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title: "There is something profoundly absurd about a nation hosting international…"
date: 2026-06-21T16:09:33.597Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
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# There is something profoundly absurd about a nation hosting international…

There is something profoundly absurd about a nation hosting international sporting events while simultaneously making itself hostile to large parts of the international community.

The United States is managing to transform a celebration of global competition, exchange, and human connection into a demonstration of exclusion, suspicion, and discrimination. It is a fitting reflection of the political degeneration, institutional decay, and cultural rot embodied by the current regime.