Ukraine’s National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the “international sponsors of war” list on Sept. 1.
@Cloudless & I maintain a zine tracking all Sponsors of Russia’s invasion at https://kbin.social/m/SponsorsOfRussianInvasion . We use multiple sources viz. Ukraine govt sites, Yale’s tracker, and credible news sources.
We also have a zine tracking business who have rejected to support Russia’s invasion and have exited Russia at https://kbin.social/m/BizAgainstRussianInvasion
Thank you kindly. Just subbed to both 😁🍻
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Bacardi? It would be off-brand for them to not back dictatorships.
Doesn’t stop Ukraine from buying drones built by Xiaomi and sold/distributed by Alibaba.
I don’t see why it would. It’s not like they’re in a position to not buy from wherever they can.
Hardly makes Alibaba and Xiaomi sponsors of war 🤷♀️
It doesn’t affect it one way or the other. What does is their continuing operations in Russia, who started and is continuing the war.
So…? How does that affect the sale of consumer electronics?
The sponsors of war list is a list of companies circumventing everyone else’s efforts to place a defacto embargo on Russia to show that their actions have consequences. When companies cross that picket line, they undermine the entire exercise, making it easier for Russia to continue operations. The idea, for the rest of us, is to in turn boycott the companies on the list so they’ll also experience their actions have consequences.
We have that luxury right now. Ukraine does not. So the idea is that we can help Ukraine by not doing business with companies that are making extra special bonus money by selling their products with a defacto monopoly in Russia right now
Who’s efforts? From what I can see, only North America and Europe have joined in this so-called international embargo. In fact, not even Mexico has any sanctions against Russia.
What’s the motivation for including companies based in countries that haven’t called for trade restrictions?
Sure, I agree fully that countries based in Europe or North America should follow government policy or relocate, but I’m not expecting companies to behave outside of the policy detailed by their government.
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Because China (and Mexico, India, Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East) have not really introduced sanctions (except against military equipment)? These companies are following their government’s policy, which is more than can be said for companies like PepsiCo and Mars (both American).
International trade is dictated by countries, not by companies. If a company is breaking the policy of the country it operates from, that’s obviously very bad. These companies aren’t trying to pick sides: their government hasn’t picked a side and so there is no reason for the company to.
If you buy a drone for lets say 1000$ from Xiaomi via AliBaba, 100$ of those go to AliBaba maybe 1$ goes to Russia. from the 900$ left for Xiaomi, 600 are gone for the production. 300 left, 3 go to Russia. 4$ for Russia. But if this drone helps invalidate only one russian soldier, that 4$ are easily worth 100000$. If it helps invalidate a tank, it goes to the millions. Thats easily worth it if there is no alternative
I have also seen people say “I buy from Amazon, because I don’t want to support Alibaba”… like dude where do you think “VURUU” brand you just bought from sources all their shit from?
Where the fuck is the money going to Russia from?
Not surprised that a company named after the god of war is an international war sponsor
Took me about 7 seconds of thinking before I realized you meant Mars. Couldn’t remember a God named Pepsi for the life of me.
Pepsi is actually named after Pepe the frog.
Pepsi the dog
Pepsi makes the dogs gay.
Actually it’s named after the Pepsicum plant, which gives Pepsi it’s garbage taste.
Actually, Mars was named after its founder, Franklin Clarence Mars.
Franklin Clarence Mars (/ˈmɑːrz/; September 24, 1883 – April 8, 1935) was an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated, which mostly makes chocolate candy. Mars’ son Forrest Edward Mars developed M&M’s and the Mars bar. He is also widely believed to be the god of war.
Well deserved. Let’s boycott those fuckers.
That’s not how you spell “imprison the C-suite of”. Last time I read the Constitution, giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies was treason.
Yeah but America is not at war with Russia. Ukraine is. They might not be allies, and not on friendly terms whatsoever, but there’s still a line to be crossed before considering them as actual enemies.
Yes, during wartime. The US is not at war with Russia.
Could’ve fooled me. I was under the impression we were sending weapons and trainers to one of our allies who are fighting them. Sounds like a war to me.
Because you’re going by feelings and not actual definitions. Which is fine when speaking colloquially, but if you want to take country-level actions, you better have some law to base that on.
But I love Mars. It’s so delicious.
