How Russia is creeping back into football 

The fundamental problem with the OFC is that those nations prefer rugby over soccer/football. If there was one thing the 2026 World Cup's 48 team format did right, it was guaranteeing a spot for the OFC. It always felt harsh that New Zealand would cruise through the OFC every time just to get killed by South American teams.

@@shuucuz “in almost every”

Exactly

@@shuucuz keyword was "once"

@@shuucuz now that’s an achievement. I take back every criticism I’ve ever had of Australia, I apologise

No. Europe just needs to surrender half a WC qualification position to the Asian Confederation.

Yes

Rubles are worthless so good luck with that lol

​@@Smooy1111 keep on dreaming buddy

Not really tbh, FIFA never banned Russia in the first place, it's UEFA that banned Russia. Mainly not even the UEFA itself, but more of it's country member. A country joins another confederation because of banned from another confederation was already happened before, Israel was in AFC(Asian Confederation) and they switched to UEFA for the same exact reason.

Not if Trump is president. He would probably put Putin up at Mar a lago and fly him on AF1 to the games.

@@themrwoody1434 brainwashed comment

@@zack3753 how so?

@@zack3753brainwashed reply

will not be happening, best teams from europe would not play and UEFA (with their closest ally now CONMEMBOL) would enjoy using this as leverage against FIFA.

I guess those Brits from TIFO don’t care

Great pfp

i wonder about bribe money, that makes russia and Katar home for FIFA`s championship`s/

I bet he had to spend it all on heavier security, one day it’ll probably catch up to him, these people have long memories.

Think the bribes went to the previous FIFA heads, before Infantino took over. Doubt they kept all the dirty money in the company account

Nah hes goimg to take more if he would allow russia ro seitch federations

Don’t worry he received more bribe money from the US 2026 World Cup bid 😂

I don't see why they would care. They were happy jumping in bed with Asia and I can easily name a handful of Asian countries that aren't exactly squeaky clean.

i doubt they would just refuse to play and lose out on qualifying for future World Cups

@@listey sportwise, they wont care, political wise?i dont know

Australia 😂

​@@pp-vf8lsI was talking politically

Because it’s Israel, they just get everything because of fear of being calling anti-semitic

FIFA was ok with Israel’s apartheid policies and not ok with the invasion of Ukraine so Russia was banned from playing by FIFA and in Israel’s case only their opponent refused to play

The thing is that nobody really in AFC actually wants Russia. Europeans are OK with Israel. Israel isn’t a great team. Russia could take a wc spot away from one of the teams that regularly participates.

Cuba? Still communists to this day

Спорт вне политики (их цитата)

What about Russia killing my people huh? Why are they not suspended earlier?

Most of the russian clubs are funded by government/national corporations/putin's friend's corporations who are under sanctions. It is a right decision imo, however there is definitely hipocrisy, I would also like to see same attitude towards western NT and clubs for the war crimes they also commit/commited

Sending a message to the people of Russia for one, and also that sports are heavily funded by the country in Russia. We can have a discussion about UK/USA later but whataboutism doesn't help that the Russian invasion and war is happening at this very moment and the sanctions and bans are to stop that now... we can't do anything about the past so the whataboutism doesn't help. Imagine how confused in the head you have to be defending a country that is bombing the home town of a singing contestant show with civilians while at the said singing contest majority of European countries are singing about and for love, togetherness and united by music.

​@@dilmuratyunussov8810 how is it the right decision?.. Its pure hypocrisy

Bunch of hypocrite over here wanting to ban russia from everything and US and Nato countries get a pass.

Because they are fifa biggest donators they can get away with those type of things

Because the invasion of Iraq was not as unpopular as the invasion Ukraine. Nobody was refusing to play against the UK or US, whereas the whole of Europe plus an assortment of countries from Asia and the Americas are refusing to play against Russia. The invasion of Iraq is just not comparable to the invasion Ukraine. Even though many in the international community condemned the invasion for a variety of reasons, it did not uproot the international order, it did not cause global economic turmoil and it did not raise the spectre of nuclear war. Nobody believed that the US were gonna annex Iraq or anything or that they would install a puppet dictator. Everyone knew the end result would be a democracy in Iraq, however effective, whereas Russia is simply trying to conquer Ukraine

