They can ask but will they get caught in the net of 'muh Russia bad!'. Seen too many ordinary people of Russian decent getting denigrated for not openly proclaiming how much Putin is like Hitler and that the war is a genocide.
Western leaders are so corrupt and rotten that they think that by, say, banning Russian paraplegic athletes from competitions, they're making Russians hate Putin, rather than their useless asses.
They can ask but will they get caught in the net of 'muh Russia bad!'. Seen too many ordinary people of Russian decent getting denigrated for not openly proclaiming how much Putin is like Hitler and that the war is a genocide.
Western leaders are so corrupt and rotten that they think that by, say, banning Russian paraplegic athletes from competitions, they're making Russians hate Putin, rather than their useless asses.