Geopolitics
The Fortress World Cup: How Western Gatekeeping and Greed Killed the Football Festival
The FIFA World Cup in the U.S. is failing to deliver its promised tourism boom due to exorbitant costs, visa barriers, and logistical complexities, resulting in slashed hotel revenue forecasts and muted fan excitement. This predictable failure of a neo-colonial sports-industrial complex reveals how corporate greed and exclusionary Western systems sacrifice global human connection for profit.
