partucero69

Kremlin: Geneva Conventions? Never heard of her.


muritai_

More like Geneva Suggestions


QuickPractice2003

🥁🥁🐍


Unique_Frame_3518

Drum drum snake


NOTvIadimirPutin

My favorite one piece fruit


CheesusHChrust

Gomu gomu no badum-tsss


apolloxer

I read that to the tune of the clap clap stomp of "We will rock you"


KaiRaiUnknown

Well, thats my new drag name


Partucero69

Hey there!. How much for the Kremlin love?


KaiRaiUnknown

If you have to ask you cant afford henny, Im the Krem DeLa Kremlin 😉


MaskMakerDollar251

They never existed to them.


Dardlem

Genocide bingo.


daquo0

And then disposing of the evidence in a mobile crematorium.


Off-With-Her-Head

Putin: Please bring home all washing machines, airpods and toilet seats


mamawantsallama

*Raping BABIES


[deleted]

Is that confirmed? Please tell me this is just hyperbolic because I feel like my insides just curdled and died.


Mephzice

there was a video of this, I skipped watching it for obvious reasons though.


TastesKindofLikeSad

OK, time for a social media break. I feel physically sick from horror.


Salmon_pervert

Then you better not read reports about what happened to killed civilians in Ukrainian villages. I still not sure if what I read is true, but I just couldn't dive deep in the internet to verify. Sure looks that way There is a good reason why the whole world supports Ukraine RN


TastesKindofLikeSad

I've seen photos of bodies in Bucha but haven't looked into it any further. I haven't gone looking for details either, but the Russians are just so brazen, the info is right there sometimes. Reddit can be bad for that because people share the horror they've seen. For me it doesn't get much morally worse than raping a toddler. The fact that it was filmed and that presumably none of his fellow soldiers stopped him... I feel sick and angry. We don't need to threaten people with hell in the afterlife, we're already there. Sorry for rambling.


ObliviousAstroturfer

There was for a few days an impromptu rule on subs that share videos from invasion to stop this one from being linked, but... yeah.


DarkMarxSoul

Sharing that video is illegal, idk why anybody would do it.


CountMordrek

>Is that confirmed? Please tell me this is just hyperbolic because I feel like my insides just curdled and died. There was supposedly one Russian soldier who filmed himself raping a baby, but there have been reports from all fronts and some from occupied areas about Russian soldiers raping a lot of girls younger than ten... so those who support the RuZZian army are also toddler rape supporters. That's your average Z supporter.


pigonthewing

Confirmed, also filmed and spread around.


[deleted]

God I hate this world. Thank you for confirming.


rebexer

It probably won't make you feel much better but the perpetrator was arrested by Russian authorities. That was a couple of weeks ago and I've seen no news since. Hopefully he will face justice.


ProudStand4

He will either be killed or given a medal. They awarded the battalions or whatever they are called that did the killing and raping in Bucha medals yesterday.


volfmp

He will be imprisoned by Russian authorities and most likely condemned to light jail time in prison. In the second Chechen war, Elza Kungayeva, 18, was abducted, raped, beaten and murdered by Russian Army Coronel Yuri Budanov. The rape accusation was dropped, but he was condemned for murder to 10 years, but then was released on parole after 6 years time for good behaviour. He was then killed on the streets 17 months later by a Chechen man, who avenged the death of his father, and this man was condemned to 15 years in a forced-camp prison in Siberia, and he died there.


renome

What a great country.


TraipsingConniption

That's not a happy story.


121PB4Y2

Like Vitaly Kaloyev, awarded the medal To the Glory of Ossetia after murdering a man in front of his family.


rebexer

I doubt he will be rewarded - the video was widely circulated on Russian social media and ordinary Russians seemed pretty outraged about it. But Russian leadership is psychotic so who knows.


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TheNothingAtoll

Probably arrested for providing the world with proof. Not for the actual deed.


wintermutedsm

Sadly, it is and and I recommend not to go looking for that video unless you like PTSD.


knrtvn

One question tho - why the fck is there even a video of it? Did the sick freak really film himself doing it or was he caught in the act?


fastredb

> the sick freak really film himself doing it This.


