They are just doing business.
These foreign companies that choose to stay on in Russia
must pay the price for doing business with a genocidal regime. We should
never forget history, but learn from it and not commit the same mistakes from WW II again.
Let's not forget that German & foreign companies gleefully propped up & financed the Nazi regime of Hitler, and they even supplied the tyrant's mass-murderers with the materials to commit genocide. To this very day, Volkswagen is ashamed to admit who founded the company, and claims it was founded by the "German Labour Front".
A mercantilist arm of the commie PRC regime, Lenovo, has halted shipments of its products to Russia, and the China-dominated AIIB has freezed funding for projects in Russia & Belarus. This is purely due to fear of being punished in the West for violating sanctions. If even China-based entities can suspend ties to Russia (& Belarus), then what's holding the Western ones back, especially when their own people are so opposed to Poo-tin's genocidal actions?
Poo-tin and his fellow genocidal tyrant Lukashenko want to reconstitute a new USSR 2.0 or the recreate the earlier Russian Empire through military aggression & genocide. Let their people know how bad they had it economically in those two failed & long dead empires. If they want an evil empire back, then they should get to experience the economic horrors of living in it.
You Ukrainians are not just fighting for your very right to exist as a nation and as a people, but for the same right of other Europeans too, and for the universal values of liberty, freedom, democracy, rule-of-law and human rights. That's why so many people are gladly willing to voluntarily fight (& even die, if need be) in your righteous & courageous struggle for all of humanity
Plus, those two rogue regimes should
not benefit from taxing the products and services originating from the civilised societies. If they want access to them, then they should give up their uncivilised, barbaric, genocidal ways.
Even a person such as Garry Kasparov, the Soviet-born Russian chess champion, has called for the West to send Russia (& Belarus) back to the
technological Stone Age. He has been wisely warning the world for a long time about the danger posed to humankind by Poo-tin's mafiocratic regime and people simply ignored him. Till now, that is. Better later than never!
This too. They didn't have it easy to begin with.
I appreciate your compassion for ordinary Russians despite being subjected to such horrors by their regime. I had some compassion for them as well, but it vanished after reading some of their
vile comments on social media, cheering the genocidal war crimes of Poo-tin and calling for the extermination of Ukrainians, referring to you by racist slurs such as "Khokols". I understand that some of them may be bots and paid agents of Poo-tin, but sadly, I also get the feeling that at least a sizeable section of ordinary Russians are celebrating their dictator's actions.
The Russians came to kill Khokols, but the Moskals are experiencing the fearlessness and unparalleled courage of the Cossacks! It's not without reason that Napoleon's horde feared Cossacks the most and Napoleon himself called Cossacks the best light troops in the world.
I don't know how else NATO can communicate to him "we aren't really participating in this war".
According to Poo-tin, this is not an invasion or even war, but a "special military operation" to "deNazify" and "demilitarise" Ukraine. Yeah, like the dictator-for-life wants to "deNazify" Ukraine by murdering its democratically-elected Jewish President, bombing schools, hospitals & Holocaust memorials and razing them to the ground, killing unimaginable numbers of civilians by launching a Nazi-style war of naked imperliast expansion.
I like it when people refer to sanctions on Russia and Belarus as special economic operations to dedictatorise, demilitarise & dePutinise Russia and its sock puppet Belarus.