I started taking off football on December 2, 2010. That was the day it was announced that
Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 World Cup
.
The biggest event in this sport became, for two consecutive editions, a propaganda operation for the greater glory of a tyrant and some satraps.
The resulting outlay quelled any scruples that might arise, for example, when
Russia intervened in the Syrian civil war on the side of the assassin Assad
.
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