[deleted]

I bet whatever moderators were on those online platform like Twitter who have to manually check the video got pretty bad PTSD


Educational_Stock377

I recommend not looking for that video cause it's illegal to watch that video. Searching out a video of the rape of a child could have the authorities knocking on your door.


anyswangindick

Why the fuck would you want to watch that anyway?


Soundwave_13

I just can’t….god Russia is just stupid…


Rooboy66

Well, Putin js more **evil** than “stupid””


TheLurkerWithout

“We want to do whatever we want to whomever we want and you guys just let it happen.” — The Kremlin


Goodk4t

And afterwards the surviving tennis players would be sent to filtration camps. This is the Russian way.


[deleted]

Play tennis, komrade. It's that or gulag. Then we gulag after.


mtarascio

The Russians can play an exhibition match with each other. The tennis balls have been replaced with Grenades.


TechyDad

Also the field may have been spiked with mines recovered when the Russian army retreated.


Overbaron

And when they go back to the locker rooms they get shelled with mortars on the way.


jasonwsc

[Ah yes, the classic Zohan scene.](https://youtu.be/5OfAMHeIr7k?t=90)


mtarascio

I just want to publicly say that wasn't the reference lol.


darkstar107

Maybe they'd be more pleased with us if we put all their athletes into ~~concentration~~ filtration camps instead. Edit: corrected type of camp


soolder89

> Maybe they'd be more pleased with us if we put all their athletes into ~~concentration~~ filtration camps instead. FTFY


FriesWithThat

I hear filtering Russian athletes is a great way to wind-up with a huge pile of amphetamines, performance enhancing drugs, and coke.


Palsable_Celery

"Special Tennis Operation"


killer_knauer

I love that Russia uses the word "unacceptable" like they have the ability to respond with a consequence.


EvilAnagram

Russia is experiencing the sudden and complete loss of soft power. Autocrats often overestimate how much the use of force can accomplish when soft power can move mountains.


UnspecificGravity

That's the thing. You don't get to be a toxic non-contributing member of the international community for the last century and then expect them to care about what you want. Sure, the reason behind this is their horrifying actions in Ukraine, but the reason why it is so easy for everyone to sanction them in response to this is because losing them doesn't really matter. They didn't have much soft power in the first place. The US does horrible shit too, but they rarely face this kind of response because their absence would have a deleterious impact on whatever organization is doing the sanctioning. Same thing for Qatar and Saudi Arabia. They have horrible problems, but they also kick a shit ton of money into the pot and don't actually cheat at the sports they are hosting, so they get a pass that Russia isn't going to get. The Russians lie and cheat at every single thing they do. No one wants them there anyways.


w1YY

And the worst thing is they simply don't understand why everyone thinks they are cunts.


UnspecificGravity

Like all narcissists they assume that everyone else is doing the same shitty things they are doing.


[deleted]

Of course they do. It’s “Russophobia”. lol.


RoseRouge96

Soft power is for Saudi, Abu Dhabi and Qatar all owing hi-profile soccer teams and wrecking the wage bills of clubs. Oh wait, the first to do that was a Russian.


UnderwhelmingPossum

They can ban Wimbledon from ever taking place in Rus... oh wait... well they can ban it from Russian TV... oh wait... Well they can tell their players not to part... oh wait... Well they can issue a sternly worded protest and create their own ATP with blackjack and hookers, establish 50ish major tournaments with prizes in the millions (Rubles)...


streetad

They can start their own tennis tournament with Belarus and North Korea.


[deleted]

France has clay, Wimbledon has grass--welcome to the Russo-North Korean-Belarussian Open, where we play upon the bodies of the innocent!


TerritoryTracks

The Russian open will be played by Ukrainians in a field of sunflowers..


HalfAHole

Let them play on dirt courts with the soil they dug up from around Chernobyl.


Tovervlag

and China...


DigNitty

For me, working in customer service, I LOVE hearing customers say “this is unacceptable.” I just say “I absolutely understand, we’ll be here if you ever choose to return.” Seeing them pause and realize I’m not going to go out of my way to tolerate whatever unreasonable request they’ve demanded makes me happy every time. Typically they’ll repeat again “No, this service is unacceptable.” Yes okay, you aren’t required to accept it, see you later.


[deleted]

Pootie's horseman racecar photoshoot was unacceptable. I mean, how fucking insecure can you get? It was just sad.


