Forget ‘sportswashing’: Qatar 2022 is about military might and hard sports power

"It feels like stating the obvious, but sometimes the obvious has to be stated. What this World Cup is really about is security. Not trying to be liked, or putting on a face for concerned liberals in economically challenged corners of western Europe.

Qatar doesn’t need to be liked, or to diversify into packaged golfing holidays. Qatar has 200 years of natural gas. Absurdly rich and absurdly small, Qatar wants to be visible on the map. This is not sportswashing. This is Hard Sports Power. And in the end we in the west are simply bystanders, suppliers, accessories."

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Forget ‘sportswashing’: Qatar 2022 is about military might and hard sports power | World Cup 2022 | The Guardian