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Re:The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia by Ansil849 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:33PM (#30607388)
Isn't the aim of sanctions to hurt Russians? Stopping the sale of poisonous American foods and drink would seemingly only benefit them. If the idea was to actually to adversely impact Russians, Coca-Cola would give out free sodas, McdDonald's would give out free burgers to them, etc...
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Re:The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia by gtirloni on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:54PM (#30608446)
This is not Reddit.
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Re:The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia by giantg2 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:45PM (#30607549)
They would probably have to give out burgers for free the way the ruble has collapsed.
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Re:The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia by aeyes on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:55PM (#30608464)
I might eat my own words in a month but currently the Ruble doesn't look very "collapsed" to me. FX rate rose from 75 to 130 which is still less than what happened after the 2014 sanctions when it went from 35 to 70 and Russia didn't collapse due to this.
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Re:The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia by kubav on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:14PM (#30609275)
This time their foreign currency reserves are frozen in banks around the world. They will have to carry gold to China.
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Re:The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia by mcphage on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:40PM (#30607495)
> Isn't the aim of sanctions to hurt Russians?

I think the aim of sanctions is to make Russians unhappy, more than to hurt them. If they're hurt by the sanctions but not bothered by them, it accomplishes nothing.

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Re:The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia by pvaldes on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:51PM (#30633692)
> Isn't the aim of sanctions to hurt Russians?

All Russians working in McDonalds or Coca Cola are probably not much pleased now.

And Kool Aid seems to be really popular in Russia currently.

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