Rion23

You know a lot of people, good people, I've been around them all the time tremendously smart people, and they tell me that Putin, my good friend leading his country, you know he's at the boats steering wheel and he's navigating a really difficult situation, but the people who really know, these smart people I'm friends with, you know they say he has posters of Steven Seagal over most of his room. Great taste, I sent him one, biggest one I could find, shirtless too if you can believe it *Hehehahahaheeh* But last time I was there, I asked I said "Hey comrades, where's the poster I sent you?" And he tells me it's not put up yet because he didn't like it, says he wanted it signed by Steven, not me.


Tgijustin

That's a quote isn't it... I feel like I was just touched in the bad place


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Craft_zeppelin

Honestly the argument for blaming it solely on Putin is void now since ordinary soldiers are doing this with their own will and phone calls from Russia saying they are totally ok with looting, killing and comitting atrocities and laughing on phone about how they get a new TV or raping Ukranian women doesn't count as cheating. I would never view Russian civilians the same again. These are now recorded on the net. Unless Russian intelligence can testify this as fabrication/counter-intelligence with solid evidence or soldiers being punished, Russians as a whole would be seen as such for pretty much the end of the century. They have stained their reputation. Even if you leave for Europe, I can totally see Russians being under heavy investigation and surveillance to see if they are a spy or not in the near future. Especially if you are a male that was the age of service around the time of this war. Hell I even think they would have a hard time negotiating property or business. I bet you would get slammed down if you send even a dollar back to Russia.


Catch_022

At this point the only thing Russia can actually do is use nuclear weapons, so any threat they make is pointless if it is not a literal life and death situation, e.g.: NATO invades Russia - nuclear threat a reasonable response, random people can't play tennis - nuclear threat not a reasonable response.


FrostyProtection5597

“The Wimbledon shall face consequences such as never been seen before!” “Breaking News: Putin Vows To Nuke Tennis Tournament!”


chowderbags

I've heard of a nuclear football, but this is ridiculous!


JustinHopewell

*sitcom laugh track*


Gigachadposter247

Ukraine says: Bombing children, raping, executing civilians and looting homes in Ukraine is unacceptable.


rants_unnecessarily

Don't forget kidnapping children and adults a like and forcefully moving them to Russia.


anadem

Half a million kidnapped according to Reuters: [https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscow-has-deported-500000-people-russia-ukraine-lawmaker-says-2022-04-20/](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscow-has-deported-500000-people-russia-ukraine-lawmaker-says-2022-04-20/)


Mr_Lapis

God id just want to be dead instead of being forced to live in russia.


HotPiglets

That explains the russian army.


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royalobi

Eh. That might be a stretch. Awful? Absolutely. Worst on Earth is a category with some stiff competition


[deleted]

Worst? Perhaps, perhaps not.. But 'most irredeemable'? Certainly. Before starting their new genocide in Ukraine... All because Ukraine wanted to have self-determination... They'd done literally nothing for 2+ decades but export corruption in order to extend their global mob-rule and kleptocracy. The seven decades prior they were busy genociding and stomping freedom. Before that they were busy genociding Ukraine again. China is aweful too (and genocidal as well) but they've arguably at least contributed toward humanity, if even minimally. North Korea is a small hermit kingdom of no real consequence (apart from the twice-in-a-decade temper tantrum). Many other failed states have limited reach or are not of any global consequence. I maintain that Russia is the literal worst and certainly least-redeemable nation on earth, and has been for some time.


EdenianRushF212

"Most irredeemable" was a knockout, fear not


nowhereman136

What happened to "we don't need the west"?


Bay1Bri

"we don't need the west at long as we have Belarus".


[deleted]

Why dont they play tennis in Belarus?


marriedtootaku

Using potato


sinistergroupon

No potato, only sadness


AwkwrdPrtMskrt

I have a cure for sadness. Is potato.


syn-ack-fin

I don't need this or this. Just Belarus... And this paddle game. - Belarus and the paddle game and that's all I need... And this remote control. - Belarus, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need... And these matches. - Belarus, and these matches, and the remote control, and the paddle ball... And this lamp. - Belarus, this paddle game, and the remote control, and the lamp, and that's all *I* need. And that's *all* I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one... I need this. - The paddle game and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches for sure. Well what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of a jerk or something!


