I agree. I get we want to punch back at Putin, but this isn't they way to do it. Shutting down Netflix, Starbucks, whatever else, it's only going to make the Russian population more miserable, and the vast majority of them haven't done anything to deserve it. They're already living under a miserable leader. Punishing civilians isn't going to do anything beneficial.

Sanctions suck. They are a nightmare. It’s on purpose. If everyone just got on with their lives because they were an exception (like oligarchs) it wouldn’t do anything. We if we had side channels to help these people, god-forgive me for a Kup Fund joke but honestly something like that. But with financial channels like Apple Pay, Venmo, all being wiped out. It’s horrific, and I hate it. It’s meant to bring a call for humanity to the one person(inner circle) doing this so he pulls back to restore order. And see how much he’s hurting his people and the world. No one wanted this, it’s been nothing but chaos. But it will get worse. Find a legit backend to help those in need, and I’m not sure how. Ukrainians, Russians, the world, all lose. People in the US or Canada pissed about gas prices should be lucky they have gas.

Exactly lol

because it’s their responsibility to remove putin. russia is a drmocracy, they have him as a president. for the past 20 years they’ve turned a blind eye to his egotistical leadership. it is not the russian people’s fault that this is happening, but it is their responsibility to remove him as they are living in a democracy. acts like these are ways to influence them to action. again, want to be clear this war is no one’s fault but putin’s. however, the russian people have avenues to remove him which they should be using

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I agree. So the only recourse we have right now is financial recourse.
What do you propose? Standing around and doing nothing? Sending troops ?

im saying?? by this logic all US & Canadian partners should be nuked to hell for what we’ve done to the Middle East

Don’t the citizens always pay for the govts war? Do govts even exist without the people?
No. 100% of govts money comes from citizens.
Further if you don’t want to go fight on Ukraine the only other option is to cut off Russia financially.
Lastly; it is the responsibility of the citizens to overturn their own govt if they are in a situation like this.

They don't have any stores in Ukraine but 130 stores in Russia (2000+ partners) and all the profits from the Russian stores are going to go to Ukraine

There is 130 licensed stores in Russia

What does that have to do with anything that’s being talked about here?

That’s a straw man fallacy. Two things can happen in the world and not be connected. I sneezed today and there was an earthquake in another part of the world. My sneeze did not cause that earthquake.