You do have a point… Nestlé is also as evil as they come but a KitKat® is so delicious
I love KitKat too…so yummy.
It’s even more delicious now that Kiev terrorist regime hates it!
And so, nothing changed with this meaningless decision, and the world moved on.
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You’re gonna give people PTSD.
(Psst, it’s “Raid: Shadow Legends”.)
No, I’m not Raid. I’m my own original game, Rage. People really need to get their facts straight…
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FYI: the “the” before Ukraine is superfluous. You can just type “like Ukraine just accused you of.”
What about The Hague
That’s the proper name of it. The Ukraine isn’t the proper name of Ukraine.
And The United States
What about:
- the England
- the Germany
- the France
- the Sweden
- the Russia
- the Poland
Normal country names don’t begin with “the”
“The United States of America” makes grammatical sense. “The Ukraine” or any of the above doesn’t .
Except when you’re from the Netherlands.
That makes sense, again, grammatically. The low/lower/nether land.
The Holland.
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In Dutch it’s just called Nederland. “The” is added when referring to it in English since it makes more grammatical sense in English. The Low-Lying Lands.
Ukraine is its full proper name, from the original name of Україна, which can be romanized to Ukraine.
To “Ukraina”, not Ukraine, but that’s just a minor correction.
The Philippines
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I was being facetious
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The idiot.
It’s actually a really interesting but of english.
We include ‘the’ when the type of government or state is mentioned which is why it is just China but it’s the people’s Republic of china or in the case of a region, like the Cotswolds.
Ukraine was referred to as the Ukraine during the soviet Union as it was a region of a greater country. Therefore using the Ukraine basically diminishes Ukraine to a territory of another country which is sorta what they’re fighting not to be.
The name of Ukraine is Ukraine. “The Ukraine” was a USSR administrative district. The name of The United States is The United States
Pepsi has a history in Russia. They once traded the USSR soda in exchange for a fleet of naval ships. IIRC at the time Pepsi had the 4th largest navy in the world. They sold the ships to Norway.
Yeah, no. They can earn millions with Russia, so they do. Spend half on that in good PR, and you still earned millions in blood money.
And if people get pissed? The news cycle means they’ll forget about this in about 3 days so you’re good
This explains why LinkedIn was sending out surveys today asking “What do you think about PepsiCo?”, “What are the top reasons you would want to work at PepsiCo?”, to a bunch of people. The whole thing was extremely weird, and obviously a PR campaign
Just another reason to not drink the diabetes piss water that is Pepsi. They lost the cola wars for a reason. Come sucks too, but fuck Pepsi even harder.
You drink a lot of come?
Oh yes, come is my favorite. I come everywhere I go.
There’s actually a gas station chain called Kum and Go.
I almost keeled over laughing the first time I saw that.
Edit: Wish there was one called Wham Bam Tank You Ma’am
I have another one for you. I’ve seen Kum & Gos, but these were a rare treat indeed
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Every time I see that name I have to pause and acknowledge that holy crap somebody actually did that.
It’s like a much more mundane version of “holy crap that guy was really the president of the US, and for a while and everything!
Hmm
If you say so, buddy.
The coconut is very subtle.
Vení, vidi, veni
Royal Crown is superior anyway, and I’ll fight anyone that says it ain’t.
Sure, I’ll bite. It sucks donkey dick.
You’re entitled to your opinion, even if it is indefensibly incorrect.
Photo or it didn’t happen.
Have you had rc anytime recently? It tastes like store brand soda
… they didn’t change the recipe, did they?
No, it’s always tasted like watered down Pepsi.
About time. Add coke, facebook,google and microsoft too
Pepsi advertising the fighter jet is making more sense now.
They did also have the sixth largest naval fleet in the world for a brief period in 1989.
As a direct result of trading with Russia, even.
Next up: the nord vpn logo engraved on every bullet
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full list here: https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/en/boycott/
Can’t believe nestle isn’t on the list and #1
Any one turn the “m” upside down in “mars”
I’ll definitely be checking what I buy from these companies and making adjustments to my habits.
Slava Ukraine.
You’re a rube
I bet they donated when the checkout kiosk prompted them for a dollar to Slava hahaha
I’ll be buying more
Death to Ukraine and the Nazi Party!
I guess you don’t see the irony in your statement, huh?
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is sierra mist ok?
Isn’t that starry now