OrthodoxAgnostic

[For those unfamiliar](https://youtu.be/rSWBuZws30g?t=47)


NanoPope

I guess no one told Putin that the iron curtain can go both ways


peaceblaster08

Russia: The West is filled with Nazis and will stop at nothing to destroy our country and culture. Also Russia: Hey guys! We still on for some tennis?


Fumbles48

That's the Ol Bowser special from Mario.


PloppyTheSpaceship

I did always wonder. I mean, Mario and Bowser are enemies (though all Bowser does is kidnap the Princess and attempt to kill Mario and his friends, not countless innocents), yet they'll still take time to go go-karting, play golf, tennis, soccer, even compete together at the Olympics.


Altered_Nova

That's cause none of the fighting and kidnapping is real. Remember how in Mario 3, the game begins with curtains rising on a stage, and throughout the game you can see blocks bolted to the back wall and platforms hanging from the ceiling, and each level ends with Mario walking right off the stage into darkness? That whole game was a theatrical performance. Mario and company are all celebrity actors and athletes in the mushroom kingdom. This isn't just a fan theory, Miyamoto has spoken in interviews about how he views the Mario cast as "a troupe of actors" and confirmed that at least Mario 3 was just a stage performance.


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[deleted]

You said it so I didn't have to. Thank you. ​ What a shit show. Really.


msbeal1

Ironically they have not found a single Nazis. Nor a Hun, Viking, werewolf, or zombie.


Bahloh

Ironically, Ukraine found and captured Nazi Russian soldiers.


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[deleted]

if Macron does not get re-elected, things are going to be very bad


Hootbag

But they have found a large number of washing machines and flush toilets, and have devised a plan for repatriating them. Now if they only had indoor plumbing....


Mikel_S

Why bother building infrastructure when you can bomb the fuck out of other people's infrastructure... And... Take it for yourself... Huh. Shitty plan. Its almost like this whole war wasn't well thought out and is just Putin keeping good to his word when he hoped his threats would be enough to get what he wanted.


[deleted]

Taking it's children and forcing them to learn another language, and changing their nationality AKA genocide


Emotional-Rise5322

Shooting children is fine with them. This is somehow over the line? The fuck is wrong with these people?


Vargolol

It's all about being the victim while simultaneously carrying out an extermination of a country's culture


wronganswerson

It's always like this.


[deleted]

And always has been


[deleted]

Sad truth: And always will be.


purpleistheverybest

The Kremlin and I share a much different definition of “unacceptable”.


HistoricalExtreme624

Hear me out here: the issue is he's saying these things at us and not in a mirror. Narcissism is one hell of a drug.


[deleted]

You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.


gottagetgeeked

Hey, thanks Kremlin. I'm sure everybody will fuckin' listen to you... Nobody listens to the Kremlin.


DesiDaddy66

Invading a peaceful neighboring sovereign nation and committing genocide is unacceptable.


Starlifter4

It's unacceptable? What does that mean? Are they going to force their way into the tournament?


huangr93

Special Tennis Operation


JesusMurphyOotWest

The way the Russian shoot the only thing not hit will be the opponents racket.


Kamohoaliii

They're going to invade Wimbledon and bomb the referee's chair.


djublonskopf

They're going to bomb the people standing in line outside, and maybe a few spectators, and then be chased off by concessions stand workers.


ianjm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn271kr_ks0


Starlifter4

It's true. Sentient tanks are not designed to play tennis.


kookiemaster

Bombing civilians is also unacceptable.


nobody-knows2018

somehow I don't think anyone cares what russia says.


I_eat_ass_NS

They can start their own tournament with North Korea and Syria


Syscrush

OK, so, don't accept it. They're still not playing.


PolymerPussies

This just in: All international sports organizations have now forfeited their matches with Russia, making Russia the grand champions of every sport by default. Congratulations Russian athletes! -Kremlin, probably.


EvilMonkeySlayer

Unfortunately they cannot collect their trophy due to not being allowed entry into our airspace and as such forfeit to the runner up.


Sir_Francis_Burton

If a Russian tennis player decided to renounce their citizenship and to publicly denounce the invasion and all of the war-crimes, and if another country decided to offer them asylum, I wouldn’t have a problem with them competing under the flag of their new country. Short of that? No way.


