https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/04/russian-tech-giant-yandex-says-might-default-a76752
Yandex are apparently banned from NYSE. There are countless other articles like this one on countless other sites, about countless other companies.
Beyond the stupidity of giving Russia nothing to lose, is ANYONE considering the fallout this, at all? Like how Trudeau inadvertently triggered a run on the banks when he froze truckers' assets, How do we think asian corporations are going to respond to the knowledge that, should their country sufficiently piss off the west's ruling corpocracy, they will get fucked over in ANY and ALL business they have with the west?
This is madness. There isn't a rational thought in anyone's head at this point. The west is destroying international faith in its economic infrastructure.
It's suicide.
It occurred to me recently that all the old warnings about overpopulation-related dystopias - and non-fiction warnings as well - from the 60s to about the 80s started at roughly Population Eight Billion. (The pooh-bears started pushing it up to 10-15 billion after we hit Pop 5B, then started telling us to stop worrying about it because humans r magic.)
Anyway, the general message was, don't let population get that high, or you'll just be BEGGING for authoritarian/apocalyptic nightmares (and shit, the fiction ones assumed cultural and racial homogeneity!)
In his latest "diversity is our strength" (and it's a quote too) message from Putin, he just said, "I'm a Jew" (lmao).
Also said he's a Chechen, a Tatar, etc. Because apparently being a Russian means always being all that at once, according to the message. (Not mentioned: Ukrainians.)
When I first came across it a few years ago, I considered it to be the sum of my childhood nightmares.