IBM has been doing business in Russia since
1972
According to IBM's website:
"Russia is in northern Eurasia and is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia also is the ninth most populous nation with 143 million people. IBM has been in Russia since 1972. It has offices in several cities, including Moscow, which is the capital and largest city. CSC deployed in Russia in 2010. Locations have included Kazan, Sochi and Rostov. Projects have included working with the University of Kazan on a long-term strategy for developing a social and educational network of the university."
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/wwa_russia.html
The "Cold War" was a fake.
US and other Western international companies happily did business with the "evil empire" all during the "Cold War".
The press in both Russia and the US, of course, dutifully did its part to hide the fact from the public of both countries so they could continually be frightened and angered into supporting the "Cold War" mentality that enabled massive government spending on both militaries.
We're still at it. Russia is still portrayed by conservative operatives and the unwitting rank-and-file as some boogie man that is out to make war on the US.
People don't understand basic accounting and the tax implications of being a vendor to the government. If the tax system has tax credits (like GE and other companies routinely use to reduce their tax due to little to nothing), then large government vendors, whose net after-tax profits come largely from high-margin sales to the government, can reach a point where the net after-tax profits from the government sales alone is more than what they pay in tax to the government.
Once that point is reached, they are, in effect, taxing the people to pay for their operations, using the government as an intermediary for collection services.
NGOs, of course, are definitely in that category, as they are tax-exempt so they pay nothing in. Social services and healthcare payments are generally also in the same position as well. Much of our tax dollar goes to private sector business operations which receive more tax money from the government than they pay to the government.
Sheeple just don't get it. They can't do the math, and/or don't want to think about it.
The "Cold War" was a fake. US and other Western international companies happily did business with the "evil empire" all during the "Cold War". By analogy, World War II was a fake, because American companies were doing business on December 7th, 1941, with the Nazi Germans.
In fact, at the moment bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, a German tanker was lying alongside an American-flagged tanker owned by The Texas Company [Texaco] in a Swedish seaport (Malmo), taking on Gulf Coast crude.
This n/w/s that the chairman and chief executive of Texaco at the time was a Norwegian former tanker captain who'd risen through the company's tankering ranks to leadership of the company.