Personally it made little difference to me at this point, but I was slightly rooting for Spain myself. Though honestly I think this entire competition was clearly rigged in favor of certain countries picked out by the US. The treatment of Iran along with other Muslim and global south countries was atrocious. The only exception seemingly being Argentina, who clearly received ref and VAR calls in their favor, while their opponents were not given the same calls.

Regardless of the actual position Argentina fills in global class relations, I think it’s fair to say that Milei and the US want to portray them as White European imperialists (even though they are very obviously a global south country). It is my opinion that this attempt to align Argentina’s image with US imperialism, being carried out by the Argentine and US bourgeoisie, is a core reason why the US influenced FIFA to favor them.

Essentially what I’m trying to say is that the winner of this tournament was rigged from the start. Not for the sake of any individual country to win, but for the US to present an image to the world.

“The winner of the world cup is opposed to the Global South.”

It was rigged to make sure that whoever won, whether it be a colonizer (even one who feigns support for Palestine) or a colonized country (one whose leadership is in lockstep with imperialism and zionism), it would not appear to be a victory for the Global Majority against their oppressors.

I think it’s something to be Saud that the 3 Global South countries that got the farthest, were all countries whose current regime’s was in devout support of US imperialism.

• Argentina 🇦🇷

• Morocco 🇲🇦

• Egypt 🇪🇬

It could also be read in descending order who supports the zionist entity the most vocally on the world stage.

Hopefully my long winded rant appears coherent and not like something I cooked up to justify not supporting Argentina. Genuinely, my own slight support for Spain in this game was more so due to performing how their team has played on the tournament.

I came to these conclusions some time around when Egypt was defeated, and I noticed a pattern of clearly biased calls throughout the other gsmes, as well as how the bracket narrowed. I think, it solidified for me once I recognized how Morocco was the last Muslim/African country to fall, and how it seemed quite convenient knowing the Moroccon Kingdom’s constant support of zionism.

That’s the end of my much too long semi-conspircy, semi-cultural analysis.