[ejb999]

>>My issue is how do we respond to businesses who are clearly exploiting the crisis for monetary gain?

Yep, and not only that, what I see in those pictures are many young, military age healthy males that are hiding out in 'safe places' while other men and women are literally putting their lives at stake to save the country and the lives of the residents - while this group is pimping their business. Doesn't feel right to me.

[trhway]

Putting those young healthy males without significant training and enough effective military hardware right into the trenches being shelled/bombed would be a typical Russian approach which produces a lot of dead and wounded without any positive result. As it has become obvious over the last 3 months Ukraine had learnt to fight differently, smarter.

>while this group is pimping their business.

From the macro scale POV, the large wars are won by economies. USSR and USA won over Germany and Japan by running larger economies (USSR starting 1942/43).

One of the significant part of the war being waged by Russia is to decimate Ukrainian economy. These guys are successfully fighting it back. Them continuing to exist and even thrive and grow is one more piece of war lost by Russia. It is a long game/war. It is very possible that the conflict would go into ceasefire smoldering mode for years during which the survival of Ukraine as independent nation would be decided not by occasional artillery exchanges across ceasefire lines, it will be decided by whose economy would continue to develop successfully.

>hiding out in 'safe places'

They aren't hiding from the draft. Most of them could easily be reached and drafted by army when/if needed. Ukraine drafting offices are overwhelmed with people ready to sign up.

[ejb999]

>>They aren't hiding from the draft.

Yes, they are...pimping their business while other older and less physically capable people are dying for them.

[ejb999]

>>Ukraine drafting offices are overwhelmed with people ready to sign up.

Yes, except these 'men' apparently.

[akomtu]

Perhaps you could arrange a conference with them and give give a master class on how to get out of the comfort zone and become the real men? You could share your experience, give a few useful tips on survival in warzones, teach them a lesson on managing emotions under pressure and have a Q&A session. I suggest to upload the recording to youtube, so we could learn too.