Latest Updates: (MT) Johnson & Johnson, Decathlon Halt Business in Russia.
“All American companies must leave their market immediately because it is flooded with our blood.” – President Volodymyr Zelensky
“There isn’t a both-sides anymore.” – Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management.
This CBS video is a good introduction to Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his list of U.S. corporations and their relationship to Russia.
Pulling the economic chair out from under Putin will take more than seizing yachts. Although Tucker-flavored propaganda and threats are still convincing to many Russians, fights over empty shelves in grocery stores are cracks in Kremlin control. Although Putin assures them that “we will solve all these problems while working in a calm fashion,” impromptu violence over shortages are warnings of larger-scale revolts which could engulf and distract Putin from his plans for a brutal “self-cleansing.” And the faster he runs out of money for soldiers and guns, the more people might survive in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, in shades of the Holocaust, there are news reports of assassination lists, the forceable deportation of thousands of Ukrainians “refugees” to Russia and according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Putin’s plans to saw Ukraine up into four powerless states: Crimea, New Russia, Little Russia, and West Ukraine.
UPDATE: Anonymous has entered the field, targeting companies that haven’t left Russia yet. Nestle, whose only apparent concession was to stop selling KitKat and Nesquik, has had a data breach of more than 50k business customers.
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