@@yoloswaggins7121 no i think the answer is that america can do whatever it wants and russia is not allowed to do whatever it wants, its just like when america can invade vietnam and any other country it chooses but when russia invades afghanistan then there is an olympic boycott of 1980 moscow olympics ok so how much does an invasion have to uproot the international order, how much global economic turmoil does it have to produce or how much spectre of nuclear war needs to be raised before you get banned from competition? legitimate question, keep in mind america can explode 2 nuclear bombs on entire civilian population of 2 cities and everybody makes excuses about why its not a war crime

@@yoloswaggins7121 You dont think the iraqi government was handpicked by the americans? Good one. Same with afghanistan. Good. One. It is strange how the americans "support democracy" as long as the people dont elect someone who wants to nationalize the countrys economy. Strange thing that.

Western Geopolitics, baby. Never gets old

Ok tankie.

​@@alhollywood6486 exactly its not like Saudi Arabia has been responsible for one of the worst humanitarian crisis this century, oh wait they are and fifa did nothing when they've been bombing Yemen, or when America invaded Iraq, fifa did nothing

@@alhollywood6486 Russia isn't communist and hasn't been for more than 30 years.

@@belhariry They were never communist. Just authoritarian for like, I dunno, ever? Tankies aren't commies, just Western shitbirds who love authoritarianism.

Geographically in size yes, quite literally everything else no.

By that logic Turkey, Cyprus and Kazachstan and the caucusus countries should be in AFC but they are all in UEFA.

@@davidzolcer4848 Do you wish for Russian football to die entirely? A country of more than a hundred million people left without football is sad. Asian football is struggling as it is, with the lack of investment into Chinese, Indian, Bengali, Indonesian, Vietnamese and countless other leagues taking it's toll on the competitive quality. Asia should be the centre-focus and powerhouse of football in the modern-era by population alone. Bringing in Russia would spice things up. Kazakhstan is only 5% within Europe and Turkey only has Eastern Thrace. It would be logical for them to join the AFC and strengthen it - conflicts aside.

@@ReeseJamPiece. you shoul ask Putin whether he wants Russian football and all sports to die entirely! The current situation is his responsibility!

lmfao

how?

@@jacoblawton6350 Invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. USA literally funds the genocide in Yemen.

@@jacoblawton6350 many islamic countries

Israel, Saudi…

Then you have no morals. I live in Asia and there are many people who care what happens in that war.....

@@MichaelGGarry Hey where were your morals when US and the UK illegally invaded irak in 2003 and then participated in the 2004 world cup? Ah westeners, never change hahaha.

@@MichaelGGarry did u care about people dying in Africa or middle east? for u its just somewhere there... like a movie (ps history of mankind built on war)

@@MichaelGGarry Asien obviously care but not really. I don't know where you live but where I live, the people here generally see it as a distant conflict and want nothing to do with it. So being politically petty and banning everything Russia is not something that they would care.

@@obsida Of course I do, which is why I follow events in those places. But this discussion was about Russia....

Because he isn't wanted by the ICC, but don't let a fact like that get in the way.

Yes Bush and ISrael are just as awful but that doesn't mean Russia should get a free pass. 3 wrongs does not become a right.

@@NostalgiNorden No worries US and west can get away with anything

it just means people are hypocritical and hold double standards

​​@@xcidgaf it's just the Anglo Saxons that think they control everything.

Think you'll find the problem is russia 🤣

Pay infantino and you’ll see that Russia can come back

Exactly!! The World Cup is a FIFA tournament not Asia Cup.

well, at least Russia will get to play in the Asian Cup, which features familiar World Cup teams like Japan, South Korea, Iran, and Australia. The tournament will keep Russia's team competitive, at least.

@@cakexpress6235 Yep, FIFA accepts bribes. But does Russia have the money to pay after all this war.

Exactly

Two wrongs does not make a right. regardless of who has been banned in the past, countries currently invading their neighbours shouldn't be allowed to compete.

​@@Rassalcon So does that mean Ukraine should be banned for shelling their own citizens for 9 years?

@@TubeYou138 Cmon you bots are not even trying these days.

