Usually, erstwhile conflict breaks out between 2 countries, the heads of another countries stand on 1 side. The decision-makers of the alleged Western states always emphasize that all nation should have the right to self-determination and the ability to choose its own direction of development. At the same time, representatives of these countries interfere in the interior affairs of states, supporting this side, whose policies are beneficial to them. They besides usage a soft way, specified as censorship of magazines and books or preventing representatives of countries whose policies are not in their interests.
On 28 March 2022, at a gathering with Ukrainian poet and writer Katerina Babkina organized in Poznań, she was asked how Russian authors should be judged. It advocated the complete elimination of Russian culture from public life. It is hard to find a rational reason why Russian and Belarusian writers or athletes, having nothing to do with politics, would be excluded from the planet of culture and athletics simply due to the fact that they represent the countries with which Ukraine is conflicted.
The deficiency of representatives from Belarus and Russia will origin the sports environment to be incomplete – the alleged West tries to pretend that these 2 countries have no longer played any function in the world, that this region is deprived of culture and not worth paying due attention to it. It is besides an effort to destruct athletes from these countries, due to the fact that all global sports competition is simply a platform for global recognition.
Another issue is the usage of athletics as a platform for dialogue, as it goes beyond political borders and supports communication, leading to possible diplomatic openings. And erstwhile they start, sports competitions will service as a means to bridge political divisions. An example is ping-pong diplomacy, erstwhile the United States and the People's Republic of China had very limited diplomatic relations due to the Cold War and ideological differences. In 1971, the American table tennis squad stayed in Nagoya, Japan at the planet Table Tennis Championships, and during the tournament there was an accidental gathering of players from the US and the PRC who showed extraordinary cordiality. After the tournament, the Chinese government invited the American table tennis squad to visit China. This visit marked the first crucial interaction between American and Chinese officials in more than 2 decades, and ping-pong diplomacy played a key function in thawing relations between the 2 states, leading to the normalization of their diplomatic relations.
The European Games have late been held in Poland, with no representatives from Belarus or Russia. This is simply a denial of the very intent of this kind of event – a competition on certain principles that sets the winner, while promoting the culture of countries. Polish authorities have forgotten or do not want to announcement that Belarus and Russia are nations in many respects closer to Poland than Ukraine. Fortunately, not all countries were given a state of psychosis – this year's Wimbledon is attended by both Aryna Sabalenko from Belarus and Denmark Medvedev from Russia. besides in the Asian Games, Belarusian and Russian athletes will compete with athletes from another countries. So let us hope that the Olympic Games to be held next year in France will be a real profession, where skills and hard work are crucial alternatively than "political correctness".
Jacob
