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Hmmmm… so it appears that Biden’s sanctions are creating tens of thousands of Russian entrepreneurs while dealing multibillion dollar blows to Western businesses.

So if I’m ever a tourist in Russia and have a hankering for a McDonald’s burger, I’ll head to Uncle Vanya’s.

1 posted on 10/08/2022 10:25:54 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

Fascinatingly stupid reasoning, by the corporations and the Powers That Be.

Sanctions boomerang far worse than ever expected.

Russia couldn’t have economically hurt us worse than we did to ourselves.

On top of that, Russia gets higher prices on the same oil and gas than they got before the sanctions.


2 posted on 10/08/2022 10:35:18 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Biden: don’t buy Russian oil or gas

China, India, any other country not aligned with the US, NATO, Australia: Nah, we’ll but what we want from who we want.

Anyone who made the decision to listen to Biden or listens to Biden or any of his advisors is a bigger moron than CornPop himself. And they deserve anything negative for they brought it on themselves.


3 posted on 10/08/2022 10:36:03 PM PDT by qaz123
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Putin’s meat grinder is causing hundreds of thousands of Russians to flee Russia. That can’t be good for business.


4 posted on 10/08/2022 11:18:36 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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TFIGlobal is an Indian propaganda site known for its lack of credibility. TFI stands for The Frustrated Indian. Businesses in the freer countries are not wanting to fund Russia’s burning, raping and pillaging expeditions. ;D


5 posted on 10/08/2022 11:21:40 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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Go woke, go broke.

6 posted on 10/08/2022 11:24:28 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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The Russians knew this was a possibility and prepared for it over many years. They had a a plan in place for how to deal with our form of economic warfare since what and how we do is a well known playbook.

That said, the damage we’re causing is not as great as we’d wish and likewise the pain we will suffer is far greater than we imagined. It’s questionable who is going to get hurt more (long term), the Germans or the Russians. Wait until winter, and wait until November when opec starts cutting production by 2 million barrels a day (something Russia pushed for)...

We made a gross miscalculation. The Russians are not some miniscule terd we can poke and push around at will.


7 posted on 10/09/2022 12:01:07 AM PDT by Red6
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any company that stays in Russia
will face opposition at several levels


9 posted on 10/09/2022 12:41:34 AM PDT by RockyTx
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All the companies that fled Russia are doing fine

this article is merely more Russian propaganda, designed to stop the sanctions ... which obviously must be working, if Russia is so desperate to stop them!

(gonna be a bleak winter in Russia)


11 posted on 10/09/2022 1:44:41 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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The world desperately needs what Russia can produce.

That is the reality which cannot be erased with propaganda.

McDonalds got the Russians buying their food. They are still buying it, though from a Russian-owned chain that assumed the successful operations stupidly abandoned by a management of idiots.

What is astonishing is the Western world is intentionally destroying itself based on delusional thinking. Many of the world’s leaders are prisoners of theoretical nonsense dangerous to the lives and futures of everyday citizens.

I cannot think of such widespread, self-destructive madness EVER running wild like this before in the history of the world. Who destroys their economic prosperity over academic arguments, grounded in cultural hatred of Russia, feverishly insisted upon by a bunch of power-mad, Western fools?


23 posted on 10/09/2022 3:47:26 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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Companies also lost when Nazi Germany declared war on Poland.

Uncle Vanyas has a problem getting potatoes


24 posted on 10/09/2022 3:49:52 AM PDT by Cronos
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The sanctions have always been a joke.

Intentionally.


28 posted on 10/09/2022 4:14:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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"As a result of closed businesses, Russians started establishing their own alternative business chains. For instance, when McDonald’s chose to stop operating in Russia, the Russians opened Uncle Vanya’s as a McDonald’s replacement."

This was my first thought when I first heard that western corps were pulling out of Russia. Russia hardly even felt it, and quickly became economically stronger.

30 posted on 10/09/2022 5:17:06 AM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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The world’s best-performing currency at the moment is the Russian ruble, which has mostly recovered from its losses. The Ruble has returned to its pre-war levels, but the dollar is under the weather.

If anyone actually believes this nonsense, convert all your US dollars to rubles for the long term.

https://www.travelex.com.au/buy-currency/rub-russian-ruble

32 posted on 10/09/2022 5:38:08 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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So if I’m ever a tourist in Russia and have a hankering for a McDonald’s burger, I’ll head to Uncle Vanya’s.

Good luck with that.

"Customers visiting the rebranded Russian McDonald's are posting pictures showing moldy buns and expired sauce for fries"

https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-share-photos-telegram-moldy-buns-expired-sauce-rebranded-mcdonalds-2022-7

33 posted on 10/09/2022 5:50:21 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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