@@glebzaitsev6741 Nah this ain't a bot. Nice NPC response though

Or how they helped Saudi Arabia commit one of the worst humanitarian crisis this century in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemen and they where at the world cup this year

Hardly comparable

Are you serious? 😳

Keep politics out of sports until it’s the politics they support lol

@@BenjaminKeller The US foreign politics is responsible for millions of deaths through its wars, and some of those wars were illegal under international law. So if FIFA and the west wouldnt be hypocritical, then the US would be banned indeed.

The fewest tournaments it didn't got political got the quality lowered.

It was always like this

Yup, now you see pride flags everywhere…

Always has been

The World's Game

because they are the only "good guys" that can do it.

nice english bot

@@qwertyuiop123453993 Who is an English bot?

​@@qwertyuiop123453993 bot calling others bot 😂

@@Anonymous-kd2yy cte

Double standards smh.

That’s western propaganda, “it’s only bad when it doesn’t serve our interests.”

You never talk about Them Boys. These Westerners are a bunch of hypocrites thats all.

Palestine is a terrorist state, lucky we don’t nuke that place.

Israel should be banned from football for invade palestina, but the white folks just ignore that invasion

Vietnam?

@@ayushanjay4983 As a resident of Cambodia, I'm not a big fan of historical grudges. Current genocide, however...

Tbh , the onle us Ally who had done severe warcrimes in Asia is Pakistan , rest all are done by big Sam himself

Yep. Deal with it.

Modern world is run by the " West". They are setting the rules.

Hey, the USA is important for the world, without the USA, how could we have western influence around the world? Also, the USA can't be punished nor hit with sanctions because it's a world power.

They have to

It doesn't matter what money Russia offers. Until they got out of Ukraine they won't be playing in any FIFA competitions.

Were the US or British athletes suspended back in 2003?

only the ones they support

It's not 'politics'. The invasion and war of conquest, especially in Europe is universally seen as something competely unacceptable. So no 'politics' here, just basic morals.

@@MetalGearyaTV there is was in Yemen ...there was war in Iraq as well unrest in Libya....did ever any of this countries that where involved subjected to this strong reactions....morals are universal and shouldn't be subjective

@@blesz04 These are mostly civil wars, this has nothing to do with the war of conquest, border-breaking, and the most unacceptable breach of internationation law in Europe since 1939.

@@MetalGearyaTV I don't know where u get your news.....all this wars are about regime change which sound the same to me

I think we may need to pay attention to how AFC members will lobby for it, in case Russia switched to AFC. Unfortunately, Tifo Football was correct, Asian nations, majority of them being authoritarian, won't hesitate to question FIFA to allow Russia back.

If the AFC accepts Russia into their federation, they would at least be able to participate in the Asian Cup and have their club teams entered their continental competitions. Same with their youth & women teams. That's already a big difference from UEFA, both on a sports and financial level.

They can't because they aren't tied to a Confederation presently

​@@diomuda7903 have you ever questioned the country that travels the globe engaging in wars let sports be sports I'm sure you know the nation involved in the most conflicts globally and they have never been sanctioned from any WC or major sport

​@@876jamaicanyouth You cannot compare the US to Russia. Russia have been in less conflicts in recent decades because they have been in a weak position since the collapse of the Union, but it's pretty clear that they would conquer and annex large swathes of territory if they could

Please explain why Russia is banned from playing football again

@@faiyez have you watched any news at all? If you need me to expalin it then should you be commenting at all?

@@davidzolcer4848 Yeah I've kept up with the news. Again, there's no good reason for Russia to be football specifically.

@@faiyez Would you be willing to say it straight to the faces of Ukrainian footballers?

@@davidzolcer4848 Absolutely. I will tell them any day. Considering that there also footballers who continue to play for Syria, Yemen or Iraq despite the circumstances.

Why does ofc even exist

@@nabster9253 geography

It should merge but will probably never happen sadly

Yeah it's definitely should be merged. OFC are too weak to be standalone association, and I think it could have interesting qualifications like NA where all mediocre team clashing each other first before join the big group. I would like to see Vanuatu vs Bhutan or Solomon vs Nepal.

From 2026 Oceania get a direct qualification spot to the men's world cup, so they're less likely to want to move. But it would be good to see New Zealand playing more regularly against teams like China and Australia.

