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.
I guess you could start with this wiki article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine and keep forefront in your mind that it’s Wikipedia and they hate Putin so there is a biased spin. The main section to look at History down in the post soviet era sections.
Here is some statistical analysis on casualties since 2014 https://www.crisisgroup.org/content/conflict-ukraines-donbas-visual-explainer
The above is one of the big things Putin is leaning on in his justification of entering Ukraine. The tl:dr version is that there are areas of eastern Ukraine inhabited largely by Ukrainians that consider themselves ethnically Russian. This has been the case for hundreds of years and predates even the soviet union. However it’s become a major problem since Crimea decided it wanted to join the Russian federation (2015 I think that was?). Some see the shelling of the Donbas region by the Ukrainian military to be a kind of retaliation - the official line is that they’re fighting russian separatists but they don’t seem to have any problems with bombing schools, hospitals, apartment buildings all in the name of fighting the russians.
Let me know if this helps. A lot of shit is getting scrubbed off the internet this past week or so now that normies are actually starting to dig into this.
That’s fair. For me I guess it takes some reading between the lines of the official reporting. We can find information regarding the number of combatant casualties easily. Where it gets genocide-y for me is the fact that the Ukrainian forces have zero issues with attacking civilian targets that contain Ukrainian citizens. Why are they okay with that? That doesn’t seem like normal collateral damage to me at all. That seems like a fake-oopsie that allows them to murder their own citizenry for the crime of possibly being ethnically russian or even living in the same vicinity as them. But then painting it as a necessary evil to fight muh russianz. It’s hard af to pin down exactly how many civilians have been killed because of course Ukraine is not going to own up to that and it’s hard to know if Russian ststements on the matter are accurate.
If I’ve got this wrong I will love to hear your take as I am obviously American and not living over there to know in person what’s been taking place. I’m very curious to hear what people of the region think, either side of the conflict.