[PieterCasparzen]

Putin has a lot of accomplices who are financing this.

They all do business inside Russia - the evil empire !

Call them up and tell them to pull out of Russia.

32 Advisors LLC Abbott Laboratories AbbVie Aerolase Corporation Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Alcoa Alfa Bank Alliance Logistics Almaz Capital Partners American Chamber of Commerce in Russia American Councils for International Education American International Group (AIG) American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation American Superconductor Corp Amgen, Inc. APCO Worldwide Apple, Inc. Argus Limited Association of Equipment Manufacturers Association of Regional Banks of Russia Atlantic Ro-Ro Carriers, Inc. Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) Aviahelp Group, JSC Avon Products, Inc. BNSF Logistics BNY Mellon BP America Inc. Baker & McKenzie Baker Botts L.L.P. Baker Hughes B.V. Bank of America Baring Vostok Capital Partners Baxter BayRu LLC Bentley Systems Berry Moorman P.C. Black & Veatch Corporation The Boeing Company BoKom International Consulting Boston Scientific Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC CRDF Global Cameron Capital Legal Services International LLC Capital Research and Management Company Cargill, Incorporated Case New Holland Caterpillar Inc. CDNetworks Celgene Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Center for Entrepreneurship ChemDiv, Inc. Chevron Corporation Chrysler Group LLC Cisco Systems, Inc. Citi CLAAS North America Holdings Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP The Coca-Cola Company ConocoPhillips Council for U.S.-Russia Relations Cummins Inc. DHL Express Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Dechert LLP Deere & Company Deloitte Dentons EMC Corporation Eagle Consulting International

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[Monmouth78]

Ford, Pepsico, Exxon and Alcoa don’t want heavy sanctions. I suspect they have some pull.

[Monmouth78]

BTW, my guess is that Russia would be very slow to confiscate property from Western companies. Even the appearance that they might do that could cause flight. More likely they would enlist them in a little regime change action at home; that a flood of corporate cash would inundate if some big bang up with Russia was bad for bidness. Bidness has some pull in American politics.

That’s why most of us laugh at the neocon hysteria over this nonsense. It’s very unlikely that even a hardcore neocon devote like Romney or even McCain would really do anything. If they did, they would get their wings clipped real quick by their paymasters.