They would win via forfeit I assume

Nobody will refuse to play them

@@listey Good chance that Australia would refuse to play them given the significant number of sanctions we have against them. Few others would, maybe Japan & South Korea, but the majority of Asia will just turn a blind eye to any negative press they would bring

North Korea were qualified for the 2010 World cup, nobody refused to play them lol

japan will finally win the world cup

Their switch was clearly politically motivated,Kazakhstan are European puppets States anything Russia does they follow suit the same as Turkey which most of its land is in Asia they decided to instead join the UEFA as they are a part of their membership in the European union. Not because the UEFA is competitive 😂😅. Many euros are confused and think Russia would make the World Cup easy in the Asian Confederation is not entirely accurate. Fact is Kazakhstan was never given the opportunity to compete in the European Championship or World Cup qualifiers as they are not seen as traditional European nations. As for Russia they have been banned to compete, in any international competition they've competed in the World Cup before and have Won European Championships so they would be a competitive team no matter what Confederation. Not because they can't compete at the level of European national teams. For euros to think the UEFA or European Confederation in football is much harder is based on old stereotype of European superiority 😅 they can't stand seen an Asian team make it into the world cup like South Korea did in 2002 and the Euros made all kinds of excuses of accusations. Fact is Asia is catching up to the West in team sports. Russian joining the AFC would make it even harder and more competitive. Fyi The weakest football confederation is in Africa and North America and Oceania but nobody mentions this fact lol.

HITC Sevens is also similar. It has listicles, but most videos are about heavier topics in the background of football like politics, history and economics.

It was overdue, ruzzianpig

First it will be a majority vote so it does not matter . The head of AFC is all from the Oil Country . Second, I really doubt South Korea and Japan will do anything. Unlike woke Euro countries, Asian does not care about Ukraine at all .

But there only a minority of Asian countries

They are a minority. Whatever gulf nations want will happen

Me

Its 2 pm here brother.

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If Russia is not allowed to play, why are KSA, Israel, the US, Azerbaijan etc. allowed to do so?!

@@RiwenX Saudi Arabia has the legitimate government of Yemen calling for the intervention. This sounds hypocrite, but since it is Yemeni government's request, Saudi Arabia can join the war with backing. Azerbaijan has bitter tensions with Armenia, but Karabakh, which has predominently Armenian population, is internationally seen as part of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan campaigned that they were fighting for integrity, that means as long as Azerbaijan doesn't attack Armenia, they won't be sanctioned. USA invaded many countries, but the United States never proclaimed attacked nations to be new American colonies. Nor even American map shows Afghanistan or Panama to be American provinces. Russia violated everything. Russia invaded a sovereign country, annexed territories of another nation, and blatantly regarded them to be part of Imperial Russia.

@@diomuda7903 Conveniently left out Israel. Also, the US is literally in Syria to steal their oil. They even bombed the country when on of their mercenaries (sorry, contractor) was killed. The US has destroyed many legitimate governments, stole natural resources and left the countries to ruin. I condemn Russia. However, anyone not condemning the US equally is a f***ing hypocrite.

@@RiwenX Hey uh, I think all of them should be sanctioned too? Idk why you think I wouldn’t lol. Though I will say the key difference is that Russia is invading and annexing another nation’s territory. You could argue that about Israel as well, but Palestine isn’t recognized as a state (despite it deserving to be) by most Western Nations

Athletes have nothing to do with wars and politics. Let them play.

Cope harder, ruzzian Mongol

Would never happen, even in the rare event that FIFA accepts Russia back in, most nations, especially western ones would refuse to play them.

​@@bullereye111 depends. We're 3 years away. Alot can happen

@@blackmantis3130 Doubt it. As long as Putin is still the leader of Russia they’ll probably not platform them. Even post-war. Only way I see it is if Putin is no longer the leader, and we all know that wont happen in the short term.

@@blackmantis3130 Yup, could be Trump's America, and Trump is no friend of the EU nor Ukraine. The US could do a 360 flip, and no longer support Ukraine, Trump would mainly push for peace negotiations.

​​@@bullereye111Anyone who refuses should lose by default. That's what should have happened in the UEFA qualifiers.

