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2022-05-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia Looks to Seize Western Companies Who Try to Leave
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Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-27 02:11|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 I hope someone is watching and examining the potential of similar actions in the PRC.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-27 02:26||   2022-05-27 02:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Companies that sold their souls to China (or any other skeevy regime) deserve it. The Hellraiser treatment: "We'll tear your soul apart..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 02:29||   2022-05-27 02:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Tit for tat. The US unilaterally confiscated 300 billion in Russian assets in the west. Did they imagine there would be no repercussions? If US assets in Russia are nationalized (worth an estimated 500 billion) then Russia not only acquires the physical plant free and clear. They also maintain those jobs for their citizens AND the ongoing business profits remain in country instead of being repatriated to the West. They could even lower the price of the products to their citizens since the cost of building the businesses is effectively zero. The next step is a bill in the Duma to negate US patents. That would likewise be a boost to the Russian economy with little possible direct blowback.
Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2022-05-27 06:04||   2022-05-27 06:04|| Front Page Top

#4 What Murcek said, in spades.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-27 06:56||   2022-05-27 06:56|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Tit for tat well put. China the same. Looks like the West has tied both feet together. Biden leading the charge into the windmill. While Latin America, Africa, and most of Asia Look on to take advantage as events develop.
Posted by Dale 2022-05-27 07:31||   2022-05-27 07:31|| Front Page Top

#6 If it's the end of gerbilism, I say hip, hip, horray!
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 07:32||   2022-05-27 07:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Tit for tat should have been predicted. Especially if Russia really is all those awful things its been accused of, during the current excitement and since 2016.

Whether the local employees have absorbed skills and mindset to continue producing Western-quality goods on their own is an interesting question. The world as well as Russia will benefit in the long run if the answer is yes, but there is a seventy year history to overcome.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-27 08:01||   2022-05-27 08:01|| Front Page Top

#8 When I think Quality Control, I think Soviet Russian. Vodka and depression build morale and technical capabilities, Comrade!
Posted by Frank G 2022-05-27 08:46||   2022-05-27 08:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Fine with me. The Russians don't have the technical capabilities to run the seized assets and the companies should not have sold their souls to the devil.

Win win as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-05-27 09:11||   2022-05-27 09:11|| Front Page Top

#10 As Vir Kotto said in Babylon 5, "Some bargains come at too high a price."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 09:13||   2022-05-27 09:13|| Front Page Top

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Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 09:16||   2022-05-27 09:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Chess is a game played well over there. We will see how this game plays out.
Posted by Dale 2022-05-27 11:48||   2022-05-27 11:48|| Front Page Top

#13 That'll really encourage outside investment after the current shitstorm blows through the Russian economy. Good job, Vlady!
Posted by Nero 2022-05-27 13:29||   2022-05-27 13:29|| Front Page Top

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