Google's Dart team terminates contract with Russian vendor over Ukraine invasion

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 11:37 PM UTC

thrwwyflttr wrote: post #4

How disappointing that the Twitter crowd is cheering this on. What a sick joke. And what's up with the whole public announcement. To me, it feels like we think that we can stop the war by punishing some a Russian developer team. Oh, the war didn't stop? It's just you didn't bully and fire enough Russian developers. I work in an international team, many of us from countries that were either in war or whose leader made…

Post by sharken » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 12:10 AM UTC

vanusa wrote: post #8

zajio1am wrote: post #6

That is problematic. Small, independent, high human-capital companies are best antidote to authoritarian leaders supported by oligarchs and natural resource extraction. If western sanctions selectively restrict the first ones, while keep business for the second ones (because Europe need russian gas), then they are likely worse than no sanctions at all.

That is problematic. True. But I think Google's point is that the invasion of Ukraine is (several) orders of magnitude more problematic and needs to stop. I get that there's a downside to boycotts of all forms. What I don't get is the livid emotionalism in this thread ("absolutely ridiculous and shitty") directed towards the decision to boycott certain companies in response to the current situation -- rather than tow…

Post by vanusa » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 12:32 AM UTC

sharken wrote: post #15

vanusa wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US is now arming the Azov battalion with stinger missiless Source needed, please.

Javelin anti-tank weapons are on their way, speculation is whether there will also be Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. There is also talk of sending MIG-29 from the EU to help Ukraine. https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/02/26/biden-to-sen... https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498029493033881601?t=HQWjvlz...

Post by markus_zhang » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 3:43 AM UTC

Post by rsynnott » Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 1:41 PM UTC

ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #9

vanusa wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At no point in history has punishing people for the mistakes of their leader resulted in a better situation and more peaceful world. History is full of huge counterexamples to this claim: the sanctions against South African apartheid. Oh and this whole business of "punishing people in Germany, Italy and Japan for the mistakes of their leaders", known otherwise as WW 2.

> the sanctions against South African apartheid This was done by UN. Not by some random company against some individuals. >Oh and this whole business of "punishing people in Germany, Italy and Japan for the mistakes of their leaders", known otherwise as WW 2 No, that was WW1. And the sanctions led to WW2 after which US recognized the futility of sanctions and provided EU with economic package under Marshal Plan https…