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by rmnc 1571 days ago
This is a nice sentiment, but in the meantime, we're getting F'd for the actions we tried to stop. We failed, but we did the best we could, without resorting to violence.

I agree, this is not enough. But this is by no means an excuse to cancel an entire nation.
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jacquesm 1571 days ago
Agreed, but it beats having your country invaded, your cities shelled and starved. That's what is in the balance, compared to that you have a luxury situation.
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rmnc 1571 days ago
That's the point. I'm not the one shelling another one's country, even so -- I'm doing everything in my power to prevent it. Instead, commercial service decides to capitalize their PR value on it, and decides to cause even more harm than already have been caused.

This cannot be justified.

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jacquesm 1571 days ago
No, this is not about PR, this is about their employees. This isn't a press release, it was a message to a customer.

What bugs me is that they did not make a distinction between private individuals and corporations, if I were in their position I would have let the private individuals go, they are Russians, not Russia.

Even so: every Russian citizen and every Russian company that is currently relying on businesses in the West such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and so on should expect those services to be cut off at some point in the near future.

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