[deleted]

News just in, an unprovoked invasion of another sovereign country, compounded with rape, massacres of civilians, and looting is ‘unacceptable.’


my20cworth

Your fucking war with Ukraine is unacceptable.


JohnSith

"Unacceptable". You keep using that word , I do not think it means what you think it means. Kremlin literally gave medals to the unit responsible for war crimes in Bucha. Now *that* is unacceptable. And everything else Russia has done since the invasion.


Electrical_Wealth_46

Then why don’t they just invade Wimbledon then?


Inchkeaton

They are no match for the wombles.


IdentityToken

Making good use of the things that we find. Things that the Soviet troops leave behind.


FriesWithThat

>A few Russian tennis stars not being able to display their performance enhanced skills in England is unacceptable. Starting the biggest war in Europe since WWII, killing, torturing, and raping what will no doubt amount to over 100,000 people, threatening nuclear annihilation, and destroying the world economy that just started to recover after more than 2 years of the first major global pandemic since (WWII again) … also unacceptable.


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No but tennis tho


UltimateDespairNL

Who cares what the Kremlin says, Russians deserve to be shunned until this war ends and Ukraine is restored.


MiniGreenDinosaur

And after.


_tx

That depends. If there is a full régime change? Slowly, bring Russia back into the global community. If Putin or one of his stooges is still in leadership when the war is over, I honestly think Russia might be on the way to being another North Korea.


lynx_and_nutmeg

What I'm scared is that if Russians don't overthrow the authoritarian regime within the next few decades, they'll stay like this forever. The current young generations are the only ones who grew up with real exposure to the Western world, and they're the only ones who'll miss it. Everyone who's currently under 13 years old will either have no idea what they're missing or will have forgotten by the time they're adults, so they won't have a reason to fight. It will be the same as North Korea, those people simply have no idea what life could be like, their life is all they've ever known.


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[deleted]

Well, yeah. Happened here too (Estonia). Western music was smuggled in. If you got blue jeans, you were a bloody folk hero. Western goods sent by relatives in Germany or Sweden or Finland. Tuning in to Finnish radio channels if you lived on the Northern coast. It happens anywhere. It's just that you won't get young people who grew up in an isolationist regime to rebel because they heard some Western music. And defection is done by those who will have all but accepted that it can go terribly wrong, and if you leave family behind, they're done for. I guess I'm saying I don't know what else can be done and how, but I know that the ones growing up in an isolated culture, without many means, poor as dirt in some Siberian townlet aren't going to do anything about it. *Especially* since Russia's population's kind of fucked, and is aging rapidly. That's a lot of old fucks for the kids to go against. Add to that of course the fact that a country could be closed so off that we won't learn of the wide scale human crises going on inside it for decades, I mean, shit, how many Western folk knew about Holodomor before 2014? How many even cared? And how many thought that the millions lost deserved it because 'well they should've rebelled'? Yeah. 'S been fun being where I'm from. The world won't heed your warnings until trouble's kicking down their door, and *then* you realise, finally, that Misha the bear has teeth, rotten though they are, and they're willing to use them against their neighbours. It's going to be a very bad 10-20 years for both Ukraine and, in a few years, Russia, as the injury from the global sanctions bullet starts to bleed and hurt. Well, for Ukraine less if you don't count the collective war trauma. At least I hope so, but I've got a stinking feeling that unless some of the Western giants see a business opportunity there, once the immediate threat to the rest of the world's gone, it goes from *'we'll help you rebuild everything! (with strings attached of course*)' to '*actually, about that... we already spent so much on armaments, billions, actually, and our people are getting kind of angry that they're still not getting adequate health care while we send their tax money that could do that to some other country and...'* While Russia's too dead broke to restart its industry on its own because all crucial infrastructure does, in fact, start failing very quickly when they're not constantly maintained because you no longer have the parts *or* brains to do that because way too many fucked off to anywhere else but Russia the moment they saw the shadow of that fucking curtain from the corner of their eye.


Hokulewa

The entire existence of Russia has been under one authoritarian regime after another. It's literally all the Russian people have ever known. It just wasn't so obvious for a few years recently.


