Putin offers warning as Western companies pause operations in Russia



Over 330 multinational companies have paused or shuttered business in the country since Russian forces attacked Ukraine two weeks ago.

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  1. Putin you moron.

    You brought this mess upon yourself.

    Everybody and their grandmothers begged you not to act out this aggressive buffoonery against a sovereign Ukraine. You shouldve stop at Crimea.

    Your greed is now your downfall. You are now Icarus.

  2. All woman across the Planet Earth send Putin light, love, and an abundance of hugs.

  3. The West needs to cut off all purchases from Russia now, no matter how hard that is on us. I would rather not drive, be cold etc, etc if it stops Ukraine.

  4. The communist in Washington love Facebook.

  5. We all know which country is getting benefited by the war

  6. Putin : FYI that is an special economic operation.. don't you know that ? 😱😱😱 Why are you complaining? Isn't it you started an operation? Now it's turning back to you? You like it right so you should also take it men😆😆😆

  7. Facebook an escalation 🤣

  8. Wonder if Apple and Samsung have something to do with their phones sold there for some free news updates directly to ppl’s phones…

  9. Wow. That's threatening. Seems like he getting fearful. He knows he has the world under his thumb

  10. PUTIN IS A MURDERER – STRIP AWAY HIS LEADERSHIP ROLE – HE IS A COLD-BLOODED MURDERER.

    HE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A MURDERER, A THIEF, AND AS A TERRORIST IN HISTORY – NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.

  11. When Putin said, "Adapt"
    Does he means adapt back in the day when the Soviet Union was still around?

  12. Dear Putin, don't mind them. They are just conducting some "SPECIAL ECONOMIC OPERATIONS ". You know, something same as the Special Military Operations that you are conducting in Ukraine. Uno reverse card, bitch. 😂

  13. Russia slowly realizing they don't want or need the inflationary Petro dollar when they have real hard assets like farmable land and cheap energy. And the strongest manufacturing partner in China. And given the surveillance capitalism model of tech companies, Russia will be more than happy to go without those companies who need Russian citizens more than the other way around for growth metrics. Putting sanction on an enemy net exporter will only backfire

  14. he is only good at giving threats and warning🤮🤮🤮 evil man🙄

  15. If he doesn't want sanctions then he must stop the WAR,

  16. The companies pulling out of Russia are doing them a favour no pepsi. No mac donalds. Better diets all round. They are probably not making the profits the wanted

  17. Putin will do whatever he likes in the name of nuclear , world please wake up now ,do something to get rid of these type of egoestic blackmailing man

  18. He keeps warning to all the country's ,as whole world is his ,haha mad egoestic blackmailing man

  19. Seizing private companies' assets will only insure that they will never come back. Companies are immortal.

  20. Putin loves to threaten us all. I say we get over our fears and threaten him back! Its time to grow some balls and tell this bitch that for every nuclear bomb he sends our way NATO, USA, and all alliances should send 10x more nuclear bombs to russia attacking from various angles. The moment he fires one, every nation should fight back and rain fires and hell to them. Maybe then the people of russia will try and do something about the demon they nourished for years. Because right now they are not doing enough to stop him. Meanwhile ukraine is dying and literally in ruins right fucking now!

  21. When hungry Germany seek Oil and Gas 💪💥
    Dont wake up beast. 😱

  22. Putin to West: I don't care about western sanctions. Bring it on!
    *McDonald's suspends operations in Russia.
    Putin to Mcdonald's: You did what?! 🤬

  23. Putin is going to Hell to burn

  24. Why are we so afraid how Putin understands something we eventually do, how he interprets our steps so that we don't accidentally offend him? To the hell with Putin's opinions. Kremlin has only one policy. To LIE. Kremlin power comes from lying. Lying big, and getting the whole damn world to play along with them. Once they got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, they've got us by the neck.

    In these very moments there are children in Mariupol who dies from dehydration, there is NO water now, no supplies. Russians not let anyone in or out. All ways from the city are mined and shelled. Hospitals in numerous cities are now deliberately shelled and bombed. It is russian pattern. Encircle the city and shell it with Grad and Smerch rocket artilery, conventional artilery, airstrikes… salvo after salvo. You saw it in Grozny, you saw it in Syria, now you can see this in Mariupol and Khariv. Purpose is one and only – to inflict TERROR, to break morale, by ruthless killing of women and children alike. The most barbaric way to wage a war. It is genocide. Another of long line of war crimes made by Putin. Recent reckless attacks on nuclear energy power plants and blatant cynical violations of the Geneva Conventions show us clearly, that Putin's Russia is terrorist state, unpredictable, lying, deceptive and dangerous to humankind. It is war against western world.
    Putin is liar and faker, who rules trough fear. Atomics? Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. Putin can not launch them by himself, he needs both Shoygu and Gerasimov to do so and they are not mad.
    Unless Russia is defeated in Ukraine NOW, before Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessaand other cities are razed to the ground by thermobaric weapons, if the west will not confront Putler now, then soon enough will world watch how Putin invades Moldova, Georgia and finally, Baltic states –
    NATO members. And then NATO will again do nothing serious for the same fear of russian nuclear weapons. Risk WW3 for such a little state? Pff. Maybe it is only civil war, better not meddle in it. That day will be the end of NATO as failed phony alliance. To break NATO and west by lies is long term target of Kremlin.
    If ordinary russian to this day DON'T even KNOW that there is war in Ukraine, then Putin will not stop. You think that after Putin prevails in Ukraine he will crawl back to his bankrupt Mordor and behave, suddenly being a good boy? Wake up everybody. Fuel, long range sams, ciws, iron dome, bring in anything, airdrop food and supplies. World is at war, stop Putin NOW, or else it will be only worse and more tragic. Russian federation MUST IMMEDIATELY feel the consequences of their barbaric war, that is the only way.
    It is dire need of actual power projection in Ukraine. For God sake give them at least fuel, long range sams, ciws, iron dome, bring in anything, airdrop food and supplies. Make some air bridge like in cold war Berlin.
    How long will be just keep watching. Must Chornobyl, where russians now cut of power for cooling, again leak radiation. Must the biggest european nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia became another Chornobyl dissaster? Must we see radioactive cloud overe Europe again, and only then we maybe seriously assist Ukraine or what? Do you know that russians there allowed only skeleton crew to hold them as hostages and that russians rigged this facality with explosives? This is nuclear terrorism. Pure and simple.
    Putin is and always has been killer (rememeber Litvinenko, Politkovskaya, Nemcov and many others), and now we already know his recent stunt – he send "Wagner group" neo-nazi murderers and assassins to Kyiv to kill Zelenskyy, his cabinet members, and even their families. I reckon he is trully mentally ill.
    After all "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" as Lord Acton said already in 19th century. Quite accurate description of tsar Putin the Bloody .