These organisation are political, why did Qatar get the world cup, why might Saudi get awarded one, why did Russia have a World Cup and a Champions League final? Why is the forcer president mired in corruption charges? and why is not one standing against the current leaders? Why was Gazprom the sponsor of the Champions League? It's impossible to keep politics out of football when they are run by organisations like FIFA and UEFA. The simple fact is western countries used their political power in the Russia case to get them banned, and no one has the political power to get USA, western Europe etc banned. In the same way no one is banning Saudi for the war in Yemen. You have to mix sport and politics not doing so conceds the space to people who will use it for their own politics like Russia and Qatar did, are doing and will continue to do.

Glad to hear sensible people. Gives me hope for humanity. Got tired of all those brainwashed zombies

To be fair, Afghanistan has always been a hole (ask Russia), Libya exported terrorism, and Syria is a Russian problem not the US. Regardless, “what about” is the argument you use when you know you’re doing something wrong.

@@ThreeRunHomer So murdering 1 Million Iraqi's is ok? US Sports teams got a free pass and that was shameful

@@mickser101 as I said, “what about” is what you say when you know you’re doing something wrong.

Russia won't join AFC. Plain and simple. Japan, South Korea and Australia are the most influential countries in Asia and they will simply block the move.

You're comparing sth that is not even remotely comparable. Iraq was a regional aggressor which waged war against its'neighbors multiple times over the 20th century, Libyan dictator Qaddafi was a sponsor of terrorism, Afghanistan was always as you said a "hellhole" and the US actually had reason to invade it after 9/11, and don't even talk about Syria. Russia bombed Syrian cities to the ground in order to keep its'ally Assad in power. The invasion of Ukraine also was completely unprovoked, Ukraine didn't pose any threat to Russia or neighboring countries.

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Nope, ruzzian Vatnik. Quite the opposite

@@antekovac5644 Should American athletes have been banned after the illegal invasion of Iraq?

And the war is not unfair to Ukrainian footballers who died in combat or died of bombing or had their homes destroyed or whose families and friends died in war?

@@AM2K2 no

@@AM2K2 Yes, they should have been banned from any type of events. Especially because pricks were proudly promoting the invasion on their sport shows.

Sounds cool

@@Ccccc-mi3tr It for sure is!

Israel isn't an occupier U.N. Resolution 181

@@jasperedwards lol typical zionaz, you can recall resolution 181 but you get amnesia when it comes to 446, 452, 465, 471 and 476 which label the Israeli presence in the west bank as occupation ...

@@jasperedwards I always find it hilarious that Israel breaks international law after international law, gets constant criticism from human rights organizations for their never ending abuses but the second their is a resolution in their favour, they treat it like its divine.

@@jasperedwards since you have amnesia, let me remind you of resolutions 446, 452, 465, 466, 471 and 476, they all label your presence in the west bank as occupation., You are occupiers. you are not indigenous to the land, aka colonisers, sorry to burst your bubble.

You just said complete nonsense.

Yes football is not that much popular in asia only few cares about it

​@@Numero6dl no you did

China literally forced Taiwan to call themselves Chinese Taipei so idk what you are talking about.

China's relations with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau are totally different. Don't make it like if China is a saint. It's just China being smarter.

All these clubs u mentioned are connected with bliody money and russian governments, most of russian sportsmen support war and only few stood up for ukraine. I think we xan allow them to play, but they have to say that they against war and outin

​@@Bazovkin i mean it's not that easy, they have family and they won't put their family in danger by against putin

@@bagustriwidiyanto the problem is but making these choce they put whole other country in danger and this is their responsibility, because it was ojay for them to openly suppirt putin before war and vote for him, as they did.

@@Bazovkin then why are newcastle, city, psg allowed to roam free

@@declang21 if u see this as a problem u should talk loudly about this, i talk about what i see as a problem. I don't really like all these dictatorship, as i did nt like Quatar WC. We really should protect world from this gangsters.

Cope harder, ruzzianPig

@@rokhorvat6660 great rebuttal. Really showed him the error of his ways.

@@dan5974 ruzzian Mongols feeling butthurt

Who is England invading currently?

@@nijjijjion204 they were illegally invading two separate countries the last 20 years.

