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And Vegetable Oil, and pseudo estrogens in plastics, and Bliss point foods, and...
> Vegetable Oil Absolutely common item on every kitchen > pseudo estrogens in plastics This is 2022, we have to pack our food with some plastic. > Bliss point foods It litery means that your food needs to be yummy.
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For a globally recognizable brand like McDonald's, the move to leave the country has a symbolic meaning. It sends a message to the Russian people that something is deeply wrong with the direction taken by their government. Of course, some Russians will interpret the move differently, but that cannot be avoided.
I don't think this is the reasoning at all. I think trying to conduct transactions in a heavily sanctioned nation that's also fighting a war of aggression against a neighbor, and incurring heavy losses, is causing a headache for the bean counters, and it has finally become more trouble than it's worth, financially. These enormous multinational behemoths - as an entity - don't give two shits about the people dying in…
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Sanctions don't work. The goal of sanctions is not to hurt Russia. The only thing sanctions accomplish is to give a feeling of self-righteousness.
Sanctions when applied properly can work. They need to actually impact directly on those who are politically powerful, while also imposing difficulties day-to-day on the general population, which encourages unrest and internal disputes. Russia thought it had protected itself by having low foreign debt and large foreign reserves. What it didn't count on was that the US and EU reserve banks would freeze its foreign res…
Europe is opening Ruble accounts with Gazprombank to keep the gas flowing.
These sanctions hurt the monopoly of American financial system more than anyone else.
They never had an issue operating in Saudi Arabia despite the invasion of Yemen. They still maintain their Guantanamo Bay location. How is operating in Russia inconsistent with their values?
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> Vegetable Oil Absolutely common item on every kitchen > pseudo estrogens in plastics This is 2022, we have to pack our food with some plastic. > Bliss point foods It litery means that your food needs to be yummy.
> Absolutely common item on every kitchen Not my kitchen. We buy meat from a farm and render the fat trimmings to cook with. That wasn't your point though. Still, to actually refute your point I'd say that doesn't make it healthy, and my original point was about the many ways McDonald's food is unhealthy. > This is 2022, we have to pack our food with some plastic. No, we don't. Wax paper works fine. The farm meat I g…
> literally designed to keep you eating more and feeling hungry shortly thereafter
How on Earth is possible to design a high-calorie food (this is a promice of MacDo) which makes you feel hungry shortly? For me it works like a regular food.
Can you sell the Russian business without violating the sanctions?
Russian social media are full of winking posts hinting that McDonald's will sell operations to a Russian company which it will still profit from "behind the scenes" (via offshore proxy or some other indirect way). They also hint that this will pave the way for other Western companies currently in limbo: split ownership between controllable proxy and Russian owner. And at the same time shout in Bloomberg how much you…
"The US Department of the Treasury in a statement said it put sanctions on Russian commercial bank Transkapitalbank, whose representatives it said serve several banks in Asia, including in China, and the Middle East, and have suggested options to evade international sanctions."
So.. yeah. It is possible ( even with total embargo it can happen as NK has shown ), but it comes with risk. If it will be done, it will be done very quietly with as few people knowing as possible.
[1]https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/4/20/new-us-sanctions...
Can anybody explain why the rouble is at a five-year high? Or is there something in the intricacies of currency pairings that means this high isn't quite like other "highs"?
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It was after approx 70 years of Soviet regime. People had never seen anything like this before, during their whole life.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/t9s0f4/r... I guess this is also after 70 years of soviets and people never seen anything like this before?
This actually sounds like a positive. Can they exit from Canada next?
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Because people here are getting fat. Not as bad as America, but obesity is a problem here.
If people crash their car, should we blame Toyota? McDonald's doesn't force anyone to eat their food. If your fellow Canadians want to eat McDonald's, that's their choice. If they all stopped, McDonald's would either have to make healthier food or exit the country. But unless they're force feeding helpless Canadians food, it doesn't seem like them exiting because "people here are getting fat" is a rational suggestion…