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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 by LLeD
Member since Apr 2026
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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
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:15 am to
Because no one wants to risk a nuclear exchange over a Coca-Cola bottling plant?
Posted by lake chuck fan
Vinton
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:16 am to
I don't need to read an article to figure this one out! Lol

If those businesses are operating in a war zone.............
Posted by LLeD
Member since Apr 2026
290 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:20 am to
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Because no one wants to risk a nuclear exchange over a Coca-Cola bottling plant?
probably...
despite longstanding American doctrine emphasizing the protection of U.S. commercial interests abroad.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:21 am to
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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 by wdhalgren
Member since May 2013
5304 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:28 am to
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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 by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
5643 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:31 am to
Has no McD's in Russia been hit by a Ukrianian missile?
Posted by texas tortilla
houston
Member since Dec 2015
4591 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:33 am to
didn't biden blow up nord stream?
Posted by LLeD
Member since Apr 2026
290 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:33 am to
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Iran and Venezuela are more important to US interests than Ukraine.
but Ukraine's market is also important for USA business, as same as European. Thats why Coca-Cola & Co. stay there.
Posted by Rekrul
Member since Feb 2007
9555 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:33 am to
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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 by TBoy
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Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:33 am to
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Has no McD's in Russia been hit by a Ukrianian missile?

No. None.

(There aren't any McDonalds' Restaurants in Russia anymore.)
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38339 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:36 am to
quote:

probably...
despite longstanding American doctrine emphasizing the protection of U.S. commercial interests abroad.
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.

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 by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38339 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:37 am to
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The threat of nukes isn't a talking point after those 2 operations.
It was hyperbolic shorthand for a hot war with a nuclear power.
Posted by LLeD
Member since Apr 2026
290 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:44 am to
I dont know, russ-sovintern-orcs strike civilian targets all the time.
Posted by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
5643 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:47 am to
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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 by BlackPawnMartyr
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2010
16312 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:50 am to
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 by LLeD
Member since Apr 2026
290 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 10:59 am to
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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 by LLeD
Member since Apr 2026
290 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 11:00 am to
And here showed the soviet shill up..
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38339 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 11:02 am to
quote:

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.
That question has an easy answer.

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 by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
98077 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 11:02 am to
Because Orange Bad is Putins Puppet duh
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