The Insane Idiocy of the Anti-Russia Bloc

The West are targeting Russian cats. 

Amid the spiralling crisis in Ukraine, a ludicrous news story hit the headlines: Russian cats are being sanctioned. 

The Fédération Internationale Féline, an NGO of cat registries founded in Belgium, announced on Tuesday a ban on Russian-bred cats from their shows, and cat owners who live in Russia are also banned from the organization. 

This is the tip of the iceberg among a burgeoning number of pinheads in Western countries who have joined the so-called anti-Russia bloc and, in the process, illustrate their insane idiocy! 

Cats are merely one target on a very, very long list. FIFA and their European counterpart UEFA decided that all Russian teams shall be suspended from participating in both FIFA and UEFA competitions until further notice. Formula One terminated the Russian Grand Prix's contract. Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from the Beijing Paralympics. The Badminton World Federation banned all athletes and officials representing Russia and Belarus and cancelled all BWF events which should have taken place in the two countries. (Belarus is included in the sanctions because it has been a key staging area for Russian troops). Many other sports like basketball, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, field hockey and skiing similarly imposed sanctions. Additionally, World Taekwondo even revoked the honorary ninth dan black belt conferred to Russia President Vladimir Putin in November 2013. 

Performances of Russian ballets have been cancelled across the UK. University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy decided to remove courses on Fyodor Dostoevsky, a notable Russian author, from their program. Valery Gergiev, a star Russian maestro, was fired as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic. [Note: Gergiev was fired because he refused to denounce Russia, even as the mayor of Munich demanded that he should]. 

It looks like everything and anything can be politicized. And weaponized. This tears asunder the notion that sports, arts, and sciences are apolitical. 

Interestingly, Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times, "It may even be a new type of 'color revolution'". 

Lü noted that to a large extent, the Ukraine-Russia conflict is a warfare of information. 

Western media outlets and excitable politicians have no interest in informing their audience of the caution Russian troops have tried to show and maintain on the civilian population. On the contrary, they desperately exaggerate the war situation to vituperate and vilify the Russian military at every opportunity. According to Lü, this is all choreographed by the West. 

Even Joe Biden's first State of the Union speech, delivered on Wednesday, not a single word was uttered to encourage Ukraine and Russia to come to the negotiating table. Biden (left) was busy blaming and blasting Russia! 

If the West have the balls, they would surely go after Russia. Of course, they dare not exercise the military option but neither are they willing to fix the conundrum through talks. 

Instead, irreverent and irrelevant issues are picked up and used to besmirch, assail and club Russia.