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Russian people: (Much like in every country) "Oh no, we wont be able to buy s*itty industrial hamburgers anymore." I would be happy if mcD would pulled out of my counry.
Something that has been bugging me for some time (genuine question, please forgive me lack of geopolitics/economy understanding) is this: Supposing we want to hurt Russian economy - how are we hurting it by stopping selling them licenses/branding/machines to make and sell burgers and fries? Are we not ripping them off money if we sell to them? As in: we gain, they lose? I understand we don't want to sell advanced tec…
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Apple products can be brought from overseas with McDonalds they would just make a clone which uses same formulas and suppliers
It's about removing sanction: denying the Russians - particularly the urban Russians - their veneer of civilization, affluence, westernization. The notion that they had accomplished something material positive in regards to moving forward in the world among nations after the Soviet collapse. Sure they can clone brands, and sometimes they can clone products and services, you can also go to Walmart and buy Great Value…
Something that has been bugging me for some time (genuine question, please forgive me lack of geopolitics/economy understanding) is this: Supposing we want to hurt Russian economy - how are we hurting it by stopping selling them licenses/branding/machines to make and sell burgers and fries? Are we not ripping them off money if we sell to them? As in: we gain, they lose? I understand we don't want to sell advanced tec…
Wow thatt's pretty rough. Just recently I saw some old footage of when Russia opened to the West and all those 90's kids in Russia going to the first Mc Donalds opening there. Then again McDonalds is a good example of a lot of things that are just plain wrong about western culture... so no loss for Russia I guess.
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I'm not sure they really could easily continue to operate as normal. Their business units in Russia get paid by consumers in rubles, but due to the financial sanctions, they can no longer convert rubles to US dollars [1]. From the point of view of their non-Russian shareholders, this effectively means all that money is inaccessible. This would result in complications in reporting the revenue on their income statement…
You're right, currently you can't get your revenue outside unless you're down to use a scheme involving exchange for trades inside Russia, move them outside and turn back to money. I've diagonally read the article linked and it depicts everything correctly.
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How does countries joining a defensive alliance threaten Russia?. Maybe if Russia stopped invading all its neighbours and all the prior USSR states, these states would stop joining NATO. The only thing NATO stops is Russian imperialism.
This seems to ignore the last 20 years of NATO occupation of Iraq which has been attacked based on false reports of some nuclear warheads that have never been found, I am not sure if you guys have short memory, are constantly brainwashed by your partisan media or just not that smart, If I was surrounded by a bunch of countries depending on the will of some guys calling freedom fries to force other to join, creating f…
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Why is it more important to listen to Russia than to listen to Ukraine, Sweden, and Finland? Or also Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia?
Take Kazakhstan. It's a country which is in several bloc-like agreements with Russia: СНГ, ОДКБ, ЕАЕС. How are you going to listen to it? I will tell you how the West do it every time:
You are going to find some opposition crackpot who will badmouth Russia and crap on Kazakhstan regime, and you will ignore all other voices.
The one who may as well be on some Western "free press" aid program and therefore not really speaking for themself but for you. You are only going to listen to yourself.
The biggest takeaway (...) for me was the stats about how they are still growing by a decent amount. I haven't paid attention to them in a long time but > expects... over 1,300 net restaurant additions in 2022. suprised me.
For myself, I can't really imagine this whole operation with Mac selling now for some reason instead of a hundred years later—after all, presumably they still want to have burger joints in all those places. But maybe I don't understand too much about real estate.