[AnonCoward4]

> E.g., would you not agree that while we can ask McDonalds to stop doing business in Russia, it would be a crime for them to start poisoning their Russian customers?

In the current climate I am not sure anymore that people would disagree with poisoning Russians. Here in Germany they started to purge everything Russian (except people) and also agitating against Russians in general. It feels like we learned nothing from WW2.

From what I've seen there seem to be worldwide movements in that regard, that are even overboard for cold war propaganda.

edit: added "except people"

[z1nc]

I've seen a few people in the media specify that the war's about Putin's aggression, rather than Russian aggression. But I doubt that they're the majority. Russophobia sells better. We've got people vandalizing businesses [1] and sending threats in the US as well. That doesn't help anyone in Ukraine, if that's really their goal. It certainly doesn't affect Russia's economy if a restaurant in another country takes a dive. The point of the sanctions is to hurt Russia's government (and therefore their military). There's a cost to sanctions as well for Russian citizens who have nothing to do with the war, but I've yet to see an alternative solution beyond escalating the conflict.

[1] https://www.axios.com/russian-businesses-us-vandalism-threat...