Russians did nothing wrong?..😂😂😂😆😆nope, they just invaded Ukraine, ruzzian 🤡

Since RuSSkys voted their fascist government and still support Putler this punishment of ruSSian antifootballers is more than justified

If they want to play, then they should get rid of Putin.

@@mariotudor6735 многие не поддерживают ,вы не жили здесь вам не понять.

Most Russians support the war so the decision to ban them is absolutely correct.

​@@hueyg206as my opinion is without Putin will made Russian football community in Russia a better place without him or politics no offence.

I don’t recall Israel being the ones with terrorists. What a bozo u are lmao

War isn't politics. You're very confused. No country involved in an aggression against another should be allowed to compete. The decision is correct.

@@ranndino your emotions and feelings are talking. I will be honest with you, with the history between these two countries and NATO, if I was in Russia's place I would have done the same. It's only emotional wrecks like you people who just jump on the bandwagon and want to cancel someone or some country without fully understanding what is going on or what caused it. It's people like you who make living in this world unbearable. It's sad that many African countries know global history more than you people in the west. We were practically forced to study European history, I thought it was useless at one time but now am glad I did. That is the reason as to why very many African states can't cut off Russia, all because we studied the history so that we do not repeat what ever mistakes that caused these wars. Dont be lazy study European history ie How and why NATO was formed, how Russia became Russia and the relationship between NATO and Russia. If you dont want to do that. You better not embarrass yourself next time by commenting here. POLITICS SHOULD NEVER BE IN SPORTS. SPORTS SHOULD UNITED PEOPLE AND COUNTRIES. THATS WHY WE HAVE THE WORLD CUP. IF YOU CUT OFF SOME COUNTRIES BECAUSE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND BASIC HISTORY, THEN YOU ARE USELESS

@@ranndino Btw. NATO aka USA are the aggressors in this one. Not Russia.

​@@ranndino "War isn't politics" Then what is? Honestly answer this: What is politics according to you?

Sports in general is war without blood. That's all. Politics would ever be involves in one factor or another.

Lol the US vassals

@@skp8748 those vassals at least have more powerful economy and military than Russia, at least 😆 Also, better at football.

@@robo.5550 lol keep dreaming.

Not vassals, lapdogs

@@robo.5550 Russia can nuke all 3 of those US cumbuckets out of existence in 30 minutes.

Sanctions are one of the most effective strategies against Putin. One that hurts him the most.

It's not 'politics'. The invasion and war of conquest, especially in Europe, is universally seen as something competely unacceptable. So no 'politics' here, just basic morals.

@@MetalGearyaTV What are you talking about? Politics highly involved in it so as it is involved in everything nowadays

@@younexxxt I said that since the war of conquest is universally seen as something immoral and unacceptable, it's not 'politics' that's involved here. Politics is something that divides people, while morals are universal, and unite us all, right? If somebody could make a clear-cut case for Russia being on the right side, there wouldn't be any need for sanctions. Russia would be allowed to do what it's doing without any reprisals. But most people agree the invasion is a very bad thing. Why, for example, was apartheid South Africa removed from international sports? Is it because of 'politics'? No. It's because almost everyone sees apartheid as something wrong and unacceptable. So the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

@@younexxxt So no, sports are still beyond 'politics'.

@@MetalGearyaTV sports are under politics, it is obvious, how many examples of that we have seen of fifa and uefa saying that sports are out of politics

And the russian football federation’s main funding is from the russian government. They wear the Russian flag and sing the anthem at the start of the game. The ukrainian professional athletes had their homes bombed or their lives taken by that government

Many of those "athletes" are part of the army. They get pension from the Ministry of Defence and have military ranks.

Because USA aren't invading a country currently (At least one that isn't for the reason of stopping terrorism).

​@@nijjijjion204Oh shut up and read some history. U.S gov. have caused destruction and misery like no other globally. Why single out Russia for their War crimes and try to justify the unspeakable crimes of U.S, UK, Israel, Saudi etc. killing millions in the process and ruining several countries? Stop your xenophobic hypocrisy and condemn all crimes against humanity...

