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why is Washington ignoring russian strikes on American business assets in Ukraine?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:13 am
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:13 am
kremlin's communists strike against facilities linked to major American corporations in Ukraine — including companies such as Coca-Cola, Cargill, Boeing, Mondelez International, and Philip Morris International.
moscow is effectively probing whether the United States is willing to escalate diplomatically or economically when American commercial interests are harmed indirectly inside an active war zone.
The White House Does Not Want Direct Confrontation With russia. The primary reason is strategic caution. The Trump administration appears determined to avoid any dynamic that could pull the United States into deeper confrontation with russia.
Publicly confronting the kremlin over attacks on corporate infrastructure would complicate any future diplomatic engagement between Washington and moscow.
Full article here LINK
moscow is effectively probing whether the United States is willing to escalate diplomatically or economically when American commercial interests are harmed indirectly inside an active war zone.
The White House Does Not Want Direct Confrontation With russia. The primary reason is strategic caution. The Trump administration appears determined to avoid any dynamic that could pull the United States into deeper confrontation with russia.
Publicly confronting the kremlin over attacks on corporate infrastructure would complicate any future diplomatic engagement between Washington and moscow.
Full article here LINK
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:15 am to LLeD
Because no one wants to risk a nuclear exchange over a Coca-Cola bottling plant?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:16 am to LLeD
I don't need to read an article to figure this one out! Lol
If those businesses are operating in a war zone.............
If those businesses are operating in a war zone.............
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:20 am to northshorebamaman
quote:probably...
Because no one wants to risk a nuclear exchange over a Coca-Cola bottling plant?
despite longstanding American doctrine emphasizing the protection of U.S. commercial interests abroad.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:21 am to northshorebamaman
quote:
Because no one wants to risk a nuclear exchange
We are at war with Iran, one of Russia's biggest allies. This comes after we ousted Maduro in Venezuela, who was another huge ally to Putin/Russia.
The threat of nukes isn't a talking point after those 2 operations. That's such a 2023 talking point.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:28 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:
We are at war with Iran, one of Russia's biggest allies. This comes after we ousted Maduro in Venezuela, who was another huge ally to Putin/Russia.
The threat of nukes isn't a talking point after those 2 operations. That's such a 2023 talking point.
Iran and Venezuela are more important to US interests than Ukraine.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:31 am to LLeD
Has no McD's in Russia been hit by a Ukrianian missile?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:33 am to UtahCajun
didn't biden blow up nord stream?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:33 am to wdhalgren
quote:but Ukraine's market is also important for USA business, as same as European. Thats why Coca-Cola & Co. stay there.
Iran and Venezuela are more important to US interests than Ukraine.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:33 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:
We are at war with Iran, one of Russia's biggest allies. This comes after we ousted Maduro in Venezuela, who was another huge ally to Putin/Russia.
This seems very odd considering for the last 10 years we’ve all been repeatedly told that Trump is a “Russian asset” and “Putin’s puppet”
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:33 am to UtahCajun
quote:
Has no McD's in Russia been hit by a Ukrianian missile?
No. None.
(There aren't any McDonalds' Restaurants in Russia anymore.)
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:36 am to LLeD
quote:American business assets inside an active war zone are not the kind of interest Washington is going to risk a hot war with Russia over, especially with an unstable actor like Putin on the other end of the table.
probably...
despite longstanding American doctrine emphasizing the protection of U.S. commercial interests abroad.
There are diplomatic and economic responses short of war, sure. But nobody wants to turn damage to commercial infrastructure into a direct U.S.-Russia confrontation. That’s recognizing the difference between protecting business interests generally and escalating with a nuclear power over assets inside someone else’s war zone.
And “longstanding doctrine” does not mean every American-linked commercial asset abroad gets treated like U.S. sovereign territory. It means American policy has historically viewed trade routes, shipping, and overseas markets as part of the national interest. That is real. But in realpolitik terms, interests are ranked.
American civilians, troops, treaty allies, and U.S. territory all rank higher than commercial infrastructure in a country already being invaded. Avoiding direct war with a nuclear state ranks higher than making a symbolic show over damaged business assets.
So yes, America protects commercial interests abroad when the cost makes sense. It does not automatically turn every strike near an American corporation into a direct confrontation with Moscow. Doctrine is not a suicide pact, and commercial interest is not the same thing as casus belli.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:37 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:It was hyperbolic shorthand for a hot war with a nuclear power.
The threat of nukes isn't a talking point after those 2 operations.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:44 am to UtahCajun
I dont know, russ-sovintern-orcs strike civilian targets all the time.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:47 am to TBoy
quote:
No. None.
(There aren't any McDonalds' Restaurants in Russia anymore.)
Was just being a smartass to a bot.
Even though McD's suspended operations, there are still American businesses in Russia. If any of those were hit, we should have a big problem with Ukraine, if we are to take the bot serious.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:50 am to LLeD
The real question is why Germany allows the USA to attack its business interests and energy, also creating one of the worse man made environmental disasters ever. Furthermore, Russia has allowed the west to hide underneath Ukraines skirt and attack its industry, letting its proxy take the blame. These weapons while fired from Ukraine, are attacked with western made weapons given to Ukraine, using western satellites and planning to strike key assets. Russia should be playing eye for an eye and striking western assets in western countries and take this all the way nuclear if need be.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:59 am to TBoy
quote:
There aren't any McDonalds' Restaurants in Russia anymore.
It's true, soviet pigs communists under the leadership of "beloved Vlad" expropriated all western enterprises .
Posted on 5/14/26 at 11:00 am to BlackPawnMartyr
And here showed the soviet shill up..
Posted on 5/14/26 at 11:02 am to BlackPawnMartyr
quote:That question has an easy answer.
Russia has allowed the west to hide underneath Ukraines skirt and attack its industry, letting its proxy take the blame. These weapons while fired from Ukraine, are attacked with western made weapons given to Ukraine, using western satellites and planning to strike key assets. Russia should be playing eye for an eye and striking western assets in western countries and take this all the way nuclear if need be.
Russia is not doing that for the same reason we are not turning damage to American business assets in Ukraine into a direct U.S.-Russia war. Nuclear powers do not treat every indirect hit on their interests as an automatic trigger for direct retaliation against the other nuclear power’s homeland.
That has basically been the rules of the road since the USSR got the bomb. The Soviets supplied our enemies in Korea and Vietnam. We supplied their enemies in Afghanistan. Both sides armed, funded, trained, advised, and enabled proxy forces that killed the other side’s people and damaged the other side’s interests. They still avoided direct homeland strikes because everyone understood where that road goes.
So yes, Ukraine is using Western weapons and Western support. That is proxy war logic. Russia has done the same thing for generations when it benefited them. The reason they are not “striking western assets in western countries and taking it nuclear if need be” is not mercy. It is self-preservation.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 11:02 am to LLeD
Because Orange Bad is Putins Puppet duh
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