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Re:MasterCard suspends all services in Russia by cm2187 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:55PM (#30573302)
But imagine the disruption for ordinary citizens. Like you won't be able to renew your domain names, or pay for office 365/gsuite/aws/azure. Companies who didn't migrate to the cloud won't look so stupid.

Stephen Kotkin warned in a recent interview that the russians have their own way they can wreck havoc in our economies, like cutting undersea cables. And I also wonder if at one point the loss of revenues from cutting gas to europe will be worth given the economic impact it will inflict on the west (power cuts/lack of heating all over europe, price of gas sky-rocketting, etc).

Re:MasterCard suspends all services in Russia by laurent92 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:35PM (#30573629)
Note that cutting the gas aligns with what the West citizen broadly want: Being forced faster than later to get rid of fossil energy. EU leaders certainly didn’t aim to secure the gas supply, they put all their might into sanctioning Russia “even if it costs the gas supply”.

At this point I’m wondering whether Russia knows it and wants to impose any sanction except cutting the gas.

Re:MasterCard suspends all services in Russia by native_samples on Sunday March 06, 2022 @05:38AM (#30576536)
Western citizens to not broadly want that at all. They may say they do not that's conditional on a lot of unstated assumptions, like it not causing electricity to become unaffordable or entirely unavailable. Both of which would be likely consequences of an energy was with Russia. The moment that happens, people sitting in the cold will suddenly remember that Ukraine is a foreign country and they aren't actually at war.
Re:MasterCard suspends all services in Russia by Torifyme12 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:53PM (#30573786)
If Russia cuts the undersea cables that's going to be even worse for them.