Washington and its Canadian vassal are trying to use a Western media-created Russian athletic doping scandal to ban Russian participation in the Olympic games in Brazil. Washington and Canada are pressuring other countries to get on board with Washington's vendetta against Russia. The vendetta is conducted under the cover of "protecting clean athletics."

You can bet your life that Washington is not motivated by a respect for fairness in sports. Washington is busy at home destroying fairness to the poor, and Washington, which disregards the sovereignty of countries and international law against naked aggression, is busy abroad destroying millions of lives for hegemonic purposes.

We could conclude that Washington wants hegemony in sports just as it does in foreign affairs and wants Russian athletes out of the way so that Americans can win more medals. But this would be to miss the real point of Washington's campaign against Russia. The "doping scandal" is part of Washington's ongoing effort to isolate Russia and to build opposition to Putin inside Russia.

There is a minority known as "Atlanticist Integrationists" inside the Russian government and in the business sector that believes that it is more important for Russia to be integrated into the West than to be sovereign. This minority of Russians is willing to trade off Russian independence for Western acceptance. Essentially they are traitors who Putin tolerates.

With the ban on Russia's participation in the Olympics, Washington is attempting to strengthen this opposition to Putin. Now the opposition can say: "Putin's intransigence has kept Russia out of the Olympics. Putin has isolated Russia. We must cooperate (a euphemism for giving in) with the West or become an outcast."

This is Washington's game. The Olympic ban is directed at undermining Putin among Russians. "He kept us out of the Olympics!"