Smart people will see it that way. Smart people try to get their information from many different sources. Smart people in Russia have ways to find information that doesn't come from their own government controlled media. Unfortunately, not all people are smart. Most people are sheep who only follows the herd.
Personally, I'm all for excluding Russia from the world championships. But that's mostly because of my own anger and for my own amusement. But if it's actually going to help more than it harms, I can't say for sure.
that at a time when innocent civilians including children are getting slaughtered, some HFBoards posters keep suggesting that Russia should not be banned from international events because this might perhaps hurt the dumb but tender-hearted Russian people's feelings. That it might somehow offend, annoy or anger them if they're unable to watch their national hockey team games or their crooners at the Eurovision song contest.
