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Levi_MS OP t1_j5vs0mc wrote

Field field hockey is quite popular in Western Europe (e.g. Belgium, Netherlands, Germany), USA, Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), but also in South Asia with their large populations Pakistan (population: 231 million) and India (population: 1.4 billion).

Even if the popularity in India (8x gold, 1x silver Olympics from 1928-1980 and last bronze 2020) and Pakistan (3x gold, 3x silver 1960-1984) decreased due to lack of successes in the last 30 years, it is still after cricket a popular national sport in these countries.

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However, field field hockey is clearly behind ice hockey in terms of TV viewership.

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trisul-108 t1_j5vr6dt wrote

Exactly, we shall see.

I suspect you were also telling Europeans 6 months back how we will all freeze when Russia shuts off our gas. It turned out to be just another bit of GRU propaganda.

We will see how $1.3tn GDP Russia will fare against the $55tn economy of the West that it wants to destroy. The West has a stronger economy, finances, military, diplomacy, social cohesion, education, media ... any aspect you can name. Russia only has parity in nuclear weapons which it cannot use because of MAD. But, we'll see.

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