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.
What you said in the middle about old and new paradigms reminds me of this lecture by John Mearsheimer. He predicted exactly what would happen and nobody listened.
Also if I can ridiculously simplify the contrast between the two sides, to me it feels like masculine vs. feminine culture.
A man will warn you when you're crossing the line, and if the threats don't work it's understood he will escalate to physical violence. The social hierarchy is determined by who gets their nose bloodied. Physical deterrence. When you make peace, the man will call off the conflict. This leads to the old American revolutionary doctrine of "Enemies in wartime, in peace friends."
A woman, on the other hand, will utterly destroy you. Any line of acceptable behavior that exists can be moved at any moment based on her feelings, and she isn't beholden to those rules of engagement. She'll insult, belittle, and shame you. She'll cry and deflect responsibility for anything she's done. If you try to talk about it she'll say you're making it about you. She'll gaslight you, while insulting and lying about you behind your back. She'll slowly poison you. If you notice what's going on and try to fight back she will scream abuse or use her social network of backstabbers to turn you into a pariah. Nobody will ever respect you again when she's done with you. You'll wish you were dead. Even when you admit you were wrong and accept her dominance, she'll NEVER let you forget it.
Or if you finally snap and slap some sense into the woman, HOW DARE YOU HIT A WOMAN! She never laid a finger on you! What kind of man are you? She's a helpless victim and you're an aggressor using physical violence. How primitive. Go straight to jail, do not collect $200.
Sorry I went MGTOW for a moment there. What were we talking about again? Oh, yeah fuck Putler!
That's not a bad analogy either. There's tons of different layers to the conflict from trade to diplomacy to legitimacy to identity etc.. Not all of it paints Russia in a good light, and like all things IRL there's tons of nuance.
Meanwhile the common understanding is that obviously Putin just woke up one morning and decided to be Hitler for no reason! /s
In a way I kind of envy the Ukranians. Their enemy is out in the open and they can engage them directly in the most sensible way possible. The rest of us on the other hand are stuck in some sort of psychological panopticon where there's no clear means of fighting off our enemies.
LOL.