​​@@nijjijjion204hey're currently occupying 1/3 of Syria, the oil and wheat fields. They also funded those terries to topple Assad. So your entire statement is false. Don't believe me? Look into operation tymber sycamore

@@Wheres-my-toes-bro Occupying 1/3 of Syria with a few hundred troops there? What you smoking dude.

@@nijjijjion204 You can look this up, it's publicly available information. The president himself said on video, we were successful we secured the oil. This is secured with the help of the kurds and air strikes. There's video of the trucks loading up and stealing the oil. Believe as you wish. You can verify. There's also a video with one Dana Stroul where she says just this. She was a high ranking official, sits on many think tanks.

@Iranian Pride Here is my explanation. Before the UEFA Euro 2024 bid, UEFA confirmed that in order to win the rights to host a tournament, the bidder must follow criteria of human rights, which could be seen as the first step toward making the bidders to become democratic. This was a baby step, but the impact was relevant: Turkey lost the bid to Germany, partly because of the authoritarian regime of Erdogan. Turkey has announced that it want to host European Championship again and has gone consecutively since 2008, but failed all the time. People tend to blame Europe's toxic relations with Muslims, but you forget that the reason is never about Islam, it is about authoritarianism of the Turkish government. We have Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia as Muslim majority members of UEFA and they are still democracies. Georgia, Poland and Ukraine have indigenous Muslims and they are still democracies. However, for the Turks and Kazakhs, the new requirement means diminishing further opportunities to host football events. Their countries are now recognised as authoritarian states, meaning any chance to host European Championships will be severely limited. And UEFA's actions only demonstrates that Europe will go further to enhance the democratic codes, something definitely dictatorships like in Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey will not respect. But to which extent they want to pivot to Asia? This is depending on circumstances. Turkey will host the UEFA Champions League Final in 2023, so the country is unwilling to move away to the AFC. Still, it has repaired ties with autocratic regimes in Asia, such as Pakistan, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Kazakhstan, however, has gone further. The Kazakhs have recently sent players to play in top leagues of China and Western Asia, in addition, Kazakhstan also sent youth teams to play with Central Asian nations and even Russia. Kazakhstan also played the most recent friendly with the UAE in November last year. From what I remembered among Kazakhstani football authorities, they are reconsidering the possibility to move back to AFC if UEFA's code continues to enhance at the disadvantage of Kazakhstan. So yeah, by now, I don't see them going back to AFC, at least for a while. But if Russia joined the AFC, Kazakhstan would be the first to follow. Actually, Kazakhstan is not seen as European, but Asian. Turkey, well, if Erdogan still clinches on with power, Turkey will stray further and further from Europe, will become less likely to be allowed to host football tournaments of UEFA, which may trigger their decision to move to AFC. Erdogan is also quite popular in Kazakhstan here as well, due to Turkey and Kazakhstan share a common ancestry, so I think it may also impact Kazakhstan, too.

Kool, I am supporting expelling Russia and even Kazakhstan from UEFA. Totalitarian nations are not welcomed in UEFA.

​@@luishernandezblonde Every EU member:

human rights is not the reason behind that,, if it would be, they wouldnt go to the USA world cup, they would even ban theirselves

@@ernestorobles8401 As I mentioned in my answer, human rights condition was only a baby step, implemented only following the UEFA Euro 2016 and began to function after Euro 2020. But that also means more and more requirements and UEFA seemingly wants to advance further. By making democratic idea a thing in football organisation, Europe is sending a chilling message to authoritarian members: reform or be rejected. While Turkey basically has modern infrastructures to host the European Football Championship, the country is constantly rejected because of Erdogan's growing abuse of football. He has meddled in Turkish football by cancelling the name of Hakan Sukur, a legend of the Turkish national team. He placed his own family members in charge of the TFF and turned it into an Erdoganist conglomerate of corruption. He turned clubs in Turkey into his business. Such kind of move was never done even by somewhat partial authoritarian nations like Hungary or Poland, nor even Viktor Orban sought to cancel Hungarian legends today like Adam Szalai or Gabor Kiraly. No one in UEFA can accept a member cancelling a legend of its own national team, clubs with political ties or a dictator takeover in such a ruthless way like that, except for Putin, Aliyev or Tokayev. Unsurprisingly, if giving Turkey today the rights to host European Championship, it will be like saying that Erdogan is a legitimate leader, whereas he was elected in a very rigged, Putinist-style election. Disqualifying Russia from both World Cup 2022 and Euro 2024 (Russia may also be banned from World Cup 2026) was seen as an example of how UEFA will act if a dictator uses football for politics. But in Erdogan's mind, this is Turkophobia of UEFA, a justification for Turkey's increasing divorce from Europe. And this is also applied to Kazakhstan nowadays. Kazakhstan is also of the same Turkic branch like Turkey, and many Kazakhs possess a strong pro-Erdogan sentiment. While Kazakhstan's joining the UEFA in 2002 was hailed as a major progress of this Central Asian country, the feeling of their "big brother" Turkey being discriminated is ultimately fuelling Kazakhstan's recent Asian pivot due to the sense of "Turkophobia". The fact that Kazakhstan is UEFA's first member after Belarus to have a national team to play Russia said everything about it. So if Kazakhstan and Turkey were to follow Russia joining AFC, I don't think Europe will miss them.

