Hitting Putin where it hurts the most – below his judo belt. ”Sally Jenkins, There is nothing trivial about wiping Vladimir Putin's musky perspiration's from the international sports stage. Sanctions against Putin in the sphere of games have a reach unlike any other because they leave him sweatingly exposed to the only audience he really fears or courts: the Russians in the street. His brand of shirtless belligerent patriotism - his macho nationalism - has been a long con, and it's no small thing to knock him off medal podiums and expose the lifts in his shoes, or to rip off his judo belt and show the softening of his belly and, in turn, weaken his influence.”
"Declarations like FIFA's will penetrate his total control of the media and cause Russians to look more closely at him. There is no propagandizing this playing field ostracism, no explaining away the sports world's recoil from him. "Most ordinary Russians have a very limited and distorted picture of what's happening in Ukraine," Kasparov says. "But things like FIFA banning Russia will make them look around." Banking sanctions are one kind of check, but there is deep emotion in a ban from the world's largest arenas that will reach not just oligarchs but ordinary people as a statement of universally revolted sensibilities. It takes a special rage to refuse to play with someone at all. "Sport organizations are absolutely important as a form of isolation," Kasparov says, "to show Putin and the people who support him that there are consequences for his actions, that he cannot define the battlefield." [yahoo.com]
Just read something about Ukraine offering money and a new life in Ukraine if they quit fighting. Since many are conscripted this may be a really good plan.
I'm assuming it's being offered to the Russians. When this war ends and if the Ukrainian's come on top I wonder how many Russians will defect.
@JackPedigo Yeah, to the Russian soldiers, asylum and money if they want to drop their weapons or maybe fight for Ukraine. putin will not give up and that is a big problem.
@silverotter11 Putin may think he's god (or satan) but he's not. Dictators like him are often taken out when they get too extreme.