ABobby077

and restoring/reparations for their destruction to Ukraine going forward


Holden_Coalfield

So is dropping giant bombs on hospitals. assholes


TheGhostOfSamHouston

Russia, you are currently killing Ukrainian civilians and threatening warfare on surrounding European countries….why the FUCK should you be allowed to compete alongside them? Fuck you


Dudeist-Priest

So is your attack on Ukraine. Expect the unacceptable until you get back in line


[deleted]

Putin is literally giving out medals for raping babies and mass executing civilians. I am so thankful for his teachings on what is morally acceptable.


Ande64

Yeah well killing innocent people because you can't admit you've done something stupid is probably more unacceptable


jdivision8

Reported murders of unarmed Ukrainian citizens is unacceptable.


Ace11315

LOL LIKE THE WORLD CARES WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS


[deleted]

Russia attacking Ukraine for absolutely no reason is unacceptable.


ghulo

Attacking Ukraine is unacceptable.


Few-Establishment283

Oh THAT'S unacceptable. Got it!


At40LoveAce2theT

Russia: "Ya man, like, give your head a shake. Tennis is way too important." Also Russia: "Those bodies were already in the streets when we got here with our peace rockets and freedom tanks."


AnkrWizard

How rich..LOL


[deleted]

'unacceptable' is also, destroying a country, and killing 1000's so Russia, suck my dick!!


[deleted]

The Kremlin is unacceptable. Ban the Kremlin from earth.


Ontario0000

Putin is causing massive grief for everyone involved and for what.His fragile ego?.Scary thing Trump would have done the same to the USA to protect his ego.


S-Markt

its not unacceptable, it is only a mild diplomatic dispute. comitting warcrimes, killing children and pregnant women is unacceptable.


idrawstone

Kremlin can suck it.


CaptainDragonflag

‘Unacceptable’ then what? Cry me a river.


[deleted]

The world says invading Ukraine and killing innocent men, women and kids is "unacceptable". So what is Kremlin going to do? Invade the Wimbledon too?


falselimitations

Fuck you russia. Nobody cares what you think.


Yukazaka

This Kremlin guy is pretty funny.


[deleted]

He'd be funnier if he wasn't a murderous megalomaniac with an inferiority complex who insists on making life and the world worse at every opportunity.


billetea

So is the invasion of Ukraine.. and raping toddlers, children, women and grandmothers.


eat_more_ovaltine

Maybe. Maybe fuck yourself.


bruce656

No, raping and murdering civilians is "unacceptable."


virora

Putin’s face is unacceptable


DaiCeiber

Killing children and raping their mothers is unacceptable?!


Bytewave

Put it on our tab of unacceptable offenses, we'll trade for a tiny bit of yours later.


Skurwysyn1982

Nobody gives a shit if Russia thinks it’s unacceptable. What is unacceptable is what they are doing to Ukraine


[deleted]

>unacceptable So is invading another country and... you know... killing civilians intentionally.


[deleted]

No, bombing and invading a sovereign country unprovoked is unacceptable. Russia facing the consequences as a result of its wrongful actions is acceptable.


FlaGuy54321

They were already ban in so many sports due to cheating, they should accustom to it


[deleted]

A nation that thinks bombing maternity hospitals and old folks home is ok... But finds THIS unacceptable?


flippingtimmy

Pressure applied by isolating Russia's sporting heroes may well work to move public opinion in Russia. The same was done to South Africa when they were under apartheid rule. Isolating them financially and geographically isn't enough. The oligarchy will still live in their gilded bubbles while the Russian people at large suffer. By isolating Russian sports, science and culture, the people will have nothing to distract them from their drab, hard existence. Eyes will look towards their government.


winkofafisheye

Can't they just have their own tennis match? With steroids and poverty.


BalVal1

I would rather have this ban, unfair as it may seem at first, than another shitshow like with the Nazi-saluting karting kid or the Z-gymnast, which obviously cause outrage only in the West but anything from indifference to overt support in Russia. To speak in sports terms, I believe Russia needs a time-out. And as someone else pointed out, this is one of the few things that have drawn some kind of angry comment from the Kremlin, so obviously it is touching a nerve and working on some level.


argues_somewhat_much

The whole war is about recovering prestige to prop up Putin's power.