Lmao Palestinians have a terrorist government just like Russia, this is a real perpetrator

A paryah to the whole free world

@@mariotudor6735 So how did the pnademic went in that free world you name?

As long as the next Arshavin is not invading anyone's land/country

​@@ue7811 so the last one did?))))

nah u need to leave Ukraine alone

​@@ue7811 so not american, russian, israeli, arabian or brit, got it.

@@Arejen03 you heard him guys, let Ukraine be)))

The West are also bad guys (though they like to pretend they're good guys) but Putin arrest warrant relates to the kidnapping of children (something along those lines anyway. You can double-check if you want), which's something the US didn't do in Iraq. There's also a difference in that the US didn't try to take over Iraq & that Iraq had a brutal dictator in charge (of course, in other cases, the US (as well as other Western countries) has enabled brutal dictators). But are there double-standards? Absolutely, and it's true that Western countries can often get away with war crimes that other countries probably couldn't. The silver lining's that these Western countries are democracies, which at least means that voters can effect some political accountability for these actions. There's also usually a (fairly) free press, which makes reporting on the actions of Western governments less opaque.

Cope harder, ruzzian Mongol Vatnik

Russia is flattening entire cities with artillery, has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions. Israel launches small scale retaliatory strikes against HAMAS, a recognised terrorist organisation and de facto government of Gaza. There is no comparison here.

Don't compare Ukraine and Palestine. We , Ukrainians, are not acting like terrorists. Russia has been doing it since 2014.

@@hannahr5037 Lol you have been acting that way since 2014. The only thing Ukraine had to do was to respect the language and traditions of the ethnic russian in the Donbass Region. But your polititians clearly started to say they were not ukranians. Same with the etching hungarians. That was a big mistake

Genocide of Palestinians 😂

We all know the US is terrible but if you can't see the difference between the US and Russia you are clearly blinded.

@Młody PiSowiec Iraq and Afghanistan

Nice trolling attempt, "Edwin".

So edgy

@@universalplayz69420 What would banning those countries stop what happened in the past? You understand the Russian ban is to stop the illegal war and invasion of Ukraine that is happening at this very moment. I hope this sorts out your confusion.

Nope. Only Ruzzia and Turkey have a disgusting imperialist totalitarian past and present

@@matebalota9987 Why did turkiye do to you? If we're talking about disgusting past let's not forget the US, Israel, France and the UK.

People are just done with countries that are led by fascist dictators I think.

Many South American countries should also have been banned in competing as well as Central American countries that were under right-wing dictatorship they have perpetrated human rights violations. African countries as well should be banned for supporting dictatorship in power.

Simplifying things don't get us anywhere.

We can agree that Russia is in the wrong for invading and NATO is wrong for creating the conflict and prolonging it.

American I presume? Your dualistic simple-thinking makes me believe you're a simpleton American. For you there's only black or white, you're as Manichaean as the ancient Parthians in the 3rd century were

It's not a about liking Russia but it's about Hating everybody, every country who invaded another should be accounted for their crimes including the US but because US And UN countries has beef with Russia they're banning them from every sport.

You mistake holding Russia to the same standard as the USA, U.K., Saudi Arabia and Israel as ‘liking Russia’. It isn’t, at all.