Aggressive block of the championship

To the football championship, which should be held in Russia, for another three years, but the situation is so heated as if we had already been disqualified. For Putin, for the war in Ukraine, for bribes FIFA figures, for the next Aglitsky speech Mutko - go understand. For all together, perhaps, according to the totality of the deed. But in general, the conflict is an undoubted continuation of the discussions around the Olympics-80, which were crowned with a partial boycott. With that, however, an important difference that this time can happen that no one will come to Moscow at all. Everyone will go, for example, to England, and the Russian team will have to stay at home, in protest against the vile provocation of the American special services, against lawlessness and arbitrariness, against Russophobia.

However, nothing has yet been decided. It is only clear that the problem will be solved with an eye on the President of the Russian Federation and his low -predictable response. Of course, other circumstances will be taken into account. In particular, the information obtained during the interrogations of the arrested and languishing by FIFA functionaries. However, about the violation of international laws, about the Cold War, which, due to its hybridity, can turn into an universal misfortune, in the world today they think much more than about the corruption football scandal and other criminals. That is why the backstage disputes around the 2018 mundial are also, as it were, of a hybrid character.

The question is, as usual, is this: sport outside of politics or inside? It is known that football is a surrogate of war in peacetime: it is enough to look at the fans and their bloody battle, accompanying football matches. But if the war is already rumbling, as then in Afghanistan and now in the Maryinki area, then you can’t move anywhere in the policy. Historical examples, to take at least the Berlin Olympics, also strongly interfere with focusing on a sports festival. Rather, sport is the warfare by other means, and the victory that generates euphoria can become a prelude to a real world massacre. On the contrary, a decisive, albeit partial boycott, as it was in 1980, is able to have a powerful educational effect on the aggressor.

However, every sports festival is unique how unique in its own way any cold war. You can recall, for example, with what commendable external composure Vladimir Vladimirovich tracked the events in Ukraine last year, and if the Sochi Olympiad could be extended for another couple of years, then thousands of people would have been alive and hundreds of thousands of refugees would not have lost their houses. And if, in protest against the Russian-Georgian war, the world community began to boycott or take a sports festival from Putin, then you, you see, would have arranged for us some new little victorious massacre with the signs of the Apocalypse.

In short, there is a point of view that it would be better not to angry him ahead of time. Moreover. The consent of the updated composition of FIFA still hold the World Cup in Moscow can beneficially affect Putin, somehow calm him down. Temporarily forced the world. And if he, if he dreamed, will not even react too sharply to the threatening new sanctions in connection with the escalation of tension in the Donbass.

Actually, he is still able to, if he wants to slow down the war, and the vacationers-volunteers somehow limit access to Donetsk and Lugansk, but only if he is guaranteed to hold the championship in Russia. If Obama vows that the Russian team at least reaches the final of the world championship, this can benefitly affect the peace process and the implementation of the Minsk agreements by political leaders of independent DPR and the LPR.

What can I say, this scenario, once again proving the insignificance of sports and politics, seems ideal. Three years, devoted to careful preparation for a magnificent spectacle and cut of money, undercuted in the era of Blatter. Three years during which the upcoming football will become the main theme of news reports. Three years relative to peaceful coexistence. Humanity will finally relax and translate the spirit.

What to think is difficult, even unbearable, is that it will happen the day after the completion of the mundial. Regardless of whether the Russian team will become the champion or, God forbid, will lose, like Canadians in hockey on ice. It’s scary to even think about what will happen in a week, a month later, a year later, after a couple of years, because here again both of these Olympiads come to mind - both Berlin and Sochi.

Anschlus as a prologue for a sports holiday. A sporting holiday as a prologue for war. There is some kind of indissoluble connection between these events, and no matter how you feed the invader with victories on ski routes and football fields, he somehow feels hungry. Everything is not enough for him, and such a pattern is still manifested: other people's victories inspire him on personal exploits, and it’s good even if he only goes with the club onto the ice and throws the washers into the empty gates. As a rule, it is not limited to sports.

Therefore, there is nowhere to go and we must, overcoming fear and other unpleasant feelings, to master the successful experience of 1980. Theoretically reflecting that if the West had boycotted Sochi, then Vladimir Vladimirovich would not have climbed into Crimea, who knows. Of course, Putin is stupid than Brezhnev, but just as much as the stagnant Soviet Union was more powerful than Russia's acute stage. True, the indestructible union caused disgust, and current Russia causes a variety of feelings, among which horror and pity prevail, but all this is not directly related to football championship. In addition, three years are considerable, and the hardness in the dialogue with irremovable national leaders has never lengthened their political life. Maybe soon there will be no Putin, and then the football championship will be held in our previously announced deadlines, and this wonderful spectacle will become a real replacement for the war.