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CommunicationClassic t1_jeapiez wrote

OK so I assume we will also be sanctioning American owned teams for their war crimes and OF COURSE this is not a pseudo racial vendetta against Arab owned teams...

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TekkogsSteve t1_jear7vp wrote

This argument always falls so flat because your comparing private citizens of a country to literal sovereign wealth funds operated by the rulers of a state. The difference in the level of accountability for their respective governments atrocities should be obvious

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Greenrico3 t1_jebf7ph wrote

So by that logic you should also believe that Roman abramovich shouldn't have had to sell Chelsea?

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Greenrico3 t1_jebf6s5 wrote

So by that logic you should also believe that Roman abramovich shouldn't have had to sell Chelsea?

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melancious t1_jec8mkb wrote

He's Putin's lackey. He shares the blame.

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Greenrico3 t1_jed7k3q wrote

He is still not a part of the Russian government. He is as responsible for Russian war crimes as American owners are for america's.

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melancious t1_jedd2dv wrote

Bollocks. He worked as part of the government. He got rich thanks to the government. Football is a sportwashing project for him.

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MasterWaffleZ t1_jeascn3 wrote

Name one team in the PL that the US government owns? I can name a couple teams that are owned by Arab/Middle Eastern governments. The owners of Fulham, Everton, and Villa are partially or fully middle eastern. BUT they're not part of the government so they don't get criticisms of the countries they were born in or represent.

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automatic_shark t1_jebd1es wrote

The owners of Fulham are Middle Eastern? Aren't they owned by the Khan family? Pakistani Americans?

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MasterWaffleZ t1_jebfww4 wrote

Yeah, I guess theres a caveat on what you define as Middle East. Villa’s partial owner, Sawiris, is Egyptian and I guess that’s more North Africa than Middle East, but point still stands in my opinion

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_NotMitetechno_ t1_jeaudxw wrote

The US government doesn't own any teams. Massive difference between state officials/ministers/Royal family/wealth fund people and rich businessman from America.

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