You know you jumped the shark when Ovie is getting death threats because of Putin's war

The Washington Capitals now provide a security detail for Alex Ovechkin, one of the greatest NHL stars of all time. 

Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia. Ten days ago he ordered his military into another sovereign nation, considered an act of war. Putin should be held accountable.

What does that have to do with hockey players, opera singers, symphony conductors, F-1 drivers, or disabled kids at the para-Olympics?

Does anybody imagine Putin consults Ovie on matters of Russia's foreign policy?

Our hypocrisy stinks.

When have we ever held baseball players from Cuba or Venezuela to account for Castro or Maduro? Or elite Chinese classical musicians for the human rights abuses of the Chinese government?

In 2015, Saudi Arabia launched a war on Yemen, with the full connivance of the nations now condemning “Russian aggression.” It is a war that continues to this day, with estimated civilian casualties north of 300,000.

In 2018, Saudi government operatives murdered and dismembered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. UK/USA support for the illegal war on Yemen didn’t skip a beat.

Three years later the Saudi’s were allowed to buy a football club in England’s Premier League.

Most disturbing, this unhinged anti-Russia hate is actively promoted by our media overlords.

Cathal Kelly uses his bully pulpit at the Globe & Mail to demand Russian NHLer’s “pick a side.”

Facebook lets the fascist Azov Battalion out of their hate-group ban.

Why? 

Certainly not to lower the temperature.

Putin should be held accountable.

Beyond that, we in the collective “West,” who long ago squandered any claim we may once have had on the moral high ground, should be ashamed of the hate campaign we are waging on Russians.