    "Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject."
    – John Stuart Mill, 1867

    "Appeasement policy, the policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini, operating jointly at that time, during 1937 and 1938 by continuous concessions granted in the hope of reaching a point of saturation when the dictators would be willing to accede to international collaboration. … It came to an end when Hitler seized Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939, in defiance of his promises given at Munich, and Prime Minister Chamberlain, who had championed appeasement before,
    decided on a policy of resistance to further German aggression."
    – Walter Theimer (ed.), The Penguin Political Dictionary, 1939

    Putin understands only power and determination. Everything else is sign of weakness for him. Do everything what is in your power to drive Putin's kleptocracy to the end. I wish there were influential politicians who could see things clearly. Those who would not be frightened, weak, shaky and corrupt through money from the oligarchs of East and West alike. Those who had the determination of real leaders capable of taking responsibility. Maybe they still exist somewhere and maybe their voice will get to the right ears before is too late, I still believe it, I have to. Talk to your representatives. God bless you.

  25. Actions? Meet my good friend consequences!

  26. Putin have a thick face always giving treat instead ceasing the fire

  27. If putin starts world war 3 Russia won't exist anymore ither. All this for nothing childish putin. Be a man putin stop this war. Admit your wrong.

  28. Через коридор на Новоазовск из Мариуполя под видом беженцев стали выходить нацисты «Азова». Нескольких человек уже взяли. Отходя нацисты избавляются от лишних свидетелей, в том числе своих же, которые выступают обузой. Находят убитых, которых добили свои же.
    Странный маршрут говорит о следующем:
    • Оборона города начинает разваливаться;
    • «Азовцы» уходят и от своих тоже, встреча с ВСУ для них также плачевна, в силу случаев расстрелов украинских солдат нацистами при отступлении.

    Терять им нечего, поэтому азовцы не только спасаются бегством, но и берут на себя роль камиказде. Задержанные указали на тайники, где не только оружие, но и взрывчатка. Там же находят трупы добитых раненых.
    Страшная картина.

  29. Q) so will it take a Nuclear /chemical weapons use in Ukraine to declare WORLD WAR 111? surely you realise that Putin inviting foreign mercenaries to fight on Russia 's behalf+involving the Syrian Hacker Armies which will render Ukraine defeated(=but what the UK does not realise that we, the British nation will be next to suffer what Ukraine is suffering, if PM BORIS JOHNSON allows the UK to declare a NO FLY ZONE

  30. Putin tells his minions to murder children their mothers and families. Biden punishes him by not sending Russia any more caviar.

  31. Stop destroying the world economy. Evil empire.

  32. Taking Russia back to the "greatness" of 1917. Russians! Remove him or watch tens of thousands of your sons die and suffer for decades in abject misery! Slava Ukraini!

  33. Its Already Day 17 Dang It Where The Heck is America’s Values That We Americans So Brag About – Why Are We Americans Such Pansies!!!!!!!! WE SHOULD BE SENDING OUR SHIPS AT LEAST TO DECLARE A HUMANITARIAN AID MISSION OF NEUTRALITY AT LEAST TO SUPPORT UKRAINES POPULACE WITH FOOD AND AID ALSO TO SHOW AMERICANS WONT STAND FOR CONTINUED BULLYING AND UNDERMINING UNITED STATES PRESENCE AND STANDING INTERNATIONALLY. AMERICA MUST FOCUS ON ITS OWN HOUSE FIRST BUT WE HAVE TO SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN ON THE INTERNATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD. PUTIN AND NATO HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS!!!!!! BIDEN NEEDS TO RETIRE – COWARD!!! AT LEAST TRUMP AND OBAMA ADMIN DEPLOYED SHIPS INTO THE BLACK SEA. THIS IS A SHAME.

  34. Enough of cowering to this tiny loser. Here is the World's warning: get your troops out of Ukraine, all of Ukraine and get yourself out of power or we will wipe you and Russia off the face of the earth. Slava Ukraini!

  35. HE WILL GET TAKEN OUT BY HIS CIRCLE

  36. Nazis, are you afraid boys?? Its time to pay with your – unuseless- blood

  37. I am envisioning the great wall of Chyna/Russia like hermit states dwelling in damp dark caves.
    Chyna: I have made fire!
    Russia: I have made stone hammer… wah ha ha
    Chyna/Russia: Now we will rule the world from our caves.