Rep. Peter King suggested as much on yesterday’s Face the Nation:
“This really is a game changer. That I think is the point that our U.S. and Western allies have to make clear to Putin: that the rules of the game have now changed,” King said. “He’s violated civilized norms and I think that we have to take very severe economic sanctions and also ones that are symbolic.”
He suggested the U.S. and Western allies should consider calling for the cancelation of the 2018 World Cup in Russia and denying landing rights to Aeroflot, the biggest airline in Russia.
Good luck with that. We can’t get the prime minister of the Netherlands to suggest Russia was involved, yet we’re going to mobilize support to cancel the World Cup? And announcing a boycott won’t work because who knows if the United State will even qualify for the 2018 event?
The only way this might work, however, is if the countries were to go after FIFA right now and award Brazil a do-over of sorts and allow them to host the Cup again in 2018. Maybe — just maybe — there’d be enough support from South and Central American countries to get it done.





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