2023: “Novak Djokovic has stirred anger after calling for peace”

8 Responses to 2023: “Novak Djokovic has stirred anger after calling for peace”

1. NFA says:

   30 May, 2023 at 11:16 pm

   Bill and Hillary will ‘fix’ it.
2. Petros says:

   31 May, 2023 at 7:02 am

   Putin used that analogy early on in the recent war in the Ukraine. Now what was that saying about the goose and the gander?
3. Entropy says:

   31 May, 2023 at 8:35 am

   Regardless, I don’t think it appropriate for sports professionals to make political commentary.
4. John of Mel says:

   31 May, 2023 at 9:08 am

   Regardless, I don’t think it appropriate for sports professionals to make political commentary.

   That horse has bolted a long time ago.
5. Franx says:

   31 May, 2023 at 9:32 am

   I don’t think it appropriate for sports professionals to make political commentary.

   Difficult.
   Yet playing under a national flag is plainly a political comment and of itself is a universal mark of respect for the idea of nationhood – meaning that it is not the ‘political’ per se which is the problem but the abuse of the political, as when TA in an act of political bias and injustice denied certain players their right to nationhood by replacing the players’ national flags with white flags of surrender,
6. Franx says:

   31 May, 2023 at 9:41 am

   And yes, it is, as CL says.
   And convincingly more so than unauthorised claims about Kosovo’s status.
7. Christine says:

   31 May, 2023 at 10:47 am

   Yes, that horse has well and truly bolted.
   Let Djokovich write his messages.
8. Tel says:

   31 May, 2023 at 6:55 pm

   The Serbs have been through some shit … the regular childish mind tricks only work on people with no sense of perspective.