Especially since most of their employees are outside the U.S. these days, right?
How does this harm America and Americans?
By lowering the value of software, which is currently a very important industry in the U.S. Why should the Russians buy anything from anyone else here, when IBM is buttering their bread for free?
Whether they are or are not, why is it any of my concern? Or, more to the point, why should it be the concern of America as a whole? Does IBM have the right to hire whomever it chooses?
By lowering the value of software, which is currently a very important industry in the U.S.
Lowering the value of whose software? Their own? You'd like someone (The US Govt?) to stop them from affecting the value of their own products? Or maybe you'd like to stop them from lowering the value of the free products they're sending to Russia?
Why should the Russians buy anything from anyone else here, when IBM is buttering their bread for free?
Again, why should I care? What do you propose I, others, the US Govt do about it?
G.E. -- Is there any real harm, damage or threat that you can point to? All I see from your posts so far is vague, theoretical, future, possible stuff that might be bad for someone, somewhere.
You really need to learn reality and economics.
First, you act like all the software in the country is COTS when a huge, if not the major, proportion is software custom-written for government and business. Most of the developers who answer want ads are not going to work for Microsoft and Adobe, but organizations needing internal software written (or contractors to those organizations).
Second, you seem to believe in the broken-window theory of economics. Find out what it is, then think of COTS software as the baseball.