Some believe that sports should be practiced away from international political tensions. Others believe that it is permissible to use sports demonstrations to show political positions.
The World Cup is a global occasion and is subject to global changes. Qatar itself, the host country, has problems with some of the participating countries. It has not been recorded in history that a war was stopped by football.
Is war really just politics? I feel like the moment you start murdering people in cold blood like the Russians are doing it becomes a problem of international law and not just politics. Politics should be bloodless. When there's a border dispute and countries are showing off it's politics, but when you start burying people in mass graves it becomes much larger and every tool in your arsenal should be used to prevent that, including sports.
Following the same logic, we should enmity the people of any country that is colonized by another. Politics has never been a true expression of the will of the people, as evidenced by the fact that many Russians reject the war on Ukraine, and this was proven during the call-up of reservists, many of whom fled to neighboring countries, and others were sued for refusing to join the service in the war.
If any party is to be punished in this way, then it would be better for Iran to be deprived of joining the global patrols against the backdrop of its nuclear project, against which the whole world stands. America, too, could have been punished in the same way during its war on Iraq.
That we deal with Russian players or Russian citizens who do not have a political identity does not mean that we are supportive of Russia's war on Ukraine or that we are negligent with Ukraine.
Wars in the world will not end, and sporting events must be neutralized from all forms of conflict.