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7 thoughts on “Companies confront tough choices in Russia, Ukraine

    1. It’s not that easy when you a) have staff in Russia (though Accenture seemed to strike the right balance of closing offices, while implicitly from their quote providing ongoing/termination pay), but especially b) provide life-essential goods/services like Lilly.

    2. I agree Leslie J. Either you support the murder of innocent civilians or you don’t.

  1. The greatest threat and harm to those in both Russia and Ukraine is a power hungry communist dictator. The moral high ground is clear. Sever all business relations in and with Russia immediately. Support your employees there as best possible while doing so. The economic sanctions will only deliver results if the citizens of Russia are subjected to as much pain as possible. Including cessation of medicine and medical products. This will cause citizens in Russia to throw Putin out of power. A civil war is needed in Russia to prevent nuclear war world wide.

  2. When it comes to witholding life saving drugs from innocent civilians, how is that different than bombing apartment buildings? Are the innocent people of Ukraine turning on Zelenski because of the death and suffering Putin is inflicting upon them? That is exactly what Putin was thinking. How’s that going for him? We are (should be) so much better than that. Inflicting economic pain on a population to encourage change is much different than inflicting physical pain.

  3. The civilians are not innocent. Their reticence to fight for leadership that has minimal decency and respect for human rights makes them complicit in the crimes against humanity being inflicted in Ukraine. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. I realize this is difficult for many to comprehend in our current age of the “victim mentality”, but it does not change the reality of supporting a criminal dictator.

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